Longtime TV journalist leaving news program to host new game show

Deborah Norville is saying goodbye to “Inside Edition” after the current season to start new opportunities. Variety reported that Norville will host a new game show called “The Perfect Line.”Jordan Strauss/AP

“Inside Edition” anchor Deborah Norville is leaving the program, she announced on the program Wednesday.

Norville, who has anchored Inside Edition, the United States’ No. 1 syndicated news magazine, said “Inside Edition” gave her a “lovely offer” to stay in her position but she declined it.

“There’s things I’d like to do and places I want to do them that continuing here don’t permit,” she shared on “Inside Edition.”

While Norville did not reveal on “Inside Edition” what she is up to next, but Variety reported in October last year that she signed on to host “The Perfect Line,” a syndicated trivia game in fall 2025.

In an Instagram video posted Wednesday, she shared that when she started her gig at “Inside Edition,” Bill Clinton was president, O.J. Simpson’s murder trial was taking place and Forest Gump was set to be a hit at the Oscars.

Norville will finish off the current season before leaving. She joined “Inside Edition” in 1995, Variety reported.

Norville said it was an honor to be the front anchor of the program for so many years.

“I know this is the right decision for me, and I am so excited for what’s to come,” she said in the video.