Viewers may be counting down the days until the final episode of The Kelly Clarkson Show hits the 2026 TV schedule, but for Kelly Clarkson, filming has already wrapped. The American Idol singer definitely seemed ready to move on from daytime TV — she didn’t even host all of her final season’s episodes — but for others on the Emmy-winning series, there may have been more mixed emotions.
Lifestyle expert Lawrence Zarian appeared on more than 140 episodes of The Kelly Clarkson Show over its seven seasons, and he opened up to US Weekly about how hard it is to lose such a great job — with credit going to Kelly Clarkson herself and other producers for making things so wonderful. Zarian said: