Matt Lauer is reportedly eyeing a return to media eight years after he was fired from “Immediately.”
The disgraced information anchor “desires to get again into the media area in some capability, if not TV,” a supply advised Folks Monday.
“He has talked to some folks about it,” the insider added.
Lauer, 67, was notoriously fired from NBC over “inappropriate sexual habits” in November 2017.
The community obtained a “detailed criticism from a colleague” about his habits and had purpose to consider “this will not have been an remoted incident.”
Web page Six solely reported that the previous TV character was additionally accused of sexting feminine staffers at NBC, allegedly sending lewd messages and revealing footage to ladies, together with a younger intern.
Shortly following his firing, two different ladies got here ahead with claims towards Lauer, one in all whom claimed the anchor summoned her to his workplace for intercourse and she or he “felt helpless as a result of she didn’t need to lose her job.”
At some point after the community introduced his firing, Lauer made a public apology, however made positive to notice that a few of the accusations are “unfaithful.”
“There are not any phrases to specific my sorrow and remorse for the ache I’ve brought on others by phrases and actions,” he stated in an announcement. “To the folks I’ve harm, I’m actually sorry.
Lauer added that a few of what has been stated about him is “unfaithful or mischaracterized, however there may be sufficient reality in these tales to make me really feel embarrassed and ashamed.”
He and ex-wife Annette Roque additionally cut up within the wake of the scandal and finalized their divorce two years later.
Since his fall from grace, Lauer has lived a quiet life within the Hamptons.
The supply additionally advised Folks that just about a decade later, he’s “nonetheless offended” with “the way in which he was handled by the trade” and “folks he thought have been his buddies.”
Prior to now eight years, the supply stated he’s been specializing in being a “good father” to his youngsters — Jack, 24, Romy, 22, and Thijs, 18, whom he shares with Roque — and “spending time with them.”
Earlier this yr, former CNN journalist Don Lemon predicted Lauer’s comeback to the information trade and claimed “the general public misses him.”
