'Today Show' co-host Meredith Vieira is officially leaving the NBC morning show, she announced during Monday's broadcast.
"After months of personal reflection and private conversations between my family and my friends, I've decided to leave 'Today,' in June," she said, sitting next to Matt Lauer and Al Roker.
Vieira, who has co-hosted the show with Lauer for the past five years, said she has decided to spend more time with her husband, who suffers from multiple sclerosis, and their three children.
Ann Curry will take over Vieira's chair, and NBC correspondent Natalie Morales will take over Curry's news desk position.
"I feel like the high school computer nerd who was just asked to the prom by the quarterback of the football team," an emotional Curry said, calling Vieira a "gift to this broadcast" and if it was her choice, Vieira would stay on 'Today.'
Meredith Vieira Officially Announces She's Leaving 'Today'
By Kelly Fisher Posted May 9th 2011 08:06AM
Vieira said her goal is to stay in the NBC family, just not on the 'Today Show' couch.
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Bye Meredith,
Thank You Meredith, for your charm and wit. Best wishes and prayers for you and your family.
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I ENJOYED YOUR ABILITY TO ALL THE WONDERS OF THE SHOW AS I DO MY ART WORK SUMI-E PAINTING I LISTEN YOUR WORDS AND ENJOYED YOU
GOOD LUCK
She can't go fast enough for me! Why wait? Leave TODAY!
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Who would you like to have up there, Lady GaGa?
I totally agree. Her pandering interviews are so grating I have had to quit watching. Her hard hitting inteviews are like Mickey Mantle hitting a softball!
BRAVO!...and she should take Curry with her. Oh well, hopefully Curry will be next; then the viewer can actually hear the responses of those being interviewed.
I can not beleave what people will say about Vera, and Ann, they are both great!! good luck to the both of them :)
Agree...I never liked her. She was extremely irritating. (to me at least)
I agree! They should have put Ann Curry in that spot to begin with and not made us suffer all this time with Meredith. I would have quit watching TODAY altogether had there been a decent alternative.
Vieira, is a bigot. I'd love to see her leave TODAY as well!!
Glad to see her go. Any woman who would grab a stuffed animal from a small child and then place her hand on the childs back and push him off the set shouldn't have been on in the first place. I personally was a Campbell Brown fan! I am glad to see Ann take over! She is friendly and genuine.
DITTO!!!
If you want Merideth Viera to go and you say she can't go fast enough for you, why don't you do the inteligent thing and just change the channel ??? You do realize, you're TV gets more than one channel, more than one program ???
What is your fricking problem?
Bad cloice. Ann Curry will be reason enough to stop watching Today after over 25 years. She's OK as a news reader, but whenever she does news-related interviews, she is awful, never giving her interviewee a chance to speak.
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I totally agreee...............
Totally agree! I'll give Good Morning America a try.
I agree with the negative perception of Ann Curry - she can't read copy without stumbling and is overly solicitous to some of the people she interviews.
I totally agree with you Carl. Ann seems like a nice person. However she gets very hyperactive during interviews leaving the person being interviewed very little time to answer her questions.
I agree 200%. Curry is so annoying!