One of Craig Melvin‘s on-air mishaps nearly landed Today in legal trouble.
“I want to know, what’s an on-air blooper that you’ll never repeat, that will never happen again?” Andy Cohen asked Melvin, Savannah Guthrie, and Carson Daly during a fan Q&A segment on the Monday, October 20, episode of Today. For Melvin, his worst TV moment was “one that almost got us sued.”
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