Matt Lauer

Matthew Todd Lauer (born December 30, 1957) is an American television journalist. He was host of The Today Show from 1997 to 2017 and a contributor for Dateline NBC. With NBC he hosted the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade from 1998 to 2017 and co-hosted the opening ceremonies of several Olympic Games. He was also previously a news anchor for The Today Show from 1994 to 1997, anchor for WNBC in New York City and a local talk-show host in Boston, Philadelphia, Providence, and Richmond. He also hosted the PM Magazine (or "Evening Magazine" 1980–86), and in the early 1990s, segments of HBO Entertainment News. On November 29, 2017, NBC Chairman Andrew Lack terminated Lauer after an unidentified employee, one of Lauer's subordinates, complained that he had engaged in inappropriate sexual behavior with her beginning in 2014. Shortly after Lauer was fired, Variety and The New York Times came forward with the results of several investigations. The inquiries revealed that Lauer had engaged in additional ongoing incidents of sexual harassment against multiple women. In a statement, Lauer admitted that some of the allegations were true, and he apologized to those he had hurt. 2Early life Lauer was born in New York City, the son of Marilyn Lauer (née Gentry), a boutique owner, and Jay Robert Lauer (d. 1997), a bicycle-company executiv