Al Roker Defends Heidi & Spencer Interview
June 16th, 2009 by Castina
Tagged as: Al Roker, Heidi Montag, I'm A Celebrity....Get Me Out Of Here!, MTV, Spencer Pratt, The Hills
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Al for President! Today Show “weatherman” Al Roker is defending his controversial interview with reality TV personalities Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt. Al lit up the blogosphere on Monday after the Hills stars accused the NBC correspondent of “attacking” them during their post-I’m A Celebrity… interview on The Today Show this week.
Al stands by his decision to rake the newlyweds over the coals with hard-hitting questions, telling co-host Meredith Vieira that he “asked what a lot of people wanted to know” during yesterday’s sit-down.
And to Spencer’s declaration that he would have ripped Al’s “head off” save for the fact that he “was recently saved by Jesus,” Roker simply replies: “I would have dumped him like a bag of dirt.”
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On June 16th 2009, Eric J wrote:
It wasn’t a good interview.
Al Roker kept asking them things like:
Are you ashamed? Are you proud?
…without specifying what the reality-game-show contestants did which was such a big deal.
On June 16th 2009, Heather wrote:
No, they couldn’t stick it out at all – they caved after 2 days. They couldn’t even bring themselves to be inconvienenced even a tiny bit, and this was for charity! I would love to see how they live on two minimum wage jobs and living in a trailer like so many of the people where I’m from. They have no real skills to speak of other than being moderately attractive (and even that is debatable). These wastes of space need taken off the air. I’m just glad that I never even remotely wanted to watch their train wreck. Roker is not “attacking” them in the least. They need to drop the whining and actually do things that can help people. That’s what they say they’re all about. No, sorry, she’s all about posing in Playboy and he’s just an idiot.