Billy Bush rebounds from scandal to host 'ExtraExtra'
Billy Bush is returning to TV after a nearly three-year exile following the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape that seemed to derail his career.
The ousted entertainment journalist will anchor Warner Bros. Television’s “ExtraExtra,” a rebranded version of the long-running, syndicated show “Extra.” Season 26 will premiere on Sept. 9 and air nationwide on various broadcast stations.
Bush, 47, was unceremoniously fired as co-anchor on NBC’s “Today” show in 2016 after the 2005 “Access Hollywood” recordings resurfaced, and captured him laughing at Donald Trump’s self-described “locker room talk” about female genitalia.
Then-candidate Trump went on to win the U.S. presidency, but Bush’s life devolved into “chaos” after he was booted from NBC. Bush, who said that he regrets the tape, later checked himself in to a treatment center on the same day Trump walked into the Oval Office.