Kelly Clarkson Says Talk Show’s Move to NYC Was ‘100% My Idea’
26.05.2023 - 23:47
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Nancy O’Dell on TalkShopLive, Clarkson recounted laying out what she needed in order to continue with “The Kelly Clarkson Show” back in January. “I even talked to my crew back in January through tears, ’cause I have built such an amazing group of people,” she said.
“Obviously we’ve been very successful and I love everybody I work with and we have such great relationships. So I talked to them because I was like, ‘Guys, I need you to know what’s happening: It’s either I’m not going to be able to continue with the show, or I got to go East Coast.’”She added that when presented with the proposition, “NBC backed me.”“There was just hurdle after hurdle with things.
And I was like, you know what? I gotta go East Coast. I actually told my crew that awhile back and wanted to give them a heads up, but also, I have had such a great experience with all these people and these relationships,” she said.
“So, you know, it kind of sucks to uproot it and move it, but that was 100% my idea, and it was really cool that NBC backed me because I was like, ‘Y’all, I love doing this show, I really do. I didn’t even know I would.
But I gotta make a change for me and my family.”A statement from the network when news of the move broke in May indicated that the relocation also came as a result of New York Gov. Kathy Hochul expanding the state’s film tax credit, which “now provides an incentive to eligible television series that relocate to New York.” An exclusive from Variety in January first reported that “sources close to the show say Clarkson asked NBCU to explore the move out of Los Angeles,” which the singer appeared to confirm Friday.Sitting with TalkShopLive, Clarkson talked about how the isolation at the height of COVID highlighted how far
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