Katie Couric Rules Out Return To TODAY

by Mark Joyella | 9:31 am, November 22nd, 2010

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CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric, in an interview airing on the Wendy Williams Show Monday, says she won’t be making a return to morning TV:

“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!”

Couric, who lost her husband, Jay Monahan, to cancer years ago, says she has no plans to marry current boyfriend, Brooks Perlin:

“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.”

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Just4thefax

Fact: Katie Couric Rules Out Return To TODAY. As if she had a choice?
Big Eddie

J. Fred Muggs would probably be more welcome .
Harry Flashman

Katie Couric rules out a return to objectivity and professional journalism as well.
skyfet

I don’t think they want her. Why would someone return to a less profile job. Common, does a promotion means anything to you, it means move forward not backward. Get it!
timzank

skyfet said:
I don’t think they want her. Why would someone return to a less profile job. Common, does a promotion means anything to you, it means move forward not backward. Get it!

Did you play Latka on Taxi? Your sentence structure seems eerily familiar with his.
http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

If Katie was as smart as she thinks she is they would not be talking about her changing jobs. This the gal that thinks she is smarter than Sahah Palin. If they did not write a script for her she would be doing the weather in Peoria.
skyfet

@gordonbloyershow
She was the one that asked Sarah what Paper she reads?
Saraah had no answer to that question.

When would you stop your blind following. You are a grown man, be reasonable.
http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

skyfet said:
@gordonbloyershowShe was the one that asked Sarah what Paper she reads?Saraah had no answer to that question. When would you stop your blind following. You are a grown man, be reasonable.

The day you stop just being blind.
Big Eddie

Couric rules out return . Speaking for all TV viewers , motion seconded .
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In other words, no matter how much couric begged, they still wouldn’t let her come back.