Report: Matt Lauer’s “intense jealousy” is why NBC doesn’t have a Plan B — and why Craig Melvin is the frontrunner to replace him

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“Matt killed off, in their infancy, every man who could succeed him at the time that he was ready to hang it up — so there’s nobody to take his place,” a source tells Page Six. “And now NBC is paying the price.” Which leaves Craig Melvin, a Weekend Today anchor, as the frontrunner.