BIG Brother host Julie Chen has been thinking about indulging in new job opportunities.
Julie opened up about what she could see herself doing for a living if she wasn’t a TV host with QVC’s Kim Gravel.
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During Julie’s appearance on Kim’s self-titled podcast, Kim asked her “what was next” for her.
The former CBS anchor confirmed that she’d be hosting another season of Big Brother.
Additionally, she shared that she wanted further education.
“I have thought about going to seminary school, who knows” Julie stated.
She added that if she didn’t go to seminary school, she would want to at least “speak at colleges about her faith.”
Julie has been the host of Big Brother since its debut in 2000.
Her heavily scripted delivery and interaction with the studio audience earned her the nickname “Chenbot.”
Speaking about it in interviews, she has said she takes no offense to it.
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As of August 2023, Julie reprised her role as the show’s host for its 25th season.
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However, the host opened up to Entertainment Weekly about her involvement in future seasons.
“I look at my joints. I look at, ‘How do my hips and my knees feel this morning?'” she laughed.
“I like to take one season at a time. Going into season 25, I’m like, ‘I never want it to end.”
Julie continued: “I think there would have to be a few things [to make me step away], like if I feel like the public is getting tired of me or the show is not what I want it to be.”
“But with [executive producers] Allison Grodner and Rich Meehan leading the way, I can’t imagine it ever being something that I feel is not in alignment with me or what the show should be in my mind.”
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Julie got her degree in broadcast journalism from the University of Southern California in 1991.
Her career started with an internship at CBS Morning News alongside Andy Cohen.
Julie then started working at ABC NewsOne, before moving to Ohio to work as a local TV news reporter for WDTN-TV.
She was later the anchor of CBS Morning News and CBS This Morning.
In December 2004, she married the president and chief executive officer of CBS Television, Les Moonves, in a private ceremony in Acapulco, Mexico.
Five years later, on September 24, 2009, Chen welcomed her first son, Charlie.
In 2017, she won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Entertainment Talk Show Host. She then became a co-host for The Early Show until 2018, when she announced she would not be returning “to spend more time at home with [her] husband.”