Halloween on daytime TV: 'Today' hosts, 'The Talk' show off costumes
Halloween is meant for tricks and treats, and daytime TV shows are providing plenty of both.
"Today" show co-hosts got their Vegas on with Jenna Bush Hager giving a performance as Celine Dion, and Kristen Welker and Peter Alexander recreating Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck's wedding in Sin City. Meanwhile, "The Talk" co-hosts filmed a special episode including Jerry O'Connell as Machine Gun Kelly alongside Natalie Morales as Megan Fox.
The holiday also made a splash Monday with several daytime talk show hosts dressing up in everything from "Black Adam" to Wednesday Addams.
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The co-hosts of "Today" really know how to put on a show! Hager, Sheinelle Jones, Al Roker, Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb all drew from Las Vegas for Halloween.
Hager and Jones gave their best performances, with Hager singing Dion's "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" with passion and Jones showing off her dance skills as a Vegas showgirl.
Welker and Alexander took chapel photos just like Lopez and Affleck for the couple's July wedding at The Little White Wedding Chapel.
More "Today" co-hosts got in on the Vegas fun: Willie Geist dressed up as rocker Elvis, Craig Melvin as boxer Muhammad Ali, Carson Daly as illusionist David Copperfield, Roker as singer Sammy Davis Jr. and Guthrie and Kotb as Cirque Du Soleil performers.
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"Tamron Hall" paid tribute to Halle Bailey, who is set to play Ariel in Disney's 2023 remake of "The Little Mermaid." Dressed in a mermaid costume with red faux locs, resembling Bailey's, Tamron Hall descended on a swing while the backdrop of her show resembled the sea.
Jodi Benson, who voiced the original Ariel in 1989, was a guest for the occasion and gave an impromptu performance of "Part of Your World." Benson also praised her successor, telling Hall, "Halle has just done an amazing job and we are so proud of her and we are so thrilled about this live action movie. We're beside ourselves with excitement."
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Sherri Shepherd hosted a Halloween Gala inspired by Netflix's "Bridgerton" — but make it Halloween. Former "Real Housewives of New York City" star Luann de Lesseps and former "Real Housewives of Atlanta" star Cynthia Bailey attended the ball in full "Bridgerton" attire and vampire fangs.
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Jennifer Hudson took it to new heights on her daytime show. The singer dressed up as Sister Mary Clarence (Whoopi Goldberg) in "Sister Act," complete with a choir and being lifted in the air on cables.
Hudson committed to the act and sang a medley of songs from her "absolute favorite movie," including "I Will Follow Him, "My Guy (My God)," "Oh Happy Day" and more.
The co-hosts of "The View" opted to keep their Halloween costumes to characters from various TV shows. Whoopi Goldberg dressed as June Osborne (Elisabeth Moss) from "The Handmaid's Tale," with the back of her robe stating, "My Body. My Morals. My Life. My Choice. Not Yours."
Sara Haines opted for Moira Rose (Catherine O'Hara) from "Schitt's Creek," Ana Navarro dressed as Charo's character April Lopez in "The Love Boat," Joy Behar resembled Peggy Bundy (Katey Sagal) from "Married With Children," Alyssa Farah Griffin looked pretty in pink as Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) in "Sex and the City" and Sunny Hostin was royalty as Queen Charlotte (Golda Rosheuvel) from "Bridgerton."
O'Connell and Morales paired up for a joint costume on "The Talk," replicating Machine Gun Kelly's white suit and Fox's Barbiecore jumpsuit that the couple wore to the 2021 iHeartRadio Music Awards. Morales later took on Wednesday Addams in honor of the upcoming "Wednesday" series starring Jenna Ortega and O'Connell showed of his physique as Thor (Chris Hemsworth) from "Thor: Love and Thunder." All of "The Talk" co-hosts opted for two costumes — as treat!
Several of their co-stars also went the superhero route with Akbar Gbajabiamila as Black Adam and Amanda Kloots as Michelle Pfeiffer's Catwoman in "Batman Returns."
Among other creative costumes on set of "The Talk" were Sheryl Underwood as both hot girl Megan Thee Stallion and tennis champion Serena Williams, Kloots as "Game of Thrones" character Khaleesi, and Gbajabiamila as Samuel L. Jackson in "Shaft."
To top it off, special guests Iain Armitage and Raegan Revord dressed up as "Ghostbusters" while original performer Ray Parker Jr. sang the theme song.
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The annual "Live with Kelly and Ryan" Halloween show is both tricky to pull off and a treat for its hosts.
Kelly Ripa, who began her "Live" tenure in 2001 alongside Regis Philbin and has hosted the syndicated morning talk show with Ryan Seacrest since 2017, says preparation for its annual Halloween show begins Tuesday, just after the previous one airs.
"We plan it all year round, and every year we do a theme around how many costumes we can work into" the event, she says.
This year's choice – "Live's Multiverse Halloween: The Best in the Universe" – required more than 75 costumes.
"We are jumping through a portal that will take us as many places as we can go," says Ripa, 52. "It's like, how many costumes can we torture ourselves with this year? Whereas (in) the early years of ‘Live,’ it was really just us putting on a singular costume and doing the show."
Monday's show includes parodies of HBO's "Game of Thrones" prequel "House of the Dragon," Netflix's "Stranger Things," ABC's "The Bachelorette," Hulu's cooking drama "The Bear" and reality-TV royalty "The Kardashians."
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