Catty Couric

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Katie Couric has a new book about to drop and it appears that the perky one is not holding back.

The former Today Show host and CBS Evening News Anchor has been out of the TV business for years and it appears that she is now willing to spill the tea in her book “Going There.”

The Daily Mail writes that Couric spares few from criticism in her new memoir, which she uses to settle scores from her four decades in TV.

Over 500 pages in length, Couric tears into ex-boyfriends, former colleagues at NBC and CBS and ridicules A-list celebrities including Prince Harry.

She rips into Deborah Norville, who she replaced on the TODAY Show, for having a 'relentless perfection' which turned off morning show viewers.

When Couric switched from TODAY to host the Evening News on CBS, staffers fought back with an 'insurgency' which left her feeling like Hillary Clinton because she was so under siege, she writes. 

Couric is just as blunt about her love life and says ex-boyfriend Brooks Perlin, who was 17 years her junior, was a 'mid-life crisis' while TV producer Tom Werner was a 'textbook narcissist'.

Couric puts down Martha Stewart, saying it took a 'some healthy humbling (prison will do that . . .) to develop a sense of humor.'

Even the Royal family ends up in Couric's sights and she describes how Prince Harry stank of cigarettes and alcohol when they met, and how Prince Andrew cozied up to Jeffrey Epstein at a bizarre dinner at his New York mansion.

FTVLive’s take:

Clearly, Couric has reached that stage in life where she doesn’t need any more jobs, has enough money, and wants to tell it as she saw it.

Some can say it’s Catty, but at the same time maybe it is also refreshing that this long time TV star pulls back the curtain a bit on what it was like at the top of the TV game and how it just might not be the perfect world that everyone might think it is.

It should be a good read for anyone that’s in the business or thinking about making that leap.

That being said, I wonder if Couric gets into the actions of Matt Lauer, her longtime co-host at Today, that was fired from NBC?

If not, then it appears that Couric’s tell-all is not telling all.