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7 News Boston anchor Alaina Pinto fired over ‘Hubie Halloween’ cameo Netflix via Decider A cameo in the latest Adam Sandler flick has cost a local news anchor her job. Alaina Pinto  revealed via Twitter yesterday (October 15) that  she was fired  from  WHDH Channel 7 News Boston  for briefly appearing in Sandler’s new Netflix movie,  Hubie Halloween . In the film, which is set in Salem and was filmed locally around Salem, Marblehead, Manchester-by-the-Sea, and elsewhere in the region, Pinto plays a newscaster for the fictional Channel 4 Morning News and its  Wake Up Boston  news program. She appears dressed as Harley Quinn. Pinto joined 7 News in December 2016 as traffic reporter, and has since worked the news desk and regularly appeared on the station’s morning broadcast. But she says she “mistakenly violated” the terms of her contract by appearing in the film. 7 News has not made a public statement regarding her termination. “Earlier this week I...