Sunny Hostin Throws Shade at Katie Couric Over Lack of Matt Lauer in Memoir on ‘The View’

Sunny Hostin has done it again. The View co-host doubled down on her semi-feud with former TODAY Show host Katie Couric, who sparked tensions when she visited the talk show to promote her memoir Going There late last year. The panel was discussing Jeff Zucker’s resignation when Couric’s name popped into the conversation, comparing the workplace romance at CNN to the major Matt Lauer scandal at The TODAY Show.

Joy Behar, subbing in for moderator on the talk show, poised the CNN controversy — in which Zucker’s relationship with his employee, Allison Gollust, was outed — as a non-issue.

“They’re two consenting adults,” Behar said. “What’s the problem, exactly? This is not a Me Too thing, is it?”

Sara Haines laid out the real problem with the relationship, suggesting Gollust had potentially “garnered special favor” from Zucker after being in a relationship with the CNN President. Hostin agreed, adding some background from other networks — like NBC and The Today Show.

“Fairness is the big thing,” Hostin began. “Katie Couric wrote in her book, in her memoir, that she was uncomfortable with that relationship, that there was something that seemed odd.”

Behar interjected: “She worked with Matt Lauer. Was she uncomfortable with that relationship?”

“Who, Katie Couric?” Hostin asked.

“Katie, yeah,” Behar responded.

While Hostin didn’t have a ton in response, in just a few brief words, she threw some jaw-dropping shade at Couric over the lack of any talk about Lauer and the allegations made against the TV personality.

“She wrote a little bit about it, yeah,” Hostin said, forcing a fake smile. “But not quite… a lot.”

Was she about to say enough? We may never know. Hostin changed the subject immediately, veering away from Couric and TODAY and back into the matter at hand: workplace relationships. She went on to blast Gollust, calling on her to also make an exit from CNN for her wrongful affair.

“As women, don’t we want to hold other women to the same standards as we hold men?” Hostin said. “Everyone’s saying, ‘Yes! Jeff Zucker has to go.’ Why does Allison get to keep her job when she also had an incredible indiscretion, and an incredible lack of judgement?”

Couric and Hostin have a history of bickering. When Couric visited the show last October, the pair got into it over her new memoir about life as a TV star. Hostin, who asserted that the book was “provocative,” prodded Couric over her decision to write about ex-coworkers Deborah Norville and Ashleigh Banfield, who have both publicly stated that they feel “hurt” over the TODAY host’s statements. Pushing tensions even further, Couric continuously accused Hostin of not actually reading her memoir — an accusation that, today, was seemingly proved false.

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