On Sunday night, fans of Ryan Lochte got a glimpse of what life's like for the five-time Olympic gold medalist when he's not hanging out poolside thanks to his new reality TV show, "What Would Ryan Lochte Do?" But for those who missed the premiere, there's still a chance to find out the answer to the show's title question.

During a Monday morning visit to TODAY, Lochte revealed that he'd do just about anything -- the bigger the risk, the better.

"I’m not your average Olympian," he said. "You know when you think about Olympians, you think about (how) they eat, they train, they sleep. That’s it. For me that’s not the case at all. I like doing other stuff. I like going out and having a good time. I like doing stuff I could probably get myself hurt in, like playing basketball, skateboarding, surfing -- you name it, I'm doing it."

And viewers will see it -- not that he's only sharing the exciting stuff with the public. After all, the cameras capture everything!

"The first, like, couple of days … I was awake and brushing my teeth and the camera was right there," Lochte recalled. "I'm going downstairs to eat breakfast before swim practice, the camera's there. The camera is there 24/7, and I wasn’t used to that."

But now he doesn't mind the living under the lens. In fact, he's found one big perk that's come from it.

"The best thing about this show was I got really close with my family," the swimmer explained. "I mean, I was seeing them maybe once or twice every three months (before). (With) this show, I saw them once or twice every week, and it just brought us a lot closer together." 

Catch more from Lochte -- and his family -- when "What Would Ryan Lochte Do?" airs next Sunday at 10 p.m. on E!

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"America's Got Talent" may not be back on the NBC airwaves until this summer, but the roundup of talent has already begun -- and judges Howard Stern, Heidi Klum, Mel B and Howie Mandel (along with host Nick Cannon) are already hard at work. They took a break from sifting through the talent on Monday morning to join TODAY's Matt Lauer on the plaza to talk about the newly-configured judging panel, whether last year's winners were the right ones, and what kind of bikini top to wear during a water rescue.

Fortunately, the group seems to be getting along famously. "The female energy is there!" crowed Mel B.

"Literally from this television show I'm getting 10 new wrinkles," said Klum, who also sits in judgement on Lifetime's "Project Runway," because I'm laughing all day, because they're all so funny."

"I've taken Heidi under my wing, Matt, and I'm teaching her about judging -- that's why she'll be excellent," declared Stern. 

There is tension, admitted Mandel, but it's a "respectful tension. I don't agree a lot with some of the other judges." He also doesn't always agree with America, saying that last season's winners (the Olate Dogs) were not the best act. "I would have picked another act to win," he said. "But America chose them. ... America is buying the tickets."

As for that water rescue --  Klum raced into the ocean while vacationing in Hawaii when her son and one of his nannies were caught in a riptide at the end of March, and she talked about it during the visit. "It just shows you in your life you never know what's going to happen," she said. "In one second, everything and then all of a sudden the next second your son is smooshed by a wave in the ocean." But her kids have been swimming since they were 2 years old, she added, so her son was able to help save himself.

Stern, naturally, learned a different lesson than to teach your children how to swim. "And your top fell off," he noted. "In a rescue, make sure to wear a tight top."

"America's Got Talent" returns this summer on NBC.

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Updated April 3, 9:45 a.m. ET: You can't swing an oversized purse full of too much makeup without hitting the next pretender hoping to be labeled a Hollywood style and beauty icon. Audrey Hepburn was that icon, but her son tells Vanity Fair that the actress considered her looks a "good mixture of defects."

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"She thought she had a big nose and big feet, and she was too skinny and not enough breast," Luca Dotti tells the magazine. "She would look in the mirror and say, 'I don’t understand why people see me as beautiful.'"

Hepburn graces the cover of the May issue of Vanity Fair, for a story in which her son promotes his new book, "Audrey in Rome."

VF says that Dotti gathered 2,500 photos of his mother in preparation for his book and was struck by how "she was always herself -- perfect."

Dotti appeared on TODAY on Wednesday and told Savannah Guthrie that his mother was "a professional, so in a way she expected [to be photographed]. The beauty behind and the reason behind the book is precisely that. It's a middle step within the private life and the public life."

Perhaps that's where today's stars are at a disadvantage. Hepburn's style choices came across as effortlessly beautiful during an age when celebrities weren't endlessly captured leaving Starbucks in their sweatpants. By the time a modern A-lister steps on the red carpet today, we've practically dissected 2,500 pictures of her from last week, let alone years in Rome.   

