Report: Matt Lauer had an affair with a 'well-respected' NBC star

Was it Ann?

Katie Couric is pretty anal friendly, if I recall her on air colonoscopy. Could be a pattern, Griss.

Meredith?

Natalie Morales. His wife even confronted her in a well publicized spat.

I doubt very much that it was Ann R1.

Natalie Morales is still at NBC News.

no way it was Ann Curry (she despises Lauer), Natalie Morales is still at NBC, Couric is most likely a lesbian, Savannah Guthrie (still at NBC)....

Tamron Hall was formerly a national news correspondent for NBC News, day-side anchor for MSNBC, host of the program MSNBC Live with Tamron Hall, and a co-host of Today's Take, the third hour of Today.

I’m thinking Campbell Brown.

J. Fred Muggs

Kathie Lee Gifford

Al??

Al Roker is still employed by NBC.

But Megyn Kelly isn't.

It's TWUE! We had ah widdow twyst wight aftuh my "Today Show" days and just befoe I ended up in the "Awzheimuh's Condo" I bought with Cindy Adams, Joan Wivvuhs and Judge Judy.

Shame on ooo Baba! Shame on ooo!!

Savannah Guthrie.

I thought it was obvious that he and Giada were banging, too. But I don’t think she’s considered an NBC Star.

Whoops ^^. I meant Natalie Morales.

Weren't there rumors about one of Natalie's kids being ML's....

Natalie is still with NBC though as everyone has already said.

Boy Matt was busy- imagine his poor wife. She finally dumped him- good for her. Something really is wrong with him.

[quote]Report: Matt Lauer had an affair with a 'well-respected' NBC star

Bill Cosby.

Unless the wife is clinically mentally deficient, she knew that her handsome, powerful, rich, famous American husband (she's Dutch) was fucking all the gals who threw themselves at him. Why would she complain about his infidelity since she had her babies and access to his money? She only got out of there when the rape allegations surfaced and Matt's TV career was officially dead.

Barely, r19. She shipped out to the West Coast for Access Hollywood and to act as the Today show west coast correspondent during award season.

It was Amy Robach.

Katie is not a lesbian. How weird to jump to that conclusion

[quote]Why would she complain about his infidelity since she had her babies and access to his money?

The bigger question is why every thread is full of this kind of thing lately? What kind of dullard doesn't understand someone getting upset when they're cheated on?

Virginia Graham for sure.

Lauer admitted in his letter he gave and received oral sex with the affair he had with this staffer

Is it weird I find it hot he gave and received oral sex?

If the woman is "famed" and "well-respected," is the "imbalance of power" really all that clear?

The implication seems to be that she's famed now but wasn't when she was at NBC and Lauer was using his supervisory status over her.

Betty White

Regis

I can't believe the DL sleuths can't figure this one out.

It was Jennifer Aniston

That big headed cooking chick? Gianna something? They were always very flirty.

Joe Garagiola

R35 Paula Dean?

Lol R37, it wouldn't surprise me.

Bob Costas' Pink Eye

It's NBC show-stopper, Linda Dano!!

R40, no it’s Strudel.

Didn't he father one of Natalie Morales’ kids? (Not that she’s a star...)

It was Campbell Brown.

Florence Henderson.

“I doubt very much that it was Ann [R1]”

Not even if his wandering dick was covered in delicious Curry sauce and dripping with butter.

R22, his wife and he had split years ago, minus the ink on the divorce decree. She kept the house in the country and the kids, & he lived in the city. That’s why he had so much time and opportunity to pursue tail 24/7.

Didn’t he also order his wife from one of those Epstein modeling catalogs? Or unlike Trump’s cheap, penny pinching ass, was he willing to pay for better quality, and ordered her through Casablanca’s catalog? Laurer’s now ex-wife is still gorgeous. Beautiful woman. Real class, too. What a waste on Laurer’s behalf.

Norvillw of course.

It.

Was.

Amy Robach.

She left NBC, where she was a co-host of Weekend Today, and took a step down to go to ABC as a GMA correspondent.

There was gossip at the time (even here, I believe) that Lauer fucked her and forced her out. She qualified as "well-respected" — she was praised for the GMA reports on her breast cancer, and she's still at ABC.

I see tongue and throat cancer in his future

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Andrea Mitchell

Elizabeth Vargas

Megyn Kelly

Cokie Roberts. And then she died.

Sean Hayes

That DM article cites Annette’s grounds for divorce as she was being “subjected to cruel and inhuman treatment”, which we all know means “Date Night” for Matt, AKA: surprise anal!

Susan Seaforth Hayes

Why has there been no detailed description of his junk?

Katherine Hepatitis Burn

That chimp from the Today show in the 50s.

J. Fred Muggs

R48 Amy Robach left NBC because she was offered the News Anchor position on Good Morning America - that is NOT a step-down but a step-up. From weekend to weekday

Star Jones was once a TODAY regular.

My vote is for Campbell Brown (she was very ambitious), but I don't know who this Amy Robach is - she might be a better candidate.

Meghan Markle

R61, she didn't become news anchor until two years after she moved to ABC. She toiled in obscurity as a correspondent until then.

