Feminist Hero Katie Couric Asks Gavin Newsom If He’s Too Hot To Be President In Hard-Hitting Interview

Katie Couric made history when she became the first woman to solo-host a primetime news program — The CBS Evening News — but now she’s making news by asking Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) on her podcast whether he’s too pretty for national politics.

Couric hosted the governor on a recent episode of her “Next Question” podcast, and while she did ask him about a number of more serious policy positions, she also asked whether he was too handsome to be taken seriously.

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Couric: Do you have a Zoolander problem? Are you just ridiculously good looking as Vogue said? What do you do about that?

Newsom: You don’t do anything about it…It’s just who I am.

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“Do you have a ‘Zoolander’ problem?” Couric asked, laughing.

“Oh, Jesus,” Newsom laughed. “‘Zoolander.'”

“Are you just ridiculously good-looking as Vogue said? No, seriously, what do you do about that?” Couric asked.

“You don’t do anything about it,” Newsom replied. “Because if you’re going to do something about it then you’re bullsh*tting people. You know what? I am who I am. It’s fine. You don’t have to like me. Or maybe you like a slick person, I don’t know. Whatever, it’s okay. If I start showing up —”

“I brought that up because you talked about being authentic,” Couric interrupted. “And I think it sometimes works against you.”

“Yeah, it’s just who I am. It’s just who I am,” Newsom repeated.

Couric capitalized on that moment to tease the interview, cutting it into the introduction for the podcast episode. Her YouTube caption began, “California Governor Gavin Newsom has spent his career outrunning a public image that reduces him to a caricature—slick, ambitious, and impossibly polished.”

Couric’s line of questioning follows a fawning profile from Vogue’s Spring 2026 issue that opened with the following statement: “Let’s get this out of the way: He is embarrassingly handsome, his hair seasoned with silver, at ease with his own eminence as he delivers his final State of the State address.”

The piece, authored by Maya Singer, continued, “It must drive Trump nuts. Newsom: lithe, ardent, energetic, a glimmer of optimism in his eye; Kennedy-esque. Add to that his stunning wife and four adorable kids, and the executive strut of a self-made millionaire who has spent the past seven years at the helm of a state big, complex, and rich enough to be a nation of its own.”

Newsom, who term-limits out at the end of this year as California governor, is widely expected to run for president in 2028.