'The Real' Co-Hosts Emotionally Praise the 'Historic' Show During Series Finale
etonline.comJeannie Mai Jenkins, Adrienne Houghton, Loni Love and Garcelle Beauvais wrapped the show's historic run.«I didn't think we would make it two seasons, so to make it to eight is great,» Love, joining her co-hosts by video conference, said.Beauvais, who joined the series in season 7, praised the other three ladies, who had all been on the show since the beginning.«I hope you guys take this moment to realize what you were able to do,» Beauvais said. «Eight seasons of a talk show with a panel of women of color!
I mean, congrats, congrats, congrats, congrats.»While tears ran down her face, Houghton marveled that she'd «done a decade of my life on this show.» Mai Jenkins, meanwhile, reflected on how she's changed during the course of the series.«I started off this show so naive.
I was very green to a lot of things. I learned all of my life lessons on this show,» she said. «Not only that, but I walked out of here with a husband and a baby.
Wild!»Mai Jenkins tied the knot with Jeezy in 2021. They welcomed their daughter, Monaco, in January.Houghton later acknowledged that she and her co-hosts have «made our mark» thanks to the long-running series.«There was never a show that looked like us,» she said. «I'm so grateful and I hope that we're not the last.»Love expanded on similar feelings, explaining that «the whole purpose of the show is that we would put on people that would not normally get on daytime talk.»«When you look back at eight seasons over 1,300 episodes, it's phenomenal and it's historic.
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