She was doing very well on Weekend Today and was considered a rising star at NBC.

What's left for Matt Lauer at this point- Bestiality? He might as well disclose and get ahead of it all. What an utter piece of Shit.

[quote] What's left for Matt Lauer at this point

Because he is a narcissist, he is determined to get back in the news business and regain his reputation. If I was him, I wouldn't bother. He has the dough, doesn't have to work another day in his life. He should find another career path to re-invent himself.

What other career path would be open to him, r67? I agree, there is no way he goes back into broadcasting.

R69, are you also R10?

Matt can always do porn. Ugh gross. JK.

He’s done. No one wants to see him anywhere, ever again.

“Well respected” is the key.

This is Matt fighting back unless this article is old. That would explain it being front Fox.

Regis, definitely had to be Regis R32.

They will be showing footage of Regis tearfully recounting how Lauer made him "feel like nothing more than a sex object designed for his pleasure".

C'mon Reg', let it out. We're all with you in spirit.

I think R24 has it. The person left NBC in 2012 - the "names" that left were Ann Curry and Amy Roback.

Wasn't Larry King on NBC at one time?

Larry King can't get it up any more R74.

Has to be Amy Robach. She divorced in 2008; probably due to that.

More likely due to her relationship with Andrew Shue, r76. They married in 2009.

There are two different people mentioned in the article: One person is an affair while a second person was harassed by Lauer and an unnamed executive and who left in 2012. Robach fits for the person who was harrassed and then left in 2012.

He had a long standing affair with Natalie and everyone knew about it. It caused massive upheaval at the station and supposedly her youngest child is actually their baby. What a mess.

The man was banging everyone. He’s a nasty piggy narcissist.

Willie Geist?

I wanna taste Mr.Geist's willy

My money's on Irving R. Levine.

Re R66 and R67: I’ve said in past ML threads that the only thing I imagine he could do at this point work-wise would be to invest in someone else’s business — e.g., perhaps if a friend was opening a new bar or restaurant, he could put money in it and be a silent partner. Of course they could never publicize his involvement for risk of turning people off from going there.

I bet that Crisco came in handy R44.

MOIRA STEWART

Everyone loved Campbell, especially Matt, and that was the reason why she didn’t get the main Today Show gig, which eventually went to MV.

The reason Campbell Brown didn't get the main Today show gig is that she was an ice-cold bitch who didn't have the charisma to carry the show.

As her quickly canceled CNN show proved.

Campbell became an embarrassing right wing nut job.

Ann Curry will be ring death knell for Lauer. I knew the day she said goodbye on the show, she was gracefully and quietly holding the cards and biding her time. It's all going to come out now; and it's going to be ugly.

I thought it was J. Fred Muggs.

[quote]I thought it was J. Fred Muggs.

So did R10 and R60.

Jay Leno

Matt Lauer is a letch and a criminal but he's charismatic and very good as the co-host of a breezy morning news program. Everyone could see from a mile away that hiring Ann Curry to be his co-host was a terrible decision. She was so awkward and uncomfortable on the air and had to go. Matt wasn't unfairly targeting Ann, he was merely acknowledging reality but got blamed for "that poor woman being fired."

Departed “Today” anchor Ann Curry could “destroy” her former co-host Matt Lauer if she spills all on the disgraced star, according to a report.

Curry — who worked alongside Lauer from 1997 to 2012 — has not revealed the extent of allegations leveled against her NBC colleague, a source tells US Weekly.

“Ann has maintained a dignified silence, but a lot of people confided in her years ago and still do to this day,” the source told the outlet. “She knows more than most about the man Matt really is, and when she finally speaks out, it will destroy him.”

In a new book by Ronan Farrow, Curry insisted that the complaints about Lauer’s treatment of women were well-known during her tenure at the network.

She claimed that she went to higher-ups after one colleague revealed to her that Lauer exposed himself to her.

Though she didn’t reveal the accuser’s name, Curry told the execs that they “had a problem” with the morning show host, the book alleges.

“I told them that they had a problem in him,” she told Farrow. “That he had a problem with women. That they had to keep an eye on him.”

But network’s bigwigs have fired back at Curry, insisting she didn’t disclose the “specific” complaint.

“By her own account, Curry relayed no specific complaint, nor did she say Lauer’s ‘problem’ regarded any specific workplace misconduct,” NBC News President Noah Oppenheim wrote in a memo to staffers.

A rep for Lauer didn’t immediately respond to request for comment.

R94, I agree. It's two separate issues.

Matt's a pig. He was good at his job (except for the parts about butt-fucking his co-host's assistant's ass.)

But Ann was all wrong for the show. So [italic] earnest [/italic] as, I believe, EW wrote.

Dylan Dreyer was harassed by Matt. It was reported and acted upon by NBC. All was kept quiet, NBC is lying when they say there was no history of his abuse being reported. Tamron Hall left because of Megyn Kelly's hiring.

Breeder sleaze.

