Howard Stern Gets Al Roker to Squirm, Asks If He's Ever Had 'Weather Groupies'
- - Howard Stern Gets Al Roker to Squirm, Asks If He's Ever Had 'Weather Groupies'
Julia MooreJanuary 27, 2026 at 8:44 PM
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Howard Stern (left); Al Roker on 'Today' (right)
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Howard Stern called into the Today show on Jan. 27 to celebrate Al Roker's 30th anniversary
Roker, 71, joined the NBC morning show in 1996 and has been the show's weather anchor ever since
During the broadcast, Stern, 72, asked Roker a "controversial" question about if he's ever had "weather groupies"
Howard Stern made a surprise appearance on Today to celebrate Al Roker's 30th anniversary as the morning show's weather anchor, but he wasn't only there to congratulate him.
On Tuesday, Jan. 27, the NBC morning show had a special broadcast to honor Roker, 71, who joined the show in 1996, and Stern, 72, called in from his radio show to talk to his longtime friend.
During their conversation, Stern asked Roker, 71, what he worried might be "too controversial" a question, but he said it's something "everybody wants to know."
"I know you don't like controversy, but — do you have weather groupies?" Stern asked. "Are there women out there who are ready to sleep with you in a minute?"
He pressed the subject further as he said he was "seriously" asking. "Answer the question. Have there been women who have thrown themselves at you, and you have to say, 'Look, I'm a professional — no.' Has there been anything tawdry?"
Roker, who has been married to Deborah Roberts since 1995, laughed at the question but said, "No."
Al Roker (top left) and Howard Stern (bottom right) on the Tuesday, Jan. 27 episode of 'Today'
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He did joke, though, that co-anchor Craig Melvin "has thrown himself at me," to which Melvin laughed and said, "Oh, stop. Don't drag me into this."
"Is that gonna be the new Heated Rivalry?" Stern quipped.
That wasn't the only hard-hitting question Stern asked Roker during the broadcast.
"Are you ready to come clean now and tell people outrageous things now that you've lasted 30 years? You don't even need to be there anymore. You've made so much money," Stern said, as he wondered if Roker would "ever reveal" something like "which guests had the worst breath."
"Yeah, after I'm finally off the air — but not until then," Roker said. "Because I need this job. I got a daughter getting married this spring."
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Al Roker on NBC's TODAY.
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Ahead of his 30th anniversary, Roker told PEOPLE he hasn't "thought about retirement," so he's "just gonna keep going."
“I love what I do," he said. "I feel good. I love this job. I love doing it."
“I think that’s the beauty of the broadcast, is that the mission over these 74 years has not changed,” he said. “The way we bring it to you may have, and look, the fact of the matter is we are each temporary custodians of this legacy … At some point I won’t be part of the show, somebody else will be, but to be part of a pretty cool club is very special. To say that this was a dream job isn’t really accurate because it never dawned on me that I could be on the Today show.”
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