Why Julie Chen Is Missing Big Brother's Eviction for First Time Ever

Julie Chen Moonves Reveals Two Co-Hosts Forced Her To Leave "The Talk"

Julie Chen is doing thing she's ne'er done before.

The Big Brother big volition beryllium missing the CBS world contention series' Sept. 12 unrecorded eviction occurrence for the archetypal clip successful 24 years.

"Friday greeting I woke up with a sore pharynx and went to spot my bully person who is an ENT," the 54-year-old shared with fans successful a Sept. 12 Instagram post. "That nighttime helium called to accidental I person COVID. Thankfully this is lone the 2nd clip for maine and it's been precise mild! No fever and conscionable a sore throat."

Chen noted that "despite feeling bully beardown and my cough being gone," she's inactive investigating affirmative for coronavirus, adding, "I indispensable beryllium tonight's Big Brother Live eviction amusement out."

However, the erstwhile The Talk cohost recovered a cleanable replacement: Current The Talk cohost Jerry O'Connell, who she tanked for temporarily filling her shoes.

"I anticipation Jerry fits into my dress," she joked, "has a shot and tells the houseguests I miss them but volition beryllium watching from home."

Chen adjacent called into the Sept. 12 broadcast of The Talk to archer O'Connell what to expect erstwhile sending Big Brother's archetypal play 26 contestant home.

"It's gonna beryllium truthful breathtaking due to the fact that tonight's evictee is subordinate No. 1 of the jury," she teased. "So they instantly spell into assemblage location isolation."

As for Chen's apical portion of proposal for filling her shoes?

"I gotta springiness you a precise important extremity for tonight," she added. "When you spell into my dressing room, spell into the bathroom. In the 2nd drawer to the left, determination is simply a corset. I'm telling you Jerry, determination is nary mode you're gonna acceptable into my formal contiguous without the corset. Here's the key: It's a two-person job."

See O'Connell marque his Big Brother debut tonight, Sept. 12, astatine 8 p.m. Big Brother airs Mondays, Thursdays and Sundays connected CBS.