Tamera Mowry-Housley, one of the original hosts of the Emmy Award-winning talk show “The Real,” has announced she is leaving the show after seven years.
Mowry-Housley made the announcement weeks after co-host and comedian Amanda Seales said she would not be renewing her contract with the show.
The 42-year-old, known for her starring role on the television show “Sister, Sister,” told Instagram followers on Monday that she did not want to share the update so soon after her longtime friend Naya Rivera was found dead, but said she felt it necessary to make the announcement because rumors were stirring.
“I had NO intention to talk about this today, especially in light of the news of my dear friend Naya, but now some reports are coming out and I’d rather you hear it from me first,” she said.
The show started seven years ago with hosts Loni Love, Jeannie Mai, Adrienne Houghton and Tamar Braxton, serving as a younger, more diverse daytime talk show in the vein of “The View.”
Braxton was fired from the show in 2016. Seales joined the show in 2019 but did not renew her contract after a year.
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In her time on the show, the actress and singer won an NAACP Image Award and a Daytime Emmy along with her cast for both. Mowry-Housley said she has made friendships that will “last a lifetime” with her co-hosts, but she looks forward to new projects after leaving the show.
“To my fellow host, I love you, I will miss you, and I will always be there for you,” she wrote on Instagram. “Thank you for teaching me, supporting me, and loving all of me...I’ll be rooting for you, as I look forward to spending more time with my family, pursuing amazing new opportunities, and embarking on the next chapter of my life.”
Mowry-Housley is married to former Fox News correspondent Adam Housley, and the couple has two children: Aden, 7, and Ariah, 5. She and her twin sister, Tia Mowry-Hardrict, make occasional appearances together on web and television series. In 2018, there was discussion about the sisters rebooting their wildly popular show “Sister, Sister.”
"[It's] amazing and wonderful. My sister and I are taking meetings as we speak, so it's definitely closer than ever to making this reboot happen. We are being told that they want it to be or happen next year in the fall. So, it's going by so fast, everything," Mowry-Housley told Us Weekly at the time.
Some on social media sent her well wishes on her next steps and said the show would not be the same without her commentary.
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