Unlike Ryan Seacrest, Matt Lauer was allowed to ask Robert Pattinson on The Today Show this morning if he is dating Twilight New Moon co-star Kristen Stewart, but Robert didn’t really answer the question.

The fact is we’ve seen them together a lot, but we don’t know for sure if they’re having a relationship, or if they are seen together as if they were a couple to promote Twilight New Moon, which opens at midnight tonight.

Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston pretended to be a couple to promote their movie The Break-Up, which did extremely well due to the public interest in what was perceived as an onscreen and off-screen relationship between Vince and Jennifer.

If we don’t see Pattinson and Stewart together after the Twilight series are finished, then we’ll know it was all to promote the movie.

Joe Biden appeared on The Today Show where Matt Lauer interviewed Biden about the Swine Flu pandemic. Lauer asked what Biden would tell his family about Swine Flue precautions. Biden said in part:

"I wouldn’t go anywhere in confined places now …"

"… I would tell members of my family, and I have, I wouldn’t go anywhere in confined places now. It’s not that it’s going to Mexico, it’s you’re in a confined aircraft when one person sneezes it goes all the way through the aircraft. That’s me. I would not be, at this point, if they had another way of transportation suggesting they ride the subway."

"… If you’re out in the middle of a field and someone sneezes that’s one thing. If you’re in a closed aircraft or a closed container or closed car or closed classroom it’s a different thing …"

I talked about the risk of flying with people who have the Swine Flu yesterday. Joe is completely correct. The Swine Flu, like other types of influenza, is spread through the air by coughing, sneezing, and even breathing, thus the reason for the masks. The World Health Organization tried to downplay Biden’s comments today, but Biden is 100% correct.

Matt Lauer did his best to be respect to dirty former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer when he interviewed him on the Today Show this morning.

In his first interview since the scandal, Spitzer, 49, downplayed his involvement with the service, saying he used it "not frequently, not long." The disgraced politician, saying there were "no excuses possible" for his behavior, which he repeatedly called "egregious," also said that he is still frequently asked about important issues.

Even so, he said, "I’ve had flaws," and he has thought about them "deeply," he said, saying he has "tried to address these gremlins." He credits his "spectacular wife," Silda, and their three daughters "who are wonderful" for their understanding after they had to deal with "excruciating pain."

Amazingly, Spitzer was never prosecuted for his crimes, and he is not divorced. I give his wife credit for both lucky breaks.

Matt Lauer (51) had surgery to repair his separated shoulder today, following his bicycle accident, where he hit the brakes to avoid a deer, and went over the handle bars. Tip: Only use the back wheel brake.

Jim Bell told Ryan Seacrest on his KIIS-FM radio show to give an update on Lauer’s condition:

"I’m hopeful if not Wednesday by Thursday or Friday at the latest, so our national nightmare will soon be over."

National nightmare? Uh, we like Lauer, but it’s not as though we can’t live without him.

Lauer could have opted to postpone surgery, to see if the injury would heal on its own. Bell continued:

"Matt said this was the right call, his doctors told him that. As you probably know, golf is very important to Matt. He didn’t want to face the prospect of swinging a golf club in pain for the rest of his days."

"So he had a little surgery and as anybody knows who’s ever been under the knife, it’s not a lot of fun."

Bell joked that the show’s staff was concerned Lauer might not "be able to get a tie on," but said the objective for the crew now is "frankly, we’re going to get that deer."

The deer seems to be some sort of phallic symbol that the crew are fixated on. If Lauer wanted the deer dead, he wouldn’t have put on his brakes. With his fixed shoulder Lauer will be able to golf, and dust bust, to his heart’s content.

Meredith Vieira told viewers this morning that Matt Lauer had been injured in a bicycle accident. While Matt was riding his bike when a deer jumped out in front of him. No word if Lauer and the deer collided. Vieira said:

"Matt’s banged up with a displaced shoulder, it popped out, so hopefully he’ll be on the mend soon."

"Matt thinks the deer was hired by the competition."

Vieira insisted:

"I hired the deer, but I said, ’Just graze him.’"

There’s probably an internal investigation to see if the deer was hired by Fox News.

Get well soon Matt.