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        <title><![CDATA[Matt Lauer reportedly eyeing ‘big TV interview’ as next step in comeback]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Matt Lauer is angling for a &#8220;big TV interview&#8221; to be the next step in his return to the public eye.</p><p>After popping back into the news with a controversial op-ed <strong>deriding Ronan Farrow&#8217;s reportage</strong> in his bombshell book &#8220;<strong>Catch and Kill</strong>&#8221; — and <strong>getting a new tattoo</strong> — Lauer is &#8220;<span >talking about doing a big TV interview,” <strong>Us Weekly is reporting</strong>.&nbsp; </span></p><p><span >The former &#8220;Today&#8221; anchor, 62, is angling to get on the air sooner rather than later, the magazine notes, citing another source who holds that Lauer&#8217;s friends are “trying to convince him to record the interview himself so he has edit control.”</span></p><p>Purportedly, the interview is timed not just to follow the op-ed, but also to capitalize on the empty TV studios that have become one hallmark of <strong>the coronavirus pandemic.</strong> “[With] no studio audience, it could be a less hostile venue,” Us Weekly&#8217;s source says.</p><p>Lauer&#8217;s May op-ed denounced Farrow&#8217;s “flawed reporting and factual errors,&#8221; with a predictable focus on NBC staffer Brooke Nevils&#8217; claim that Lauer raped her. Lauer claims their relationship was consensual; he was fired in 2017 over the allegation.</p><p>Both Farrow and The New Yorker — which published Farrow&#8217;s reporting on Harvey Weinstein — were <strong>moved to publicly reaffirm their support for his work</strong> following Lauer&#8217;s writing. Nevils&#8217; response was succinct: <strong>She simply tweeted</strong> &#8220;DARVO: Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender,” an acronym introduced by the University of Oregon to identify common behavior by those accused of wrongdoing, especially that of a sexual nature.</p><p>Reps for Lauer did not immediately return Page Six&#8217;s request for comment.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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