Deborah Norville to sign off from 'Inside Edition' on May 20 after 30 years

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Deborah Norville at the New York City Ballet 2025 Spring Gala held at Lincoln Center Plaza on May 08, 2025 in New York, New York. (Photo by Kristina Bumphrey/Variety via Getty Images)

Deborah Norville, host of the syndicated newsmagazine "Inside Edition," will step down from the show and retire after a 30-year-stint. 

No successor has been named for "Inside Edition."

What's next:

Norville, 66, will sign off on May 20. 

According to the Associated Press, she's planning to celebrate with a long vacation in Europe with her husband, and try something new when she gets back. 

She will host "The Perfect Line," a trivia show that begins airing this fall. 

What they're saying:

"I'm very excited about the game show," she said. "It's fun, and who doesn't want to give away somebody else's money to people who are happy to take it?"

"I came to "Inside Edition" because I was expecting my second child," Norville told the Associated Press. "I knew it was going to be a boy (Norville and her husband, Karl Wellner, have two boys and a girl). I turned down an offer from CBS News to be "Eye on America" correspondent four days a week and anchor the weekend news one night.  

"But those four nights a week were going to be on the road all over the country and I didn't think I could be the kind of mother I aspired to be, and certainly the kind of wife that I wanted to be, if I was on the road. I just didn't know how I could do it."

The backstory:

According to her website, Norville joined Inside Edition in 1995 from CBS News as and anchor and correspondent.

She previously co-hosted NBC’s "Today" and anchored NBC "News at Sunrise." 

During her career she also hosted "Deborah Norville Tonight" on MSNBC, the national "Deborah Norville Show" on the ABC Talk Radio Network and was a reporter and anchor for WMAQ-TV in Chicago.

 Norville began her career at WAGA –TV in Atlanta, while still a student at the University of Georgia.