What’s amazing is how shit that has been talked about for decades regarding Matt, is coming out in a book written by a guy who was still a kid, when Matt was running around Manhattan, harassing women and fucking over their careers, AND the kid just so happens to be the son of one of NYC’s most famous, pieces of shit, who Matt has known for years, and has probably interviewed. I’m not sure if that interview ever happened between those two, because I’ve despised Matt from the moment I learned that his NBC morning show wasn’t the best place to drop off a resume, and specifically, why. Hence, I’ve never tuned into his hour of self aggrandizing schlock, except for that Tom Cruise meltdown, which was obviously required viewing for those of us who also knew what a complete whack job Cruise was, long before he decided to announce it all on his own, on national TV.

But here’s Ronan. The guy who has actually taken a huge career gamble by exposing all of these pieces of shit, when no one else would-NBC included, and that gamble paid off big. Thanks, Ronan. You rock!

LMAO 😂! Justice is a long suffering, mistress with a wry sense of humor, who obviously doesn’t like surprise anal.

Andrea Mitchell? Judy Woodruff? Carole Simpson? Nancy Dickerson? Betty Furness?

[quote]Departed “Today” anchor Ann Curry could “destroy” her former co-host Matt Lauer if she spills all on the disgraced star, according to a report.

Losing his family, his reputation, job, sold off homes, I think he has been pretty mush destroyed already.

TC wasn't wrong...Matt Lauer is glib and worse!

Moshi moshi!

From earlier this year: The Daily Beast reported that NBC brass not only ordered that Curry not be acknowledged in the "Today" show tribute ... but also Amy Robach.

I agree with R24. It was Amy. She is going great on abc

Matt Lauer fucked Tom Brokaw!

And Dan Rather lied about it!

I did not have sexual relations with that man.

What about me?

[quote] agree with [R24]. It was Amy. She is going great on abc

And married to Andrew Shue.

But it was rumored that Natalie was moved to the West Coast to remove her from the situation with Matt. As an aside - I always wondered if Kit was having an affair with Billy.

It's all just so delicious!

I loved Ann Curry on Today. It wasn't that she was not right for Today, it's just that prior to Ann taking over as co-host, Today evolved from a healthy dose of news segments along with some celebrity and lifestyle segments to frau-laden celebrity, gossip, family/kids drivel and nauseating Kardashian crap.

Ann was better as a broadcast news journalist than the soupy frau crap that had become the Today Show. Ann Curry doesn't do Kardashian crap, but that's what her job became. It sucked. People blamed her for not fitting in and Matt Lauer blamed her as well. However, bullshit fluff, Kardashian trash is not what Ann signed up for. She's a newswoman, not a gossip columnist. Today now sucks beyond words. Ann Curry and decent journalism unfortunately are things of the past at Today.

Fact: Amy Robach had an abortion. I was the prep nurse.

If you were, R114, you should be fired.

Wow how creepy of you.

It’s Ann Curry.

This leak is payback. There is no way fox just stumbled upon this.

They are trying to get back at Ann by leaking their affair.

Great post, R113. I agree 100%.

Ann Curry was a disaster on the show. She was fired entirely for her performance, which was terrible.

She was treacly and over-earnest in her interviews — every single one had a cringey moment, if not several — she wasn't good at ad-libbing, exhibited no wit, stumbled constantly when reading stories (after 15 year as the newsreader), and dressed like Bozo the clown.

You don't tune into a morning show to watch a host who makes you want to turn away because they're embarrassing themselves. The ratings cratered.

R119 = ML

I think it was Natalie, heard she fucked him in Italy. I think it was winter olympics...

There were lots of rumors about an affair.

Giada di Laurentiis is a massive whore

Giada di Laurentiis is a massive whore

This has Natalie Morales written all over it!

Ann Blyth

Natalie Morales is not respected.

I agree with R119. Ann was just not a good fit for the morning show. Even back to the days when Katie Couric was the anchor, she was the news reader, you can tell Katie didn't really like her either, maybe not "dislike" her on a personal level, but she was the odd one among them. Katie, Al and Matt...everyone was having a good time, Ann just cannot relax and blend in. For the light and fluffy pieces, she came out as too serious and killed them. For the "serious" interviews, she tried too hard. This is especially true when Ann interviewed people who survived an ordeal or tragedy, she would deliberately lower her voice and speak extremely slow, it's really awkward to watch. I am sure Ann is a nice person and she is very professional, but she just doesn't have the skill of Katie or Meredith, who knows how to talk, chat and interview on camera and switch smoothly from one segment to another.

R82 Willie Geist is a cunt. Watch this video where he laughs with Tucker abour how disgustingly fat and ugly Rosie is (I hope his preteen daughters see this clip somewhere), and states proudly that he is on Trump's side.

Now that he's on MSNBC Trump sickens him (yeah right) and he hates how Trump talks about women.

C U N T

Here's the clip

whoops haha (I'm high)

Wow at r110, Andrew Shue's nose job has not aged well.

Do they ever not look totally surgerized as one ages?

[quote]Cokie Roberts. And then she died.

And then she PASSED.

Meridith Baxter for sure or Nadia Comaneci.

R128 The media has re -written history when it comes to their response to Trump. Geist was one of Trumps moronic media buddies but unfortunately there were too many to count.

