Kids-Love-Kids, but does Imus-love-Imus?

Imus was hoping his Uggs-adorned feet could slide under the radar this morning (kinda like how nobody knows that Sean Hannity is usually pants-less on his nightly Fox News show), but no such luck. So, who better to fault for his embarrassment than his wife Deirdre, who happened to be a guest on the show today?

“You’re blaming me for the fact that you have your Uggs on?” said Deirdre, who really should be used to this kind of behavior by now.

Although, being married to the I-Man has prepared her well for the work she does with children, most of whom are far more mature than her 85-year old spouse. Her latest venture is the Kids-Love-Kids program, launched a few weeks ago by the Deirdre Imus Environmental Center for Pediatric Oncology.

In collaboration with Operation Goody Bag and the Catholic Medical Mission Board, Deirdre’s center has delivered more than 5,000 goody bags made by kids at Eastbrook Middle School in New Jersey to kids in Haiti, whose lives were devastated by the earthquake there just two months ago.

“It’s like a bag of sunshine,” she said of the goody bags, which contain things like teddy bears, organic lollipops, and notes from the children in the U.S. To donate a bag, which costs just $4, go to Deirdre’s website.

The Imuses were getting along so nicely, when all of a sudden Imus whipped out a pair of glasses, and began his mental patient routine of asking Deirdre, Wyatt, and anyone within earshot which pair of glasses they prefer of the dozen or so he has amassed.

“Yesterday at lunch he had to subject all the cowboys to it,” Deirdre shared. She agreed, perhaps a bit too emphatically, with Bernard’s point that her husband worrying about something so trivial is like rearranging the chairs on the Titanic as it sank into the ocean.

Which led Bernard to ask Deirdre, “Do you ever wake up in the middle of the night, roll over, and just start vomiting?”

No, she said. But she does, from time to time, sit up in bed, clap her hands against her cheeks and scream, Macaulay Culkin-style, at the top of her lungs.

At least someone was feeling the love for the I-Man this morning: a Nantucket, Mass. women wrote Imus a letter detailing how listening to his show and donating an acre to the Imus Ranch in her late husband’s name sustained her during the darkest days of her life.  

“She hung on by hearing me, back in those days, talk about how much I loved Deirdre and Wyatt,” Imus said.

“Gee,” Deirdre said, and sighed. “Those were the days.”

-Julie Kanfer