Katie Couric Lunches With Diane Sawyer, The 'GMA' Team And A Bevy Of ABC News Stars

It's surely the burning question of the summer (for a very specific group of people, at least): how will new kid Katie Couric fit in at ABC News? The former CBS anchor has landed there, and, from what The Huffington Post hears, an effort is being made to make her feel like one of the gang. Example one? Tuesday's mega-power lunch held just for her.

On Tuesday afternoon, Couric—who will have both a syndicated talk show and a presence within ABC News itself—sat down to grab a bite at the Rosa Mexicano restaurant at Lincoln Center, right near ABC News' headquarters. Joining her for her fine dining experience? Just about every top ABC News star who isn't on "Nightline" and/or out of the country.

Among the people there: Diane Sawyer, Christiane Amanpour, Robin Roberts, George Stephanopoulos, Elizabeth Vargas, Chris Cuomo, David Muir and ABC News president Ben Sherwood, who set up the bash. A veritable who's who of ABC talent! We bet Katie didn't even have to pay for her entree.

It's anyone's guess what they discussed, or if they all had margaritas and Diane Sawyer started doing her Richard Nixon impressions again*—but presumably conversations about how Couric can best use her talents as a utility player to pitch in around the office were at the top of the agenda.

*No, we don't know if she actually does them.

Comments

[Anthony Dodd]

11:38 PM on 06/23/2011

Noah Bodykares? Hue Givves-Ashit? Likit Madders?

[ladyjean]

01:14 PM on 06/23/2011

SO WHAT?! This is interesting or newsworthy why?

[cookerman45]

02:09 AM on 06/23/2011

hmmmm.....it wasn't her plastic surgeon that work has already been done....it wasn't CBS about a job.....Barney the purple dinosaur?

[shukurac]

11:06 PM on 06/22/2011

Hmmm...she better not be taking Robin's job. I love Robin.

[judew777]

05:20 PM on 06/22/2011

I like Katie, thought the Today show was good with her, she is a great gal.and fun ,she knows what she is doing .don't discount her. she is on the ball .

[mosuro]

02:18 PM on 06/22/2011

she'd be better if she kept her mouth shut...don't talk with a mouth full..but still she's pretty foxy..i'd let her buy me lunch.....all along the watchtower

[cookerman45]

02:10 AM on 06/23/2011

yer pick up line needs some help.

[okiedemocrat]

02:13 PM on 06/22/2011

I bet Sawyer acted frosty and cool. She thinks she's a queen. Never forget, she used to write garbage for Nixon to speak. She LOVED Tricky Dick and that is a turnoff to me.

[Facial Tic 2]

01:57 PM on 06/22/2011

Well youbetcha I could tellya who she didn't have lunch with and so on and dallars to donuts I'd win that bet dontchaknow because of the way it was phrased like that out of the blue as if I'm supposed to quote my sources like that's an everyday thing that folks do when they're gettin interviewed and eatin their lunch up in those journalism cafes and so forth bein criticized for it by that lamestream media like that in front of all the cameras and the blogs and pundits and waiters by golly out there in the open to be biased like they are on those programs and shows that you know are all controlled by the liberals out there doin those things they do out there to try to get the real Americans out there to think in a specific way, and I think they do know that this is going on everyday on the airwaves out there for.

[JoeDGoy]

01:53 PM on 06/22/2011

A joke...Miss Perky-Smirky millionaire..nobody listens to her obviously..

[Alex Mazza]

01:49 PM on 06/22/2011

Oh boy! what did she eat?! What was she wearing? Did she pay? These are questions that are relevant to the dying media field. I should care about this because?.....

[deven61]

01:46 PM on 06/22/2011

Darn! I was hoping it would have been, BIG JIM SLADE, former tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs.

[LumberjackAR]

01:33 PM on 06/22/2011

So classy and such a hottie. Don't change a thing Katie!

[JBDenver]

01:25 PM on 06/22/2011

By the way Katie - you are more than welcome to Tweet me

[texadonkey]

01:24 PM on 06/22/2011

NOOOOOOO!

[JBDenver]

01:17 PM on 06/22/2011

Katie - Milftastic!