Tamron Hall on Her Interfaith Holidays, Favorite Traditions & ‘Snoop on the Stoop’

Two-time Emmy Award-winning journalist and author Tamron Hall is Executive Producer and
host of the nationally-syndicated talk show Tamron Hall, one of daytime television’s highest-rated shows, now in its fifth season. But she’s also a mom to 4-year-old Moses — and like all moms this time of year, she’s in charge of making her child’s holidays magical. You won’t find an Elf on the Shelf in Hall’s household, though; its job has been usurped by a character that’s perhaps a little less elfy, but equally endearing.

“Everyone has the Elf on the Shelf — we have Snoop on the Stoop,” Hall tells SheKnows as we chat with her before her holiday show. “He’s monitoring the behavior in our home.” She reports that just like the notorious elf, Snoop changes locations; this morning, he was found in a mixing bowl. “He’s like the Elf on the Shelf, but Snoopified,” Hall says. “Like we all are. Like the world should be!”

Snoop on the Stoop isn’t the only holiday tradition Hall’s family leans into; in fact, as an interfaith family, there’s a lot to celebrate. Her husband (music executive and film producer Steven Greener) is Jewish, which means double the December festivities.

“It’s a combo,” Hall says. “My son has a menorah, then he’s got Santa Claus … he’s got it all. This kid is an international child being raised in a beautiful interfaith family. So he gets to understand and appreciate it all.”

The hustle and bustle of the holiday season is busy enough for anybody, but when you’re running a hit show averaging its most-watched season in three years, you’ve got to make like the Polar Express and go full steam ahead. Hall and her team have been busy with preparations to make the 2024 season the best one yet.

Hall’s philosophy for the coming year: “More travel, more love, more inspiration, more food, more money.” Sounds like 2024, is “2020-More!” And she’s excited to kick off January with a bang, highlighting her time spent hanging with self-described “certified badass” Miranda Lambert in Las Vegas (where there may or may not have been tequila shots involved).

First, though, she’s got the holidays to get through — both personally and professionally. On the show, Hall is wrapping up her annual “Week of Wishes”, which kicked off on Dec. 11, during which she has the biggest giveaways of the year in appreciation of her fans (lovingly known as the “Tam Fam”). And at home, of course, there’s all the things involved in making Moses’s holidays merry and bright … not least of all, Snoop.

Hall credits her ability to handle it all to the support system around her. If it weren’t for them, she says, “I wouldn’t be here, I wouldn’t be able to do this show, I wouldn’t be able to show up for my son in the way that I hope I do.” But there’s one important area in which she wishes her husband would be more supportive. Watch the video below to find out what that is — plus Hall’s holiday cooking fail, the most shocking moment on her show, and why her “humble-brag of life” involves Queen of Christmas Mariah Carey.

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