Matt Lauer

Matthew Todd Lauer famed as Matt Lauer is a former American television news anchor. Moreover, he was the co-host of NBC's Today show from 1997 to 2017, and a contributor for "Dateline NBC". With NBC, he hosted the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade from 1998 to 2017 and co-hosted the opening ceremonies of several Olympic Games. He was also previously a news anchor for "The Today Show" from 1994 to 1997. His contract was terminated by NBC in November 2017 after NBC reported receiving "a detailed complaint from a colleague about inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace" and added that the network had "reason to believe this may not have been an isolated incident". Recently, Matt Lauer has accused Ronan Farrow of shoddy and biased journalism in his book Catch and Kill, which included a rape accusation against the former Today show host that Lauer claims is false. Farrow, a Pulitzer Prize-winning staff writer at the New Yorker, said Lauer “is just wrong”. Lauer, similarly, said Farrow had not corroborated several specific accusations against him in the 2019 book, Catch and Kill.