Now they are (supposedly ) absolutely shocked and scandalized by him and his abhorrent behavior. But for years they were his biggest cheerleaders, allowing him to get away with anything and everything while they smirked indulgently. As if he were a naught child. This continued well into the election, even when it became clear how much was at stake.

I would like to see an outsider journalist write a serious article naming and embarrassing all the journalists who gave Trump a pass. It couldn't be a member of the mainstream media because they were the worst offenders. I'm sick of seeing phony news personalities shedding crocodile tears over trumps antics.

Matt also made sure to rout any of the male up and comers at NBC too, so there was no male host to replace him. He is a POS to both sexes.

Fuck you, R2. A new low even for DL, considering her husband died of colon cancer.

No one else thinks it’s Ann Curry?

Why the hell else would this come out now. And from this wretched source.

Are you kidding? Ann fuck ML? She hated him!

R135 Yes I remember reading gossip about his intensely jealous streak years ago . He hated any competition. Matt was apparently quite the little bitch.

He looks like shit now. Was he ever hot?

Wonder if he ever sent dick pics.

[quote]What other career path would be open to him, [R67]

Gay porn. He'd regain his superstar status, of a different kind, in no time.

Sorry, but Frances Fisher doesn't say "passed." She prefers TRANSITIONED.

R130, wow.

[quote]What other career path would be open to him

Why does he need a career? He was making $20 million a year for years. He's not a kid, after selling off the extra homes including a Hamptons mansion and giving the wife half, he probably has millions to live off of.

Why is this guy still in the news all the time?

These are interesting,,and very creepy

I think R52 is really onto something... Vargas is said to be a flirt, and often drunk. She's been to rehab several times, but it just never seems to take. I can totally see them together. I believe Elizabet's husband left her too, so depending on the timing, Matt could very easily been "comforting" her.

R148 except Vargas was not a NBC star, she was in ABC all the time.

his ex so fug, alwys looks super grouch in pix, wtf he marry THAT?????

R145 because narcissists need other people to admire them and treat them as very, very special. Money alone doesn't do that. Fame does.

R136, 11 W&W to 2. Eat Santorum!

If it turns out it wasn’t Ann, I’ll eat my hat.

It isn't anyone, it's easy to pick on Matt because someone will fit a vague description, but realistically virtually all you posting here have had more sexual partners (ten times over) than Matt and are much sleazier than he is, or think he is.

It isn't a question of volume, it's a question of power.

I think it’s probably everyone except Ann Curry. Fun fact the day she was fired I saw Charlie Rose and Matt Lauer obviously coming from the same building on the east side walking in opposite directions. Charlie came barreling out chattering at his assistants prepping for the next show walking west. Lauer was walking slowly down Park Avenue with the biggest and smarmiest grin on his face. He was also clearly wanting to be recognized and getting a high out of reactions he was getting. People forget that under Lauer Today kept sinking lower and lower in ratings.

Why don’t you think it was Ann?

I didn’t think so until I read the part about the year she left the show.

Maybe that’s why they didn’t get along.

I don’t want it to be her but you have to ask yourself why this was published at this time.

I think the problem was the way they fired, or moved Ann out because of how long she had been with the program.

Giada di Laurentiis was a victim of child sexual abuse - I believe by her father. She ran away from home as a teen and was all on her own. I'm certainly not going to judge her if she has issues about sex.

OK now I'm confused, people her actually think Ann Curry was having an affair with Matt Lauer?

R157 just the look on his face not one hint of sheepishness just the crowing of narcissist who had defeated an enemy.

Datalounge is really dead now. All that’s left are b-list stalker trolls and complete idiots.

r162 nailed it. Datalounge closed.

R157, you could see that they never got along and I guarantee it was because she knew what he was up to and didn't like it.

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That letter did not stop Vester from continuing to share her story however, or Brokaw's lawyer from making threats.

'I guess we’re going to war,' said attorney Reid Weingarten after she gave interviews to ABC and CNN.

Weingarten would only say that he behaved 'professionally' and that he does not recall De Niro's name ever coming up in conversation.

'Those threats were what really caused rolling panic attacks,' said Vester.

'It’s not like I’m a shrinking violet. I used to report from war zones.'

Brokaw initially said that he met Vester twice, 'both at her request' because she wanted career advice.

'The meetings were brief, cordial and appropriate, and despite Linda's allegations, I made no romantic overtures towards her at that time or any other,' he said in a statement.

Then came the letter, in which Brokaw declared: 'My family and friends are stunned and supportive. My NBC colleagues are bewildered that Vester, who had limited success at NBC News, a modest career at Fox and a reputation as a colleague who had trouble with the truth was suddenly the keeper of the flame of journalistic integrity.'

[quote]Ronan [Farrow] is reporting, among other things, that NBC apparently did know that Matt was a problem,' said Vester while appearing on Fox News at Night With Shannon Bream on Wednesday.

'Funny how Vester and fired racist Megyn Kelly run to Fox to attack NBC.

I am so fucking tired of this blind item type shit. Either tell us the names or shut up. I don’t have the time or inclination to piece together clues and solve a mystery. I’m not fucking Angela Lansbury.

[quote]Vester was appearing on Tucker Carlson Tonight at the time,

Are you shitting me????