"She didn't care that much about external beauty," Dotti told TODAY. "She cared more about matters of the heart. Of course, she was a woman, so she cared about looking good ..."

Dotti also told VF that his mother "was always a little bit surprised by the efforts women made to look young. She was actually very happy about growing older because it meant more time for herself, more time for her family, and separation from the frenzy of youth and beauty that is Hollywood."

Vanity Fair has previously called Hepburn one of the best-dressed women of all time. She is one of the few people to have won an Academy Award, Emmy, Grammy and Tony.

Hepburn died in 1993 at age 63.

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On the one hand, it's hard to imagine dinosaurs in a movie without immediately thinking "Jurassic Park." Yet it's equally hard to believe that the 1993 groundbreaking dinos-on-a-rampage film is 20 years old. Particularly when stars Laura Dern and Sam Neill visit TODAY as they did on Tuesday to talk about the film's re-release in 3-D -- and absolutely don't look 20 years older than they did in the film.

"She was 11 years old (during the movie)," Neill joked about Dern.

"Very tall for my age," she tossed back.

Regardless, the time has passed quickly. "It seems like yesterday," grinned Neill as they spoke with Matt Lauer. "I'm so looking forward to being in 3-D because I felt so two dimensional for 20 years."

"I remember getting to experience what a great film it is, but the 3-D is awe-inspiring," noted Dern, who added that working on the film was delightfully collaborative, because the special effects were so new at the time: "We were all there together as collaborators and a team ... we were all there with each scene going, 'How are we going to do this?' because it hadn't been done. So it really felt like a family."

Lauer reminded Dern of a recently-uncovered set of audition tapes that showed Gwyneth Paltrow and Helen Hunt auditioning for the role of Dr. Ellie Sattler (the role Dern eventually won) that are going on the auction block, and showed a clip.

"I didn't know!" chuckled Dern. "I'm a lucky girl."

"Jurassic Park 3-D" is in theaters April 5.

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Chris Brown has dropped a brand new video for his song "Fine China" off his upcoming album "X." The singer stopped by TODAY on Monday to promote the premiere of his new music, which can be seen here:

The video offers a semi-futuristic take on the classic good-girl-hooks-up-with-bad-boy story line. It even starts with a disapproving dad (hey, that's the Dharma Initiative guy from "Lost"!) chastising his daughter before she's whisked away by the "outsider, thug" Brown in an orange Lamborghini.

"I'll go anywhere with you," the girl tells Brown as the music starts and they drive through a Tron-like urban setting before arriving at a back-alley club. As the music kicks into high gear and Brown demonstrates his dance moves, this is where you remember all of those Michael Jackson comparisons.

"I'm not dangerous. When you're mine, I'll be generous. You're irreplaceable, a collectible. Just like fine china." 

The R&B star started the morning by joining a flash mob of dancers on the TODAY Plaza. He later sat down with Matt Lauer to discuss his maturity as a musician and the changes he's made as a man since being convicted of assaulting girlfriend Rihanna in 2009.

As for the music, Brown said his approach to making "X" was to put a lot of writers and producers in the same place and have a "camp" aimed at generating chemistry between everybody. A tactic that he says leads to more creative energy.

Lauer asked Brown what has changed musically in the years since he released his first music at age 16. "My music is maturing so I have a lot more to talk about, whether it be personal relationships, trials and tribulations, just me as a young 23-year-old man."

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Chris Brown is one of the more polarizing celebrities today: Ever since his conviction on felony assault charges in 2009 for attacking singer Rihanna, he's been on the downside of a lot of bad press and bad feelings from fans and critics alike. But in recent weeks, the R&B star has been mixing his promotional appearances for his new album "X" and single "Fine China" with a personal rehabilitation tour where he's opened up about the abuse and about the way he's changed since the incident. Brown sat down with TODAY's Matt Lauer on Monday to talk about the new music, and the new him.

"I've been humbled by the whole experience," he said. "From me losing everything, you know, to me having to regain public opinion or whatever it is -- but most importantly, you know, knowing that what I did was totally wrong and having to kind of deal with myself and kind of forgive myself in the same breath and being able to apologize to, you know, Rihanna and be that man that can be who is a man, you know?"

Still, Lauer noted that not all of Brown's behavior seems to indicate serious change, and he wondered what the singer thought of his continued skeptics. "I think everybody is entitled to their opinion. For me, it's just a learning process. You know, I have to just take it one day at a time. I can't make everybody like me ... it's about me being positive."

