New York Post

COURIC’S SCATHING TELL-ALL

Rips long list of celebs

- By HANNAH FRISHBERG hannah.frishberg@nypost.com

There’s no denying Katie Couric went “there” — and with a lot of gasoline, too, as outraged insiders complain about the former “Today” show host’s new book.

“Going There,” Couric’s tell-all memoir, has people fuming that the 64-year-old TV presenter and producer went full scorched earth, leaving no colleague, lover or famous friend untorched.

She mocks and puts down everyone — from celebs like Martha Stewart and Prince Harry to industry colleagues like Deborah Norville and the late Larry King.

Even her exes, like TV producer Tom Werner, don’t escape unscathed.

In the book, Couric (inset) blasts Stewart — whom the anchor had previously roasted with a poem at a 1996 awards ceremony — saying she required “some healthy humbling (prison will do that . . .) to develop a sense of humor,” according to a Daily Mail report on the manuscript of the more than 500-page book, which is due out next month.

She also rips Norville — whom Couric replaced on “Today” in 1991 — for alienating viewers with her “relentless perfection.”

When Couric met Prince Harry at a polo match in Brazil — apparently during his “wild-oats sowing phase” — the stench of cigarettes and alcohol seemed to “ooze from every pore” in his body, she writes.

As for King, who died in January at age 87, Couric suggests he was a creep.

After going out for an Italian dinner with the TV legend — who was 24 years her senior — the two went back to King’s apartment, where, she writes, he made a “lunge” for her that reportedly involved his tongue and hands while she sat on the sofa.

“When I like, I really like,” he dejectedly told her after she pushed him off, Couric claims in the book.

Ex-beau Werner, she writes, was a “textbook narcissist” who dumped her via e-mail after he “love bombed” her with gifts.

Some say the memoir is the final nail in the coffin of any

dreams Couric ever had of returning to the TV spotlight.

“[She will] never get a job at any television network or cable channel ever again because she attacks everyone,” an anonymous critic told the Daily Mail.

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