One of Craig Melvin ‘s on-air mishaps nearly landed Today in legal trouble.

“I want to know, what’s an on-air blooper that you’ll never repeat, that will never happen again?” Andy Cohen asked Melvin, Savannah Guthrie , and Carson Daly during a fan Q&A segment on the Monday, October 20, episode of Today . For Melvin, his worst TV moment was “one that almost got us sued.”

“There was a food recall years ago, when I was doing Weekend Today ,” Melvin explained. “I read that this particular brand’s food had killed, like, eight people, and the brand had not killed eight people. They had made eight people sick.”

Cohen was surprised by Melvin’s revelation, stating, “That’s bad.”

Melvin got his Today start as a weekend anchor before taking on his role as a third hour of Toda

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