Mary Hart’s Front Page News

After Mary Hart announced Thursday that she is leaving ET after this coming season, she made front page news!

Daily Variety interviewed Mary exclusively regarding her exit from ET, and she told the venerable trade publication, "I don't know what I'm going to do. I'm not using the 'R' word. I have no intentions of retiring. There are other opportunities out there."

She called herself the "luckiest person on the face of the Earth" for having the opportunity to host ET for an incredible nearly three decades, but said, "As I look at my son going off to school, I've taken stock of the other things in my life." One thing on her to-do list, she told Variety -- climbing Africa's highest peak, Mt. Kilimanjaro.