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\nNBC weatherman Al Roker doesn’t appear to be much of a VAN HALEN fan… for the portly meteorologist of NBC’s Today show reportedly wouldn\u2019t budge for legendary drummer Alex Van Halen on a flight to New York this week.<\/p>\n
The New York Post reports Roker nearly \u201cpulled an Alec Baldwin\u201d on an American Airlines flight when he refused to give up his aisle seat for Alex Van Halen and his wife, Stine Schyberg, and remained glued to his phone after the gate closed to tune out the couple\u2019s protests. Witnesses said Alex was seated by the right-side window, his wife in the center of the cabin, with Roker in the aisle seat between them. Alex\u2019s brother and Van Halen co-founder Eddie and his wife, Janie Liszewski, were seated in the row behind them.<\/p>\n \u201cAlex complained, \u2018We\u2019re not together, Mr. Roker\u2019s seat is between ours,\u201d a source tells The Post. \u201cAl was looking at his phone, desperately trying to ignore the whole situation.\u201d<\/p>\n When the agent asked Roker to move to the aisle seat in the first-row center, he stated that he\u2019s \u201callergic to dogs.\u201d A passenger with a little dog in a crate was in the row behind Roker, and moving to the aisle would have put him three seats away, rather than four.<\/p>\n To sit together, Alex and Stine then swapped with passengers in business class, according to the source, adding that a relieved Roker \u201csaid \u2018Hello\u2019 to the new people when they sat down, after hiding from the Van Halens by texting.\u201d<\/p>\n While the situation was uncomfortable, \u201cThere was literally not an ounce of rock star bullbleep,\u201d a witness said of Alex, \u201cBut his wife was making a big deal complaining about it.\u201d NBC weatherman Al Roker doesn’t appear to be much of a VAN HALEN fan… for…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nOn AA flight No. 4 to New York, the Van Halen co-founder and his wife complained to the gate agent that Roker was sitting between them as the plane sat on the ground.<\/p>\n
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\nVan Halen were headed to New York for a private club show this Thursday for the media at the Caf\u00e9 Wha? The band are gearing up for the release of their new album \u2013 the first with David Lee Roth in 28 years \u2013 which is due February 7; the project\u2019s first single and video, \u201cTattoo,\u201d is set for release next Tuesday.
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\nSource: www.hennemusic.com
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