Gothamist can't decide what to think about Jillian Barberie. PROS: Self-made broadcast success; clawed her way up from an internship at Canada's The Weather Network to high-profile gigs in Miami and LA. Speaks out against Fen Phen and animal cruelty. CONS: Dresses like a skank; pimps her "weather broad" persona out to sell beer, football, and motor oil.
Maybe Gothamist is just tired of seeing Jillian's face plastered all over the subway with fellow Good Day Live hosts Dorothy and Steve. But there is something else about her postfeminist, "take me or leave me" persona that chafes. It might have something to do with the way Barberie has so fully embodied the cute weathergirl persona in her rise to fame. Gothamist wonders when the trend of commandeering the weather segment to break into broadcasting will end. There can't be a dearth of telegenic female meteorologists. Are they just not hiking up their hot pink miniskirts enough? Gothamist wonders what hard-core weather scientists think about their TV peers, Barberie especially. (Beyond "she's hot," hopefully.)
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