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The talk-show host tells Winfrey it took five years to make his deal to revive “The Arsenio Hall Show”
Arsenio Hall is a ’90s late night icon, but it took five years for him to close his deal to return to the airwaves with his new talk show.
“I went everywhere with this,” he told Oprah Winfrey of trying to get back on television during his appearance on Sunday’s “Oprah’s Next Chapter” airing Sunday at 9/8c on OWN.
To illustrate the passing of time, “The Arsenio Hall Show” host remembered discussing the comeback while attending a party along with rapper, Sean “Diddy” Combs and, wait for it, Michael Jackson.
“One of those parties,” he explained. “Diddy said, ‘You’ve got to come back.’ And I’m like, ‘I want to. But it ain’t that easy.’ And the reason I bring up Michael’s name [is] because Michael’s gone now and that’s how long it’s been.”
Of course, Winfrey had to ask whether the late King of Pop believed Hall should return to TV.
“Michael was like, ‘You should have never left,” Hall recalled. “And I know he’s watching.”
[video=youtube;eLe71rT03Gg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLe71rT03Gg[/video]
The talk-show host tells Winfrey it took five years to make his deal to revive “The Arsenio Hall Show”
Arsenio Hall is a ’90s late night icon, but it took five years for him to close his deal to return to the airwaves with his new talk show.
“I went everywhere with this,” he told Oprah Winfrey of trying to get back on television during his appearance on Sunday’s “Oprah’s Next Chapter” airing Sunday at 9/8c on OWN.
To illustrate the passing of time, “The Arsenio Hall Show” host remembered discussing the comeback while attending a party along with rapper, Sean “Diddy” Combs and, wait for it, Michael Jackson.
“One of those parties,” he explained. “Diddy said, ‘You’ve got to come back.’ And I’m like, ‘I want to. But it ain’t that easy.’ And the reason I bring up Michael’s name [is] because Michael’s gone now and that’s how long it’s been.”
Of course, Winfrey had to ask whether the late King of Pop believed Hall should return to TV.
“Michael was like, ‘You should have never left,” Hall recalled. “And I know he’s watching.”
[video=youtube;eLe71rT03Gg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLe71rT03Gg[/video]
