Kelly Clarkson’s Staff Reportedly Feels Betrayed Amid Buzz About Her Show Exit
Kelly Clarkson has been hinting that she’s ready for a change, but not everyone seems to be on board.
The 43-year-old daytime host hasn’t quieted the rumors that she’s looking to leave The Kelly Clarkson Show after her contract is up in 2026. At a May 9 Atlantic City concert she told the audience, via Page Six, “We haven’t done a show in a while, y’all, ’cause I have a talk show. It’s like a whole other job.“We are bummed ’cause we love doing shows, and it’s hard to fit it in, so it’s cool when it does work out with the schedule and it’s cool to get to see your faces and feed off y’all.”
Clarkson understandably wants to spend more time with her two children, daughter River, 10, and son Remington, 9, but it seems her work schedule keeps getting in the way. Still, her staff reportedly has strong feelings about Clarkson’s possible exit.
The crew has been loyal to her from the start, but they apparently feel betrayed by her current attitude toward the show.
“Kelly Clarkson is ungrateful, and she fails to recognize how her staff uprooted their lives in Los Angeles and left their homes to relocate to New York because they believed in her and they loved working for her,” a source told the Daily Mail.
After the 2022-2023 television season, Clarkson moved the show from its Los Angeles home base to New York City because she was looking for a fresh start.
“I feel like a weight has lifted. That move was very needed. I think the thing I’m most excited about with Season 5, on a selfish level, is just showing up to work smiling and actually meaning it,” she told USA Today in October 2023. “That’s a beautiful gift that you don’t realize until you’re out of it.”
The Daily Mail‘s insider is now saying that her employees feel “abandoned” and “disrespected” because they don’t feel included in her decision to possibly end the show. The New York Post shared a list of possible replacements with Hoda Kotb as the top name. “NBC never wanted Hoda to leave. The question is would Hoda want to do it? …Hoda ticks a lot of boxes,” their source revealed.
Still, Clarkson has yet to confirm any rumors that she is leaving her daytime talk show. Until she makes a move, the rest is all hearsay.
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