While Lauer is completely disconnected from the telecast and its employees now, it turns out that he’s still quite close with the Today host who came before him, Bryant Gumbel. Apparently ...

Tom Brokaw's successor on "Today," he was the first Black man ... Not so prickly, Bryant Gumbel has mellowed. He plans to spend plenty of time with his wife, Hilary, his children, grandchildren ...