Right this moment has gone by means of its justifiable share of modifications over its many many years on NBC, and the wait continues to be on within the 2025 TV schedule for who the subsequent everlasting member of the crew might be after Hoda Kotb’s departure again in January. The daytime tv program has cycled company out and in over the previous a number of months to affix Jenna Bush Hager within the fourth hour of this system, with Scarlett Johansson as a standout. Whereas the all-time highest-grossing actor is unlikely to simply accept a full-time daytime TV gig any time quickly, Carson Daly has a few visitor hosts who he thinks could be nice suits for a everlasting chair.
Whereas Scarlett Johansson’s clarification for why she took the momentary Right this moment co-hosting gig additionally explains why she’s not prepared for hours of reside TV each weekday, longtime Right this moment contributor Carson Daly shared his tackle the present emptiness with Us Weekly:
I’ve beloved so much [of the cohosts]. I beloved Dwayne Wade. I believed he was superior. Each time Erin Andrews is on, I’m like, ‘She’s wonderful.’ Scarlett Johansson is all people’s favourite, however she occurs to be Hollywood’s most costly actor. We will’t afford her, however she loves doing it.
Daly, who’s at the moment a characteristic anchor on Right this moment, dropped some notable names as attainable stars to affix Jenna Bush Hagar’s hour of the printed, beforehand often known as Right this moment With Hoda & Jenna and at the moment titled Right this moment With Jenna & Mates. Apparently, two of these “pals” that made a robust impression on The Voice host had been TV character/sportscaster/former Dancing with the Stars host Erin Andrews and NBA legend Dwyane Wade.
That is to not say that Carson Daly was dropping hints when he named Erin Andrews and Dwyane Wade, nevertheless. He additionally shared that he asks “on a regular basis” about who may take over as Jenna Bush Hager’s subsequent everlasting cohost, however instructed that the Right this moment crew needs “to maintain this rotating factor going.” That matches with what Jenna Bush Hager herself mentioned earlier this summer time about nonetheless being on the seek for any person everlasting to affix her phase of the present.
Daly additionally shared that the rotating visitor hosts “retains issues contemporary,” and acknowledged that “Jenna’s had loads of actually good folks” within the months since Hoda Kotb stepped down. Different celebrities who joined the Jenna & Mates hour so this 12 months embody Taraji P. Henson, Keke Palmer, Ciara, Andy Cohen, Bowen Yang, Tyra Banks, Olivia Munn, and Wynonna Judd, amongst others.
For the reason that begin of the 12 months, each Erin Andrews and Dwyane Wade have hosted two full, nonconsecutive weeks of episodes reverse Jenna Bush Hager. Each company spent the identical period of time within the seat that belonged to Hoda Kotb earlier than her retirement from Right this moment, however Andrews and Wade each carry completely different qualities to the present.