Matt Lauer Apologizes To Intern On Twitter
Matt Lauer has apologized to a former NBC intern on Twitter for not being a nice guy.
The embattled Today show anchor has been the subject of many rumors and reports over the past few months. His situation became even more complicated when a former intern said on the micro-blogging site that Lauer wasn’t very nice to him during his stay at the network.
Ohio reporter Mark Zinni was drawn into the Matt Lauer drama when one of his followers retweeted something he said about the Today host. Zinni claims that Lauer was “not too nice” when he was an intern at the network back in 1997. This was the year that Matt first took over hosting duties on the program.
Although Lauer generally doesn’t respond to folks who reference him on Twitter, he soon issued an apology to Zinni if he did something to offend him.
“Always tried to be nice, Mark. Sorry you didn’t think so,” Matt Lauer wrote. “Hope you’re doing well.”
Zinni soon addressed the controversy with the folks at FOX 8. The reporter said he “shocked” and “flattered” that Matt remembered who he was.
“If you know me, you probably know that I don’t take myself too seriously. So, my answer was more of a joke about being young and naive during my time at Today, but I added that he wasn’t nice to me. I didn’t slam the guy, I just made an honest comment,” the former intern explained.
Here’s the Twitter exchange that got people talking.
“I was just a young kid with a bright future ahead of me,” @markzinni talking about internship at @todayshow and “not so nice” @mlauer
— Darren Sweeney (@dwsweeney) March 26, 2013
The Twitter apology to a former intern comes days after reports circulated that NBC was looking to replace the host with Anderson Cooper. However, an NBC executive said that the network currently had no plans to get rid of Lauer despite viewer backlash.
“Matt Lauer is the best in the business. We want him in the ‘Today’ show anchor chair for many years to come,” NBC’s Alex Wallace explained.
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