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Julie Chen Mooves is a television icon. This is thanks not only to hosting Big Brother but also her time as one of the co-hosts on the CBS daytime talk show The Talk. Now, she’s opening up about the talk show being canceled and how the success of Love Island may have helped the newest season of Big Brother.
Julie joined Big Brother for its very first season in 2000. Since then, she has hosted all but one live episode, with the exception being when she had COVID. Now, the show is in its 27th season and it’s still going strong.
Recently, Julie appeared on an episode of SiriusXM’s Andy Cohen Live. One of the first notable questions came when Andy asked for her reaction to The Talk being canceled, which happened in December 2024. Julia stated, “I was sad, but I was also aware that it had become such a different show because when I was on.”
She continued, “It was all women, and there was some chatter about maybe putting a guy on the panel when Aisha left. The year before was my last year, and my husband always said, he was like, ‘You know, if you put men on that panel, you just change the dynamic. Right now it’s a bunch of women having a grand old time, you know, yucking it up,'”
She added, “And it was sad for me to see, but really there were very few remnants left of the show that I had worked on. Disappointing, ’cause I look at ‘The View’ and I’m like, I felt like The Talk could have lasted just as long as The View is lasting.”
Andy then said that the show’s decision to stay away from “topical issues” was one of its problems, and Julie called that decision “tone deaf.” She added, “When we started, you know, things were different in history. You know, the tone was different in the country, but you gotta listen and you gotta adapt.”
From there, they delved into discussing the current season of Big Brother, specifically focusing on Morgan Pope and Vince Panaro. Andy said, “Now I am fascinated by Morgan and Vince’s relationship, and specifically, Vince has had this girlfriend for seven years. Sounds like she was not at the finale last night, right?”
She responded, “She was not there. His parents were there, and I think the first indication was when he didn’t get a message from home from her. It was only his parents. You saw the surprise and the concern and the, you know, devastation on Vince’s part, but apparently, it’s a long-distance relationship.”
Julie continued, “Apparently, she lives in another state, and he lives here in LA, and I guess there might’ve been some chatter that they might break up before the show, before he would go into the house, so it sounds like maybe it was on its last legs anyway.”
He then mentioned how this season of Big Brother saw a 30 percent ratings increase. Andy then asked Julie if she felt it could be due to “people’s thirst for more after ‘Love Island’ ended.” She said, “Absolutely. I actually said that this morning to someone because I think, and you know what?”
She went on, “My son, who’s 16, he said, you know, when his generation of friends are starting to talk about ‘Big Brother,’ he said right when ‘Love Island’ wrapped up, he’s like, ‘You’re getting that audience. They miss ‘Love Island.’ They want something similar to it, and Big Brother is the next closest thing,’ and I do think that is why we trended upward towards the end. I mean, for a network show to have any increase seasons in and like 27 seasons in.”
SiriusXM’s Andy Cohen Live airs Monday through Friday at 10 am ET on Radio Andy (Ch. 102), and anytime on the SiriusXM app.