Though she’s been a favorite around these parts for almost a year now, it wasn’t until May 10 that Mandy Drury became a permanent member of the CNBC stateside team, an achievement which I’ve told you people I take an enormous amount of credit for. To celebrate this momentous occasion we decided it was high time to have a little chat about how things have been going so far.
Do you prefer to be called Mandy or Amanda?
Always Mandy. The only time I’m ever called Amanda is by my mother when I’m in big trouble.
Let’s just get the crushing of Wall Street’s dreams over with– are you single?
Nope, I’m married.
This is going to kill them.
[Laughs] Sometimes you have to give them the cold hard truth.
Kids?
Yup, two boys, 4.5 and 7.
How’d they take the move from down under?
The 4.5 year old doesn’t really know what’s going on but the 7 year-old was devastated. Finally I just had to resort to bribery. I said, FAO Schwartz- when we get there, anything you want.
You did a lot of filling in for CNBC stateside starting last summer but didn’t officially make the move from CNBC Asia until May 10. Interesting timing, in that Charlie Gasparino by that time was safely divorced from the network and signed with Fox Business. Did you finally make the move knowing you wouldn’t be assaulted by the scent of Drakkoir Noir?
[Laughs] Decisions was made totally unrelated to Charlie. Though I’m confident I could take him.
Are you enjoying Trish Regan and Larry Kudlow?
Love them. It’s been fantastic. We get along really well as a team.
Have you socialized with them off the clock yet?
Not yet but I think we’re all going to Larry’s wife’s gallery.
Let’s get down to business- Vikram Pandit, Jamie Dimon, Lloyd Blankfein. Who do you pick for your drinking game team, who has your back walking down a dark alley, who manages your money?
Can I swap in another name?
Okay, just this once.
I really would love to interview James Gorman, my fellow Aussie. I think he’s from Melbourne, like me, and I just think he’d be a great interview.
Yeah it would. But back to the scenarios….focus.
Hmmm okay well I haven’t measured all of them but I’d want the biggest, meatiest guy to have my back in a dark alley, so whoever that one is.
It’s Jamie.
Okay, Jamie for that scenario. Um, my money…whoever has made the most for themselves and their firm.
Beelzebub. Lloyd.
And for drinking game ahh– do I really look like a drinking games girl to you Bess?
Yeah! You’re fun, you’re the life of the party.
[Laughs] Oohh I don’t know about that but I’m always up for a good wine– a nice Napa Valley Shiraz.
I’ve been told Jamie Dimon has never done a keg stand. Something he needs to cross off the list. Just passing on information. Anyway, your Shiraz– who are you sipping that with?
Ooh, I guess it’d be Gorman.
Gorman it is. I hope he calls you after this.
Me too!
Do you pick out your own clothes to wear on-air or is there a CNBC wardrobe department?
I pick out my own clothes. I don’t know if management always approves of them!
Let’s play word association. Goldman Sachs.
Wealthy.
Jamie Dimon.
Friendly.
Handbridge.
Sorry?
Oh it’s like this sort of temporary construction designed to narrow the distance between two bodies on either side of a channel– you know what, we can talk about it some other time…Where have you been hanging out? Any favorite spots yet?
I love love love Central Park. It’s great. But I really just got here so I haven’t done much exploring yet.
Do you read Dealbreaker?
Yes, we love Dealbreaker.
Do you read the comments?
[Laughs] Boys will be boys.
I announced a while back that there’s going to be a DealBreaker field trip to Beamer’s, Stamford’s premiere strip club. If you haven’t heard of it its cultural relevance to Wall Street North cannot be overstated. I got busy and it got put off but it really needs to happen in the next couple weeks. Are you coming with us?
I don’t know how CNBC management would feel about that. But I’m absolutely going to think about it.
Love this: It’s Christmas in May!! Mandy, happy to introduce you to all my favorite nooks and crannies. Of Central Park.
Haha, love seeing this as a Bloomberg headline…
Handbridge = classic.
Mandy seems too straight-laced and nice. You should forward her some of the HBCap threads.
outstanding
i just shit my pants
Amazing Bess!
Your ability to get the scoop is unparalelled.
“…I’d want the biggest, meatiest guy to have my back in a dark alley…”
@6 was that sarcasm, jackass?
@2 haha same
Bess Levin, trannies and gentlemen. National treasure.
Amazing!
Wished the word association game would have included Gaspo, though…
Mandy, Mandy Pepperidge. I haven’t seen you since we…
who does not love this woman, Mandy, she is adorable!
I would do her with the lights on.
and now you can get a taste of the druries at:
https://wwws.druryhotels.com
;)
Anal_yst, any thoughts?
Seriously, why the need to objectify her?
