Matt Lauer had a bag of sex toys in his office, Meredith Vieira called him on it
Now that he's been fired by NBC News amid multiple allegations of sexual harassment, Matt Lauer's past work has come under intense scrutiny -- and some of it will leave you feeling decidedly icky in light of the new accusations.
From a hypocritical Bill O'Reilly interview to a tone-deaf sexual harassment sketch on Today, Lauer seems to have spent years throwing stones from a very fragile glass house. The latest video to resurface comes courtesy of The Meredith Vieira Show, in which Lauer's former co-host (who was apparently also the subject of Lauer's inappropriate remarks, judging by a video from TMZ in which Lauer encourages Vieira to "keep bending over" in front of him) quizzed him on why she once found a bag of sex toys in Lauer's office closet
“Can we explain what happened?” Lauer says, while co-host Savannah Guthrie laughs awkwardly beside him. “You were there. We had a guest on the show. She was a... what was she? A sex therapist."
"I don't remember that," Vieira counters.
"And so when she left-- I think you did the segment, actually," Lauer adds.
"I didn't, I didn't," Vieira argues.
Lauer continues, "And when she left, she gave each of us a shopping bag of stuff..."
"I didn't get a bag of stuff," Vieira insists.
It's all played for laughs, but the moment takes on an uncomfortable new dimension following the allegation that Lauer "gave a colleague a sex toy as a present. It included an explicit note about how he wanted to use it on her, which left her mortified," according to a Varietyreport.
The internet never forgets.
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