{"id":805,"date":"2026-08-06T15:20:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T15:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/2026\/08\/06\/al-roker-comes-face-to-face-with-his-twin-on-the-today-show-plaza-freaky\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T15:20:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T15:20:29","slug":"al-roker-comes-face-to-face-with-his-twin-on-the-today-show-plaza-freaky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/2026\/08\/06\/al-roker-comes-face-to-face-with-his-twin-on-the-today-show-plaza-freaky\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Roker Comes Face-to-Face with His \u2018Twin\u2019 on the Today\u201c \u201dShow Plaza: \u2018Freaky!\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The longtime weatherman met a woman holding a poster boasting she was married to Roker\u2019s twin<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/xJHhZBlNfzsXfboPbiOkw9V2YYY=\/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():format(jpeg)\/Al-Roker-Comes-Face-to-Face-with-His-Twin-on-the-Today-Show-Plaza-080626-da737965bc814b9b8e54c375591fac5f.jpg\" alt=\"Al Roker and his \u2018twin,\u2019 PercyCredit: Today\" title=\"Al Roker Comes Face-to-Face with His Twin on the Today Show Plaza\" \/><figcaption><i>Al Roker and his \u2018twin,\u2019 Percy<br \/>Credit: Today<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>NEED TO KNOW<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Al Roker met his real-life doppelganger, Percy, during a live broadcast on the Today Show Plaza<\/li>\n<li>Percy\u2019s wife held a sign declaring him Roker\u2019s twin, prompting a humorous exchange between the two lookalikes<\/li>\n<li>Roker recently celebrated 30 years on <em>Today<\/em> and shared his love for the job and hopes for his legacy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The case of the dueling Rokers!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"null\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/al-roker\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" rel=\"null\">Al Roker <\/a>was confronted by his real-life doppelganger on the Today Show Plaza during the morning show\u2019s live broadcast on Thursday, Aug. 6.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel badly for this woman over here because she\u2019s married to Al Roker\u2019s twin,\u201d the show\u2019s longtime weatherman quipped.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Roker approached a couple who were holding up a sign that read: \u201cI\u2019m married to Al Roker\u2019s twin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shirley and Percy were all smiles when they met Roker, as Percy proved to be Roker\u2019s lookalike.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/VDJufqBuHj9oPHbyDNBfDzy83Yg=\/fit-in\/1280x960\/Al-Roker-Comes-Face-to-Face-with-His-Twin-on-the-Today-Show-Plaza-080626-2-6947ea0c85cf4462822fea52ffe53f28.jpg\" alt=\"Al Roker meets Percy and Shirley on the Today Show Plaza on Aug. 6.Credit: Today\" title=\"Al Roker Comes Face-to-Face with His Twin on the Today Show Plaza\" \/><figcaption><i>Al Roker meets Percy and Shirley on the Today Show Plaza on Aug. 6.<br \/>Credit: Today<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cHave people told you that I look like you?\u201d Roker asked Percy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of people,\u201d Percy said, prompting Roker to joke, \u201cDo people come up and just slap you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Roker complimented the couple, saying, \u201cI hope it\u2019s been as wonderful as it appears to be. We love that.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Calling the moment \u201cfreaky,\u201d the host laughed it off.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, the iconic weatherman celebrated 30 years on the <em>Today<\/em> show and <a class=\"null\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/al-roker-discusses-retirement-30th-anniversary-today-show-exclusive-11892798\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" rel=\"null\">opened up to PEOPLE <\/a>about his thoughts on the future.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love what I do,\u201d he said at the time. \u201cI feel good. I love this job. I love doing it. At some point I guess I won\u2019t be, but I don\u2019t feel like that\u2019s anytime soon, so I\u2019m just gonna keep going.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/people-news-daily-newsletter-sign-up-8692701\">PEOPLE\u2019s free daily newsletter<\/a> to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.<\/p>\n<p>As for his legacy on the NBC morning show, Roker kept it simple.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople, when they watch, that they didn\u2019t feel like I wasted their time,\u201d he shared. \u201cAnd that hopefully they felt better after watching than before.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The longtime weatherman met a woman holding a poster boasting she was married to Roker\u2019s twin Al Roker and his \u2018twin,\u2019 PercyCredit: Today NEED TO KNOW Al Roker met his real-life doppelganger, Percy, during a live broadcast on the Today Show Plaza Percy\u2019s wife held a sign declaring him Roker\u2019s twin, prompting a humorous exchange [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything-else"],"wpmagazine_modules_lite_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":"","cvmm-medium":"","cvmm-medium-plus":"","cvmm-portrait":"","cvmm-medium-square":"","cvmm-large":"","cvmm-small":"","full":""},"categories_names":{"1":{"name":"Everything Else","link":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/category\/everything-else\/"}},"tags_names":[],"comments_number":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}