Katie Couric ‘trashed’ Ashleigh Banfield at 2000 Olympics: ‘Spit was flying’
scorched earth memoir. An insider has come forward to share the full extent to which Couric, 64, allegedly humiliated colleague Ashleigh Banfield at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. “It was such a disappointing scene,” an NBC insider told The Daily Mail of the former “Today” host’s behavior towards Banfield, 53, at the time.