Lauer pointedly asked if Brown and Rihanna had reconciled as a couple, and Brown nodded: "Yeah, everything's good, we're fine." He also talked about how he had done 52 weeks of domestic violence counseling, to understand "Why did I do what I did?"

"I think it's just me proving myself once again," he said. "Knowing that what I did was wrong, and never doing it again. So as far as me and (Rihanna) are concerned, she knows my heart, and I know her heart. So I'm not really focused on the negative."

And in the end, he says, what's important to him is pleasing the important people in his life -- and not the critics. "For me, it's about proving myself to my fans," he said. "The only thing I can do is please my family, myself, and please her, you know, and my fans."

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Viewers and fans on the plaza got a little surprise this morning.

Singer and songwriter Chris Brown brought some smooth moves to TODAY when he and a group of dancers invaded the plaza to the beat of his new single, "Fine China." 

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Get ready for some chair-spinning action -- "The Voice" returns for an all-new season of the talent competition Monday night. But this time, the would-be contestants won't be the only new part of the show.

Coaches Usher and Shakira are joining the act, filling the spots vacated by Christina Aguilera and Cee Lo Green -- not that the shakeup should concern faithful fans. According to host Carson Daly, the new additions just add to the appeal.

"You're looking at a guy that could have been on any one of these (TV  talent) shows," Daly said, gesturing toward Usher, who joined him on TODAY Monday morning. "But him and Shakira, they were fans of 'The Voice,' and that was a great place to start."

It's especially great for fellow fans, who have high hopes for season four.

"(Monday night) is the best episode of 'The Voice' ever," Daly added, "and it's in large part to Usher and Shakira, Blake (Shelton) and Adam (Levine)."

As for Usher, he offered a sneak peek of the talent reviews to come by evaluating TODAY's Matt Lauer -- who didn't even sing.

"Well, the first thing that I have to make you aware of is that you were incredible -- an incredible talent," the singer said with a smile before demonstrating how he would persuade Lauer to join his team. "In my opinion, I think that you need a coach that really understands how to nurture your talent. Now you've heard from the rest of them, you need to rock with the best of them."

See just how the actual auditioners handle the evaluations when the "The Voice" returns Monday at 8 p.m. on NBC.

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When Danni Allen started on "The Biggest Loser," she weighed in at 258 pounds and felt insecure about her body and her abilities. But that's all changed now. On Monday night, Danni, who now weighs in at just 137 pounds, bested fellow finalists Jeff Nichols and Jackson Carter and proved she no longer has any reason to feel insecure.

The 26-year-old visited TODAY Tuesday to talk about her "Loser" win and share her new lease on life.

"I knew no matter what, in my heart, I had already won," Danni said of her success before she ever stepped on the finale-night scale.

But she wasn't so sure about pulling off the official win against the "big boys," especially given the fact that she knew she'd gained 19 pounds of muscle during the competition.

"It did play a little bit mentally, because this is a weight loss show; it's about the numbers," Dani explained. "But at the end of the day, if you're telling me I lost because I gained too much muscle, I'll take it."

Of course, she didn't have to take that -- she won, and the experience has already started to transform her life.

"It just has given me the self-confidence that I never had before, and that sense of belief that I can dream again," she said. "You know, nothing's too big.... Anything's possible, and I just believe it."

But she doesn't believe everything.

"I can't believe I have a quarter of a million dollars coming my way!" Danni exclaimed about her winnings. "I have so many ideas of what I could possibly do with it, but the one thing is Jeff and I had a little side bet that no matter what ... we were going to take the other one on a vacation because we knew we definitely deserved a vacation.... We're gonna bring Francie (Morillo) too, because the two lovebirds can't leave each other."

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As for herself, she's looking for her own lovebird now.

"I'll just be the third wheel -- I'll find my guy out there (on vacation)," she smiled.

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Stars like Kim Kardashian and Snooki may be household names when it comes to reality television, but Thom Beers is the man who gets the credit for creating some of the most popular shows of the genre. From "Deadliest Catch" to "Ice Road Truckers" to "Storage Wars" and more, TODAY's Jamie Gangel caught up with the man known as the king of blue-collar reality TV.

"I love a good story ... that's what makes great television," Beers said on Wednesday's show. "Great characters, unique location, high risk, high rewards, but ultimately it's gotta be a great story."

