On the November 7 episode of “Today,” the group of hosts — including Savannah Guthrie, Carson Daly, Hoda Kotb, and Dylan Dreyer — gave an update on actor Ashton Kutcher’s placement in the New York Marathon. “He had an impressive three-hour-fifty-four-minute run,” Daly recounted on the show (via The Sun). “We think that is highly attributed to the beer chugging he did with Savannah before.”
In a quick exchange during the transition to the next story, Guthrie defended herself to the audience. “It was a real beer!” Guthrie added. “Some people were like, ‘That wasn’t beer.'” Even Kotb — who is good friends with Guthrie on and off camera — jumped in, echoing, “It was real beer!”
Other than taking Guthrie’s word for it, we will never truly know if that beer was real or not. But this certainly wouldn’t be the first time audiences have called out a TV show’s segment for being faked. After fans spotted James Corden’s Carpool Karaoke car in 2020 getting towed around by another truck — instead of Corden driving it himself — the British host had to address the controversy on “The Late Late Show.” In the case of “Fake Beer Gate,” the proof may just be in the pudding, aka the foam!
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