Howard Stern grills Katie about Ann Curry disaster, Matt Lauer

May 30, 2013 12:27 GMT  ·  By

Katie Couric has always spoken highly of her good friend and former colleague Matt Lauer and, as it turns out, she was actually asked back on The Today Show, presumably right after Ann Curry was fired so unceremoniously.

Couric stopped by Howard Stern the other day and, among other things, she also revealed producers had approached her to talk of a possible return to the show.

“There were some cautious overtures to me to possibly come back to the ‘Today show’,” she said, as the video above will confirm.

She would have come back gladly, she said, because she always considered it “the best job.”

Stern also got Kouric to admit to having a crush on Matt Lauer, but she insisted they were never romantically involved.

“You know what? I actually had a little crush on Matt when he was the local news anchor on WNBC, because I thought he was so funny and so quick,” she said.