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Page Six. "He'd be great at a podcast or his own production firm, using his skills behind the scenes. He looks at how someone like Megyn Kelly has reinvented herself on her own terms."Further, Matt "thinks that he should be able to have a comeback," the pal added. A staple as a "Today" co-anchor for decades, Matt was fired from NBC in the wake of multiple sexual misconduct accusations, including rape.

Donald Trump will sit down with Fox News‘ Bret Baier for a Super Bowl pre-game interview on Sunday.

Don Lemon is defending his friend Matt Lauer and shares how the former Today host could return to media after his firing from the NBC morning show.

2017 fall from grace.The former CNN anchor, 58, has remained friends with Lauer after several women accused him of sexual harassment and rape, prompting him to lose his prestigious NBC job.Appearing on the “Hollywood Raw” podcast on Wednesday, Lemon told hosts Dax Holt and Adam Glyn that Lauer, 67, has the potential to make a successful comeback in the podcast world.“I think that if he could come back to digital, he can set his own course. But I only got to know Matt after, you know, the whole situation happened,” he said.Lemon added that the fan reaction to seeing Lauer in public has not dialed down since his departure from the NBC show.“Whenever I see Matt out and about or, you know, even with us, if we go out to dinner, my husband [Tim MaloneI] go out to dinner with him and his fiancée and people love him.

today, gone tomorrow.During a recent appearance on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” Savannah Guthrie, 54, joked that she threw away Hoda Kotb’s “s–t” after the latter left the “Today” show last week.Guthrie recalled finding assorted odds and ends that her former co-anchor left behind.“It’s a new era. It’s the Craig era,” Guthrie said, referring to how Craig Melvin is replacing Kotb.

“Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old,” the 59-year-old actress explained why she defended herself against the “Top Gun” star, 62, when he publicly shamed her for taking medication to address her postpartum depression in 2005.“Had Tom taken a public swing at me before I became a mother, I probably would have stayed quiet,” Shields wrote in her book. “I would have ignored his ridiculous rant.

Brooke Shields is speaking out in her new book, “Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old,” about her public feud with Tom Cruise.

Craig Melvin will become the new anchor of NBC’s Today, following the departure of Hoda Kotb in January.

Editor’s note: Almost a decade after helping to bring down Roger Ailes, former Fox News hosts Gretchen Carlson and Julie Roginsky remain silenced to varying degrees by non-disclosure agreements over what went down at the Rupert Murdoch-owned outlet. As the likes of Harvey Weinstein and Sean “Diddy” Combs face new criminal sex charges in the courts, the Lift Our Voices co-founders advocate for new #MeToo Movement momentum and stopping predators from keeping the survivors of their crimes out of the public eye.

“Saturday Night Live” had plenty of material to report about during its Season 50 premiere — thanks to its own network.Colin Jost addressed Hoda Kotb’s decision to leave the “Today” show during his Weekend Update segment alongside Michael Che on Sept. 28.The journalist, 60, announced the news days prior, noting although she is leaving the show after 26 years she will stay in the NBC family in an unspecified role.

Hoda Kotb’s decision to depart the long-running breakfast show, bosses are allegedly anxious that co-anchor Savannah Guthrie could follow suit. Kotb, 60, announced her shock move on Thursday, saying she is ready “to turn the page” and will leave “Today” early next year after sitting at Guthrie’s side since 2017.

Hoda Kotb said that she is departing NBC’s Today early next year.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Hoda Kotb, an NBC News mainstay who stepped up to co-anchor the flagship hours of NBC’s “Today” when longtime host Matt Lauer was ousted in 2017, will leave the program at after the end of the year, opening not one, but two important roles at the network’s flagship morning franchise. Speaking Thursday morning on the program, Kotb cited a desire to spend time with two young daughters.

shared the news in-person with her co-anchors Savannah Guthrie, Al Roker, Jenna Bush Hager, Craig Melvin and Sheinelle Jones.“I have spent 26 years at NBC,” she said. “I just turned 60, and it was such a monumental moment for me, because I started thinking about that decade.

