He Meant His Mother. Really, His Mother. No? Fine.
A tipster with special access to internal Today show information — OK, just someone who watched it this morning, which we didn't — noticed some wacky, sitcomesque, sexual-orientation confusion when Ann Curry interviewed the heretofore unidentified Idahoan who won a $220 million Powerball jacketpot. The conversation, our tipster reports, went something like this:
Ann: So, no wife, right?
Powerball Winner: No.
Ann: Girlfriend?
Powerball Winner: No. But there is someone important in my life.
Ann: [pause] Oh.
But we're thinking: If Ann was surprised, she's not very observant. AP reports that the dude's name is the gay-porn-ready Brad Duke. And that he's a fitness-center manager. Come on.
UPDATE: A reader suggests we've cited the wrong anchor. "I saw this. It wasn't Anne Curry, it was Matt Lauer who asked the question. It was totally amusing to me to see the slow, considered way that obviously-gay Brad Duke paused and then delivered his response. And the gradual way his meaning registered on Matt's face. Priceless."
