“Word on the street is that Today entertainment reporter Jill Rappaport is leaving,” Page Six says. “Once a favorite of NBC Universal Television Group President Jeff Zucker, a source said, ‘She’s under Zucker’s protection no more.’ Rappaport, who dated Matt Lauer in the ’80s, is being edged out by younger Maria Menounos, who qualifies as a cyber vixen because she appears as a Bond girl in a video game. A spokeswoman for Today said, ‘We don’t comment on personnel issues.'”
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