About Extra
HOST
Derek Hough, Host
Emmy® Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Derek Hough started dancing in his hometown of Salt Lake City, Utah, at age 11. Just one year later, he moved to London to live and train with the top dance coaches in the world and attend the prestigious Italia Conti performing arts school, where he studied theatre, music, and dance.
CORRESPONDENTS
Mona Kosar Abdi, Senior Correspondent
Mona Kosar Abdi is a Senior Correspondent and weekend co-host with “Extra,” based in New York City.
Terri Seymour, Correspondent
Terri Seymour joined "Extra" in 2004 as a freelance reporter covering "American Idol," and was then promoted to a full-time correspondent position. Terri continues to cover television, fashion-and-beauty segments, movie premieres, junkets, on-set visits, and is a regular red-carpet favorite.
Carlos Greer, Special Correspondent
Carlos Greer is one of "Extra’s" special correspondents based in New York. He first started working for the program in 2019. Greer is also a senior reporter at New York Post gossip column Page Six, where he also hosted the brand's digital crime show "New York Post Reports: Off the Record" on discovery + and IDGO. He previously co-hosted the nationally syndicated entertainment newsmagazine show "Page Six TV."
Tommy DiDario, Special Correspondent
Tommy DiDario has interviewed some of the biggest stars in the world, like Ryan Reynolds, Jennifer Lopez, Robert De Niro, Selena Gomez and so many more.
Alecia Davis, Nashville Correspondent
Alecia Davis interviews some of today’s biggest celebrities on the Emmy award-winning entertainment news show “Extra,” garnering exclusive interviews with Dolly Parton, Garth Brooks, Kevin Costner, Dennis Quaid, Blake Shelton, Tim McGraw, Kelly Clarkson, Reba McEntire, Miranda Lambert, Keith Urban, Carrie Underwood, Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan, Kenny Chesney, and more.
Adam Glassman, Special Correspondent
Adam Glassman has been creative director of Oprah Daily, formerly known as O, The Oprah Magazine, since 2000, overseeing the style pages, all aspects of the magazine’s cover shoots, and the highly anticipated "O Favorite Things."
Michael Corbett, Special Correspondent
Michael Corbett is a two-time Emmy winner and one of “Extra’s” expert correspondents.
He is the creator, host, and senior supervising producer of our signature franchise “Extra’s Mansions & Millionaires!” Michael travels the world for the popular half-hour specials and gives viewers a sneak peek of the extraordinary mansions, destinations, and vacation spots of the rich and famous.
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS
Jeremy Spiegel, Executive Producer
Veteran producer Jeremy Spiegel serves as executive producer of the Emmy® Award-winning newsmagazine "Extra," now in its 32nd season. It marks Spiegel's 29th year with the show.
ABOUT THE SHOW
“Extra” kicks off Season 33 with the return of Emmy® Award winner, New York Times bestselling author, and “Dancing with the Stars” judge Derek Hough, who is back for his second season as host.
“Extra” enters the new season with three 2026 Daytime Emmy® Award nominations, including Outstanding Entertainment News Series, Outstanding Daytime Personality (Derek Hough, Mona Kosar Abdi, and Terri Seymour), and Outstanding Editing. The series has previously earned 12 consecutive Daytime Emmy nominations for Outstanding Entertainment News Program, winning the category in 2014 and again in 2016.
Following a standout debut season, Hough delivered a string of headline-making interviews with some of Hollywood’s biggest stars, including Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, Dwayne Johnson, Margot Robbie, Eddie Murphy, Julia Roberts, Noah Wyle, and many more. He also scored “Extra” exclusives inside Sharon Stone’s home and behind the scenes of Jennifer Lopez’s private rehearsals for her upcoming music projects.
Supporting Hough is a powerhouse correspondent team led by New York-based Senior Correspondent and Weekend Host Mona Kosar Abdi and Los Angeles Correspondent Terri Seymour. Both are red-carpet mainstays known for breaking entertainment news and conducting memorable one-on-one interviews from film premieres and award shows to major cultural events such as the Met Gala.
The team is hitting the ground running with upcoming interviews featuring Tom Cruise, Matthew McConaughey, Jay-Z, Helen Mirren, Charlie Hunnam, Anne Hathaway, Teddi Mellencamp, and Ariana Madix.
Under longtime Executive Producer Jeremy Spiegel, “Extra” continues to evolve across both broadcast and digital platforms.
Season 33 introduces several new franchises and segments, including “The Extra Confessional,” where celebrities step into a podcast-style setting to answer rapid-fire questions and play games, and “The Extra Breakdown,” a recurring segment featuring expert guests who join Hough and Kosar Abdi to provide analysis and fresh perspectives on the day’s biggest entertainment headlines.
In another new franchise, Hough will take viewers inside celebrity trailers and exclusive backstage spaces, from the set of “Dancing with the Stars” to the iconic Warner Bros. Studio lot.
The new season also coincides with the 25th anniversary of September 11, marked by a special episode featuring new interviews with “Extra” journalists who covered the attacks, along with rare footage documenting how members of the “Extra” team helped survivors evacuate lower Manhattan by boat across the Hudson River.
“Extra” is cleared in more than 95% of U.S. television households through partnerships with Fox Television Stations, Nexstar Media Group, Sinclair Broadcast Group, TEGNA, Hearst Television, Scripps, Gray Media, Sunbeam Television, CBS stations, and numerous other broadcast groups nationwide.