You know, if you want to be taken seriously, maybe go to an outlet where sexual harassment was the entire fucking model for the network. It's like being a cow who goes to a slaughterhouse to bitch about the butcher shop. You don't go to FOX where "hamburger meat" is literally the description of Ailes penis by someone HARASSED BY HIM except because you want to pathetically frame this as "conservatives are so good and moral and liberals are are all lecherous beasts."

FOX is not where you go if you want to go unless you're looking to be a propagandist for one of the very hogs of sexual harassment.

Correction: FOX is not where you go, unless you're looking to be a propagandist for one of the very hogs of sexual harassment.

Oops, just realized my error:

Another correction: maybe go to an outlet where sexual harassment WASN'T the entire fucking model for the network.

[quote]maybe go to an outlet where sexual harassment WASN'T the entire fucking model for the network.

You're not leaving her many options.

Matt's done it all: rape, exposed himself, use his position to bully into sex and reward, affairs, and of course adultery. Who knew this slightly smug, glib, metrosexually dressed guy (remember Cruise calling Matt glib) was such a sexual sociopath?

I'm not surprised. I've said it numerous times over the years that I never understood people calling Hollywood celebs the most arrogant phonies when from what I've experienced and seen, media people are the most self-absorbed phonies you will ever encounter (regardless of leaning), and that includes local nobodies. They really think they're special.

R172, I don't doubt all networks have their issues. but FOX based their entire existence on lecherous, old, white men and sexualized blondes in miniskirts.

I don't understand. How can see NDA be in force in the event of a crime? Will it not make you complicit in the crime?

I can understand NDA with regard to business and professional information.

I would like to see an outsider journalist write a serious article naming and embarrassing all the journalists who gave Trump a pass.

Are you certain that's what you want? The story would start with the DNC and the Hillary campaign instructing their allies in the media to build Trump up into the front runner. Personally I doubt this coordination and complicity will ever be properly explored, for obvious reasons.

[quote] As examples of these "pied piper" candidates, the memo named Donald Trump — as well as Sen. Ted Cruz and Ben Carson). "We need to be elevating the Pied Piper candidates so that they are leaders of the pack and tell the press to them seriously," the Clinton campaign concluded.

Megyn Kelly calls out nbc on not hiring an outside firm to investigate the claims. Gee, why it has to be Megyn Kelly, no one even bothered to ask NBC - can you guys really investigate yourself?

My sister knows a family who knows Lauer very well. She told me years ago that the land Lauer bought and turned into a horse farm building 36 stables, indoor riding ring, outbuildings, pond,, etc was a gift to his wife to prevent her from leaving him after she found out he had a baby with someone else.

Fuck Megyn Kelly. She’s pissed that she failed at NBC and wants to blame them for her career implosion. Get lost, yuh pointy faced bitch.

Let me tell you, it’s far worse to take someone’s money than to put them in jail. Jared Kushners father paid a fine, went to jail but kept his money. That’s was a disgrace. Matt lauer, on the tiger hand, never went to jail but he is ruined. He spent tons of money because he was making $25M/year. Now he makes $0 a year and he is in major trouble because he has to sell his properties in a sluggish real estate market, pay alimony, pay child support (private schools, etc).

The wife gets the horse farm. They paid only 3.4M for the land, which was a giveaway by the town. We fought it because it was sold to the town as agricultural reserve by the previous owner, and Lauer planned to build many buildings on it.

The people who had built their houses overlooking that land many years ago paid top dollar for their property because it bordered agricultural reserve, so the increased price was because it was scenic (it was a plant and tree nursery at the time) and was not to be built upon.

But a judge got paid off to declare horse farms “agricultural reserve” a few years later. So people who paid more money for their land because it overlooked scenic reserve are now literally looking at the back of a barn.

Even though they got the property at a fire sale price, they put millions into it and it costs a hell of a lot to maintain.

Lauer still hasn’t sold Strong Heart Manor which he bought from Richard Gere. He bought it for $32M and wants $44M.

He also had an estate in Southampton for sale for $14M. I don’t know if he ever sold that.

I’m not crying for Lauer, believe me. But when you expected to keep making $25M and your salary goes down to $0 with no hope of getting another job, it sure is expensive maintaining all that real estate, lol.

He’s available, R150. Sounds like he might be right up your alley.

[quote] OK now I'm confused, people her actually think Ann Curry was having an affair with Matt Lauer?

Yes, some posters are speculating that Ann Curry was having an affair with Matt Lauer. I really don't think so.

I love a lot of lowbrow entertainment and eat a lot of junk food, but I really hate morning TV shows. It really is made for dolts and sheep.

[quote]Fuck Megyn Kelly. She’s pissed that she failed at NBC and wants to blame them for her career implosion. Get lost, yuh pointy faced bitch.

She's absolutely delusional. No one outside of the FOX bubble wanted anything to do with her. When you've been a part of the media machine that spread so much hate, racism and bigotry for so long, you don't just get a do-over with talk show. Accept the fact that most are just disgusted by you and don't want to hear or see you.

I don't know why Andrew Lack isn't living in a cardboard box for all of the bad decisions he has made over the years both on-air and off. What an awful, fucking man.

