Katie Couric is pushing NBC to include Bryant Gumbel in its plans for the 50th anniversary celebration of the Today show.
In an interview appearing in the current (Jan. 14) edition of Newsweek, Couric says of her onetime cohost who now anchors CBS’s The Early Show:
“For all the people who loved him and all the people he drove crazy, he was a very important fixture of morning television.” Referring to Gumbel as a “prickly personality,” Couric remarks, “I think he would admit that himself … Let’s face it. It’s the TV business. People do have egos….Everybody has an ego and sometimes they rear their ugly little heads.”
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