See photos of Matt Lauer, the longtime co-host of NBC's “Today” show, through the years. Lauer was “terminated” by the network, NBC News announced Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2017. 

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NBC's Al Roker, Savannah Guthrie, Matt Lauer and Hoda Kotb on Sept. 25, 2017. Lauer becomes the latest — arguably the biggest — casualty in the ongoing shakeout in the entertainment and TV news industry related to sexual harassment. 

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Matt Lauer on Sept. 13, 2017. 

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Matt Lauer on June 30, 2017. NBC said Lauer’s firing was related to “inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace.”

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Matt Lauer, Hillary Clinton and Rick Stengel at the TIME 100 Gala at Jazz at Lincoln Center on April 24, 2012.

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Matt Lauer and Charlie Sheen for an interview that aired on Sept. 16, 2011.

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Matt Lauer and President George W. Bush on Oct. 29, 2010.

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Ann Curry, Matt Lauer, Meredith Viera and Al Roker on Dec. 19, 2008.

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NBC "Today" co-hosts Katie Couric and Matt Lauer chat during a segment of their program in New York's Rockefeller Center on Dec. 5, 2005. 

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Matt Lauer and Yankees manager Joe Torre speak to reporters before the second annual Golf Classic for the Joe Torre Safe at Home Foundation at the Trump National Golf Course.

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"Today" show co-host Matt Lauer introduces a segment on the program in New York's Rockefeller Center on May 6, 2005. 

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Matt Lauer, co-host of the "Today" show arrives at the wedding of Donald Trump and Melania Knauss at Bethesda-by-the-Sea Church in Palm Beach Jan. 22, 2005.

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Tom Brokaw, with Matt Lauer, recalls poignant stories that were  reported by NBC News in the days and months after the 9/11 attacks.

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Matt Lauer talks with the boy band Backstreet Boys on July 2, 2001, on the "Today" show at Rockefeller Plaza in Manhattan.

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Captain David R. Bryant, Commanding Officer, USS Theodore Roosevelt, chats with the "Today" show's Matt Lauer on the signal bridge of the nuclear-powered carrier on May 12, 1999. 

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TV hosts Matt Lauer, left, and Bryant Gumbel on the set of NBC's "Today" show on Dec. 5, 1996.

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Matt Lauer, as an anchor/reporter on Live At Five" for "Today in New York" in 1993.

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