R183, was that clip meant for another thread and you forgot that you left it there?

[quote] Correction: FOX is not where you go, unless you're looking to be a propagandist for one of the very hogs of sexual harassment.

Pulitzer Prize hero Ronan Farrow disagrees,

Ronan Farrow sat down with Fox News’s Bret Baier to talk about the revelations made in his new book Catch and Kill. During the interview that aired on Fox News on Wednesday night, Farrow called out NBC for not behaving journalistically in their handling of his story, which they declined to publish.

“This was a case where a news organization didn’t behave journalistically,” said, speaking of NBC’s decision not to run the story.”They ordered us to stop.”

He added: “I owe to the bravery of sources and two incredible editors there. I think that it tells an important story about the circles of mutual protection and power in our business and the media and the need to hold ourselves accountable.”

He then praised Fox News and CBS for holding their own accountable and having the tough conversations.

“That’s true of CBS, where I did reporting on allegations of secret settlements there. It’s true of Fox, your own network, which has done a great job of confronting some of the issues here, including the use of secret settlements, and now there’s a tough conversation happening at NBC” Farrow stressed. “Many of them, including ones with Matt Lauer accusers. The journalists there who are excellent journalists, in many cases, are asking tough questions about why.”

R185, thanks, that clip is there b/c there’s a scene of a female character in the movie Fargo, watching morning TV before she gets kidnapped. Really inane TV show, and meant to characterize her as a simple housewife.

[quote]om Brokaw forcibly tried to kiss her on two occasions, first in 1994 and then again in 1995.

#MeToo

There’s no way Brokaw did that. I’ve known for years that Lauer was a sex pest off the set because I know someone who owns a restaurant frequented by NBC people. If he’s a pest off the set, it makes sense he’d be a pest on the set, I’ve never heard a peep about Brokaw.

Oh, I also heard about Charlie Rose all the way back in the early 90s. A well known player

[quote]But when you expected to keep making $25M and your salary goes down to $0 with no hope of getting another job, it sure is expensive maintaining all that real estate, lol

How do you know he doesn't have few millions or more in the bank accruing interest?

R150 - she was a model!

I’m sure he does have money in the bank, but he’s not bringing any money in and he’s putting lots of money out. Alimony, child support, private school, maintaining at least 2, possibly 3 properties in the Hamptons, no doubt he has a Manhattan apartment.

He won’t be poor but people who count on lots of money coming in every year tend to spend a lot while keeping up with the Joneses. The landscape/maintenance bill for Strongheart alone is in the hundreds of thousands. Not to mention keeping up a property with 36 stables, indoor riding ring, pasture, etc.

Boohoohoo. He needs good lawyers for his divorce and real estate asset management, and the stomach to take losses on what he needs to sell, and move on. No man his age, and a social pariah to boot, needs all the piles of real estate he acquired.

If you can believe the internet it says he is worth $60,000,000 - after he pays Annette $20,000,000 that leaves him $40,000,000. He'll be OK - don't cry for him. He'll have to tighten his belt for sure - sell off multiple properties and he will be able to afford a pretty nice Manhattan co-op or live more modestly than he currently does in a Hamptons mini-manse. The $60 mil may not be accurate but surely directionaly correct. Money isn't the issue - the isolation will be.

I have said it before - can you imagine having what he had and f'ing it up - the hurt in his wake - his victims, his wife and kids, his parents if they are alive. Good lord what a disgrace! It's one thing to squirk love juice on a navy Gap dress like Clinton, but to be accused so publicly of something so taboo as back-door rape!

I can't wait until the nudes are leaked. You just know he was stupid enough to send them to someone!

I hope there is a picture of Matt Lauer with a hard on.

[quote]If you can believe the internet it says he is worth $60,000,000 - after he pays Annette $20,000,000 that leaves him $40,000,000. He'll be OK - don't cry for him.

You do realize most of these celebrities "worth" are made up with a lot coming from how much they bought homes for.

In the summer he'd be in town to do the show while the wife was out in the Hamptons and he would helicopter out for the weekend. Plenty of weekdays to get into mischief.

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[quote]I have said it before - can you imagine having what he had and f'ing it up - the hurt in his wake - his victims, his wife and kids, his parents if they are alive. Good lord what a disgrace!

He did so much TV crap in the 80s and to blow such an incredible gig. Such an idiot.

Star Jones?

Wasn't Natalie technically fired from the Today show and NBC and swapped out to Access Hollywood or something and then made the West Coast Anchor. She was basically banished to the west coast.

She wasn't banished. She decided she wanted to do more vapid, Hollywood celeb "journalism." Didn't want to do serious news anymore.

r203 yeah but just like Star Jones was leaving the view, and Hasslecrack was leaving the view...I think that was the story.

R114, were you really???

I can’t imagine going on a gossip forum, & posting something like that, anonymously, or otherwise. I know we all shoot the shit here, with some definite arrows flung, and pointed barbs, but revealing something like that is about anyone, especially about a person who’s career demands that she is in front of a camera every day, is below the bar of human decency. An alley cat in heat has more discretion than you.

