Ashleigh Banfield Says Katie Couric’s Jealousy May Have Derailed Her NBC Career

Play video content TMZ.com Ashleigh Banfield just opened up about Katie Courics memoir, in which the former Today show host revealed she was threatened by the rising star and Ashleigh clearly thinks Courics jealously may have derailed her career at NBC and shes still not over it. Ashleigh appeared Friday on TMZ Live and reacted to a passage from Courics new memoir, in which she wrote, For a minute there, Ashleigh Banfield was the next big thing; Id heard her father was telling anyone whod listen that she was going to replace me. In that environment, mentorship sometimes felt like self-sabotage. Fact is Ashleigh was a big star at the Peacock network. Her 9/11 coverage stood out from the pack, and NBC rewarded her with her own primetime show. But suddenly, without explanation, in 2002 her show was canceled and she says things just unraveled from there, to the point they took away her office and put a desk in a tape closet, which is where she sat until NBC got rid of her. Listen to her speak its very clear shes still not over it, telling us It broke my heart, it broke my soul. As for whether she believes Katie was behind the sabotage, Ashleighs a class act and wouldnt say directly, but she did say she heard rumors thats exactly what happened as she said, I got a sense Katie was the culprit. Banfield hosts Banfield on News Nation at 10 PM. The post Ashleigh Banfield Says Katie Courics Jealousy May Have Derailed Her NBC Career appeared first on Patabook Entertainment.

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