Seven years after being fired from the At this time present, Matt Lauer has settled into a brand new life.
“There was a time there the place he wasn’t actually speaking to anyone,” a buddy of Lauer’s tells PEOPLE. “He wasn’t actually speaking to any of his previous buddies. Over the previous 12 months, he’s been reconnecting with buddies and texting them and speaking on the cellphone.”
The supply says Lauer, 66, has discovered himself in “a very good place” along with his children Jack, 23, Romy, 21, and Thijs, 17, and his ex-wife Annette Roque, who filed for divorce from him in July 2019.
“He’s really doing nicely and completely happy,” the buddy says. “He doesn’t work and he doesn’t should. He’s not trying to. He was a journalist at coronary heart and he did some impactful political interviews that spanned his profession, however the present cycle of politics isn’t something even individuals who have been doing it for a very long time are actually excited to cowl.”
The previous anchor lives a “quiet life” within the Hamptons, however it’s “not boring and boring,” one other supply tells PEOPLE. “Matt has a circle of buddies, together with some from his massive star NBC days.”
He is additionally been spending quite a lot of time along with his children and girlfriend Shamin Abas. “Matt is an efficient father and has spent wanted time with them throughout their teen years,” a New York supply tells PEOPLE. “He likes being with them and has supported their pursuits. He loves his youngsters.”
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Lauer and Abas’ most up-to-date public outing was after they attended Don Lemon’s marriage ceremony in New York Metropolis in April. “Matt is much less fearful about being seen out than he was in the beginning of those years since he left NBC,” the social supply tells PEOPLE.
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“Though he’s at all times trying to see what he needs to do subsequent, he’s completely happy,” the supply provides. “He and Shamin have had a pleasant life within the Hamptons. Every has separate pursuits, and so they do quite a lot of issues collectively. They’re a contented couple.”
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When he is not within the Hamptons, Lauer and Abas “love” spending time in New Zealand, the place he has had a house. One other supply says that Matt has at all times cherished Florida and want to spend extra time within the state.
NBC fired Lauer in November 2017 after a former community worker, later recognized as Brooke Nevils, reported that he sexually harassed her. A number of different girls got here ahead with related accusations shortly thereafter.
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Nevils went public in Ronan Farrow’s 2019 e-book Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Defend Predators, allegding that Lauer raped her in his resort room on the 2014 Sochi Olympics when she labored with NBC’s Meredith Vieira. Lauer has insisted all of his encounters had been consensual.
Lauer laid low following his firing and was photographed for the primary time following his ousting in October 2019 whereas grabbing breakfast within the Hamptons.
