Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag
Get ready for Round 2 of Speidi vs. Roker.
Spencer and Heidi Pratt will come face to face with Al Roker on Monday's Today, Us Weekly reports. It will be the first meeting between the three since their awkward interview in June and subsequent war of words.
After bowing out of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! in June, the couple dropped by the NBC morning program, during which Roker confronted them about their controversial behavior on the show.
Heidi Pratt: Al Roker "attacked" me
"I was shocked at how rude he was, and I was crying ...
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Al Roker, Spencer Pratt
Woulda, coulda, shoulda: The hypothetical brawl between Today show weatherman Al Roker and Spencer Pratt escalated Tuesday as Roker said that if Spencer had gotten physical during their interview, he would have "dumped him like a bag of dirt."
Roker was addressing a comment Spencer made to TMZ in which the reality star said he would have "ripped [Roker's] head off" during Monday's Today's interview had he not been saved by Jesus ...
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Al Roker
Al Roker has set folks atwitter by taking pictures from jury duty and posting them on his Twitter page.
The Today show weather man posted this picture from the jury assembly room of a New York courthouse Thursday morning. The photo shows prospective jurors, which is not allowed, a court official told TMZ.
Roker responded via Twitter that a court official told him pictures were only prohibited in the courtroom, and thus the photos he snapped in the assembly room and jury lounge were OK.
"So everyone is clear, I am NOT taking pictures in the courtroom," Roker wrote. "I am in the jury lounge. So folks need to lighten up.
"I'm not breaking laws...just trying to share the experience of jury duty," he continued. "One that I think is important and everyone should take part in."
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My Name Is Earl cast by Mitch Haaseth/NBC Universal Photo
The cast of My Name Is Earl is among the feuding fivesomes on NBC's Celebrity Family Feud (premieres June 24 at 8 pm/ET). Here's the catch: they'll be broken up into two teams — the Hickeys vs. the Camden County All-Stars.The survey says other showdowns include:• The Kardashians (Kim & family, including Bruce Jenner) taking on Deion Sanders (Deion & Pilar: Prime Time Love) and his family.• The cast of The Office playing against a quintet of American Gladiators.• The families of Bill Engvall and Larry the Cable Guy squaring off.Today show weatherman Al Roker presides over the feuding teams, who are playing for charity. — J.R. WhalenRelated:• Survey Says... Roker Could Be Ready to Feud
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We're big Chris Brown fans here, but despite how much he rocked the plaza on the Today show last Friday, we couldn’t help but chuckle through the whole thing. Not only did his bodyguard get a little overzealous smacking the teen girls hands away around the minute mark, but seeing Lester, Ann and Al rock out while singing "I need you, Boo" at the end was priceless! Watch the video now!
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Al Roker by Virginia Sherwood/NBC Photo
Today weatherman Al Roker could be in line to host an upcoming celebrity edition of Family Feud for NBC. NBC and FremantleMedia North insist no deal has been signed, but Variety reports both sides have been in talks.Today cohost Meredith Vieira already holds down double duty as host of the syndicated Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, and Roker has subbed for Vieira on the show from time to time.He also hosted the quiz show Remember This? on MSNBC in the mid-1990s. — J.R. WhalenUpdate: Celebrity Family Feud debuts on July 1 (8 pm/ET on NBC) with Al Roker as feudmaster.
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Looks like Janice Dickinson's big mouth has got her into a boatload of trouble yet again. During and interview with Al Roker yesterday on the Today Show, the self-proclaimed supermodel stuck up for Jennifer Love Hewitt stating she looked "healthy." But rather than leaving it at that, Dickinson definitely stuck her foot in her mouth when she continued on to say "You want to see someone who's fat, I'm sorry, Tyra, Tyra Banks is fat." When Roker stopped her mid sentence to call her out on that comment, she unconvincingly explained she was kidding. See for yourself.Dickinson's publicist more than likely sat her down in an attempt to run some damage control because when she appeared later on The Star Jones Show, she managed to bring up her "stupid comment" towards the end of her interview, re-emphasizing that she was just kidding. Do you buy it? Or do you think she's just trying to cover her behind?
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Matt Lauer by Heidi Gutman/NBC Photo
A conference call arranged by NBC so that reporters could talk with Today anchors Matt Lauer, Ann Curry and Al Roker about their new "Ends of the Earth" feature was a lot more interesting than the norm. According to the New York Post, a potty-mouthed prankster infiltrated the ranks of press peeps on the line not once but twice and asked the hosts some seriously off-color questions. Afterward, Mitovich was given a bar of soap and told that he knew what to do with it. — Ben Katner
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Kate Flannery by Eric Charbonneau/WireImage.com
Just as fans of the original version of The Office learned about the existence of the industrial town of Slough, where the U.K. series was set, now everyone knows about Scranton, Pennsylvania, where employees of the U.S. version report to work. In fact, thousands of fans of NBC's hit half-hour comedy ventured to northern Pennsylvania this weekend for the first Office convention, which runs through Oct. 28.The event began Friday morning on the Today show, with Al Roker introducing the University of Scranton cheerleaders. Throughout the town, local businesses, including but not limited to those that have been featured or referenced on the series, made the most of the influx of visitors, setting up special booths, hawking souvenirs and inviting fans to revisit memorable scenes from the show...read more
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Tikit Barber, Meredith Viera and Matt Lauer by Virginia Sherwood/NBC
Tiki Barber may have broken the New York Giants’ all-time rushing record, but he’s finding his most rewarding breakthrough with his post-NFL career as a coanchor on Today and Football Night in America."It’s fabulous and fulfilling in many different ways," Barber said Oct. 22 at the 2007 Quill Awards in New York City. "I’m growing and learning as I go, just like my football career. You start out small and start seeing where your dreams go. That’s what I’m trying to do."Today, which recently added an additional fourth hour of programming, has gotten some competition from ABC’s Good Morning America, which is creeping up in the ratings. However, Today weatherman Al Roker is not worried about their position."I think there’s an ebb and a flow," Roker told TVGuide.com. "But at the end of the day, we’re still No. 1, so it’s good competition." — Reporting by Rob Moynihan
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