It might not be the flashiest gig in showbiz, however Web page Six hears that a variety of very well-known — and maybe surprising — stars are vying for the empty spot as Jenna Bush Hager’s co-host on the fourth hour of NBC’s “Right now” present.
“Their cellphone has been ringing off the hook,” stated a supply.
An insider advised Web page Six that — whereas the job isn’t well-paid by morning TV requirements — it’s coveted for its observe report of each reworking and revitalizing careers.
(Estimates recommend that the fourth-hour co-host makes round $5 million, or round 1 / 4 of the wage of the principle “Right now” hosts.)
Hoda Kotb — who co-hosted with Kathie Lee Gifford earlier than sharing the present with Bush Hager — exited “Right now” in January.
Sources say that stars as various as Bravo’s Andy Cohen, NBA star Dwayne Wade and former supermodel and “America’s Subsequent Prime Mannequin” host Tyra Banks have all privately expressed an curiosity within the place. (Bravo is owned by NBCUniversal Media Group.)
“Look what it did for Hoda,” stated a supply, “it took her from being ‘Dateline NBC’ Hoda to the Hoda we all know in the present day.”
In the meantime, they stated that for Kathie Lee Gifford — who left the put up in 2019 — it was a “second act” after her lengthy tenure because the foil to Regis Philbin on “Reside! With Regis and Kathie Lee.”
“And Jenna was a librarian, principally, earlier than that,” they stated. (She was a instructor at a constitution faculty earlier than her TV profession started.)
Bush has spun the job into an influential place within the publishing world after founding the “Learn With Jenna” on-air month-to-month e book membership in 2019.
Since Kotb left, the present has been quickly renamed “Right now With Jenna and Mates,” and has seen a rotating solid of co-hosts together with Taraji P. Henson, Keke Palmer, Eva Longoria, Scarlett Johansson, Ciara and Wynonna Judd, and others.
