![]() I'm not going to lie." Couric's memoir left her former Today co-host Deborah Norville feeling "stunned. ![]() "She was so good at her job, and I looked up to her, so I didn't believe it was possible that anything could have been going on behind the scenes to derail me there," Banfield told TMZ Live earlier this month. Early in her broadcasting career, Katie Couric tried using her given name, Katherine, onscreen: to counteract my. The book, Banfield said in a more recent interview with TMZ, made her question if Couric had a hand in hastening her departure from NBC News in 2004. Book Review: Going There, by Katie Couric. In that environment, mentorship felt like self-sabotage."īanfield responded to Couric's memoir on her current NewsNation show in late September, saying her father was in a long-term care home at the time with dementia and that the former Today co-host seemed to exaggerate his comments. GOING THERE is an engrossing and entertaining memoir that will have special appeal to those who enjoyed watching Katie Couric on Today for 15 years. ![]() I'd heard her father was telling anyone who'd listen that she was going to replace me. The up-and-comer, Couric writes in Going There, "was the next big thing. ![]() Couric admits in her new book that she could have mentored Banfield but opted not to. In the early 2000s, Banfield was just beginning to make a name for herself at MSNBC. In her new tell-all, Couric is also brutally honest about how she feels about ex-colleagues, including Ashleigh Banfield. ![]()
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