What To Know
- Julie Chen Moonves mentioned potential successors for her Big Brother internet hosting function, naming notable alums as prime picks due to their on-air expertise.
- Chen Moonves beforehand expressed a private want for her son to ultimately take over internet hosting duties.
- Despite hypothesis about her substitute, Chen Moonves confirmed she shouldn’t be leaving the present anytime quickly as Big Brother approaches its thirtieth season.
Don’t fear, Big Brother followers, Julie Chen Moonves isn’t going anyplace. But the host mentioned who she would love to see substitute her if the time ever got here for her to depart the CBS present.
As Big Brother approaches its thirtieth season in two years, Chen Moonves is trying in the direction of the future. Fans have speculated that Season 24 winner Taylor Hale would tackle the internet hosting duties if Chen Moonves ever decides to retire.
“I’ve wondered that too because, to me, she would be perfect,” she instructed Variety. Hale hosts Big Brother: Unlocked with Season 16 winner Derrick Levasseur and superfan and actor Jerry O’Connell. She as soon as crammed in for Chen Moonves when she had to sit out of a reside episode due to being in poor health. Hale additionally serves as a correspondent for Entertainment Tonight, so she has on-air expertise.
Talking with Variety about the actuality present’s 1,000th episode, Chen Moonves shared that regardless of different hosts being concerned in the artistic processes and producing, that’s not her lane. “I might suggest things, like ideas, when we’ve had Celebrity Big Brother. I like just being the host and not having that pressure of having to do creative or the casting,” she instructed the outlet.
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Chen Moonves additionally pitched Levasseur as a attainable substitute. The former detective hosts a number of podcasts and produces true crime exhibits.
Jeff Schroeder and Jordan Lloyd from Seasons 11 and 13 had been the hosts’ subsequent picks. Schroeder and Lloyd met and fell in love on Season 11. They are presently married and have two sons collectively. The couple additionally competed on Season 16 of The Amazing Race.
Schroeder used to host Daily Blast Live and Great Day Colorado, so he additionally has on-air internet hosting expertise. Together, Jeff and Jordan host a Big Brother podcast.
However, in 2025, Chen Moonves additionally instructed us that she would find it irresistible if her son eventually took over duties from her. “I told my 15-year-old son I am hosting until I think he can take over for me! That would be funny. Our family’s little brother taking over Big Brother,” she mentioned.
With the producers sharing that the twist for the 1,000th episode has never been done before, may one among the alums talked about serve in Chen Moonves’ spot? It is a reside present with an eviction, in any case.
Who do you assume would make a very good host if Chen Moonves ever determined to retire? Let us know in the feedback.
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