Hollywood,  May  31, 2001 -- Walters to get bumped in July
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Nude news cut on "GMA" Plans to air an interview with "body paint artist" Filippo Ioco and present some of his models on Good Morning America were abruptly canceled at the last moment last Wednesday following objections by GMA co-host Charles Gibson, the Washington Post reported Wednesday. The newspaper said Gibson voiced concern about the segment at a meeting prior to the show and that producer Shelly Ross and co-anchor Diane Sawyer concurred. Ross told the Post that she had agreed to book Ioco on the show after she had seen a segment of the syndicated Ripley's Believe It or Not!, featuring Ioco and his models, in which viewers said they could not tell that the models were not wearing real bikinis. "But you know what?" Ross told the Post, "You could tell the difference a little bit." Ioco said that he was told about a half hour before airtime that he and his models were off the show because "some senator did something in Washington" that had to be covered instead.