It didn’t take long for Nicolle Wallace to bounce back from “The View.” After all, she’d already worked as White House Communications Director to President George W. Bush for several years. Wallace joined MSNBC in 2015 and has since contributed to several of its programs, according to her company biography. However, her most substantial gig has been hosting “Deadline: White House,” which debuted in 2017. In 2022, Variety announced that MSNBC was expanding her successful program further by allowing her to head a spin-off for Peacock called “Deadline: Special Report.” While the former mainly focused on politics, Wallace’s spin-off revolved around mental health and included interviews with mainstream celebs, such as Taraji P. Henson.
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While promoting “Deadline: Special Report” on “Today,” Wallace revealed what prompted her interest in such a stark content shift. “I’m scared to be. I mean, it’s scary. And I wondered why,” revealed Wallace. “Because on the other side of the pandemic … it’s so universal. Every family has been touched by a mental health diagnosis or struggle in some way.” After the pandemic, Wallace “wondered why [mental health] was such a stigmatized thing” and asked, “Why not have the conversation that people are having in their real life?”
