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Former NBC star Matt Lauer wants to make “a comeback” six years after he disappeared from the spotlight due to sexual harassment allegations.
He’s started to talk to people. He’s planning his next act, still very upset with how he was portrayed, and still feels like he was the victim,” the source spilled to a news outlet. “He wants to be relevant again; what that is exactly is yet to be decided.”
The source added that the Today alum, 66, thinks “enough time” has passed that he could succeed in TV once more.
As OK! reported, Lauer was accused by more than one female colleague of sexual harassment and raping a staffer at the 2014 Olympics. Though he denied the claims, the network fired him, and he hasn’t worked since.
“He went from being the biggest guy out there, and now every headline [attached to him] is ‘disgraced;’ it’s very painful for him to go out there with his girlfriend [Shamin Abas],” the source noted of the couple’s rare public appearances. “He’s very thin skinned — don’t expect an apology, he’s the one who feels is owed an apology.”
Lauer and Abas — who were friends for years before things turned romantic — have been together since 2019, the same year he and ex-wife Annette Roque finalized their divorce. They had separated in 2017 in the wake of his scandal.
Most recently, the duo was spotted out together to attend Don Lemon’s April 6 wedding in NYC.
