TV weatherman Al Roker is being urged to retire by worried family and friends, who fear the “Today” icon’s hairtrigger temper is getting shorter and threatening his legacy!
After 20 years on the job, “Al needs to pull the plug and slow down before anything life threatening happens,” an NBC insider tells GLOBE.
And if he doesn’t jump from his $8 million-a-year job, Roker may get shoved, the insider says, especially since the unpredictable star “has had some close calls with career-ending blunders.”
Shortly before the holidays, the once jovial star raised eyebrows by filing a formal complaint against a New York City taxi driver who didn’t stop to pick him up. Roker contends the cabbie racially profiled him because he’s black!
Back in October, the weatherman, 61, sparked a…
