DEBORAH Norville is giving up her nightly MSNBC show to devote all her time to “Inside Edition.”
For nearly a year now, Norville, the veteran “Inside Edition” anchor, has also been hosting “Deborah Norville Tonight,” airing 9 p.m. on MSNBC.
But Norville says the double workload was just too much.
“I’ve been using the prosciutto analogy – I was sliced so thinly that I was practically transparent in spots,” Norville told The Post yesterday. “There’s just not enough of me to feel like I can do the job as well as I aspire to.”
Norville said her decision to leave MSNBC was “like a crystal moment.”
“I have three kids and the middle one just turned 10; I often don’t get home until after 10:30 at night and I’d come home and find his homework laid open to the proper place in his workbooks for me to check.
“So I’d sit on the floor and check it . . . and he’d be in bed, and it wasn’t effective parenting,” she said.
“Life is about choices and this was an incredible opportunity that fell into my lap out of the blue,” she said. “MSNBC has been incredibly understanding of my other commitments – I’m not sure I could operate at this pace for an extended amount of time.”
Norville will continue hosting the show until mid-January. “We’re looking forward to developing new, compelling programming for the 9 p.m. time period,” MSNBC chief Rick Kaplan said in an e-mail to staffers yesterday.
Norville said staffers working on her MSNBC show won’t lose their jobs.
“The people on ‘Deborah Norville Tonight’ are a big part of my world and I have to do right by them,” she said.