The Breakfast Membership has reportedly employed Jess Hilarious to exchange Angela Yee in its lineup after greater than a yr of the favored syndicated morning present being only a two-man operation.
The previous Wild N’Out star made the announcement in her hometown of Baltimore, MD on Saturday (December 23). “It’s official,” she mentioned. “I’ma put the fuck on for my metropolis. Particularly, West Baltimore.”
Neither The Breakfast Membership nor iHeartRadio have formally confirmed Jess Hilarious’s declare, however the second was captured on video by the celebration promoter DJ Quicksilva.
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Congrats to the HomeTeam @jess_hilarious asserting she’s formally on @breakfastclubam 🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/xY1nHxoK8O
— THE PARTY KINGPIN !! (@DJQUICKSILVA) December 24, 2023
On August 10, 2022, Angela Yee introduced on-air her impending exit from the favored Energy 105.1 present, whereas revealing she’ll be internet hosting her very personal nationally syndicated each day present on iHeartRadio.
“That is one thing that I’ve been desirous to do for years now, since method earlier than the pandemic,” Yee started. “I had truly sat down with our large boss, Thea [Mitchem], and I used to be telling her, ‘Look, I actually need to have my very own present.’
“You recognize I’ve my podcast, Lip Service, and I used to be pondering I’d have the ability to get one thing like a weekend scenario. You recognize, sooner or later ease into having my very own present once more; I did come from Sirius the place I had The Morning After with Angela Yee, after which got here right here.”
She added: “So it’s at all times been a objective of mine to have that. And so I believed that I’d nonetheless be on right here after which try this present as nicely. However years later, they approached me up right here at iHeart, Thea had a sit down with me, and informed me that they’re gonna give me my very personal present!
“I wasn’t positive what was occurring when she first informed me, however I’m going to be leaving The Breakfast Membership. You guys, clearly, will proceed on and it’ll be a special iteration of The Breakfast Membership, however I’ll have my very own present up right here at iHeart as nicely, so I’ll be a part of the household.”
Regardless of seeming to go away the present on good phrases, rumors endured about Yee’s departure being for a extra salacious purpose — a declare The Breakfast Membership co-host Charlamagne Tha God flatly denied in a Might 2023 interview.
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“I feel individuals need it to be one thing salacious, nevertheless it’s not,” Charlamagne mentioned. “She left Breakfast Membership as a result of she acquired the chance to do her personal nationally syndicated present. Approach Up With Angela Yee is a nationally syndicated present it comes on 10 am to 2pm proper after The Breakfast Membership, and I feel that may be exhausting for anyone to go up … Angela Yee by no means acquired the chance to host her personal present on terrestrial radio.”
He went on to say that Yee was the one one out of the BC trio that by no means acquired the chance to host her personal morning present and that the possibility for her to take action was lengthy overdue.
“It’s kinda exhausting to go up the chance to be the one syndicated Black lady at iHeart,” Charlamagne mentioned. “I feel that’s an excellent alternative why not take it? And while you been doing the identical factor for 13 years everyone don’t have the identical method of doing issues.”
