The Morning Showexplores the fallout of newscaster Mitch Kessler’s (Steve Carell) termination for what seem to be sexual misconduct allegations as his broadcast partner of 15 years, Alex Levy (Jennifer Aniston), fights to be the top newsreader — despite competition from newcomer Bradley Jackson (Reese Witherspoon).
After theshow’s trailerdropped Monday, Carell’s plot line drew comparisons to the sexual misconduct allegations that led to Lauer’sterminationfromToday.
“Am I the only one who watched this and went, “oh, so this is the NBC/Matt Lauer story”? #TheMorningShow #Today,” one Twitter user wrote.
“Well, we know Matt Lauer won’t be watching #TheMorningShow,” joked another.
Said another user about the trailer, “.. is this following a similar story to what happened with Matt Lauer??? Here for ittttt.”
In November 2017, NBC News announced that Lauer had beenfiredfor alleged sexual misconduct.
Several months later, the network releaseda report about Lauer’s firing. The internal investigation team stated that Lauer “admitted to engaging in sexual activity” with theanonymous womanwhose allegations prompted his firing.
Lauer has also admitted to — andapologizedfor — seeing NBC staffers romantically during his tenure at the network, although he denied other allegations of sexual harassment and assault.
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“But defending my family now requires me to speak up. I fully acknowledge that I acted inappropriately as a husband, father and principal at NBC. However I want to make it perfectly clear that any allegations or reports of coercive, aggressive or abusive actions on my part, at any time, are absolutely false,” he concluded.
Last month, his wife Annette Roque, 52, officiallyfiled for divorceafter 20 years of marriage. The couple share sons Jack, 17, and Thijs, 12, and daughter Romy, 15.
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Lauer has kept out of the spotlight, mostly staying at his home in the Hamptons andfocusing on his kids. The whole family had lived on the property together since the scandal broke. But in June, he put Strongheart Manor — his 12-bedroom, 12-bath compound featuring a 14,000-square-foot main house with two guesthouses and a basketball court on six acres —on the market for $44 million.
source: people.com
