Filed under: Late Night, TV Royalty, Celebrities, Talk Show, Reality-Free

Hot on the heels of Jimmy Kimmel’s questions to ABC chief Steve McPherson about Jay Leno coming to ABC comes this: Leno says he’s leaving NBC for good.

NBC has said several times that even though Conan O’Brien is going to replace Leno as host of The Tonight Show next year, they were very interested in having him stay with the network to do…well, something else. Host another show, host specials, fix the cars of the executives, whatever. But now Leno tells USA Today that he’s not interested in any of that and he’s leaving NBC. He doesn’t say that he’s going to retire (he’s just not that type, and it’s the one thing I like about him), he just says he’s leaving NBC and that he’ll get another job and be fine.

Leno will probably have many offers to choose from as 2009 approaches, so I wouldn’t worry about him.

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