Hello, hello, hello, hello, welcome to the naughty but nice show.

It is Thursday.

I'm Rob Shooter, which means our friend Mark Lupo is joining us. Lupi, are you there? Hey, Rob. Hey, Loopy Lou. How's your mother, Doris? Oh, she's just wonderful. I haven't seen her in a few weeks, but we talk often about you and this show. You don't have to talk about me to your mother all the time. No, she only calls me to talk about this show. She doesn't call me to see how I'm doing or what's going on in the city. She's like, how is Rob? It's not right. I mean, I do love it, but it's not right. Does she call you every Thursday after we post this episode or does she wait till Friday? I think she waits until Friday most times. Yeah, she wants to see it fresh the day after it. Oh, yes. And she'll have a good listen of today. Well, hello, Doris, we're thinking of you. Hey, let's actually get to some celebrity news. Although, Doris, you are a celebrity. Let's get some to some more celebrity news because do you know what time it is mark it is tea time big exclusive

at the top of the show i've been hitting the phones all night to get some scoop on this so the

bachelor the bachelorette is in disarray it is melting apart rachel lindsay was offered the

role to be the host for the after the rose ceremony so So everything we're watching at the moment, I think there's another two or three episodes. They've all been pre-recorded. They're all done, they're put to bed. Now they need a host. It's normally Chris Harrison to do a live show. They bring everybody back in. It's like the after show. It's terrific. You get all the gossip. What really went down, are these two going to get married, but this year it's really explosive because of all the controversy. So Chris is out. He stepped aside. They wanted Rachel Lindsay to do that. Rachel's the first ever black bachelorette on the show. She's terrific. She now works for extra. Rachel said thanks, but no thanks.

She didn't want to do it. So Rachel said no. Now I'm being told ABC is looking for somebody outside

of the franchise. They don't want a former bachelor or a bachelorette. They want somebody new to come in and

host the show. Who have they got their eye on Michael Strahan?

Ooh.

Now, he's part of the ABC family, so he's already got a big deal with ABC.

I think he could be a really good choice.

Obviously, he's a person of colour, and I think at this moment, when Matt James sits down and tells his story. You don't want him sitting there with a man

that looks like Chris Harrison. It's not the moment. I think Michael Strayhan could be a touch of genius.

What do you think? Rob, I totally agree. Michael Strayhan is one of the top personalities on ABC at the

moment. And I think you need a heavy hitting person to handle this interview,

at least for this moment. I don't see Michael Stryhand doing the show next year or the year after,

but I do think he'd be the perfect person to wrap up this controversial season. Right. They also

want somebody that has hours and hours and hours of live TV experience. You can't just be

charming and lovely. You've got to know TV because as you know Mark, someone that worked on live

TV for a long time. There are certain skills that you have to have, throwing to break, knowing how to

read a cue card. They can't have this show with somebody that's not done that before. Even if we

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