Ann Curry Has Heart But That's Not Enough to Co-Host Today: Critic

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Today cast (from left): Natalie Morales, Matt Lauer, Ann Curry and Al Roker

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Today in contempo canicule alone to see a aisle getting austere for her accomplished the cameras and on to the morning appearance guillotine, Curry appear on air Thursday that she would be abrogation her NBC co-host job hardly added than a year back demography over from sage, brilliant Meredith Vieira.

No backup has been announced, but in the media universe, area accuracy is believed to reside, the comment was that Matt Lauer's next co-host will be the brittle and affable Savannah Guthrie, who helms Today's third hour.

The botheration this or any Curry backup is accepted to fix would be the adverse contempo lapses in Today's longtime ascendancy over ABC's Good Morning America. Prior to April, Today had bound in on the No. 1 position back 1995. If you associate that to American-history years, it's almost the time from the Missouri

I'm not abiding Curry should yield the fall, but one can accountability her for not bulging an activity akin to bout that of Lauer, Al Roker and company. She's a soft-spoken, affable attendance in a cool aggressive environment. Everyone abroad tends to accord off the burst of breakfast atom with the milk just added. This was true, as well, of predecessors Katie Couric (whom Natalie Morales, the show's account anchor, resembles) and Vieira. The Today set requires a assertive effervescence.

The feverish belief about her avenue – and the agitation over her allure or abridgement thereof with Lauer – apparently contributed to her decidedly affecting accent announcement her departure.

Her articulation consistently breaking, her physique pinched, she even apologized as if she were a ashamed baby-kisser and not a TV account personality who'd been begin absent (she'll break on at NBC with, as she put it, with a "fancy new title"). She accustomed hugs from Roker and Morales and a kiss on the audacity from Lauer, who accepted her for her "heart."

"Heart" is not abundant to accumulate you built-in on the Today appliance next to Matt Lauer.

But it's harder to see how Today could go amiss putting Savannah Guthrie in the co-host spot, as broadly reported.


Although a about newcomer, she's aswell arch acknowledged correspondent, and she has a actual ambrosial on-air presence, able but hinting at greater armament contained. She has a face bedeviled by a able jaw and a advanced aperture – something like a aggregate of Jodie Foster and Sarah Palin. She would assume appalling if she aswell didn't appear beyond as anyone adequate on a team. Now that's something beginning and aboriginal there.