Katie Couric dishes on her booking war with Diane Sawyer

Katie Couric dishes on her booking war with Diane Sawyer

EXCLUSIVE - 'I love getting under her skin': Katie Couric reveals how Diane Sawyer competition in the 1990s escalated to all-out morning show war and the truth behind famed 'who did she have to b***' quip

  • Couric delves into her legendary morning TV rivalry with Sawyer in new book
  • Couric ‘loved that she was getting under Diane’s skin’ during the ‘Booking Wars’
  • After losing out on an exclusive to Sawyer, Couric once famously quipped ‘I wonder who she had to blow to get that’ 
  • She reveals the interviewee was a woman who gave birth to twins at age 57 
  • Couric claims it was a ‘wisecrack’ but when it was reported in the tabloids it ‘didn’t exactly sound that way’ 
  • Rivalry pitted two women of different styles against each other, Couric writes 
  • Katie Couric claims that she wound up Diane Sawyer so much when they were competing for big interviews that Sawyer said: ‘That woman must be stopped’.

    Sawyer, who was co-host of Good Morning America, was supposedly taking a break while on set and watching Couric on TODAY when she fired off the missive.

    In her memoir, Couric writes that she ‘loved that she was getting under Diane’s skin’ during the ‘Booking Wars’ of the late 1990s between GMA and TODAY.

    But Sawyer was formidable and after losing out on one ..

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