I don’t believe you’re really an RN. What you are is a piece of trash who came on to DL, in order to share shut no one here asked you to share because you thought it would be funny to disclose personal information about someone, without concern of how that effects real people.

You remind me of Donald Trump.

R114 is hardcore.

I was the garbage man at the hospital - I can corroborate - there was a dead baby with a receeding hairline trying to fuck another dead fetus in the garbage.

R130 I knew there was a reason I didn’t like Willie Geist. I forgot what a right wing/Trump loving douche he was. Friend of “Tucker”< 0.

I'm so shocked that Willie Geist and Tucker, both two assholes of privilege/nepotism defend another asshole of privilege and attack a woman who actually earned what she has. Truly shocking.

both* -two

Dear God. In profile, Matt looks like Ben Stein.

Does Matt still have to worry about being criminally prosecuted for any of this? When people talk about his career and potential money woes, seems those could still be the least of his problems if someone decides to pursue him over the rape allegations, no?

If I had a gig like his, I would yank my balls out by the roots before I let my dick come between me and the bank. The man must be insane.

Matt Lauer tried to get Pippa Middleton a job at the ‘Today’ show:

R214 That's not surprising, since we now know he has a thing for anal. Pippa has one of the most famous asses in the world.

R215 reminds me how the human mind is an amazing and frightening place.

[R66] Honestly what's next? Conservative upstart TV. Just watch: there are at least two people kicking around creating competitors to Fox News (one being Shari Redstone of CBS/Viacom), and they'll need a big name. Right wing idiots won't look down on Lauer for being a creep, and as long as he's willing to parrot the propaganda, all will be well. Five years from now, Limbaugh and company will trip over themselves to praise him -- and since NBC has basically denied he ever existed, he can deny that he ever worked there.

He's certainly sleazy enough.

R217 No one would touch him know, regardless of political persuasion. Also, there was a lot of hate for him among conservatives, even before this, they aren't looking to rehabilitate him. They are reveling in his downfall. If Bill O'Reilly hasn't manged to get back on tv, on some conservative outlet, Matt Lauer isn't going to be.

Miss R205 must be new here

Nice to see Matt joined the conversation at r154

R220 Well, he has to do something with his days, trolling threads about himself on DL is better than some of the alternatives.

The rape office with the locking doors operated from under the desk. Sheesh.

It wasn't rape until he went bald.

[quote]The rape office with the locking doors operated from under the desk. Sheesh.

That story has been debunked. No such locking device existed apparently.

Amy Robach or Tamron Hall. I'm betting it was Amy.

Yup. He’s ruined for life. While Jared Kushner's father kept his money, his position in the company, his position in NJ & NY Jewish society, his friendship with Netanyahu and his son is now running American policy in the Middle East. If Kushner’s punishment had been to have his money confiscated by the government and he was allowed to stay out of jail. Jared would never ha e married Ivanka and wouldn’t be in the WH right now.

R46 She did a lot of catalog modeling in the 90s: J. Crew, Victoria's Secret, etc.

He used to be so handsome.

Is it too bad for Matt that he wasn't gay? If he had been, he probably could've gotten all the sex he wanted and then some without much fear of anyone complaining (not that he still couldn't have been accused of sexual harassment had he propositioned the wrong guy).

[quote]I’m not fucking Angela Lansbury

Your loss, asshole. In my day, I had one of the most talented twats in Tinseltown. And my mouth and ass were no shrinking violets, either!

If he had just tried a little harder, R229, he certainly could have been gay. But he didn't make the effort. Instead, he settled for swimming with fish and that was his fatal error.

Charlie Rose certainly has disappeared. Matt probably would if he could but he lived so lavishly and screwed around so much that it all will keep coming back at him. I just don’t understand the recklessness and stupidity. I always wonder how much all the folks he interviewed knew of him- so weird because he often interviewed people about shenanigans lesser than his!

Rich men need women for sex whom they can control enough to make them go away and be quiet. Some employ high-end hookers, but they cannot always be controlled. Just ask Eliot Spitzer. For a very powerful man, like Lauer and Weinstein, the work place offered hot and willing women who could be dependably silenced with some coercion and some money and the corporate legal department. That's changing in some complex ways.

This might be a good time to be a high-end madame.

R233 - rich men could just get the sex they need and want in a non pathological way - the man's seduction and charm, money, sex skill, attractiveness, and the woman's consent. And don't fuck in your own company or your own clients.

The best part of this thread is the memory of J. Fred Muggs. Thank you all. That's when the morning show biz was full of true professionals not sex-crazed maniacs.

I reported to you peeps here last year when I saw Charlie Rose on the 6 train.

He sat across from me and his hair was a fucking mess!!! uncombed and really looks like homeless person. I can't remember what he wore, I think it was a suit or blazer but what I definitely thought was unacceptable was that he wore his outfit with ugly black sneakers! Like grandpa types. disgusting!

He was bent over his phone but he was merely flipping through the menu screens, non stop, pretending he was fucking busy on it. so pathetic! He got off after a few stops, I think it was union sq.

I took a pic but it's in my old phone.

I think it was Flip Wilson. He had a big show on NBC and he often dressed like a woman.

