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Heidi Androl arrested on suspicion of DUI

By Helene Elliott
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Heidi Androl, who parlayed a loss on ‘The Apprentice’ TV show into a career as a host on Kings telecasts, was arrested under suspicion of DUI on the 105 freeway early Monday morning, according to the website TMZ.com.

Androl had attended a gala honoring Luc Robitaille Sunday night at Club Nokia and was pulled over for driving too slowly on the freeway.

She did not participate in the telecast of the Kings’ 2-1 victory over Calgary Monday night at Staples Center. Mike Altieri, the Kings’ vice president of communications and broadcasting, said Androl ‘was given the night off for personal reasons,’ and said the club would have no further comment.

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--Helene Elliott

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Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

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