Meredith Vieira Insults Guest Over Her "Ugly Yellow Dress" (VIDEO)

Meredith Vieira wishes she could take back this extremely rude comment after "The Soup" catches Vieira insulting one of her guests live on the "Today Show."

Vieira was interviewing Janice Lieberman, described as a consumer expert, on the great deals one can get from buying goods at police auctions. After Lieberman lists the wide range of products available, Vieira lets loose this astonishingly inappropriate comment:

I can see all the NBC bean counters, all of my wardrobe is going to be from PropertyRoom.com, starting with (pointing at her guest) that ugly yellow dress.

Groans of amazement can be heard on the set, and Vieira desperately tries to salvage the situation by saying frantically, "No, it looks cute on you. It looks cute on her!"

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Comments

[stevier]

In my opinion, Vieira has a horrible fashion sense.. Yeah, the yellow dress was not all that appealing, but coming from someone who dresses bad herself....some nerve.

[NoToGOP08]

It is an ugly dress. And I wish Viera didn't backtrack!

[Totto]

It IS a bit bright!

[lentinelia]

Meredith, whose appearance borders on the equestrian, should not throw any stones.

[RobertGrae]

Neigh!

[donitacurioso]

W-i-l-l-l-l-l-bur!!

[LeftLeanWing]

Oh Willlllllllllburrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr ...

[foxycontin]

it's obvious that she was joking, people, chill out.

[CraigR]

exactly. Some people have no sense of humor at all.

[Mickey7]

'Joking' of the passive-aggressive variety is not funny. It was tacky, no matter what.

[PresidentRobertBooth]

She's right though

The dress was hideous


But so was that snot green jacket Viera was wearing

[learntofly]

How bout that sn@t green jacket Meredith is wearing?

[kathy001]

LOL!!! I was thinking the same thing! I'll take yellow over snot green any ole day.

[courageunderfire]

OUCH!

[takeyourballandgohome]

Must say, most of us have fallen victim to the marketing of this year's God Awful Yellow forced upon us by designers, gotta love 'em....no Harvard MBA's needed.

I have 2 so ugly yellow frocks, not sure my head is on straight.

[yellowdoggie]

Actually, I thought the yellow dress was very cute.

[Chace Haynes]

Maybe because you are a dog, and colorblind...

[Pavane]

Oh, you republican.

[Arrecho]

LOL

[PAposter]

So, did I...that's why Meredith didn't like it. She has the worst fashion sense on TV.

I haven't watched since they hired her...didn't like her on The View.

[TigersEye]

I didn't like her dress either, but that's not important.

Telling the "truth" isn't quite the same thing as being hurtful. Sometimes you have to know when to rein it in.

[CALAVA]

I lost all respect for Veira after her time on the View. She really is a low class, vulgar person. I say this remembering her from her days with 60 Minutes where she had the potential to become a really respected journalist.

[DeeDeeDaGumby]

I saw this story some time last week.. old news.. but still I always thought Meredith had more class then that..

[dems08]

fooled you!

[rivahcat]

Wow... open mouth, insert foot!! Emmmmbarassing....

[TigersEye]

Whether you like her or not Vieira's comment was rude. She should have never insulted that woman, especially on national television, with that catty remark. It's one thing to discuss her attire privately (if she is close enough to the woman she was interviewing on a personal level to do so) but she really stuck her foot in her mouth professionally with that comment. And she knows it.

[luvVB]

Meredith Vieira.... and NBC wonders why they CANT GET ANYONE TO WATCH THE NBC MORNING SELL-A-THON.

[albanianmomforobama]

Meredith needs some face stretching cream. Too wrinkly....

[antiqueglass]

This happened WEEKS ago! Why would HuffPo waste time on this?

[tonewheel]

Never saw it until now. Thanks, HP.