Television
Delta Burke explains why she moved back to Florida decades after being fired from ‘Designing Women’: The business was killing her and she ‘didn’t want to die in L.A.’
April 22, 2024
The press-release warfare between actress Delta Burke and the producers of “Designing Women” intensified Monday even as production began on the CBS sitcom’s fourth season.
Aug. 14, 1990
Lifetime gathers the cast of the hit sitcom for a retrospective that it hopes will be as successful as its ‘Golden Girls’ memories show.
July 28, 2003
The ‘Designing Women’ co-star puts a tumultuous past behind her and looks forward to her new sitcom.
June 18, 2000
Delta Meets the Press: Former “Designing Women” star Delta Burke on Tuesday credited a barrage of bad publicity with helping her get her own show on ABC this fall.
July 15, 1992
Delta Dawn?: Delta Burke has designs on leaving “Designing Women.”
Aug. 3, 1990
Movies
“Designing Women” star Delta Burke, whose weight gain makes tabloid headlines almost as often as Elizabeth Taylor’s, gets her revenge tonight as her character, Suzanne Sugarbaker, proves to the class of ’74 that the size of her heart is more important than the size of her hips.
Dec. 11, 1989
Delta’s Dawn: Delta Burke will do her own singing on her new fall show for ABC, she tells “Entertainment Tonight” in an interview airing tonight (7 p.m. on KNBC Channel 4).
April 27, 1992
The former housekeeper for husband-and-wife television stars Delta Burke and Gerald McRaney was sentenced to five years’ probation in Pasadena on Monday for stealing thousands of dollars from the couple.
Dec. 24, 1991
Today was the first day of production for this season’s “Designing Women” episodes but there were no signs that the war of words is abating between producers of the CBS sitcom and actress Delta Burke.
Aug. 13, 1990