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Jennifer Hudson DODGES Common Dating Rumors
When it comes to daytime TV, Oprah Winfrey is the golden standard.
Now that Jennifer Hudson is jumping onto the daytime country with her caller eponymous speech show—which premieres Sept. 12—she knew to look to the fellow Oscar victor for inspiration.
"You know, Oprah's it," she exclusively said connected the Sept. 6 occurrence of E! News' Daily Pop. "Those shows are embedded successful each of us. They're determination and they're the blueprint." The Oprah Winfrey Show concluded its 25-year tally in 2011.
Though Jennifer—who precocious sparked dating rumors with fellow instrumentalist Common—has received words of contented from the Hollywood icon successful the past, she hasn't had the accidental to get immoderate proposal from Oprah conscionable yet. So Oprah, if you're speechmaking this, Jennifer said, "I'm listening."
Ahead of her upcoming daytime debut, the histrion and vocalist secured her presumption arsenic an EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony) winner pursuing the 2022 Tony Awards successful June. She served arsenic a shaper connected this year's Best Musical winner A Strange Loop.
But joining the elite database of accomplished artists—which includes John Legend, Whoopi Goldberg and Rita Moreno, among others—doesn't mean she isn't putting immoderate little effort into her caller show. As she told Daily Pop, "It's each determination from the heart."
"I'm pursuing my heart," the 40-year-old continued. "I emotion people, I emotion talking, and so, y'all gonna springiness maine a sofa and a camera to speech to, where's it at? Who you privation maine to speech to?"
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She loves chatting with radical truthful much, she joked, "You gonna person to wage maine to unopen up!"
Hear Jennifer explicate wherefore she's the "cool mom" erstwhile it comes to her 13-year-old lad David Otunga Jr. successful the afloat interrogation above.
The Jennifer Hudson Show premieres Sept. 12. Check your section listings for showtimes.
Watch Daily Pop weekdays astatine 11 a.m., lone connected E!.
