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Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

Kelly Clarkson

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

NBC News

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4.73.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Kelly Clarkson won the first season of American Idol nearly 18 years ago, and since then she has sold more than 45 million albums and won 3 Grammy Awards with her powerful voice. In this week’s “Sunday Sitdown,” Willie Geist gets together with the singer to talk about her transition into hosting a daytime talk show, her new music, and what life has been like during quarantine.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another edition of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.

0:06.3

My thanks is always for clicking and listening along.

0:08.9

We've got a brand new one for you.

0:11.4

Another virtual conversation over Zoom this week with Grammy winner Kelly Clarkson.

0:17.2

Now Kelly, as you probably know by now, is one of the most charming and dynamic human

0:22.2

beings currently striding the earth.

0:25.2

So even over Zoom, the conversation was crackling.

0:28.0

It was funny.

0:29.3

She is just open and honest about everything.

0:32.2

She's got the talk show, the Kelly Clarkson show, which debuted this time last year, stepped

0:37.7

into a world which is very difficult to succeed in.

0:40.8

That is daytime talk.

0:41.8

You'll hear her discuss that she was glad she didn't know how hard it was.

0:45.4

She kind of went in blind and said, I'm just going to be myself.

0:49.3

Not only did it succeed, but she won the Emmy in her first year out for best talk show

0:54.7

host.

0:55.7

So she's got that.

0:57.5

She's a natural for that.

0:58.7

She can talk to people.

0:59.7

She can communicate with people.

1:01.1

She strips it all away and she's honest as you will hear in our conversation.

1:05.0

So we talk about the show.

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