Katie Couric flagged Jeff Zucker’s ‘super strange’ ties to Allison Gollust in her memoir

Katie Couric dished on Jeff Zucker and Allison Gollust’s relationship in her tell-all memoir final fall, saying it struck staffers as “tremendous unusual” when the pair labored collectively at NBC greater than a decade in the past.

Zucker introduced his resignation on Wednesday as CNN president after he acknowledged a “consensual relationship” along with his chief advertising and marketing officer, Gollust, that he did not confide in his superiors on the community.

Couric, the previous “Right now” present star who labored below Zucker when he helmed the NBC morning rankings juggernaut within the early 2000s, as soon as noticed in her memoir “Going There” that he and Gollust had been “joined on the hip.”

She famous that Zucker and Gollust not solely labored collectively however their households lived a flooring away from one another in the identical condominium constructing whereas they had been each married to their spouses.

Issues received even weirder for Couric as she grew nearer to Zucker’s then-wife, Caryn.

Couric wrote in her current memoir that she grew near Zucker’s then-wife, Caryn (far left, alongside Couric and Zucker), and that she grew uncomfortable seeing Zucker and Gollust “joined on the hip.”

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Katie Couric wrote in her memoir, “Going There,” that her former boss at NBC’s “Right now” present, Jeff Zucker, and Allison Gollust had been “joined on the hip.”

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“She and her husband and children had moved into the condominium proper above Jeff and Caryn’s — everybody who heard about their cozy association thought it was tremendous unusual,” Couric wrote. “By that time, Caryn had change into a detailed pal and it made me actually uncomfortable.”

Couric added that Zucker insisted on hiring Gollust throughout his tenure at NBC although her place was lengthy stuffed.

“At a sure level, Jeff made an enormous push to convey on Allison Gollust (on the ‘Right now Present’),” Couric wrote. “I needed to surprise why Jeff was angling so arduous to convey Allison on board.”

Couric claims Zucker utilized fierce stress to rent Gollust as a public relations flack for the “Right now” present —- although the place had been stuffed.

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“They had been joined on the hip,” Couric continued. “The issue was, we’d already employed a PR particular person for the present. There actually wasn’t a task for Allison.”

Couric writes that she resisted Zucker’s makes an attempt to get Gollust employed as a flack for the “Right now” present.

She speculates that her snub of Gollust value her a possibility to land a gig at CNN — even though she endorsed Zucker to helm the community earlier than he was named president.

Couric labored below Zucker when he helmed the “Right now” present, NBC’s morning rankings juggernaut, within the Nineteen Nineties.

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“His first rent? Allison Gollust,” Couric wrote of her former boss’ stewardship of CNN.

“Oh, and I by no means did hear from him about that job.”

The Publish has reached out to representatives for Couric in search of remark.