Jennifer Lopez Plays “Car-aoke” With Meredith Vieira
By Natalie Finn ••
Girls just wanna have fun sometimes — and what's more fun than belting out a few tunes while riding in a convertible with the top down?
Jennifer Lopez paid a visit to "The Meredith Vieira" show for its premiere episode, airing Monday, and J.Lo and her host somehow ended up on the open road (or in half of a car in front of a green screen, whichever) playing "Car-aoke" with surprise backseat passenger Hoda Kotb.
Vieira — whose NBC-produced talk show marks her full-time return to television as a host three years after she left "Today" — went first, tackling Gloria Gaynor's epic breakup anthem "I Will Survive."
The Meredith Vieira Show
Designed to replicate Meredith Vieira's at-home family room, take a look at the new talk show host's set. Watch the premiere of "The Meredith Vieira Show" Monday, Sept. 8.
The Meredith Vieira Show
Vieira hopes to offer a mix of fun, along with feel good human-interest stories from everyday people to celebrity guests who have an important story to tell. In addition, the show’s lifestyle segments and unique themes highlight Vieira’s warm, relatable and distinctive personality.
The Meredith Vieira Show
The party at Vieira’s home never stops as close friend Jon Harris (he knows all the secrets) serves as the show’s official announcer, providing the perfect welcome to the start of the show. Musician Everett Bradley, percussionist for Bruce Springsteen’s E Street band, creates the party’s soundtrack. Bradley is backed by an impressive all-female band, a first for television.
The Meredith Vieira Show
The set is complete with family photos, artwork from her three kids, and even her own comfy furniture, including the family’s favorite couch and husband Richard’s treasured La-Z-Boy chair (with his blessing, of course).
The Meredith Vieira Show
Each day, Vieira draws on her rich experience as a news anchor, journalist, wife, mother, caregiver, friend and pet lover to create the ultimate daytime viewing destination.
The Meredith Vieira Show
Having served as one of the most respected news anchors on NBC’s “Today," Vieira has a unique talent for asking the right questions that help get to the heart of any story. Vieira leverages those journalistic talents as she hosts uplifting, fun, emotional and interesting human interest segments that feature both celebrity guests and everyday people who have extraordinary stories to tell.
The Meredith Vieira Show
Leveraging her experience as former moderator of "The View," Vieira lends her unique point of view, empathy and incredible sense of humor as she discusses topics that are meaningful to both herself and her audience. If it’s trending, Vieira’s discussing it, from the next 'foodie' craze to fashion do’s & don’ts to the latest health and fitness trends.
The Meredith Vieira Show
Vieira also uses her experience as host of the popular "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" to partner with members of her live studio audience to play fun, entertaining and challenging games as they compete for fabulous prizes.
The Meredith Vieira Show
The show will shoot live-to-tape at 30 Rock and feature celebrity contributors, live audience involvement, remote field pieces, a live house band and games & giveaways.
Easy for Lopez to figure out, right?
Well... maybe not the way Vieira sang it. Let's just say, she shouldn't quit her day job.
About her new daytime venture, Vieira said in a recent interview that she wanted to do something that felt "authentic to me."
"It's hard, it's competitive," she told The Hollywood Reporter in July, talking about the daytime TV landscape. "I don't know who's even watching at 2 o'clock [when her show will air across much of the country]. [The producers] could be lying to me, but they've made it very clear that I don't have to do anything I don't want to do. They backed off on a lot of things."
So all were in agreement on the "Car-aoke"!
The Meredith Vieira Show premieres Monday, Sept. 8.
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