{"id":6024,"date":"2026-06-18T16:52:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T16:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/billy-bush-calls-today-co-host-al-roker-territorial-mean-in-scathing-rant\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T16:52:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T16:52:26","slug":"billy-bush-calls-today-co-host-al-roker-territorial-mean-in-scathing-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/billy-bush-calls-today-co-host-al-roker-territorial-mean-in-scathing-rant\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Bush calls &#8216;Today&#8217; co-host Al Roker territorial, mean in scathing rant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F3%2F2026%2F06%2Fbilly-bush-al0roker-bully.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Billy Bush bashed his former \u201cToday\u201d co-host Al Roker on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yKTiqLOEXrY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 12 episode of \u201cThe Nerve with Maureen Callahan\u201d<\/a> in a wild rant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe way I describe\u00a0Al\u00a0is three words: territorial, vindictive, and chronically unprepared,\u201d Bush said about the 71-year-old weatherman. <\/p>\n<p>The journalist claimed the third hour of the NBC morning news program \u201cwill never be a successful hour\u201d because Roker is \u201cmaybe the worst interviewer on television.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Billy Bush (seen above) blasted his former \u201cToday\u201d co-host Al Roker on \u201cThe Nerve with Maureen Callahan.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">YouTube\/The Nerve with Maureen Callahan<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Bush (pictured above) said Roker is \u201cmean,\u201d territorial\u201d and \u201cvindictive.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">YouTube\/The Nerve with Maureen Callahan<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Bush worked on \u201cToday\u201d for two months in 2016 before <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2017\/12\/03\/billy-bush-says-trump-access-hollywood-tape-is-authentic\/\">he was fired <\/a>for the <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2017\/02\/23\/today-staffer-leaked-infamous-trump-tape-that-ruined-billy-bush-sources\/\">leaked \u201cAccess Hollywood\u201d interview<\/a> where Donald Trump bragged to Bush about grabbing women\u00a0\u201cby the p\u2014y.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 54-year-old said he was \u201cprepared\u201d and \u201cwell-researched\u201d on the job, but Roker was \u201cjealous\u201d of him.<\/p>\n<p>Bush further alleged Roker and Matt Lauer, <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2017\/11\/29\/matt-lauer-fired-from-nbcs-today-over-inappropriate-sexual-behavior\/\">who was fired from the show in 2017<\/a> for alleged<em>\u00a0<\/em>inappropriate sexual behavior, both \u201cdid not want him\u201d on the third hour.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Bush (seen above on \u201cToday\u201d with Roker, America Ferrara and Tamron Hall in September 2016) claimed Roker was \u201cjealous\u201d of him when they worked together. <span class=\"credit\">NBCU Photo Bank\/NBCUniversal via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Bush said Roker (both seen above with Natalie Morales) once liked a tweet that called Bush a \u201cwhite-splaining racist.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Bush also claimed Roker liked a tweet that called him a \u201cwhite-splaining racist,\u201d but Roker wasn\u2019t punished by producers because of his long-standing job with the show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAl had been there forever, so he kind of, you know, he gets free run of the place for his many credentials and one of them being longevity,\u201d Bush explained.<\/p>\n<p>Bush continued of Roker, \u201cPeople don\u2019t know how mean he was. He\u2019s mean. He\u2019s a mean person. When you say rageful and all that, it\u2019s mean. There is rage in there. There\u2019s jealousy. And I talk about vindictiveness, but he\u2019s mean.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Bush claimed Roker wasn\u2019t punished because he\u2019s been on the show \u201cforever\u201d (Bush and Roker are seen above with Robel Kiros Habte and Morales in August 2016). <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Bush also claimed Roker (both seena bove with Hall and Megan Bone in October 2016) never wanted to \u201cshare the air.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">NBCU Photo Bank\/NBCUniversal via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Roker, according to Bush, also never wanted to \u201cshare the air\u201d\u00a0and didn\u2019t like his former colleague because of the attention he got from women.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I got there, they said, you know, a younger guy with a full head of hair who the women on the staff genuinely liked a lot. And that was infuriating to him,\u201d Bush stated.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the interview, Bush blasted Roker\u2019s weather reporting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re never going to hear anything that\u2019s truly insightful,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s not what he\u2019s there for.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Bush worked with Roker (seen above) for two months before he was fired for the leaked \u201cAccess Hollywood\u201d Donald Trump tape. <span class=\"credit\">Nathan Congleton\/NBC via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Bush (seen above with Adam Corolla) was hired by \u201cExtra\u201d three years later. <span class=\"credit\">BACKGRID<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Bush previously said he coped with his \u201cToday\u201d firing <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2020\/10\/06\/billy-bush-felt-betrayed-by-matt-lauer-after-nbc-firing\/\">with heavy drinking, loafing on the couch and crying<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He got a second chance at his TV career when \u201cExtra\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2019\/05\/08\/billy-bush-finally-gets-a-job-nearly-3-years-after-trump-tape-scandal\/\">hired him to replace Mario Lopez in 2019. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bush later quit \u201cExtra\u201d in favor of his podcast, \u201cHot Mics with Billy Bush,\u201d which he launched in 2025.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/06\/18\/entertainment\/billy-bush-calls-today-co-host-al-roker-territorial-mean-in-scathing-rant\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billy Bush bashed his former \u201cToday\u201d co-host Al Roker on the June 12 episode of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/billy-bush-al0roker-bully.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}