'Today' show co-host Al Roker on the set during a broadcast on Aug. 10, 2011 in New York.(Photo: Peter Kramer, AP)
You can count on Al Roker to tell it like it is.
And he did just that - sharing a little too much information - in a Dateline interview on NBC with Nancy Snyderman, and his soundbite is quickly becoming legendary.
Roker,
58, who has written a new book about his struggles with weight loss,
sat down with Snyderman to talk about gastric bypass surgery.
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After
undergoing the surgery in 2002 and losing more than 100 pounds, Roker
recounted that he was visiting the White House about a month after the
surgery.
"When you have a bypass and your bowel has been
reconstructed, you think you're pretty safe," he explained. "I probably
went off and ate something I wasn't supposed to."
As he was
walking to the press room, Roker felt like he had to "pass a little gas
here. Only a little something extra came out," he said.
"You pooped in your pants," said Snyderman.
"I pooped my pants," confirmed Roker. "Not horribly, but enough that I knew."
"Which is a common side effect of this surgery," Snyderman said.
"Exactly,"
he said. "So, I was panicking. So I got to the restroom of the press
room, threw out the underwear and just went commando."
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