Matt Lauer tears down Ronan Farrow's reporting, Alison Roman put on leave after Chrissy Teigen drama, Bravo's tone-deaf Housewives promo
Naughty But Nice with Rob Shuter
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4.4 • 606 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2020
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Matt Lauer issued a massive rebuttal to Ronan Farrow’s explosive book that included rape allegations against the former NBC anchor. NaughtyGossip.com's executive editor Donny Meacham joins Rob to break down the drama, plus news on the New York Times putting Alison Roman's column on "temporary leave" following her controversial comments about Chrissy Teigen and Marie Kondo, Bravo's misguided promo with the cast of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, and Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's very quiet wedding anniversary.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, hello, hello, welcome to the naughty but nice with frog. |
| 0:14.7 | Hello, hello, hello. Welcome to the naughty but nice show. I'm your host, Rob Shooter, gossip columnist here in New York City with all the |
| 0:21.0 | breaking celebrity news joining me today, my friend, editor-in-chief of noughtygossip.com, |
| 0:27.1 | Donnie, meet him. Hello, Donnie. |
| 0:29.3 | Hey, Rob, I'm so excited to be here Wednesdays. It's this great day in the morning to talk to you. |
| 0:34.1 | I love how excited you are about our Wednesdays together. |
| 0:38.7 | I'm excited too. |
| 0:40.8 | What's that I hear? |
| 0:43.9 | It is the Chinese of Big Ben, which means only one thing around here. |
| 0:45.3 | It means it's tea time. |
| 0:49.0 | It's that time in the episode where we break down all the top stories. |
| 0:52.8 | Biggest story of the day, everyone's going nuts for this, Donnie, is Matt Lauer, |
| 0:55.2 | finally addresses Ronan Farrow and Curry, and even his firing from NBC. So in a rebuttal that Matt posted yesterday, |
| 1:01.8 | late yesterday, it's really explosive. Matt is going after Ronan Farrow. This is just two days |
| 1:08.4 | after the New York Times ripped Ronan apart for his reporting. |
| 1:13.4 | So it seems that Matt is blaming Anne Curry, saying the producer, who accused him of exposing |
| 1:20.1 | himself to her in his office is actually a close friend of Anne Curries. |
| 1:26.1 | Matt believes the two of them were in this together and they both |
| 1:29.9 | blame him for Anne getting fired. Neither one of them Matt alleges has ever hit their feelings |
| 1:36.3 | towards him at the network. He also goes on to go after Ronan's book, catch or kill. Matt claims that Ronan did not fact-check. |
| 1:47.0 | Any of his sources took what they told Ronan at face value. How does Matt know this? |
| 1:53.3 | Matt claims he has checked these sources himself. That's right. Matt went through the book, |
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