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"Pat O&amp;apos;Brien, CBS Sports announcer turned Access Hollywood and The Insider anchor, will write about his painful divorce, rehab experience and television career in an autobiography due out in fall 2011.\r\nPHOTOS: Stars caught cheating!\r\n&amp;quot;My story is one of having the best seat in the house in sports and on the red carpets and then a successful recovery from the nightmare disease of alcoholism that nearly led to my death,&amp;quot; O&amp;apos;Brien tells Us of the tome, to be released by St. Martin&amp;apos;s Press. &amp;quot;Not many people know what it&amp;apos;s like to be in the middle of a firestorm that is a scandal and the personal insights and collateral damage offer valuable lessons to everybody.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nO&amp;apos;Brien filed for divorce from his wife of 30 years, Linda, in 2004. Shortly after, O&amp;apos;Brien entered rehab for alcoholism. In 2008, O&amp;apos;Brien announced that he was engaged to longtime girlfriend Betsy Stephens.\r\n\r\nO&amp;apos;Brien grew up in a working class family in South Dakota, but rose to fame as a CBS Sports broadcaster. He then moved into the entertainment field as an Access Hollywood anchor and on the Entertainment Tonight spinoff, The Insider."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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