Jerry O'Connell joins The Talk as property manager, three months after Sharon Osbourne's departure

 Jerry O'Connell joins The Talk as property manager, three months after Sharon Osbourne's departure

Jerry O'Connell has confirmed reports that he will join The Talk, filling the vacancy left by his former partner, Sharon Osbourne. The actor has been seen as a guest host since April.

"It's fun, and it works, and we're going to have a lot of fun," the 47-year-old said in Wednesday's episode of the talk show.

O'Connell, an actor who has appeared in the movie Stand by Me and on Slider TV and Crossing Jordan, will be the first male host of the gabfest. She joins Sheryl Underwood, Elaine Welteroth, Amanda Kloots and Carrie Ann Inaba (on leave) at the main pillars of CBS, which began in October 2010.

O'Connell's appointment comes more than three months after Osbourne, a white man, left the game in dispute, following an air dispute with Underwood, a Black, March 10. , had to have an interview with Meghan Markle to blow up with Oprah Winfrey last March, and whether her treatment of Markle was discriminatory.

While Osbourne initially defended Morgan, he later apologized publicly. After the show took over the hiatus, so that CBS could internally review what had happened in the case, two program managers, Holly Robinson Peete and Leah Remini, said Osbourne was discriminating against Peete, also Black. Eleven people allege that Osbourne uttered derogatory remarks, such as the use of racial slurs against former Asian governor Julie Chen Moonves. At the end of the month, CBS announced that Osbourne would not be returning.

O'Connell is not the only newbie. Both Welteroth and Kloots officially joined in December.