Eve is exiting “The Talk” after four seasons as co-host.
The rapper, 41, made the announcement on-air Monday, partially chalking up her departure to travel restrictions related to the coronavirus. CBS confirmed her exit to Page Six.
“It’s been a crazy year, obviously for all of us,” she said. “And I’m so grateful that I’m able to stay here in London and do the show, but I can’t see for me, the foreseeable future of traveling back at the moment, and have decided that at the end of December, this will probably be my last time on the show, in this capacity as a host.”
“I want to concentrate on expanding our family, being with my family,” she added.
“Hurry up so I can be an auntie,” co-host Sheryl Underwood told her. “We’re trying,” Eve responded. “We’re working on it!”
Thanking her co-hosts — Underwood, Sharon Osbourne and Carrie Ann Inaba — Eve said, “I have had the most beautiful experience. I’ve grown as a woman, as a person. I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again, I never thought that being on a talk show would be this much of an opening of my spirit, soul, personality, everything. Sitting on stage with all you women has been the best thing ever.”
Eve discussed having “uncomfortable” conversations about race with her husband Maximillion Cooper, who is white, this summer. Though some fans came after her when she made the revelation, assuming this was the first time in the pair’s relationship they’d brought up the topic, Eve quickly corrected them.
“We have had many conversations because I’ve been in this relationship for many years. When you enter an interracial relationship, there are conversations you must have — that’s just natural. So this is not the first one.”
Eve married British entrepreneur Cooper, 47, in 2014 and is stepmother to his four children from a previous marriage.
