Natalie Morales Heads West

摘要

When the announcement finally came last spring that Access Hollywood host Billy Bush would make his long-rumored transition to NBC's Today in August, the most surprising part was who was tapped to succeed him: Natalie Morales, news anchor and cohost of Today since 2006. But the move to a warmer clime was one Morales had been wanting to make. "I had been coming to the West Coast to do all kinds of interviews and stories, doing the back-and-forth thing," she says. "I knew that with Billy joining the third hour of [Today], some changes were going to be happening. I saw it as an opportunity for me to try something new, and a West Coast move was something my family and I had always really wanted."