Maria Shriver On TV News: “I Think I Can Always Come Back”

Just last fall, former NBCer Maria Shriver said publicly she did not want to return to her television news career, after her disillusionment over media coverage of Anna Nicole Smith‘s death. At the time, Shriver “called NBC News and told them I’m not coming back.”

But this morning, appearing on her old network, Shriver sang a different tune. In an interview with Today‘s Matt Lauer to promote her newest book, Just Who Will You Be?, Shriver said she’s open to one day returning to TV news. “I think I can always come back. I think I can do special reports for you,” she told Lauer, with a smile. “I think you can hire me!”

Shriver also said she felt she could have continued on at NBC News, as an objective journalist, even after husband Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected California’s governor. “I do,” said Shriver. “But clearly everyone here didn’t,” she added with a laugh, referring to the conflict-of-interest issues that led to her 2004 departure from the network.

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