I must admit Mandy is great, but I still miss Margaret Brennan :(
She probably had no idea who/what Dealbreaker was (she did not want to hurt your feelings Bess). She didn’t know who the CEO’s of major banks are? GE please use your common sense!
“She didn’t know who the CEO’s of major banks are?”
you got that from where?
also, you’re a moron. even if she doesn’t read DB regularly it’s unlikely she’s never googled herself and I challenge you to find one site that’s written more about her. in sum, kill yourself.
@17 yeah, totally, better to do a BS interview that doesn’t touch on the pink elephant in the room, ie that CNBC’s main attraction is breasts.
19 = troll
Kin weigh git thes trinsletted?
@21, Well, what if we had a network where the male anchors all displayed robust bulges. Would you be so quick to objectify? Hmm?
Will the real Mandy from NSW chime in and clear up the kinfusion?
Hey Mandy, whatever you do don’t let the Tranny that does Nicole Lapin’s makeup touch you……
Speaking of Nicole, am I the only one who imagined seeing her Taco on this mornings segment with the frozen burrito guy. She was wearing a really super short pink dress. The things you see at 4:00 a.m.
NakedShort should send her a HBCP shirt as a welcome to America gift. Let her supply the Ts.
24 hacked Dennis Kneale’s work computer.
“Well, what if we had a network where the male anchors all displayed robust bulges. ”
um, but we don’t? cnbc is the network of shlubb males and female talking heads with huge tits, and it’s bizarre that you want to pretend otherwise. do you think people watch the network to gain valuable business insight?
Let’s get down to business- Vikram Pandit, Jamie Dimon, Lloyd Blankfein. Who do you pick for your drinking game team, who has your back walking down a dark alley, who manages your money?
Can I swap in another name?
Ummm…yeah. I am not the one who blogs for a living.
Whin whill we hea frum NSW?
Kill, Fuck or Marry?
Bess, if it would not be too much trouble, can you please make out with Mandy and post photos of said making out?
Thank you in advance.
-The Rego Park Hammer
RE BEAMERS: DONT TEASE ME
@17 I think it’s safe to say that no one here objects to her…..
Okay, she reads and loves Dealbreaker but doesn’t know what a handbridge is??? You people are a pack of morons!!!
I call bullshit!
@30/19 are you…some kind of idiot? her wanting to swap James Gorman– THE CEO OF MORGAN STANLEY– in is indicative of her not knowing who the CEO’s of the major banks are how, exactly? the only thing that shows is she wants an interview with him, and used the question as an opportunity to put that out there. and perhaps that you don’t know who james gorman is.
also, does the Fairfield Public Library know you’re using their computers to make such idiotic statements? don’t bother responding, just slink back to whatever row of periodicals you were furtively masturbating in.
“We love Dealbreaker.”
The editorial we, or did the Druries chime in?
Just a note to sye thinks agin for the prifishional interview, Biss, and allowin’ me to ixpriss me opinion of the blokes readin’ Dealbryker. As one shiela to another, we kin reduce the amount of sixism shown to wimmin in businiss by constintly upgrydin’ our ixicutive-type skill sits and delivirin’ the bist possible news product each and ivery dye.
~A Certain Trinsplanted News Prifishional from the South 40s.
Bess, when do you want to do our interview?
- Simon Hobbs
@16
Married with children is but a small challenge. Hasn’t stopped me before, not worried about it being a problem this time around.
“Oh it’s like this sort of temporary construction designed to narrow the distance between two bodies on either side of a channel– you know what, we can talk about it some other time…”
<3
@41/Anal_yst exactly, just because there’s a goalie doesn’t mean you can’t score
@ 41, so you’re immoral AND annoying. shocking.
bess@37 “also, does the Fairfield Public Library know you’re using their computers to make such idiotic statements? don’t bother responding, just slink back to whatever row of periodicals you were furtively masturbating in.”
marry me.
@41 lay off my grandma, asshole
I also enjoy the word FURTIVELY. It should be used more.
1. Bess @37 – wow. You castrated him. What if it was an offspring of Stevie’s though – you may have offended him.
2. Greatest interview ever. Can we now crown her the best female on CNBC. The ‘Money Honey’ is now more like a street walker two blocks off the Vegas strip.
A fantastic interview. Well done Bess.
#37 Wow, I am so impressed with your software. I guess you really are legit and this is not out of your mother’s basement
It is very clear that Pandito has the fortitude for the drinking games, Lloyd is the manager of the money, and JD most suited for protecting women in dark alleys (leather jacket anyone?)
@50…stop fondling your balls.
@50 lame
@37 Now I know why everyone here wants Bess. YOWZZAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
THIS is why we read DealBreaker. Awesome job.
