NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — Television presenter and journalist Katie Couric has penned a tell-all memoir in which she puts former TODAY show colleagues and celebrities including Martha Stewart and Prince Harry on blast, according to a new report.
The more than 500-page memoir, titled “Going There,” will hit bookstore shelves on Oct. 26, according to publisher Little, Brown and Company’s website.
Read what Couric wrote about the household names she mentioned in her book, per the Daily Mail, below:
• Martha Stewart: The businesswoman and lifestyle guru needed “some healthy humbling (prison will do that…) to develop a sense of humor," Couric wrote.
• Prince Harry: Cigarette smoke and alcohol seemed to “ooze from every pore” of the British royal’s body during an interview Couric conducted with him in Brazil in 2012, she claimed.
• Jeffrey Epstein: Couric, who attended a dinner at Epstein’s house alongside Prince Andrew and myriad other celebrities in 2010, described his townhouse as “Eyes Wide Shut with a twist — creepy chandeliers and body-part art.”
• Michael Jackson: The singer’s hand felt like a “dead fish” when Couric shook it, she alleged.
• Larry King: The late television and radio host made a “lunge” for Couric on his sofa after they went for dinner at an Italian restaurant, she claimed.
• Deborah Norville: Former TODAY co-host Deborah Norville had a “major relatability problem,” Couric wrote, due to her “relentless perfection.”
• Ashleigh Banfield: “For a minute there, Ashleigh Banfield was the next big thing; I’d heard her father was telling anyone who’d listen that she was going to replace me,” she wrote about the Canadian-American journalist. “In that environment, mentorship sometimes felt like self-sabotage.”
• Brooks Perlin: Couric’s entrepreneur ex-boyfriend Brooks Perlin, who is 17 years younger than her, was a “mid-life crisis,” she wrote.
• Tom Werner: The TV producer, whom Couric dated briefly, was a “textbook narcissist,” she said.
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