- Matt Lauer may make comeback in mainstream media.
- Matt Lauer has generally kept a low profile after being fired from NBC News.
- Matt Lauer has been spending time with his kids and gf Shamin Abas.
Since being fired from NBC News, Matt Lauer has generally kept a low profile, but he is now considering making a comeback in the media.
One insider claimed, “He thinks that he should be able to have a comeback,” while Lauer’s buddies are allegedly pressuring him to move like Megyn Kelly and get back into the games on his “own terms.”
The 65-year-old Lauer was let go from his longtime position as co-anchor of the “Today” show in November 2017 following a complaint of “inappropriate sexual behaviour in the workplace.”
Former NBC employee Brooke Nevils said he sexually assaulted her in her hotel room during the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi; nevertheless, Lauer has maintained that the interaction was consensual. Although he has denied any wrongdoing, it is also rumoured that he had a brief affair with another former NBC star.
According to sources, Matt Lauer has been concentrating on spending time with his kids and girlfriend Shamin Abas, a 53-year-old public relations and marketing expert who he was recently seen in New York City.
Shamin doesn’t appear to be bothered by any of the scandals, according to the Lauer source. The formerly well-liked anchor no longer communicates with the majority of his influential former media friends and rarely interacts with anyone on “Today.”
According to an insider, “he’s still pretty angry about how he was fired from NBC and angry at all the people he thought were his friends who turned their backs on him.” He is much more humble now that he is aware of his mistakes.
Although Lauer “has some confidence back,” the insider continued, he is aware that his return to the media industry will be difficult.
According to the insider, “He is aware that there might not be any interest in a comeback.” In other words, he wants to determine whether there is any hope, but he is completely aware that there may be none. He is not irrational.
In fact, the media source claimed, “He has been given a few opportunities. However, opportunities always disappear after something happens, like the publication of Katie Couric’s book.
According to a friend, Matt was “very wounded” when his former “Today” co-host Couric’s biography “Going There” was published in 2021. Private text messages between them were included in the book, and Couric referred to Lauer’s alleged actions as “callous” and “grossly inappropriate.”
His issue is that he is unable to return to traditional television because of the likelihood that advertisers would leave. He could create his own podcast or do something else. His friends are all rooting for him to succeed. He isn’t, however, rushing into anything.
Friends claim that Lauer has invested all of his “reparations” in his kids, and a second source claims he is now an empty nester because his youngest child is in boarding school and his other children are in college.
With his ex-wife Annette Roque, Matt Lauer has three children: Jack, 21, Romy, 19, and Thijs, 16. In September 2019, the former couple reached a divorce agreement.
According to reports, he spent Christmas in New Zealand with his children. Hunter Valley Station, a 16,000-acre sheep and cattle farm, was leased by Lauer for $9.2 million in 2017. It has miles of riverfront along the Hunter River, more than eight miles of lakefront acreage abutting Lake Hawea and Lake Wanaka, a five-bedroom house, and various farm structures.
When New Zealand authorities opened an investigation into his firing from NBC to determine whether he had violated the “good character” requirement the nation has for foreign buyers of major assets, he was in danger of losing his farm.
Despite adding, “We do not condone the unacceptable way that Mr. Lauer has behaved,” the Overseas Investment Office of New Zealand told the Associated Press in 2018 that Lauer was free to stay.
Lauer gave up his opulent lifestyle after being fired from “Today,” selling his Manhattan apartment for more than $7 million, and foregoing NBC-paid helicopter rides from the Hamptons to the city. Since then, he has adapted to a peaceful life on Long Island. He finally found a buyer for his sizable Sag Harbor estate, which was listed for $43.99 million, The Post reported last year.
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