EXCLUSIVE: Katie Couric rips into former TODAY Show colleagues, admits she froze out female rivals to 'protect her turf,' says her toyboy ex was a 'midlife crisis' and takes potshots at Prince Harry who stank of alcohol in her new memoir DailyMail.com has seen the manuscript for Katie Couric's book 'Going There', which is out in late October and will be accompanied by an 11-city book tour
* Couric writes that she gave Ashleigh Banfield the cold shoulder early in her career because helping her would have been 'self sabotage'
* She mocks Deborah Norville, who she replaced on the TODAY Show, for having 'relentless perfection'
* She puts down Martha Stewart, saying it took a 'some healthy humbling (prison will do that . . .) to develop a sense of humor'
* Couric is just as blunt about her love life and says ex-boyfriend Brooks Perlin, who was 17 years her junior, was a 'mid-life crisis'
* She describes how Prince Harry stank of cigarettes and alcohol, and how Prince Andrew cozied up to Jeffrey Epstein at a bizarre dinner at his New York mansion
* She describes Epstein's $75million New York townhouse as 'Eyes Wide Shut with a twist - creepy chandeliers and body-part art'
* Epstein 'held court' in front of the fireplace to the likes of Chelsea Handler and Woody Allen and Soon-Yi Previn, George Stephanopoulos and Charlie Rose.
* The book has sparked outrage among people who have read it, one claiming it 'should be called Burning Bridges by Catty Couric'
By Dan Bates For Dailymail.com
Published: 14:26 EDT, 29 September 2021 | Updated: 08:17 EDT, 30 September 2021
Katie Couric spares few from criticism in her new memoir, which she uses to settle scores from her four decades in TV, DailyMail.com can reveal. ...
The book has sparked outrage among people who have seen the manuscript, one saying that it 'should be called Burning Bridges by Catty Couric as it literally reads like Kitty Kelley wrote it about Katie', referring to the notoriously snarky celebrity biographer.
Couric's last major gig was with Yahoo which ended in 2017. Another person said that after this book she will 'never get a job at any television network or cable channel ever again because she attacks everyone'. ...
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