Katie Couric Lands TV Interview With ND’s Manti Te’o

Manti Te'o, the Notre Dame linebacker at the center of an online hoax involving his non-existent girlfriend, will sit down for his first on-camera interview this week with Katie Couric, the talk show host said Sunday.

The interview airs Thursday on the "Katie" show.

Sports website Deadspin broke the story Wednesday that the girlfriend that Te'o, this year's Heisman Trophy runner-up, had talked about and had claimed died in September of leukemia wasn't real.

I will be doing the first on-camera interview with Manti Te'o & his parents - this Thursday on @katieshow abcn.ws/13TpqBc
— Katie Couric (@katiecouric) January 20, 2013

CNN Reports Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick told reporters later that day Te'o was the victim, having been fooled into believing that a woman he met on the Internet, but never in person, was his girlfriend.

After issuing a brief statement Wednesday, Te'o sat down Friday with ESPN for an off-camera interview.

There, one of the best defenders in college football this season defended himself against allegations that he was somehow involved in the online scheme.

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