(RadarOnline) - Katie Couric just scored a touchdown.Manti Te’o and his parents Brian and Ottilia will speak with Couric on her syndicated talk show Thursday in what will be the star athlete’s first on-camera interview since the bizarre saga revolving around he and a non-existent dead girlfriend grabbed a stranglehold on the public’s attention span.

Couric announced on her Twitter page Sunday: “I will be doing the first on-camera interview with Manti Te’o & his parents...this Thursday on @KatieShow.”

Te’o's purported late girlfriend ‘Lennay Kekua’ didn’t actually exist, a hoax the All American defender says he had nothing to do with.