Matt Lauer

Meredith Baxter, our favorite mom from Family Ties, was spotted on a lesbian cruise last week, but before becoming tabloid fodder, she decided to set the record, uh, straight herself.

She told Matt Lauer on the Today show this morning: “I am a lesbian and it was a later-in-life recognition."

Zac Efron sat down with Matt Lauer on the Today Show this morning, and of course, Kathie Lee decided to come out and make it ALL about her.

In case you missed it, Zac appeared in an SNL sketch this weekend where Kristen Wiig played a lushed-out Kathie Lee and Zac was her beloved, super peppy “singer” son, Cody.

You know Cody, the one she’s been constantly harping on for the last 19 years.

Following in Lance Armstrong's gimpy footsteps, Matt Lauer took a major spill over the weekend on his bike while riding on Long Island and is now laid up and awaiting surgery.

Lauer "was riding his bike over the weekend and he had a run-in with a deer," his Today Show co-host Meredith Vieira explained. "He joked in an email that he thought the deer was hired by the competition."

Michael Phelps sat down with Matt Lauer on the Today Show this morning to discuss what Matt called the “now infamous” photo of Mikey smoking pot.

The gravity Lauer gave the incident was almost disturbing, asking questions like:

“Did you start to think how damaging this was to you and your career?”

Tom Cruise is continuing his campaign to re-ingratiate himself into the hearts and minds of the fans he turned off back in his couch jumping days.

He repented on Today with Matt Lauer and Tuesday night he made a good-humored appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman to deliver a Top Ten List about the craziest things written about him on the internet.

Tom’s personal favorite was Number Four which had him doubling over with laughter.

Three and a half years since Matt Lauer and Tom Cruise came to verbal blows on the Today Show over the use of anti-depression medication (“You’re glib, Matt”), they sat down again this morning.

“This is not a rematch,” Lauer was quick to say. “This is not Rocky II.”

Indeed, it wasn’t.

In fact, these two were so patty-cake nicey-nice, we expected them to start giving each other reach-arounds.

Tom Cruise and Matt Lauer appear to have buried the hatchet and not in each other’s backs.

Tom made a surprise appearance at Matt Lauer's Friar's Club Roast in New York on Friday, three years after the pair clashed during an interview when the topic turned to psychiatry and antidepressant drug on the Today Show.

Angelina Jolie appeared on the Today Show to promote her new film Changeling this morning when Matt Lauer asked if she would consider adopting again after giving birth to twins Knox and Vivienne just three and a half months ago. (btw, how good does she look already?) She smiled cryptically and quietly said, “Yeah.”

“Come on! ‘Yeah.’ Yeah, period?” Matt laughed, prodding her further. “Is it something you’d do soon?”