Matt Lauermade a rare appearance in public on Friday as he went shopping in theHamptons.
Lauer was spotted leaving a hardware store in Sag Harbor — just two days after the year anniversary of his ousting from NBC overalleged sexual misconduct.
The disgraced new anchor looked relaxed and casual in a grey sweater, jeans and a baseball cap.
A source recently told PEOPLE that Lauer hasstruggled to come to termswith his new low-key lifestyle.
“It has been hard for him. He went from being a super busy person to having nothing but time on his hands,” the source said. “He is not doing well.”
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The longtime news anchor, who wasfired from theTodayshowin November 2017, “is not thinking about working again right now.”
Instead, Lauer is focusing all his attention at home — with his children.
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As Lauer, 60, and hisestranged wifeAnnette Roquecontinue working out the terms oftheir divorce, they’re still living together at their Hamptons compound with sons Jack, 17, and Thijs, 11, and daughter Romy, 14.
“Eventually the plan is that he will move out of the house,” the source said. “He’s at the compound, living in the guest house, and he sees the kids. It’s still the same setup for now. It’ll continue that way until early next year.”
And anofficial divorceis certainly on the horizon.
“They wereworking through their issues at first— they were never hopeful of working it out,” the source said. “But it took her a long time to work through it.”
“Annette needed time to figure out what she wanted and wrap her head around it all,” the source continued. “From the beginning, it was never like ‘We are done.’ It was like, ‘What is this?’ She needed time to figure things out and she realized — and he did, too — that the best thing was to split up.”
source: people.com
