Eva Pilgrim leaves ABC, replaces Deborah Norville on ‘Inside Edition’

Longtime personality ABC News and GMA3 The Coan-Anchor Eva Pilgrim has left the network after almost 10 years, and it should replace Deborah Norville as the main anchor of the News-Magazine magazine program produced by CBS Interior edition.

After a press release on Monday afternoon, announcing that Pilgrim had joined the Interior edition desk, Weekly entertainment Confirmed by a familiar source with the situation where Pilgrim left ABC to take the job.

In an internal email distributed to ABC News employees and obtained by EW on Monday morning, the president of the division, Almin Karamehmedovic, told the employees that Pilgrim “decided to embark on her next chapter and will leave Abc News”, while congratulating her as “a wonderful member of the ABC team for more than a decade”.

“She has made her way through local news, acquiring a vast experience across the country until we have lucky that she joined us here in New York,” said the email. “She is tireless and enthusiastic, always ready for the next assignment.”

E-mail concluded: “We are grateful to EVA for her many contributions and happy that she continues to present herself within our information group ABC-via her new syndication company which includes distribution on two of our stations belonging to ABC, WLS-CHICAGO and KTRK-HOUSTON.

EW contacted representatives to Interior edition and ABC for comment.

“Anchoring Interior edition is really a dream work, “Pilgrim said in a statement.” I have been a spectator and fan of the series for many years. I pinch myself to work with this incredible team. It is really an honor to join a show with such a long and rich story. »»

Pilgrim will be the fourth anchor of the program before season 38, succeeding Norville, who announced his departure from the show in April.

Norville joined the show as a main anchor in 1995, following the inaugural anchor David Frost and his successor, Bill O’Reilly, who left shortly before the arrival of Norville.

Charles Lachman, executive producer on Interior editionAdded in a press release that his team feels like having “won the jackpot so that Eva joins” The Show.

“She has solid sides of her years as a journalist and anchor in the national and local news, as well as a warm relatability that resonates with the public,” he continued. “We can’t wait to have a caliber journalist to take Interior edition in his next chapter. “”

By joining ABC News in 2016, Pilgrim’s work as a correspondent could be seen on contributions to several network programs, in particular 20/20,, Hello America,, Night lineAnd News News tonight with David Muir.

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She joined GMA3 – Hello AmericaTrohes Heurs – as a permanent co -production in 2023, following a relational scandal and a subsequent departure of TJ Holmes and Amy Robach.