Matt Lauer's career comeback attempt resurfaces every year, but 'no one will hire him': sources

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00:00Is Matt Lauer making a comeback again?

00:03Here with Moore is our Page Six editor, Ian Moore.

00:06I'm having deja vu, what's going on?

00:08So People Magazine, as you've seen,

00:10reported earlier this week that Matt Lauer

00:13could be making a comeback, and there were insiders

00:16saying that he's exploring this comeback.

00:18Now, when I saw this story similarly,

00:21I remembered it rang a bell, and then I looked back

00:24and I saw that at Page Six we've essentially

00:27been writing this story every year, starting in 2018,

00:31which was a year Matt Lauer was ousted from,

00:34you know, fired from NBC in November of 2017.

00:38So essentially, this is an annual chestnut

00:41that comes back in November of every year

00:44that insiders say Matt Lauer is making a comeback.

00:47It's like the Tom Cruise coconut cake.

00:49It just arrives for the holidays,

00:51and we have to make sense of it all.

00:52But unlike a coconut cake, which can be delightful,

00:56it turns out that everyone wants the coconut cake,

00:58I want one, no one wants Matt Lauer back.

01:01Maybe, now, sources have speculated, you know,

01:04are people in his camp maybe leaking this?

01:06Are they sort of exploring what the public appetite might be

01:10for him to make a comeback?

01:11But our sources have said, look, no one's going to hire him.

01:15He's basically unhireable.

01:17And that his skill set, as well, you know,

01:21is very much was this sort of old-fashioned Today Show thing,

01:25which is not as in vogue.

01:27Would he be able to come back, like, and do,

01:29if no one will hire him, could he do, like,

01:30a Megyn Kelly thing or a Tucker Carlson thing?

01:33Probably not.

01:34That's not his brand.

01:35So I think the Matt Lauer comeback might just be

01:39in these annual stories saying maybe he's going to make a comeback.

01:42Right. So maybe it's coming from his camp,

01:45and he's hoping to have a little comeback.

01:46In the meantime, he's been hiding out in the Hamptons.

01:48He's been hiding out in the Hamptons,

01:50but don't feel too bad for him.

01:51I mean, sources had also told us that Lauer,

01:56he has more money than he needs.

01:58He has more money than he could ever spend.

02:00He doesn't need the money.

02:01He doesn't need the money for a comeback.

02:03So he's been, yeah, living his life out in the Hamptons.

02:05I mean, he's popped up once in a while at different events.

02:10He was at a wedding a couple years ago that a lot,

02:12that, like, you know, Savannah Guthrie was there

02:14and Don Lemon was there.

02:16Now, Don Lemon, oddly, has predicted

02:18that Matt Lauer could make a comeback.

02:20That's another thing, he doesn't,

02:21Matt Lauer doesn't have as many friends as he used to, right?

02:24Because, like, Katie Couric had even sort of slammed him

02:26in her book, Don Lemon has said he could make a comeback.

02:30But, yeah, I think he's going to remain

02:32in the Hamptons.

02:33Maybe he'll come back and do a local Hamptons TV gig.

02:38Yeah, right?

02:39Some local, maybe he'll be the local newscaster

02:41out in the Hamptons.

02:41Yeah, yeah, exactly.

02:42Reporting on the tides.

02:44Yeah, right, exactly.

02:45So this, yeah, in Montauk.

02:47But so the thing is that the story has been coming up,

02:50you know, every year.

02:51Expect the rumors keep going.

02:52I had even reported a few years back that he was at,

02:55I don't know if you've ever been there,

02:56but he was at Donahue's on Lexington Avenue,

02:58this kind of old-fashioned steakhouse pub and was overheard telling people,

03:03you know, that he was going to come back.

03:05So he might want to make a comeback.

03:07But people are also saying that, you know, the circumstances

03:11and the allegations against him, which he's denied.

03:13Of course, he was alleged by a former colleague to have raped her.

03:17He was accused by other female colleagues of sexual harassment.

03:23You know, he never was arrested.

03:25No charges were pressed.

03:26But he's denied that.

03:28He apologized.

03:29But people say it was just like it was too much for him to make a comeback.

03:33Right.

03:33And his accuser, you know, reportedly got a $1 million payout from NBC.

03:38And, of course, the stories that came out around that time will never forget it.

03:41I mean, the button under the desk, that self-lock the door of his office,

03:46and all these kind of crazy things were swirling around.

03:48I mean, the damage was done.

03:49And I don't know if you watched The Morning Show on Apple TV,

03:53but season one dramatized or fictionalized the whole Matt Lauer,

03:58you know, sexual misconduct storyline.

04:00Right, right, yeah.

04:01With Steve Carell.

04:02Right.

04:02Well, the thing is, so, right, there are other,

04:05there are also, I should say, other anchors.

04:08You know, like Chris Cuomo had been involved in some scandals, lesser scandals.

04:14Yeah, ethics scandals involving his brother.

04:15Yeah, involving his brother.

04:17And, you know, he made a comeback and went over to News Nation.

04:21But, yeah, our sources are saying that within the industry,

04:24there's not really an appetite.

04:26There's not really a place for Matt to come back.

04:28I'm sure Sirius XM would welcome him with arms wide open.

04:32No comment.

04:33All right, great.

04:34For more on this story, of course, head to Page6.com,

04:37and also check out Page6 in the actual paper.

04:41Yeah, go to your local newsstand.

04:43It's hot off the presses.

04:44Thanks, Ian.

04:46Thanks, Ian.

04:47Thanks to us,製io.

04:48Thank you Penguin.

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