Thursday, May 21, 2026

Kelly Clarkson Giving Up Afternoon Talk Show in May After 7 Years, Going Back to Recording and Music: May Turn Up on “The Voice”

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That’s the hook for Kelly Clarkson’s afternoon talk show.

After 7 years she’s giving it up. She almost did this in September but instead made a deal for one last season.

Clarkson is going to try and revive her recording and touring career. Even though she’s sung a lot on the show, she definitely wants a real album and a hit single.

Can she do it after all this time? Touring shouldn’t be a problem. But a hit record will be tough. Kelly released a terrible single last year, and it went nowhere fast. She would have to listen to A&R people and record company executives, which she doesn’t like to do.

Clarkson would be smart to release a compilation of all her covers, her “Kellyaoke.” She has an amazing voice that should only keep getting better.

Clarkson is 43. She has two children who lost their father, Brendan Blackstock, to cancer last year. Ironically, last night on the Grammys Reba McEntire sang the In Memoriam number while Blackstock’s picture came up behind her on the screen. Reba was briefly married to Blackstock’s father. Both marriages ended in contentious divorces.

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Roger Friedman
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Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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