Al Roker doesn't regret recently grilling Spencer and Heidi Pratt over their outrageous behavior on NBC's I'm a Celebrity… reality show.
"Was that an attack? I don't think so," he said on Tuesday's Today show. "I believe I asked what a lot of people wanted to know."
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On the NBC morning show Monday, Roker asked Heidi if she was proud of the way they acted on TV. As she danced around the question, Roker cut her off and sternly asked, "No [the question is], are you proud of this?"
Roker also took Spencer to task, telling him that people think he acts like a "jerk." Heidi said she cried after the interview and Spencer said it was a good thing he is "saved by Jesus" or he would have "ripped" Roker's head off.
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Roker laughed off Spencer's remarks, telling co-host Meredith Vieira, "If he had tried to come across, I would've dumped him like a bag of dirt."
As for Heidi's claim that Roker likes being "rude to women", Roker said, "Come on, I've interviewed hundreds of women on this program and never had a complaint."
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"Look," Roker went on, "they are so un-used to people actually asking them a real question, that they didn't know how to handle it." Vieira then asked Roker why he is so surprised by Heidi and Spencer's behavior when it is often reporters like him who build up these reality stars.
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Replied Roker, "There are a lot of celebrities — real celebrities, who've actually done something — who [can] act civil."
