October 2, 2021 | 7: 30pm

Katie Couric used to be snapped smiling ear-to-ear Friday morning for the length of an informal sea shuffle jaunt in East Hampton. The sighting comes amid controversial scuttlebutt surrounding her upcoming memoir, “Going There,” wherein she calls out plenty of of her substitute peers by name.

The frail NBC correspondent used to be seen hitting the sea shuffle in a blue hoodie, inexperienced capri leggings and white sneakers. Her assistant, Adriana, joined the “Lately” alum in a dark and orange sweater, blue jeans and sandals.

Katie Couric hits the beach in East Hampton.
Katie Couric hits the sea shuffle in East Hampton on Oct. 2.
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Couric owns a $6.3 million beachfront home in town, which she purchased in 2006. She now lives on the seven-bed room property at the side of her 2nd husband, John Molner, whom she married in 2014.

Her first husband, Jay Monahan, died from most cancers in 1998.

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Couric brought along her assistant for the noon stroll.
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It’s unsure if the news character will dive deeply into her relationships in “Going There,” as this can largely handle her dangle on the cutthroat nature of TV news and fellow broadcast jounos equivalent to Diane Sawyer, whom she declared her “rival” for the length of their morning TV battle.

“I loved that I was getting below Diane’s pores and skin,” she writes, even supposing she freely admits that Sawyer obtained below hers merely as noteworthy.

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The “Lately” alum used to be all smiles sooner than the launch of her controversial original tome.
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She even describes Sawyer’s imperfect interview with Whitney Houston as nearly exploitative, writing: “There used to be a in point of fact dazzling line between a revealing interview and the exploitation of anxious, most continuously traumatized other folk in carrier of tawdry tidbits and sensational sound bites (e.g., Diane bearing down on an agitated Whitney Houston about keen disorders and drug use, which yielded the memorable comeback ‘crack is whack’).”

Couric also claims in the original tome that she “heard the whispers” about longtime co-anchor Matt Lauer’s lecherous behavior on the aid of the scenes on the “Lately” demonstrate.