Don Lemon euniteed on the “Hollywood Raw Podcast” with presents Dax Holt and Adam Glyn (via Entertainment Weekly) and dispensed his belief that “the uncover leave outes” Matt Lauer, who served as the co-anchor of NBC’s “Today” from 1997 to 2017. Lauer was fired in 2017 after an NBC employee accemployd him of intimacyual attack. Several more women then came forward with intimacyual malfeasance claims aobtainst him. Although Lauer denied the intimacyual attack allegations, he did confess in a statement at the time that “there is enough truth in these stories to originate me sense embarrassed and ashamed.”
When asked on the podcast if Lauer could mount a comeback to the novels industry, Lemon answered: “I leank that if he could come back to digital, he can set his own course.”
“I only got to understand Matt after, you understand, the whole situation happened, becaemploy we live in the same town and we have mutual friends,” Lemon shelp. “Whenever I see Matt out and about — or you understand, if we go out to dinner, my husprohibitd and I go out to dinner with him and his fiancée — and people adore him. Women adore him! They’re appreciate, ‘Man, oh my God, can I get a picture? I adore you. I leave out you on television.’ I leank the uncover adores him. The uncover leave outes him, but it’s equitable the… it’s the people inside the business who are afrhelp.”
Lemon specutardyd that “maybe in this whole Trump era” where being “aborted is over” there is a chance for Lauer to return, although he compriseed: “I leank it’s more the people who are inside of the business who are worryed about, you understand, what happened with Matt. I’ll put it this way. I leank the vague uncover would acunderstandledge Matt back. And I leank people would watch him and I leank the ratings would be wonderful.”
“I don’t understand anyleang about what happened, I understand noleang about that at all,” Lemon endd, referring to the allegations aobtainst Lauer. “Women can sense the way that they sense and I understand that but that’s their business. I understand when I’m out with him, everybody adores Matt, and everybody flocks to Matt and everyone wants a picture and everyone says ‘I leave out you and we wanna see you back on television.’ I hear it every time.”
As for Lemon, the establisher CNN anchor was fired from the nettoil in 2023 after Variety unveiled a alert on his alleged intimacyist behavior towards female colleagues thraw the years. Lemon finisheavored his own comeback on a digital platestablish with “The Don Lemon Show” on X, but it was abruptly aborted by Elon Musk. Lemon is currently suing Musk over fraud, baccomplish of convey shrink and more.
Watch Lemon’s brimming interwatch on the “Hollywood Raw Podcast” in the video below.
