Will Ferrell is ‘World News’ Person of the Week

By Chris Ariens 

Following in-character drop ins at a Bismarck affiliate and on ESPN and NBCSN, Will Ferrell dropped the Ron Burgundy persona for Diane Sawyer who named him person of the week on Friday. The feature even included a clip of Ferrell as a sports anchor at Santa Ana College in 1991. “You came this close to being one of us,” Sawyer joked.

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