And for viewers who may have an aversion to drunk kids at the beach or screaming socialites, Beers' version of great television provides an escape.

"I take people on a journey and places where they probably won't ever go and they experience vicariously that journey through these really interesting characters," he said.

A dramatic journey of his own to Alaska in 1999, in which Beers was stuck on a boat in a frightful storm, triggered the producer's inspiration for "Deadliest Catch."

"Little did I realize that we're about to sail into the worst storm in 40 years," Beers said of his trip with the Discovery channel. Within 24 hours we're 200 miles at sea and the winds are pushing 70 knots and the waves are cresting at 40 feet.... It was insanity but there was something about it."

And Beers says a quotation he'd once seen written on the wall of a wrecked ship being pounded by waves in Alaska captures his zeal for being in the middle of the action.

The words read: "If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much space."

"I thought, you know what ... I've adopted that motto ever since," Beers said. "That's me."

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Valerie Harper remains forthright about her recent terminal cancer diagnosis in the second part of an extensive chat with TODAY's Savannah Guthrie. In a conversation about her rare cancer, the 73-year-old television icon said that she is happy being open about her fate.

"It has been so warming and so comforting and ... I feel the embrace," Harper said in an interview airing Tuesday. "It feels awful damn good to be open about it, face it and see what you can do."

Facing her diagnosis of leptomeningeal carcinomatosis -- which affects the membranes surrounding her brain -- Harper told Guthrie that she doesn't think about what-ifs, and is ready for what comes next.

"Forgiving is giving up the wish that things could have been different. They weren't. That's the past. Let it go. I have cancer. It's in my brain.... What are you gonna do about it?" Harper said. "I've had such a great run, Savannah. I'm going on 74. I want people to be less afraid. You know, that's ... that's really I guess why I'm sharing it."

Part of the "great run" Harper refers to includes her stint as Rhoda Morgenstern on "The Mary Tyler Moore show" and later its spinoff, "Rhoda." Rhoda, says Harper, has "been the wind and the sails of my career," a charmed time of life. "I didn't know (then that) 'I'm part of a classic,' you just know you're doing a wonderful show." 

Grateful for the past, Harper is now looking ahead, and doing so with a positive outlook despite her diagnosis. Harper recalled wisdom imparted by an internist, who Harper says told her, "'Valerie, anyone that's been in oncology for any number of years has seen spontaneous remission. They just have.' So what I'm saying, is keep your consciousness -- your thoughts -- open to infinite possibility and keep yourself open to miracles."

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Ever since Valerie Harper announced her terminal cancer diagnosis last week, the former Rhoda Morgenstern from "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and "Rhoda" has been the subject of intense discussion and some early mourning.

The 73-year-old sat with TODAY's Savannah Guthrie at her Los Angeles home, and on Monday talked about the illness (she was diagnosed with leptomeningeal carcinomatosis, a form of cancer that strikes the membranes surrounding the brain), her memoir "I, Rhoda," and what she continues to savor about life.

"It is very rare," she said of the cancer diagnosis. "It was hard to detect because it was diffuse. It's all around. It's not in one lump."

The reality of her illness didn't hit, however, until Harper heard the word "incurable." "'Incurable' is a tough word," she said with a chuckle (despite some laryngitis). "So it is terminal."

Harper was working hard to take her Tony-nominated performance in "Looped" on the road when she went to the doctor with some odd symptoms. "I had this weird feeling in my jaw," she said. "I vomited for no reason and wasn't sick. And I thought, 'That's weird.'"

She wasn't the only one who was left reeling by the diagnosis -- her husband of 34 years, Tony Cacciotti, "got hit like a ton of bricks."

The couple sat down together for part of the interview. "Just try to live your life ... every day, feel strong and be strong for that person," said Cacciotti about how he's trying to assist his wife. "We're living our lives, and we're extremely happy. "

Just how long Harper has isn't certain -- her doctor has told her a week, three months or years, and she is receiving chemotherapy. Still, she's got to do what many people only say they will: Live each day as if it could be her last.

That said, she added, "I'm not dying until I do," adding that she remains "hopeful." "More than hopeful, Savannah. I have an intention to live each ... moment fully."

And while she says she's "ready to say bye-bye" if that's what it comes to, she's holding tight to hope: "The thing I have is -- is very rare and it's serious and it's incurable ... so far. So I'm holding on to the 'so far.'"

Tune in Tuesday to TODAY for more from Valerie Harper.

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