@54 Really? Just now? Really?
@36/50 “pwned” was invented for situations like this.
@54 got your as* handed to you yesterday and have now gone long, i see
@59 yes she raped me. I wrote a comment that Bess essentially said the same thing 2 days prior with a slight twist and this is indeed some fraud posing as Bess. My comment was promptly deleted. Then I saw the slaughter at 36.
I can only imagine if she was handling my contracts.
OptionsTrader is the result of four words: 1) heavy; 2) petting; 3) Dennis; and, 4) Kneale.
@43, exactly
@44, I’m not the one breaking my wedding vows/cheating on my husband, focus your moral outrage where it belongs, if anywhere. Or, you could just let two consenting parties do what they want in the privacy of their own home/hotel room/car/where and STFU and get your own life.
@Ham, Not sure I’ve met your Grandma, yet
@50, since you sound dumb enough to be potentially dangerous, let me just inform you simply that Dealbreaker is not published out of her parents basement.
Hey 60 didn’t I tell you yesterday to go fuck yourself before I shove my dick do far down your throat your pancreas will be used as a fuck hole?
@59 Are you speaking to yourself about yourself?
You forgot “-AIG Quant”
Only in San Francisco, ladies and gentlemen.
Touche 63
@50 – 1st day here, eh? Please stay in the shallow end for a bit until you’re acclimated to the temperature. Then wade, slowly, into the deep end, keeping your feet on the bottom. Breathing is optional.
What the hell is going on here?
@66 I disagree. If he’s going to piss in the pool, he should do it in the kiddie pool that is Yahoo! Finance. Breathing remains optional.
What is Yahoo Finance? Please be kind to advise me on this item situation. Yes?
Bess your awesome. Fantastic interview. Would she be willing to do a Dealbreaker pictorial?
Bess, did you know I play guitar? Available for interviews
Steve
Bess, face to face or on the phone? In other words, push up bra or the real deal?
BTW, Bess, thank you for giving us a glimpse of her insides….
@37 — awesome — I want to have your baby
Yes Bess, YES! I WILL I WILL!!!
Here are the actual answers to Bess questions:
Q- Do you prefer to be called Mandy or Amanda?
A- Nope. I like “The Druries”.I’m going to trademark that.too.
Q -Are you enjoying Trish Regan and Larry Kudlow?
A- What? I’m not into threesome thing..you dirty mind.! Besides,just imagine Larry Kudlow there….!
Q -Do you read Dealbreaker?
A- Sometimes but it can get porn
Q-Do you read the comments?
A-(Laughs)Not all Boys will be boys.Some are boys today but gay tomorrow.
Q-Let’s play word association. Goldman Sachs.
A-I’m not it’s former employee and I don’t own it in my Charitable Trust.
Q- Jamie Dimon.
A- He is just doing God’s work,too.Ask Jesse Christ Jackson.
I feel that this is the start of a long loooong stalkers type love affair and obsession with Australian girls…
-mnumma mnumma mnumma
ps I like to use the word “frotter” and “furtively frottering” would make a good addition to your beat down of idiot posters Bess.
(for those that dont know, its what small dogs do to your lower leg when they’re feeling dominant)
Step out of my office for meetings one afternoon and look what I miss. FUCK.
@NS – Man, that was bad timing, as this whole interview was like a birthday present to HBCP.
Bess,
Will you be taking a turn on the dance pole at Beamers?
@79 – KCUF indeed. She has a sweet spot for you – you can tell she became emotional at the HBCP question…
All in all, this shiela sims a good spoht.
Also, “Canadar, Chinar, and Australiar entuhd into an intirnishinul trayd igrimint” forever.
guest1: The high collar says “I’m a sophisticated lady,” but the low cut screams “put it between the bags.”
guest2: you think theyre big enough to TF? Looks like she might need to use the hand bridge.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hand%20bridge
@82
eets “foriva” mayte… gid it roite, jeez.
Wad a ferkin billabong.
I just had a wet dream about Mandy Drury and Liz Claman 2gethah
@85 Amazing!
U guys r crazy…but she is HOT! I’m all for a trip to beamers, havent been since I left Greenwich
She has a face and a voice for anal.
It is only Wednesday and they made he cover the clevage! 3 days was better than nothing I guess
Don;t know how I missed this. Mandy mesmerizes….
Don;t know how I missed this. Mandy mesmerizes….
Don;t know how I missed this. Mandy mesmerizes….
Mandy.. Dear Mandy..
Your a beautiful woman but that hairdo has to go. It is so 70's and you really need a new style. You are great for CNBC as you seem real and approachable. But that hairdo has to go. Keep up the good work and all the best to you and your family.. I watch CNBC like an addiction. All the best to you this coming year.