A month after Molly Qerim announced her plans to depart from the popular ESPN show First Take, ESPN has tabbed her replacement. Qerim hosted the show for 10 years, but stated in September that she "decided it’s time to close this incredible chapter and step away."

She credits her husband Jordan for her getting a job at the World Wide Leader. “Jordan is the reason I am at ESPN,” Shae said of Jordan in a February 2024 profile with Westport Magazine. He basically begged ESPN to give me a shot on a radio show with him and then we never looked back.

ESPN has its replacement for Molly Qerim on First Take. SportsCenter anchor Shae Cornette has been hired to host the show, the network announced Thursday morning. Cornette’s first day as the new host of First Take is set for Monday, Nov. 3.

This article was originally published on www.si.com/onsi/athlete-lifestyle as Molly Qerim hints next job still a mystery after 'First Take' departure. Molly Qerim left First Take and ESPN exactly a month ago today. Fans want to know what the sports media star is up to next.

And now, she's leaving. With reports swirling late on Monday night that Qerim -- who used to be married to Jalen Rose -- was leaving the show and the network, she confirmed it in an Instagram Story that dropped early Tuesday morning.

Molly Qerim had been serving as a host on the ESPN show for a decade, though she had been working at the network since 2005. She announced her decision to quit on Instagram last month, noting that the news leaked out "earlier than I intended.”

ESPN host Stephen A. Smith stormed out of a televised panel debate on Wednesday during a heated discussion about the government shutdown. During the NewsNation debate, hosted by Chris Cuomo, Smith told three members of Congress participating—Republican Jim Jordan,

For the first time, ESPN’s most-renowned sports talk show, First Take, is coming to Daytona Beach and the historic campus of Bethune-Cookman University. The on-site live show