WHERE I’M FROM ME∏EDITH’S BLISS


sanctuary. “I fit in here,” she says of


Meredith Vieira is diving back into daytime TV, but her thoughts are never far from her seaside


“scruffy” Cape Cod.


BY BROOKE HAUSER COVER & OPENING PHOTOGRAPHS


BY MICHAEL EDWARDS


MEREDITH VIEIRA IS HAVING A HARD time finishing her lobster roll. Sitting at a picnic table at PJ’s Family Res- taurant in Wellfleet on Cape Cod, she keeps getting interrupted by peo- ple who know her, or rather feel they know her: a steady stream of moth- ers, daughters, and grandmothers who want to chat with the woman who’s been talking to them for years on The View and the Today show. In between bites, Vieira listens to their life stories, recommends PJ’s kale soup, and coos over one fan’s new grandchild.No one asks for her au- tograph.To them, she is more than a celebrity; she is a friend.


“When


you do a daytime show, there’s such a connection, a bond that you form with the audience,” Vieira, 60, says after posing for a photo. “It’s fabu- lous.”


Vieira shares another bond


with these particular fans: a love of Cape Cod.Though she grew up in the tight-knit community of East Providence, R.I., and her primary home is in suburban New York, she has been spending time on the Cape for more than three decades.Her husband, the journalist and author Richard M. Cohen, first brought her to his parents’ summer house on this


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