ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT

Season 45, Year: 2025-2026

BIOGRAPHY                                                                                                                 

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                                                                                           NISCHELLE TURNER

Co-Host

Nischelle Turner is co-host of ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT, the #1 entertainment newsmagazine in the world.  She joined ET as a correspondent in 2014 and was named co-host in 2021, becoming the first Black woman to hold the position in the show's history.

An eight-time Emmy Award winner, Turner was part of the ET team honored with the first-ever Daytime Emmy for Personality–Daily in 2024. Known for her dynamic presence and journalistic integrity, she frequently contributes to broader entertainment coverage across platforms, joining network news shows to break major stories, along with joining their coverage on the Grammys, Golden Globes and Oscars.

In addition to her role at ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT, Turner hosts and produces CBS’s hit reality series Secret Celebrity Renovation, which completed its third season in September 2024.

Before joining ET, Turner was a contributor for CNN, regularly appearing on CNN Newsroom, New Day, and CNN Tonight to cover entertainment headlines. Her broadcast career began in 1998 at WEHT in Evansville, Indiana, as a reporter and fill-in anchor. She later joined WVUE-TV FOX8 in New Orleans as a weekday reporter and weekend anchor.

In 2004, Turner moved to Los Angeles, where she reported for Good Day LA and anchored Good Day LA Weekend on KTTV. She returned to New Orleans a few months later  to cover Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. Her coverage of the disaster won several journalism awards.

Turner’s versatility as a broadcaster is reflected in her early work as a sideline reporter for Fox NFL Sunday beginning in 2007, covering national NFL broadcasts, Major League Baseball, and NBA events. She also hosted Extra on Essence, an entertainment series spotlighting Hollywood’s biggest names through a culturally attuned lens, and served as a freelance reporter and host for KNBC.

A proud Missouri native, Turner attended the University of Missouri where she earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism and broadcast news.

ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT is the #1 entertainment news show on TV with nine Emmy wins. ET ranks #1 for entertainment news video on Facebook and YouTube. ET’s social platforms generate 1.9 billion monthly impressions and more than 630 million videos views per month across all platforms. ETonline.com is the go-to destination for celebrity interviews and entertainment news video. ET’s streaming channel is available on Pluto, Paramount+, Samsung TV, The Roku Channel, FreeVee, and more.

Produced and distributed by CBS Media Ventures, ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT is co-hosted by Kevin Frazier and Nischelle Turner with Cassie DiLaura and Denny Directo as correspondents. Erin Johnson serves as executive producer with Whitney Wallace and Leslie Kawaguchi as co-executive producers.

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