Man with golden voice 'Ted Williams' in tears as he reunites with his mother Julia Williams. Wearing the same camouflage jacket from his recent days of homelessness, Ted Williams supplied the opening voiceover for the Today show yesterday and joked with the hosts about the madness of his past two days. "They told me they're gonna give me LeBron's old house," Williams told a laughing Matt Lauer and Meredith Vieira, referencing one of his many offers: a job and a home from the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers. Williams then rushed off to record four audio spots for Kraft Macaroni & Cheese, the first of which will air Sunday on ESPN during the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl in San Francisco. Later yesterday afternoon, the one-time radio announcer donned a new adidas jacket, jeans and sneakers to handle emcee duties during a taping of Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, using the velvety voice the world discovered through a Dispatch video that went viral this week. But Ted's excellent adventure couldn't compete with a thrill that the unlikely icon said easily eclipsed the myriad perks of surprise fame: a reunion with his mother, a Brooklyn resident, whom he hadn't seen in 20 years. After tussles between competing morning shows delayed the much-anticipated meeting, The Dispatch helped bring the pair together at a penthouse conference room in a Midtown hotel. "Hi, Mommy! Hi, Mommy!" said Williams, in tears, as he rushed toward her. "I told you I was coming this year. "I don't look my best, but I'm ...
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