The Boris and Nicole Show(LOS ANGELES) — Husband and wife Boris Kodjoe and Nicole Ari-Parker are going the way of Sonny and Cher: the couple will be hosting their own TV show. The Boris and Nicole Show began its four-week run Monday on Fox stations around the country.
It’s not the first time the acting couple have been co-stars. They met and fell in love while starring together on Showtime’s Soul Food. “We have a great professional relationship because that’s how we met,” Parker tells People. “So I think the beginning [of our show’s foundation] is all there, but we’re going to learn as we go and have great guests and be thrown for a loop and recover. We’re ready for it all.”
The summer daytime show debuted just weeks after the couple celebrated their 10th wedding anniversary. Kodjoe calls it “a new chapter in our relationship. It’s a new chapter in our careers. We’re super excited. We’re ready for the challenge.”
The pair plan to talk about everything from relationships to current affairs to family, including their daughter, Sophie, who was diagnosed with spina bifida the day after she was born in 2005, and their 8-year-old son, Nicholas.
Kodjoe and Parker will also chat with celebrities, but hope to offer deeper interviews than other daytime shows. “The advantage we have is that we know what it’s like to be the celebrity,” Parker tells People. “So we’re going to put a special effort into coming up with topics that are fresh. We’re there to give them a place to celebrate them and give them a place to share.”
Parker admits she’s nervous about exposing herself to greater personal scrutiny as a talk host. “If somebody doesn’t like a movie I’ve done or a TV show we’ve done, you can kind of walk away, shake it off,” she says. “This is a whole new arena. You’re being yourself, but you’re also opening your real self up to a lot of criticism. If someone says, ‘I don’t like the sound of her voice,’ I might cry.”
The couple have a secret weapon, though, for keeping viewers interested. “If the ratings drop, my husband will just take his shirt off,” Parker jokes. “I’ve gotten my abs [in shape]. The muffin [top] is shrinking. I might take my shirt off, too.”
Adds Kodjoe, “We’ll be naked most of the time.”
Kodjoe and Parker aren’t the only married couple coming to daytime TV. Debuting next month on Fox: rapper Ice-T and his reality-star wife, Coco Austin.
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