Marissa Jaret Winokur Aims to 'Tell the Truth' About Motherhood on New Daytime TV Gig

Tony Award winner Marissa Jaret Winokur is headed back to the small screen, this time in a new CBS talk show that aims to take on The View. The new morning chat session will reportedly be hosted by celebrity moms, who'll spend their hour discussing topical events, headlines and contemporary issues from a parent's perspective. The as-yet untitled show replaces long-running soap As the World Turns and is expected to debut sometime this fall.

"This is my dream job," Winokur told Broadway.com. "Being a mom, all I want to do is talk about being a mom! You look at life so differently when you have a child. Everything is about my son now." The Broadway star and proud mom of two-year-old son Zev Isaac Miller says she hopes to offer an honest viewpoint of motherhood: "I'm gonna tell the truth to the other moms out there. I give my kid too much cheese and we watch a lot of TV. And a week ago, my son was playing with the car keys and he got locked in the car! We had to call the fire department to get him out. Motherhood can be so hard, and I can't wait to share that with other moms out there!" 

In addition to Winokur, the show will feature America's Got Talent judge (and former host of her own talk series) Sharon Osbourne, actresses Holly Robinson Peete (For Your Love, Football Wives), Sara Gilbert (Roseanne) and Leah Remini (The King of Queens) and The Early Show host Julie Chen (wife to CBS chief executive Les Moonves), who'll depart her Early Show gig to take part in the show.

Winokur won the 2002 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for originating the role of Tracy Turnblad in Hairspray. She was also seen on Broadway in Grease. Recent Hollywood credits include competing on season six of Dancing With the Stars, a guest judge spot on RuPaul Drag Race and hosting Dance Your Ass Off.