Podcast host and journalist Katie Couric discussed some behind-the-scenes drama from her time at CBS on Wednesday during an interview with the "Call Her Daddy" podcast.Couric told "Call Her Daddy" host Alex Cooper that "60 Minutes" was her dream, and explained a story idea she had pitched about Lady Gaga and said that the producer at "60 Minutes" at the time, Jeff Fager, didn't like her."I was sort of seen as somebody from a different network coming in and sort of muddying the waters and I hadn't come up in the CBS system.So I don't know.
He just didn't like me and I remember saying to the people who work on '60 Minutes,' I've got this great idea, because I always felt like ‘60 Minutes’ was a little behind on like big cultural moments." "I said there's this incredible singer and I think she's going to be the next Madonna," Couric continued."She's so interesting.
She went to Catholic school, but she's so outrageous, and she is huge, and she's got a huge number one song.I think we should do a profile of this person, Lady Gaga.
And they're like, ‘Mmm.’ And so they, the producer, who now is a good friend of mine, called me and said, 'You know, I talked to Jeff, and he said it's not for us.' And I said, ‘OK.'"Katie Couric at the American Ballet Theatre's 2026 Spring Gala held at Cipriani 42nd Street on May 20, 2026, in New York.(Stephanie Augello/WWD via Getty Images)SHARYN ALFONSI OUT AT ’60 MINUTES' AFTER FEUD WITH BARI WEISS, RIPS CBS FOR ‘CHILLING MESSAGE’ TO NEWSROOMCouric worked as a "60 Minutes" correspondent at CBS, but was also an anchor for "CBS Evening News.""Fast forward a year, and she calls me and says, ‘Hey, guess what? Jeff wants to do the piece on Lady Gaga.’ And I was like, ‘Okay, well, she's kind of overexposed now.
She was on the cover of Rolling Stone,'" she said.After pitching an updated idea on Lady Gaga, she explained that somebody else had gotten the interview."I said, ‘Okay.Well, that's great.
Maybe we could do a di...