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April 30, 2010 Conan O'Brien: I Would Never Do What Jay Leno Did to MePosted: 11:44 AM ET
If the tables had been turned during their late-night dispute, Conan O'Brien says he knows what he would – and wouldn't – have done to Jay Leno. "He went and took that show back and I think in a similar situation, if roles had been reversed, I know – I know me, I wouldn't have done that," O'Brien, 47, says in his first post-Tonight Show interview, scheduled to air on 60 Minutes Sunday. In the interview, the new TBS late-night host tells Steve Kroft that he would not have "surrendered The Tonight Show and handed it over to somebody publicly and wished them well – and then … six months later… But that's me, you know." Adding that "Everyone's got their own, you know, way of doing things," O'Brien, who's been on the road for his 30-date North American tour, says if he had been in Leno's shoes, he would've "done something else, go someplace else." Leaving NBC, he says, was like severing a "toxic" relationship, especially one he didn't see having a future with. And though he may have negotiated with the network, O'Brien says he "started to feel that I'm not sure these people even really want me here." Filed under: Conan O'Brien
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