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Katie Couric dished on Jeff Zucker and Allison Gollust’s relationship in her tell-all memoir last fall, saying it struck staffers as “super strange” when the pair worked together at NBC in the 1990s.
Zucker announced his resignation on Wednesday as CNN president after he acknowledged a “consensual relationship” with his chief marketing officer, Gollust, that he failed to disclose to his superiors at the network.
Couric, the former “Today” show star who work under Zucker. When he helm the NBC morning ratings juggernaut in the 1990s, once observe in her memoir “Going There” that he and Gollust were “join at the hip.”
She note that Zucker and Gollust not only work together. But their families live a floor away from each other in the same apartment building. While they were both marry to their spouses.
Things got even weirder for Couric as she grew closer to Zucker’s then-wife, Caryn. Couric wrote in her recent memoir that she grew close to Zucker’s then-wife, Caryn (far left, alongside Couric and Zucker), and that she grew uncomfortable seeing Zucker and Gollust “joined at the hip.” Patrick McMullan via Getty Image
“She and her husband and kids had moved into the apartment right above Jeff and Caryn’s — everyone who heard about their cozy arrangement thought it was super strange,” Couric wrote. “By that point, Caryn had become a close friend and it made me really uncomfortable.”
Couric add that Zucker insist on hiring Gollust during his tenure at NBC even though her position was long fill.
“At a certain point, Jeff made a huge push to bring on Allison Gollust (at the ‘Today Show’),” Couric wrote. “I had to wonder why Jeff was angling so hard to bring Allison on board.”
“They were join at the hip,” Couric continue. “The problem was, we’d already hired a PR person for the show. There really wasn’t a role for Allison.”
Couric writes that she resist Zucker’s attempts to get Gollust hire as a flack for the “Today” show.
She speculates that her snub of Gollust cost her an opportunity to land a gig at CNN. Despite the fact that she endorse Zucker to helm the network before he was name president.
“His first hire? Allison Gollust,” Couric wrote of her former boss’ stewardship of CNN.
“Oh, and I never did hear from him about that job.”
The Post has reached out to representatives for Couric seeking comment.
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