In a story published Tuesday, NBC’s Willie Geist spoke with NorthJersey.com about the sexual-misconduct scandal that resulted in the November firing of his colleague Matt Lauer.
“I think it was a shock to everybody. I don’t know how you couldn’t be surprised,” Geist, 42, told interviewer Mike Kelly, a columnist for the Bergen County N.J. Record. “I started filing in for Matt in 2010. I wasn’t close to him outside of work, but I considered him a friend and mentor.
Certainly, he was somebody I looked up to. He was the guy who was considered the best at that job, at hosting a morning show. So, yeah, I think we were all surprised and I think we’re all still a little bit shocked by it.”Geist, who hosts…
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