Deborah Norville Reveals Husband’s Response to Her Internet hosting New Recreation Present (Unique)

Internet hosting The Good Line is the right match for Deborah Norville‘s subsequent chapter.

After 30 years of protecting the information at Inside Version, Norville is embarking on a brand new journey with a sport present that asks contestants to perform the easy process of placing an inventory of issues within the appropriate order for an opportunity to win as much as $15,000.

The idea has happy even the hardest critic in Norville’s life: her husband, Karl Wellner.

“He is a really powerful critic,” Norville completely tells PEOPLE of her longtime love, whom she says “got here to the studio and sat via a number of episodes of tapings.”

“He walked out of right here in love with the sport, shocked, like, ‘Deb, you are actually good at this,'” she recollects him telling her. “He noticed me as a performer in a approach he’d by no means seen me earlier than.”

Norville says getting her husband’s seal of approval was a significant second for her.

“After I mentioned to the children, ‘Y’all, dad preferred this present,'” she remembers telling their kids — Mikaela, Kyle and Niki. “They’re like, ‘Dad preferred it? That is an excellent endorsement.'”

Norville says Wellner “did not care” what she did after leaving Inside Version, as a result of, as she put it, “he cares that I am glad.”

“And I am going to inform you what he mentioned … he mentioned, ‘I’ve not seen you this glad at work in a very long time,'” she gushes. “And that was actually beautiful to listen to.”

Norville previously told PEOPLE forward of her Inside Edition departure in Might that it was the “proper transfer” for her marriage and children.

Along with her household supporting her absolutely, Norville hopes her new period as a sport present host exhibits viewers a brand new facet of her.

“I feel when individuals tune in at this time, they’ll see, oh, I’ve truly by no means seen Deborah Norville in that sort of function,” she explains, “the place I am working across the studio, or I’ve bought my arm across the contestant and I am making an attempt to assist them … or simply cracking clever with any individual.”

“That is what I do in my actual life, however my actual life has by no means been on tv in that approach, and now I get to convey a bit of little bit of what I do with my family and friends into the studio with the contestants.”

Norville says she believes viewers shall be “a bit of bit shocked” to find that she’s “sort of chill.”

“I feel they’ll have that response,” she predicts.

Norville says she desires these watching at house to stroll away with one thing, too.

“On the finish of the half-hour, the individual on the TV is the one who bought the cash. You, sitting at house, bought entertained, however you do not get something,” she says.

Along with half-hour of what she guarantees as “fulfilling viewing on tv,” followers can even get “a bit of nugget or two” of what she calls “ineffective data” — or “enjoyable info” that you may pull out to impress your folks.

Whether or not that is her supplying you with a pull-rate for a particular poker hand or rattling off stats concerning the titular wheel on Wheel of Fortune, Norville’s purpose is to supply these watching “the chance to be a bit of extra sparkly” of their day-to-day life.

“Actually, that is sort of the place I’m in my life and my profession,” she shares. “There’s a lot negativity on the market. If I will be part of one thing that makes individuals smile and be ok with themselves or have chuckle, I am all in.”

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The Good Line launches Sept. 8 and airs in syndication Monday to Friday, with a second run on Recreation Present Community.