According to The Hollywood Reporter, Chelsea Handler will be leaving her show Chelsea Lately, and the E! channel.
Chelsea Handler plans to leave the E! channel when her contract expires at the end of the year, bringing a close to her Chelsea Lately talk show after eight years, according to her manager, Irving Azoff.
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I really like Chelsea on her current show, but maybe this move will give her room for growth and a fresh start. I hope that through this she might have a little time to re-examine the direction her brand of humor has taken over the past few years. I love how quick she is and how real she keeps things, but recently her humor has gotten more mean-spirited, malicious, and not just being blunt anymore. So many of the topics aren’t based on real pop-culture news anymore as it is based on tabloid headlines that aren’t even true. It wasn’t always this way.
I am confident Handler will find her home somewhere else. What I am most sad about is how much I am going to miss her amazing staff: Ryan Basford, Sarah Colonna, Jen Kirkman (tumblr: jenkirkman), just to name a few. I know they all have plenty of other projects, but their dynamic together as an ensemble was magical.
That being said, it is the end of an era. I have been watching Chelsea Lately almost every night for 8 years with regular DVR binges here and there. This show is my night-light and falling asleep without the sound of the laughs of the round table just won’t be the same.
Chelsea Lately airs weeknights at 10/11C on E!