{"id":264882,"date":"2019-01-07T10:19:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T17:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1002614"},"modified":"2019-01-07T10:19:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T17:19:00","slug":"megyn-kellys-today-show-replacements-revealed-meet-the-new-third-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/megyn-kellys-today-show-replacements-revealed-meet-the-new-third-hour\/","title":{"rendered":"Megyn Kelly&#8217;s Today Show Replacements Revealed&#8211;Meet the New Third Hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/201907\/rs_600x600-190107090539-600-craig-melvin-mv-1718.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"38.044164037855\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"19.022082018927\">\n<p>Ladies and gentlemen, may we introduce you to the new third hour of <em>Today<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>Less than three months after <em>Megyn Kelly Today<\/em> was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/980469\/megyn-kelly-today-cancelled-after-blackface-comments\" target=\"_blank\">cancelled<\/a>, it appears viewers now know who will replace her.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday morning, <strong>Dylan Dreyer<\/strong>\u00a0revealed she will be co-hosting every weekday morning at 9 a.m. with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/al_roker\">Al Roker<\/a><\/strong>, <strong>Sheinelle Jones<\/strong> and <strong>Craig Melvin<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hope you don&#8217;t mind these faces! You&#8217;ll be seeing a lot of them at 9am,&#8221; she shared with her\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DylanDreyerNBC\/status\/1082299917283061761\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0followers. &#8220;Please join us! #3rdhourtoday #youvegotafriendinus #letthegoodtimesroll @TODAYshow @SheinelleJones @craigmelvin @alroker.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Al shared the same post with the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alroker\/status\/1082315536900542469\" target=\"_blank\">message<\/a>, &#8220;I love these guys.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"54.739932885906\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"13.137583892617\">\n<p>The announcement also comes as <em>Today<\/em> works to find a replacement for <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/kathie_lee_gifford\">Kathie Lee Gifford<\/a><\/strong> once she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/995280\/kathie-lee-gifford-leaving-today-after-11-years\" target=\"_blank\">leaves the fourth hour<\/a> this April.<\/p>\n<p>Reports have surfaced that <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/jenna_bush_hager\">Jenna Bush Hager<\/a><\/strong> could be named the new co-host alongside <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/hoda_kotb\">Hoda Kotb<\/a><\/strong>, but NBC has yet to deliver any official news.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have my idea of who might be absolutely wonderful, but there&#8217;s a great pool of talent and beauty and heart around here, right within our own family,&#8221; Kathie Lee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/995280\/kathie-lee-gifford-leaving-today-after-11-years\" target=\"_blank\">explained<\/a> when announcing her departure. &#8220;And if they come from outside the family they will soon become family because you all treat everybody that way&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"36.243093922652\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"18.121546961326\">\n<p>When it comes to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/megyn_kelly\">Megyn Kelly<\/a><\/strong>, the talk-show host faced controversy after\u00a0her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/979627\/megyn-kelly-sparks-controversy-after-defending-blackface-halloween-costumes\" target=\"_blank\">blackface comments<\/a> during a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/halloween\">Halloween<\/a><\/strong> costume discussion. She would later apologize for her words.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was wrong and I am sorry,&#8221;\u00a0shared shared in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/979962\/megyn-kelly-apologizes-for-blackface-comments-in-emotional-on-air-statement\" target=\"_blank\">on-air statement<\/a>. &#8220;Sometimes I talk and sometimes I listen and yesterday, I learned. I learned that given the history of blackface being used in awful ways by racists in this country, it is not OK for that to be part of any costume, Halloween or otherwise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Most recently,\u00a0Megyn stepped out and revealed her new haircut that symbolized &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/996846\/megyn-kelly-chops-off-her-hair-and-embraces-new-beginnings\" target=\"_blank\">new beginnings<\/a>.&#8221; &#8220;I&#8217;ve been spending time with [my husband] and my kids,&#8221; she revealed. &#8220;It&#8217;s been good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(E! and NBC are part of the NBCUniversal family)\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"33\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">Don&#8217;t miss <em>E! News<\/em> every weeknight at 7, only on E!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1002614\/megyn-kelly-s-today-show-replacements-revealed-meet-the-new-third-hour?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ladies and gentlemen, may we introduce you to the new third hour of Today! Less than three months after Megyn Kelly Today was cancelled, it appears viewers now know who will replace her. On Monday morning, Dylan Dreyer\u00a0revealed she will be co-hosting every weekday morning at 9 a.m. with Al Roker, Sheinelle Jones and Craig [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-264882","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 23:18:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}