Morning Show Host Transformations That Turned Heads

Morning show host Mika Brzezinski has shared that being fired from her job at CBS News in 2006 was devastating. "I cried a lot," she told Marie Claire. She thought to herself, "I'm almost 40, I'm losing my looks, and I can't get a job because I feel like damaged goods. How did I become such a cliché?"

Just when Brzezinski thought her career was ending, she received a chance to be on national television. "If you're meant to be somewhere, you do whatever it takes," she said.

The following year, Brzezinski was given the opportunity to co-host for the last-minute fill-in show called Morning Joe. After host Joe Scarborough realized the great chemistry they had together on-screen, the show soon received a permanent spot on MSNBC. "We were in the middle of such a great conversation, and they were counting us down, and I said, 'Keep talking!'" he told CBS Sunday Morning of their first show together.

And their conversations didn't end when the cameras stopped rolling. After years of viewers speculating on their cozy-looking relationship, the two became engaged and tied the knot in 2018. "It makes sense now," Brzezinski told Vanity Fair.