Chelsea Handler

Chelsea Handler

Chelsea Handler will quit her US talk show when her contract expires.

The 39-year-old star has hosted 'Chelsea Lately' for the past eight years, where she has an average viewership of 572,000 a night, but intends to leave the programme in nine months time and has a number of offers for work coming in from elsewhere.

The host's manager Irving Azoff told The Hollywood Reporter: "Chelsea intends to leave when her contract expires. She hired me to figure out her life after E! We have at least seven suitors and many ideas."

Chelsea - who is believed to make around $9 million a year from the show - has previously voiced her concerns about the E! network and described it as "a sad, sad place to live."

Before adding: "They don't know what they're doing. They have no ideas. It's a failure."

A source at one company on the list to meet with her believes those remarks may affect her chance of getting work in the future.

The source said: "When you see talent go after a network like that, you think one day it could be me."

E! have refused to comment on the blonde beauty's future.


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