Katie Couric has returned to the "Today" show, but for just this week as she subs for Savannah Guthrie who's on maternity leave.
Couric, 59, who co-anchored "Today" from 1991 to 2006, joined co-host Matt Lauer on Monday, said People magazine, and "Today" shared a clip of when Lauer first joined the show with Couric in 1997.
Couric first joined "Today" in 1989 as a special correspondent before becoming co-anchor in 1991. She left the show to become anchor of the "CBS Evening News" in 2006, making history as the first solo woman anchor of the three major network nightly newscasts, noted People.
"Welcome back to Studio 1A, January 1997, apparently?" Lauer said jokingly during the opening of the "Today" show on Monday.
"It just feels like I never left,'' Couric said. She responded to the 1997 clip by teasing Lauer, "Apparently we had the same hairstyle. That was really scary."
Couric anchored the "CBS Evening News" until May, 2011 and hosted her own talk show, "Katie" in 2012, according to Biography.com. That show was canceled after its second season. She has served as the global news anchor for Yahoo since 2014.
Last May, Couric was forced to issue an apology for the documentary "Under the Gun," for what she conceded was "misleading" editing during an interview with gun rights activists, according to Variety.
Couric, who hosted the documentary and was listed as executive producer, was slammed for it because it made the activists appear stumped by a question about background checks when they actually responded right away, noted Variety.
"As executive producer of 'Under the Gun,' a documentary film that explores the epidemic of gun violence, I take responsibility for a decision that misrepresented an exchange I had with members of the Virginia Citizens Defense League," Couric said in a statement.
"… I regret that those eight seconds were misleading and that I did not raise my initial concerns more vigorously. I hope we can continue to have an important conversation about reducing gun deaths in America, a goal I believe we can all agree on."
In September, the group filed a $12 million defamation lawsuit over the documentary, according to Fox News.
"Katie Couric has publicly admitted that the film, which was presented to VCDL as a 'documentary,' was misleading and misrepresented VCDL," Phillip Van Cleave, president of VCDL, told Fox. "However, Couric and the other filmmakers have refused to fix the film or to even stop promoting and distributing it. The only way to hold Couric accountable was to file a lawsuit."
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