Posted on 11/10/2004 6:58:56 AM PST by dead
MOVE over Matt Katie Couric's new squeeze is a boyish-looking jazz trumpeter named Chris Botti.
The musician, 42, who has opened for pop star Sting and is promoting his own CD, told USA Today that he's nuts about the morning show pixie.
"She's brilliant and beautiful and really, really fun," Botti says of Couric, 47. She knows about music, "but then, she's up on everything. She's so intelligent."
Rumors about Botti and Couric have been swirling for weeks. She recently broke up with Red Sox co-owner/media mogul Tom Werner.
Couric first met Botti on the set of the "Today" show a few years ago when he showed up to play backup for an appearance by Sting. They were more properly introduced a few weeks ago at a party in New York and have been dating ever since, he says.
"It's been interesting going out in public with Katie, but this is all very new to me. I'm taking it one day at a time," he says.
Botti has been named one of People magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People," and has worked with Joni Mitchell, Natalie Merchant and other music stars. He joined Paul Simon's band in 1990 and worked with the singer for five years....
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As gay as an 1890s Easter bonnet.
That boy is so far in the closet, he's finding the Christmas presents.
Hey, it worked for Tom Arnold.
From the look of those shades I think the "buzz" around NY might just be Katie.
Who blows who or what?
Gaydar meter is screaming red!!! It's gonna blow. How desperate is Katie. BTW, doesn't she have young kids she should be dealing with instead of becoming a beard to some two bit jazz guy?
I really dig those crazy praying mantis shades Katie's wearing.
ROTFLMAO
What's up with the shades? Is she trying to hide the swelling from her recent botox injections, or is she suffering from a bad hangover?
And the concert was wonderful...going again early December same place.
Had to be done.
I'm gonna wretch!
This is just nauseating.
Botti is to the trumpet as Kenny G is to the saxophone
So does Monica. Perfect couple.
Looks like Roy from Siegfried and..........
lisp
Or is it the other way around?
Just another "NELE"-North-Eastern-Liberal-Elitest.
Sorry to disappoint everyone but Chris Botti isn't gay folks.
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