Carson Daly and girlfriend Siri Pinter are expecting their first child together.
Who knew Carson even had a girlfriend?
Daly’s lady love, an NBC producer who has worked on Last Call (natch) and Last Comic Standing, is about midway to term, and the child is due in the early spring. The couple have been dating a little more than a year.
A new baby will be one more reason for the 35-year-old host of Last Call With Carson Daly to stay up late.
“They’re both thrilled,” says rep Heather Lylis. “He’s always wanted to be a dad, and he’s excited about the holidays and spending them together with family and friends.”
With Daly being such an avid cyclist, “friends are already looking for bike helmets for the little one,” jokes Lylis.
Daly is also host of the upcoming New Year’s Eve with Carson Daly on NBC.
Congrats Carson and Siri!
Total Request Live has been canceled after ten years, MTV confirmed on Monday.
“We want to close this era of TRL in a big celebratory way, and 10 is a great number,” Dave Sirulnick, executive producer of TRL told the Associated Press. “This feels like the right time and let’s celebrate it and let’s reward it.”
He added “Let’s let it have a little bit of a rest for a minute. Been working hard for 10 years!”
Hmm…rest for a minute? It sounds like TRL might return to the airwaves in a few years.
The music video show will wrap in a two-hour special on a Saturday in November.
TRL first debuted in September 1998.
The show peaked in 1999 with 757,000 viewers tuning in daily, according to Nielsen Media Research, the AP reported.
For the finale, expect to see TRL favorites including former VJ Carson Daly.
“Folks who helped make TRL what is, whether that’s Justin, and his guys in N’ Sync, the Backstreet Boys, Britney, Eminem – I think we would love to see all of them here,” Sirulnick told the AP.
“I’m going to miss TRL,” rapper Eminem said in a statement. “Where else will I be able to start feuds, defend my honor vigorously and act like an angry teenager on national TV? Oh wait … The VMAs!”
TRL was one of the few times during the day that you could actually watch music videos. Are there so few music videos that there is no reason for MTV to even have Total Request Live? Or is this another step closer to MTV really showing that they aren’t much of a music-centric channel anymore?

“Saturday Night Live” veteran Jimmy Fallon was officially named on Monday to take Conan O’Brien’s place on NBC next year when O’Brien succeeds Jay Leno as host of “The Tonight Show.”
The announcement, which had been expected for weeks, was made during a press event from NBC headquarters in New York where O’Brien’s “Late Night” show is taped. I wonder what Carson Daly thinks about Jimmy getting Conan’s job. He must be pissed!
The appointment of Fallon, long considered a leading contender for NBC’s 12:35 a.m. time slot, completes a talent shuffle set in motion when the General Electric Co-owned network announced in 2004 that Leno would retire from “Tonight” in 2009 and that O’Brien would replace him.
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