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via BCNN1: Katie Couric made her first public remarks about Matt Lauer’s ouster from NBC’s “Today” morning show, telling People Magazine that the incident continued to upset her. “The whole thing has been very painful for me,” Couric told People in an interview. “The accounts I’ve read and heard have been disturbing, distressing and disorienting […]

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via nbc4i: Matt Lauer’s firing as host of NBC’s “Today” makes him the biggest media figure brought down by sexual misconduct allegations since Bill O’Reilly and Roger Ailes lost their lofty positions at Fox News Channel. On Thursday morning, Lauer issued a statement to the Today show that read: There are no words to express […]

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via Cleveland19: NBC News announced Wednesday it fired longtime Today Show anchor Matt Lauer following reports of inappropriate sexual behavior toward multiple women Lauer is perhaps the most familiar face brought down by allegations of misconduct in the workplace. Just hours after the bombshell announcement broke, Variety released disturbing new details from women who’ve worked with Lauer. One woman said he once gave […]

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via CNN: Matt Lauer was fired from NBC News on Wednesday after an employee filed a complaint about “inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace,” the network announced. Savannah Guthrie made the announcement at the top of the “Today” show, where Lauer has been an anchor for two decades. NBC News chairman Andrew Lack said in […]

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Charlie Sheen revealed he is HIV positive Tuesday in an exclusive TODAY interview with Matt Lauer. “I am here to admit that I am in fact HIV positive,” the 50-year-old actor said. “I have to put a stop to this barrage of attacks and sub-truths and very harmful and mercurial stories that are about me […]

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Charlie Sheen is expected to disclose that he is HIV positive in an exclusive “Today” Show interview on Tuesday, a source with direct knowledge of the interview told CNNMoney. On Monday, NBC announced that the actor would be making a “revealing personal announcement” on the “Today” show Tuesday morning. The source told CNNMoney that Sheen […]

Rachel Dolezal, the former NAACP chapter president who was accused of pretending to be black, tells TODAY’s Matt Lauer in an exclusive live interview that she identifies as black — something she started doing at the age of five. “I was drawing self-portraits with the brown crayon instead of the peach crayon,” she told Lauer. […]

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“The case is settled, but the pain is always going to be there,” Tracy Morgan said Monday in his first interview since the deadly car accident a year ago that nearly took his life. The comedian spoke to TODAY’s Matt Lauer exclusively, less than a week after settling a lawsuit against Walmart over the June […]

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    Today: On Monday, we heard from Janay Rice, about that February night in an Atlantic City elevator. She was with Ray, along with her parents, Candy and Joe Palmer, as Matt Lauer sat down with him. Ray Rice on what it would take for another NFL team to sign him Matt Lauer: What […]

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  One moment in their lives brought Ray and Janay Rice into the public eye for all the wrong reasons. While Ray Rice has now been reinstated, and is looking for a team, his life off the field, and that of his wife Janay, are forever changed by what happened in that elevator. Recently, Matt […]

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  In an emotional interview, her first since she admitted having used racial epithets, Paula Deen tearfully told TODAY’s Matt Lauer Wednesday that she is not a racist; that as a businesswoman, she does not think her firing from Food Network was the right decision, and that she was unsure whether the N-word was offensive […]

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Matt Lauer and the Today show had a terrifying encounter with a knife wielding man as they aired this morning at Rockefeller Plaza. The entire team had to abandon their outside broadcast and move into the studio after a man in the audience stabbed himself in full view of Lauer and co-host Savannah Guthrie – […]