"What's left for Matt Lauer at this point"

It's very possible Trump will give him a job after he leaves/is forced out of the presidency. Lauer could be an anchor on his new "Love Donald all the time" TV network.

[quote]He was bent over his phone but he was merely flipping through the menu screens, non stop, pretending he was fucking busy on it. so pathetic!

I just laughed so hard I coughed.

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R239, crazier and messier hair. like not combed for days...seriously like in every direction and long. I don't know how anyone can walk out of house with that hair.

[quote]I don't know how anyone can walk out of house with that hair.

This fool does it every day and he's a world leader:

I was never a big Hillary fan, bit I'll never forget this fucking asshole hosting that mockery of a discussion that was supposed to focus on being CiC and how they would act in that role. He took practically all of Hillary's time to ask about "her emails," then the audience question he chose was about..."her emails."

It was absolutely disgusting. I'm glad he's disgraced.

R174 I agree. I think celebutante /actor types make easy targets but usually they are just emotionally needy, narcissistic and sort of dumb. The real shark eyed sociopaths congregate in media.

There is already a channel worse than Fox - called Newsmax.

r242 - absolutely. Lauer lobed softball after softball at Trump and made him relatable. He went on the attack on Clinton almost immediately. Your Emails, you are not trustworthy, the people don't like you...it was so biased I thought I was watching fox news.

the I remember a TVshow in the 80s called “People Are Talking.” It was during the heydey of daytime and early evening talk shows - Bill Boggs, Sally Jesse, Jenny Jones, Phil Donahue, Oprah, Morton Downey Jr, Jerry Springer, Geraldo, Maury Povitch. From 12N until 5 o'clock, talk shows, many of them locally based & broadcast, rules the airwaves. Then a bunch of them came in from 7pm-9pm. They talked about “the issues if the day.” Homosexuality, transvestism, adultery, single women having babies without partners, racism (locally the Howard Beach, Bensonhurst, Tawana Bradley, Bernie Goetz and Crown Heights incidents were huge on radio & tv talk shows).

People Are Talking was the name of a few differently located talk shows and the NY version was filmed in Secaucus NJ and hosted by Richard Bey and Renee Hambley. Bey was the real star of the show and it was very popular. Bey either got fired or quit the show. One day he was just gone, and this new guy named Matt Lauer took his place. The show nosedived because it was supposed to be a show about controversial topics but Lauer was this laid back guy who just didn’t seem interested in making a point. My friends and I stopped watching because he was just so damned dull. “That Lauer guy ruined the show. It’ll be the last show he’s on, that’s for sure, because he’s so boring.”

Well.....all the talk shows got cancelled when 24 hour news networks came along and co-opted the controversy and we know what happened toLauer’s career.

Funny, I can’t find a photo of Lauer on that show.

Tawana Brawley...and I apologize for my other typos, too.

Wouldn’t it be great if all those talk shows came back on the air and 24 hour cable news networks just covered the news again?

R242 r245 During the last election the mainstream news sources and Fox were pretty much interchangeable. The one thing that all the news networks have in common is their Clinton derangement syndrome. Funny how they had all the time in the world to look at trivial e mails but these intrepid little reporters couldn't take a moment to look into Trumps Russian ties. They finally bothered reporting on it AFTER he was elected.

Matt Lauer started as a VHI personality after that.

Amy Robach. Left Weekend Today in 2012. Hmmmm.

[quote]Matt Lauer started as a VHI personality after that.

What? When did he work at VHI?

I remember him on that show R242. He was kind of an asshole to some of the guests too. Didn't he host a show on E briefly as well? A movie review show or something? The irony being that he couldn't even get those shows now after his fall.

r252 he hosted a show on vh1 for esquire I believe.

whether it was Betty White or Al Roker or Connie Ford, I can't get out of my head that anal was involved.

R255, why do you think that Al Roker famously shat himself in the White House? His hole was stretched out by Matt's massive masculine member.

Doesn't Matt know Al Roker from their employment at LIVE at FIVE?

On the Down Low with Matt and Al.

Could be a great show for Andy Cohen to produce for Netflix.

Was this unheard of person “well respected”? R251?

Please elaborate on how you think she is so, and how that factored into your conclusion.

I am looking forward to understanding your thought process and how you came to the conclusion that this Amy person is “well-respected”.

Amy Robach was a Good Morning America correspondent for two years after leaving the Weekend Today co-host job in 2012.

She then became GMA's news anchor. She did reports about getting a mammogram for the show and discovering she had breast cancer. She had to have a bilateral mastectomy. The reports got a lot of praise.

She was just named the anchor of 20/20, replacing the drunk Elizabeth Vargas. I'd say that qualifies as "well-respected."

Wonder if the Mayflower Madam supplied him with whores back in the day...

Before all this broke - Lauer went on Howard Stern where he claimed he had a nine inch cock.

Thread, but interview

But was she "respected", "respected"?

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[quote]Before all this broke - Lauer went on Howard Stern where he claimed he had a nine inch cock.

You think the host of the Today Show would go on Stern and talk about his cock? He had a contract with a morals clause, that's why he was fired so fast.

Matt has the most extreme case of rat face.