Al Roker

  NEW YORK — It's 7 a.m. and Today show co-host Meredith Vieira is offering up the morning headlines: blackmail, hurricanes, a 12-year-old girl who has sneezed for two weeks straight. Weatherman Al Roker follows, leading into the local weather at NBC stations across the country with his trademark "... and here's what's happening in your neck of the woods!" Bon Jovi , meanwhile, is warming up out on the plaza, waiting to entertain a crowd already standing six deep. It's Today 's familiar mélange of mayhem, medicine and music. Murder is now being added to the mix, thanks to Roker's debut mystery novel. ... Read Full Story

Reuters - America's best known weatherman Al Roker, who is already a top-selling author, changes gears with "The Morning Show Murders", a mystery thriller set in his world of network breakfast television. Read Full Story

Spencer Pratt doesn't expect to hear from Al Roker after slamming him on Twitter Monday a few hours after he and wife Heidi Montag were cut from the "Today" show. "I don't think Al Roker will be Tweeting me back any time soon," Pratt, 26, told "Extra" at a New York City book signing for "How to Be Famous: Our Guide to Looking the Part, Playing the Press, and Becoming a Tabloid Fixture." Not that Pratt cares. "He does only have a few thousand followers so it wouldn't even matter what he says," Pratt says. (In fact, Roker posted Tuesday morning, "Folks, stay on ... Read Full Story

Al Roker isn't taking the bait. After Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag were bumped from the "Today" show Monday, Pratt took to his Twitter to post nasty messages. See photos from Heidi and Spencer's wedding Wrote Pratt, "@alroker WEATHERMAN I thought you were out of town today getting your stomache [sic] stapled again?" Roker's response? "Folks, stay on the high road in dealing with people who toss anger and hate here on Twitter. Don't stoop to their level," he wrote Tuesday morning. Roker and the MTV reality couple had their first run-in last June. After a contentious interview, Roker wrote on Twitter, "Heidi and ... Read Full Story

This Monday, November 16, Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt are going on The Today Show to be interviewed by Al Roker , again. The interview that you thought would never happen again, is happening. In case you were sleeping this summer when Al Roker interviewed Speidi the first time following their controversial and reprehensible appearance on I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here , here’s the Cliff’s Notes version. Al was visibly upset he had to interview these two given that he’s climbed the big machine called The Today Show. He asked Heidi if she was “proud of her behavior”. Heidi danced around the ... Read Full Story