TODAY'S Al Roker has provided a health update following his knee surgery and his wife Deborah Roberts revealed his retirement plans in an exclusive interview with The U.S. Sun.
Al , 69, underwent a major surgery in May 2023 - a total knee replacement that forced him to be out of work from the Today show to recover for four weeks. His second knee surgery - although delayed due to blood clots in his legs and lungs - took place over a year after he got his first surgery in April 2022. "Everything's great.
Yeah, I feel good," Al told The U.S. Sun in an exclusive interview at the Harlem School of the Arts' 60th Anniversary Gala on May 20.
"I've been getting out, walking, and now the warm weather is coming, so, you know, I mean, we didn't really have a spring, but that's okay. It's all good, it's all good." No stranger to running marathons, Al recently ran the Brooklyn Half Marathon in 2022 in three hours and 19 minutes.
However, when asked if he's ready to take on the 2024 New York City Marathon - something he conquered in 2010 - he quickly shut it down. "That was good. That was it, that was it.
I'm not even sure why I did it. "It was it was really a foolish endeavor. It wasn't so much run as sauntered, you know, it was almost seven hours, but I enjoyed it," he remarked.
"I had a good time. You get to see New York unlike any way you'd ever see it any other time. So that was kind of fun.
" Al, who recently backed Kelly Clarkson for admitting to using a weight loss drug, went on to p.