Rookie mistake!

Stuart Sucherman Edward L. Scanlon was the ultimate insider. The long-serving NBC executive was a hugely influential player in the life of the network during the decades when it was owned by RCA and later General Electric. Scanlon was involved in everything from corporate recruiting and personnel vetting to labor negotiations to high-level M&A activity during his 44 years with RCA, Hertz and NBC. He was a close confidant of GE chairman Jack Welch. But Scanlon never courted the spotlight, preferring to stay behind the scenes. In 2001, as Scanlon prepared to retire from NBC, the New York Times published a rare profile that described him as “NBC’s Negotiator and Fixer.” Here, veteran media consultant and corporate recruiter Stuart Sucherman pays tribute to his longtime friend and colleague. Scanlon died March 17 in Naples, Florida, one day before his 90th birthday. The role that Ed played at NBC for 30 years is hard to define.

Brooke Shields “of course” was always going to attend Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes’ 2006 wedding — but initially joked why she would have skipped.“I was gonna say yes to that,” Shields, 58, told Entertainment Weekly. “I was like, ‘Yes. I will — as long as I’m not the something old!'”The “Dawson’s Creek” alum, 45, then made a special request before walking down the aisle.“She goes, ‘Oh, will you?’ And I said, ‘What? Bring myself as the something old?'”“I had to, like, hunt antique places,” Shields went on, “to find the perfect, you know, gift to give her.”Luckily, the “Mother of the Bride” actress found a Victorian present for Holmes.“It was a little compact that you put a ring … So you’re supposed to be able to look at their reflection in it and have it around their finger,” she explained to EW.

Katie Couric accused Bryant Gumbel of having an “incredibly sexist attitude” about her maternity leave when they worked together on the “Today” show. Couric appeared Sunday on Bill Maher’s “Club Random” podcast where the host brought up Gumbel, whom he called a “friend” and a “guy’s guy.” “He’s a guy’s guy, you got that right,” Couric, 67, said with a giant smirk. “He was prickly, but, what a talent.

Andy Cohen is responding to a sexual harassment claim made by former Real Housewives star Brandi Glanville.

Tom Cruise.Waddingham has been filming scenes alongside the actor for the concluding instalment of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, which will arrive in cinemas in 2025.The actress and TV presenter had plenty of praise for Cruise when he was brought up in her appearance on ITV series James Martin’s Saturday Morning on Christmas Day.Having spent “five intense days” with Cruise on the USS George HW Bush fighter carrier, Waddingham told TV chef Martin: “I have to say, I have a real problem with anybody that goes at him now.”She continued: “He is without doubt one of the loveliest and encouraging, positive and inspiring human beings I have ever met. Isn’t he gorgeous? I have no time for anyone saying anything about him.”Despite Cruise being held in high esteem in Hollywood, he has faced controversy over his off-screen behaviour throughout the years.In 2005, he made headlines after jumping on the sofa during an appearance on Oprah Winfrey’s chat show to declare his love for then girlfriend Katie Holmes and, that same year, labelled the practice of psychiatry “pseudo-science” in a quarrel with Matt Lauer.He has also faced particular backlash over his longtime association with the Church of Scientology.

T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach were spotted braving the frigid New York City weather on Tuesday in photos exclusively obtained by The Post.Holmes, 46, and Robach, 50, were seen leaving their apartment in downtown Manhattan bundled up in several layers of clothing.

Alison Herman TV Critic It’s difficult to top the heights and/or depths of “The Morning Show” Season 2, a borderline camp masterpiece in which Elle Woods sucked face with Alicia Florrick and a disgraced Matt Lauer type drove his car off an Italian bluff. But the Apple TV+ drama is obligated to try, so for its latest premiere, it goes where no fictional daytime infotainment digest has gone before: to outer space.