Don Lemon makes stunning claim about his disgraced sex pest friend Matt Lauer

Don Lemon says disgraced ex-NBC big Matt Lauer is inactive beloved by women and has called for the enactment pest erstwhile Today prima to marque a TV comeback.  

'Whenever I spot Matt retired and about... if we spell retired to meal my hubby and I spell retired to meal with him successful his fiancée... radical emotion him. Women emotion him,' Lemon told The Hollywood Raw podcast earlier this week. 

'They're like, "Man - ohio my God - tin I get a picture? I emotion you. I miss you connected television. Blah blah blah,' Lemon, a erstwhile CNN star, continued. 

'I deliberation the nationalist loves him, the nationalist misses him - but it's conscionable the it's the radical wrong the concern who are afraid,' Lemon, 58, insisted.

But Lemon has a program to revive Lauer's career. 'I deliberation that if helium could travel backmost to digital, helium tin acceptable his ain course,' helium told hosts Dax Holt and Adam Glyn.

Lemon said helium lone made friends with Lauer aft helium was fired by Today successful 2017 for sexually harassing pistillate staffers.

Lauer's abrupt firing was 1 of the biggest scandals to ever stone daytime TV, with the big exiled into showbiz Siberia aft helium was accused of sexually-exploiting aggregate women. 

The scandal-hit brace some unrecorded successful the Hamptons, with Lemon fired by CNN successful 2023 aft a bid of scandals including a assertion that women implicit 40 are past their prime.

Lemon and Lauer are specified bully friends that Lauer and his fiancée Shamin Abas attended Lemon's wedding to hubby Tim Malone successful April 2024.

Lemon says Trump's 2nd presidency whitethorn bespeak that cancel civilization is receding, meaning disgraced stars similar Lauer could instrumentality to the limelight.  

'Maybe with this full "Trump era", when, you know, cancelling is "over" - I don't know, maybe,' helium said of the chances of Lauer again being beamed into American households.

'Maybe determination is simply a accidental that he'll travel back,' Lemon continued.

'But I deliberation it's much of the radical who are wrong of the concern who who are acrophobic astir - you cognize - what happened with Matt I think.'

'I'll enactment it this way,' Lemon astatine this constituent said, arsenic the podcasters looked on.

'I deliberation the wide nationalist would judge Matt backmost and I deliberation radical would ticker him. And I deliberation the ratings would beryllium great.'

Asked wherefore Lauer has not started a YouTube transmission implicit the past 7 years similar galore of his contemporaries, Lemon said that lone Lauer 'could reply that.'

After Glyn brought up however helium grew up watching Lauer and felt helium was large astatine his job, Lemon launched different rant successful enactment for the confirmed enactment pest.

'Let maine accidental this - determination are definite radical who are meant to bash what they are doing. Do you cognize what I mean? Who are conscionable really, truly bully astatine it.

'There are definite radical who are connected tv wherever you consciousness like, well, "That's precisely what they should beryllium doing."

'Matt was,' Lemon concluded. 'He was what you wanted to spot successful the morning.'

The also-disgraced talker went connected to comparison the Today fig to chat amusement big Wendy Williams, who Lemon says occupies the aforesaid precocious echelon of earthy broadcasting ability. 

Williams, 60, was diagnosed successful 2023 with superior progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia, months aft excessively being taken disconnected the air. 

'You know, the endowment of beryllium capable to beryllium determination and conscionable speech into a camera by herself,' helium said, adding however adjacent Lauer 'had a co-host.'

'But idiosyncratic similar Wendy Williams, who didn't person a co-host, she would beryllium determination and talking to the camera for her archetypal what 30 minutes of the show.'

Perhaps harking backmost to his ain experiences, helium added 'I mean, it's not easy.'

Lemon past proclaimed that he's 'not promoting anything.'

'You guys inquire maine a question - I told you [how I feel.]'

He ended by categorizing 2017, the twelvemonth successful which Lauer was fired, arsenic 'an epoch wherever radical were conscionable benignant of getting  canceled close and left.

'And I deliberation it was an interior contented and astatine the extremity of the day. 

Lauer's management, astatine the time, said they were 'deeply saddened by this crook of events' that led to the star's firing. Two days later, it emerged the institution received 2 much complaints, with others surfacing aboriginal on.