Benza
began writing for Newsday in college who then hired
him as a gossip columnist for that paper and eventually
for the New York Daily News. He began appearing
on E! Entertainment Television's The Gossip Show
in the early 1990s which led to work on talk shows
such as Geraldo, Hard Copy, Montel, The Maury Povich
Show, and a variety of others.
Soon after leaving the paper Benza was offered a
job as host of E! Entertainments’ Mysteries
and Scandals. The show became wildly successful.
It was on this show that Benza popularized the catchphrase
"Fame, Ain't it a bitch," which later
became the title of his autobiography. Benza went
on to host his own late-night talk show titled A.J.
After Hours.
Film and TV appearances include Gimme My Reality
Show!, Celebrity Fit Club, Mobsters, Numb3rs, Rocky
Balboa, Pauly Shore Is Dead, Family Guy, V.I.P.
,Comedy Central Presents: The N.Y. Friars Club Roast
of Rob Reiner, Playboy: The Complete Anna Nicole
Smith, Howard Stern, Saturday Night Live and Ransom
to name a few.
In 2006, Benza hosted the reality show Cold Turkey
II on ION Television. He also co-hosted the first
five seasons of High Stakes Poker (along with
Gabe Kaplan) on the GSN. He was replaced in 2009
by poker pro Kara Scott for the show's sixth season.
He wrote an open letter expressing his discontent
with network executives at GSN in a post on his
blog titled "Flop Turn and River of Shit".
Currently AJ and his family relocated from Los
Angeles to New York City where he is entertaining
offers and working on his second book tentatively
titled Star Trip.
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