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Katie Couric Says Bryant Gumbel ‘Got Mad’ at Her About Maternity Leave: ‘Incredibly Sexist’
Katie Couric said her former Today cohost Bryant Gumbel 'got mad' about her maternity leave with baby No. 1, as it was part of an 'incredibly sexist attitude.'
Katie Couric ‘s maternity leave from the Today show didn’t go over well with her cohost Bryant Gumbel, as the journalist said he got upset about the situation. “He got mad at me because I was doing something on maternity leave and he was giving me endless s–t for taking a month or two off,” Katie, 67, revealed during the Monday, April 15, episode of Bill Maher ’s “Club Random” podcast. “I was having my first baby, and he was like, ‘Why don’t you just drop it in the field and come back?’ or something like that,” she continued, adding, “He was kidding, but he was goofing on me and giving me a lot of s–t and it was emblematic of a sort of, incredibly sexist attitude.”
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