Entertainment TV Tamron Hall Opens Up After 'Today' Exit, Talks Her Big Return to TV in 2019: 'It's Surreal' The former Today host is moving on and gearing up for her next big chapter, with a new daytime show coming in 2019 By Janine Rubenstein Janine Rubenstein Instagram Twitter Janine Rubenstein is Editor-at-Large at PEOPLE and host of PEOPLE Every Day podcast, a daily dose of breaking news, pop culture and heartwarming human interest stories. Formerly Senior Editor of music content, she's also covered crime, human interest and television news throughout her many years with the brand. Prior to PEOPLE she's written for Essence, The Cape Times newspaper and Los Angeles Magazine among others. On-screen Rubenstein can be found featured on shows like Good Morning America and Entertainment Tonight and she routinely hosts PEOPLE and Entertainment Weekly's star-studded Red Carpet Live specials. Follow the San Francisco native, Black Barbie collector and proud mom of two on Instagram and Twitter @janinerube People Editorial Guidelines Published on October 5, 2018 01:11 PM Share Tweet Pin Email Photo: Amy Sussman/Variety/REX/Shutterstock When Tamron Hall first left the Today show in February 2017, she didn’t know what was next. “I decided to take a leap of faith,” says Hall, 48, who left NBC when it was announced Megyn Kelly was taking her old morning time slot. “I knew I would have to trust my gut and that I could be a part of something that would reflect who I am as a person, as a journalist, as a woman.” Hall stayed busy with speaking engagements, supporting domestic abuse charity Safe Horizon in honor of her late sister and as the host of the ID Network’s Deadline Crime, but it was recently announced that she’ll soon return to daytime TV with her own syndicated talk show, set to premiere in 2019. For more from Tamron Hall pick up this week’s issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday Jeff Lipsky “We have a long road ahead,” she tells PEOPLE in this week’s issue, on stands now. “But [I’m] certainly celebrating.” The new show, “will allow me to be where I love to hang out most, which is with people,” she says. RELATED VIDEO: Tamron Hall Quits NBC After Being Offered a Multi-Million Dollar Contract to Stay And it will allow her to be her full self. “It’s the Tamron that you saw every morning for many, many years. The Tamron that you see on Deadline Crime, the Tamron that hosts the Macy’s 4th of July Parade, the Tamron that ate the nasty squirrel with Bear Grylls in the wild,” Hall says. “I’m not an extraordinary person, but I’ve had an extraordinary journey.” As her career revs back up, she admits, “I wish I could say I’ve gotten as much sleep as I promised myself I would get” after leaving Today, “but the trade-off is worth it.”