Back in April, CBS announced that The Talk will be ending its 15-year run.
Today, the network revealed when Akbar Gbajabiamila, Amanda Kloots, Natalie Morales, Jerry O’Connell, and Sheryl Underwood will be saying goodbye forever. Their last episode airs live on December 20th.
On that day, the daytime talk show will have aired 2,993 episodes, garnered over 70 awards/nominations, promoted over 10,800 guests, gifted over $103 million in giveaways, and welcomed over 250,000 audience members.
The press release failed to mention how many hosts there have been. And there have been a lot. However, the last group of hosts are the best of the bunch.
The Soap Opera, Beyond the Gates, will be taking over The Talk’s slot in February.
A long, long time ago, Sheryl Underwood, Amanda Kloots, Jerry O’Connell, Akbar Gbajabiamila, and Natalie Morales had jobs that are different than the one that they have now as hosts on the CBS daytime talk show The Talk.
Starting on Monday, May 20th, they are all going back to work and doing what they used to do when they were first starting out in the work world.
Underwood starts the week off. The comedian will be taking orders at Pioneer Chicken. Hopefully, she won’t be fried after a long day of work handing out fried chicken and fried fish.
The next day, the Fat Kid from Stand By Me takes an acting class—not just any acting class, but one for children.
Hump Day gets a kick from Kloots. The dancer dresses up as a hot dog mascot, just like she did when she was a teen.
We know Gbajabiamila as a professional football player, but before that, he was making a splash saving lives as a lifeguard.
The week closes out with total cuteness. News anchor Morales spent her teens working with animals, and she will get to do it again. Sounds like a tough job, but someone has to do it.
Who do you think is going to have the most challenging time doing their 9 to 5 again? And who do you think might hand in their application because they are going to need a new job in January?
CBS announced today that they picked up The Talk for a 15th season. That is the good news. The bad news is that it will be its final season.
“It goes without saying that hosting and producing a year-round talk show is no easy task, and we express our sincere gratitude to our amazing hosts Akbar Gbajabiamila, Amanda Kloots, Natalie Morales, Jerry O’Connell, and Sheryl Underwood, our executive producer/showrunner Rob Crabbe and the hardworking producing team and crew. We also want to acknowledge our former show hosts and colleagues who contributed throughout the seasons,” Amy Reisenbach, President, CBS Entertainment, and David Stapf, President, CBS Studios said in a statement. We truly appreciate the skill, creativity, and dedication everyone involved brought to the show every day. And of course, we thank the numerous guests who appeared, and the millions of viewers who tuned in daily. For the final season, we plan to celebrate the show and give it the proper sendoff it deserves when it concludes in December 2024.”
It is expected to be replaced by the upcoming African-American Soap Opera, The Gates.
Are you going to miss it? I am going to miss seeing what funny things Jerry was going to do during each episode.
I haven’t watched Grisdela yet on Netflix, and I probably won’t. But, from what Akbar Gbajabiamila said on The Talk yesterday, they did a lot of smoking cigarettes.
So yesterday, when Alberto Guerra was on the daytime talk show, Akbar asked if they were really smoking the cancer sticks with tobacco.
Guerra told him, “There were a lot of cigarettes, fake ones, obviously. They were lettuce. And I couldn’t have a salad.”
The actor clarified it was the “regular lettuce” and not the devil’s one.
That sounds so gross.
My dad did a play in Manhattan, and the actors smoked tea leaves. That sounds so much better than lettuce.
It is October, and that means it is breast cancer awareness month. Therefore, the news and talk shows will make their female anchors and hosts get mamograms on television.
But breast cancer does not only affect women. Men also get it. So The Talk asked Jerry O’Connell & Akbar Gbajabiamila to get one done, so they did it on today’s show.
The two men experienced what we go through once a year. They felt their moobs get smushed by the machine. And they said it didn’t hurt that much.
In fact, now they can be more supportive to their wives and be there for their daughters when it is their time. Although, by the time their four daughters are old enough to get one, I doubt they will still be doing mammograms with all of the technological advancements in medicine.
I want to thank O’Connell and Gbajabiamila for getting one done in front of the camera. It is going to make a big difference to both men and women who are hesitant to get it done.
