Don Lemon is predicting a serious comeback for Matt Lauer, eight years after the previous information anchor's colossal fall from grace.

Throughout his Wednesday go to to the Hollywood Raw Podcast with Dax Holt and Adam Glyn, Lemon proved that he’s in Lauer's nook whereas pondering his pal's future profession prospects. Requested if he believes Lauer might efficiently return to the trade, Lemon replied, “I feel that if he might come again to digital, he can set his personal course."

The previous CNN anchor went on to share that to today, Lauer continues to be approached by followers in public.

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"I solely acquired to know Matt after, you realize, the entire scenario occurred, as a result of we stay in the identical city and we’ve mutual pals," Lemon defined. "At any time when I see Matt out and about — or you realize, if we exit to dinner, my husband and I’m going out to dinner with him and his fiancée — and other people love him."

He added, "Ladies love him! They’re like, ‘Man, oh my God, can I get an image? I really like you. I miss you on tv.’ I feel the general public loves him. The general public misses him, nevertheless it’s simply the… it’s the folks contained in the enterprise who’re afraid."

Lauer was famously fired from his function as a At present anchor in 2017 when former NBC worker Brooke Nevils alleged that he sexually assaulted her. Lauer denied the allegations, which have been detailed in Ronan Farrow’s 2019 ebook in regards to the #MeToo motion, Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predator. Afterward, a number of extra girls got here ahead with sexual misconduct claims towards Lauer, which he acknowledged in an announcement, saying, "Some of what’s being mentioned about me is unfaithful or mischaracterized, however there’s sufficient reality in these tales to make me really feel embarrassed and ashamed."

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Lemon went on to argue that Lauer may need a greater likelihood of returning to the trade in gentle of President Donald Trump's reelection. (Greater than a dozen girls have accused the sitting president of sexual assault or harassment and in a single 2023 case, he was discovered liable of sexual abuse.)

"Possibly on this entire Trump period, when canceled is over, possibly there’s a means that he’ll come again," Lemon mentioned of Lauer. "I feel it’s extra the people who find themselves inside the enterprise who’re involved about, you realize, what occurred with Matt."

He continued, "I’ll put it this fashion. I feel most of the people would settle for Matt again. And I feel folks would watch him and I feel the rankings could be nice.”

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As for the allegations towards Lauer, Lemon mentioned, "I don't know something about what occurred, I do know nothing about that in any respect." He praised the previous TV host as a "gifted particular person," including, "Ladies can really feel the way in which that they really feel and I perceive that however that's their enterprise. I do know once I'm out with him, everyone loves Matt, and everyone flocks to Matt and everybody needs an image and everybody says 'I miss you and we wanna see you again on tv.' I hear it each time."

Final yr, Lauer made a uncommon public look on the wedding ceremony of Lemon and his longtime associate, Tim Malone. Lemon, a information anchor himself, was abruptly fired from CNN in 2023, following an intensive Variety report with allegations of sexist habits and the denigration of feminine colleagues relationship again to 2008.

Lemon tried his personal comeback with The Don Lemon Present on X, however the present was abruptly canceled by the social media platform's proprietor, Elon Musk. Lemon is now suing Musk, alleging fraud, negligent misrepresentation, misappropriation of his identify and likeness, unjust enrichment, and breach of categorical contract.

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