{"id":378743,"date":"2017-11-29T15:08:46","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T15:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=378743"},"modified":"2017-11-29T15:09:56","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T15:09:56","slug":"nbc-sacks-star-host-sex-allegation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=378743","title":{"rendered":"NBC sacks star host over sex allegation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Matt Lauer, one of the most famous TV news anchors in the US, has been fired by NBC over an allegation of sexual misconduct.<\/p>\n<p>NBC said: &#8220;On Monday night, we received a detailed complaint from a colleague about inappropriate sexual behaviour in the workplace by Matt Lauer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a result, we&#8217;ve decided to terminate his employment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lauer co-hosts The Today Show. NBC said it had &#8220;reason to believe this may not have been an isolated incident&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>NBC News chairman Andy Lack said while it was the first complaint about Lauer&#8217;s behaviour in his time there, more than 20 years, it represented a &#8220;clear violation of our company&#8217;s standards&#8221;.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-with-caption\">\n<div class=\"player-with-placeholder\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-placeholder player-with-placeholder__image narrative-video-placeholder\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/images\/ic\/720x405\/p05pkwpr.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"media-with-caption__caption\"><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Last year, Lauer signed a new contract with the network worth a reported $20m (\u00a315m) per year.<\/p>\n<p>As well as fronting the morning show, he was chosen to moderate\u00a0an election debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton\u00a0in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>And he has conducted high-profile interviews, such as\u00a0the one in which Charlie Sheen confirmed he is living with HIV in 2015.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body__crosshead\"><strong>Co-hosts &#8216;heartbroken&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In an emotional video, Today co-hosts Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb said they were &#8220;heartbroken&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As I&#8217;m sure you can imagine we are devastated and are still processing all of this,&#8221; Guthrie said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape has-caption full-width\">\n<p><figure style=\"width: 976px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image__img js-image-replace\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef-1.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/cpsprodpb\/8DAC\/production\/_98986263_gettyimages-463551266.jpg\" alt=\"Left-right: Matt Lauer, Savannah Guthrie, Al Roker and Carson Daly\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\" data-highest-encountered-width=\"624\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lauer (left) with Today co-hosts Savannah Guthrie, Al Roker and Carson Daly<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m heartbroken for Matt &#8211; he is my dear, dear friend and my partner and he has been loved by many people here.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And I&#8217;m heartbroken for the brave colleague who came forward to tell her story and any other women who have their own stories to tell.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Lauer, one of the most famous TV news anchors in the US, has been fired by NBC over an allegation of sexual misconduct. NBC said: &#8220;On Monday night, we received a detailed complaint from a colleague about inappropriate sexual behaviour in the workplace by Matt Lauer. &#8220;As a result, we&#8217;ve decided to terminate his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":378744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[107,137],"tags":[15049,852],"class_list":["post-378743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-showbiz","tag-matt-lauer","tag-nbc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=378743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/378744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=378743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=378743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=378743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}