How Quickly They Forget – Al Roker Doesn’t Recognize Former Co-Host Katie Couric But That’s Not Why She’s Not Going Back To TODAY…
In a segment airing Monday, November 22 on ‘The Wendy Williams Show’ (nationally syndicated, local listings at wendyshow.com) CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric addresses rumors about her potential return to the TODAY show, and shared a story of bumping into former co-host Al Roker, who nearly didn’t recognize her. “He was running in Central Park the other day and I said ‘Hey Al,’ and he said ‘Hey’ and I’m like ‘Hey, it’s Katie!’ – he thought I was a random!”
Sound bites:
Katie Couric on former co-host Al Roker, who nearly didn’t recognize her:
WW: So Katie, the word on the street is that you’re contemplating going back to the Today show if Meredith Vieira leaves.
KC: People are always speculating about me, I don’t know why – I guess when people are interested in you that’s a good thing. But no, no that’s not something that I’m doing – I love the Today show, I miss all my friends from the show. I still see Matt [Lauer] a lot, and I saw Al [Roker], he was running in Central Park the other day and I said ‘Hey Al,’ and he said ‘Hey’ and I’m like ‘Hey, it’s Katie!’ He thought I was a random!
Katie Couric on her dance moves:
WW: I like the way you dance, and there is this picture we’ve shown before on hot topics – of you dropping it like it’s hot and dipping it low.
KC: Thank you, but what does ‘dropping it like it’s hot’ mean?
WW: Well that was the night after my very first broadcast on the CBS News, we had a party and my daughters were there. We were actually just cutting up and being really funny, and a friend of mine took all of these pictures and my daughter put them up on her Facebook page, and suddenly I start seeing these pictures everywhere – and some of them are even sketchier!
Katie Couric on her younger boyfriend, and getting married:
WW: And you have this wonderful boyfriend that you’ve been with for three years, he’s cute, his name is Brooks. And Katie is a bit older, about twenty five years?
KC: No! Not that much. Just a few years – we’ll leave it at that.
WW: Would you want to get married again?
KC: I don’t know, when my girls were little my husband died when Ellie had just turned six and Carrie was two, and I think when they were really little –I sort of thought I’ll be like Mrs. Brady and I’ll meet somebody and we’ll have a family. And it didn’t really happen, and I’m really happy with the way things are, and maybe one day I’d like to be re-married, but it’s not something I really think about. I like having my independence, and my girls – for them it’s the new normal. I wish they had known their Dad, but it’s fine and I’m really happy.