Get ready for a Hot in Cleveland reunion!
In a preview clip of Monday’s episode of The Drew Barrymore Show, Valerie Bertinelli gets a shocking surprise while gushing about her time on the TVLand sitcom.
“Hands down, my favorite experience in my working life,” Bertinelli, 65, tells Barrymore in a new preview clip of the Sept. 22 episode shared to Instagram. “To work with those three women that I got to work with — and there was not a diva on the set.”
Looking back fondly on Hot in Cleveland, Bertinelli adds, “Like, we’d hang out in the morning and just talk before rehearsing.”
At which point Barrymore unveils the twist: “Well, then, without further ado… Jane Leeves and Wendie Malick, everybody.”
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(L-R): Wendie Malick, Valerie Bertinelli, Betty White, and Jane Leeves on ‘Hot in Cleveland’
Before Barrymore even finishes, Bertinelli jumps to her feet, screaming, clapping, and tearing up as her former costars Leeves, 64, and Malick, 74, walk out. Bertinelli rushes down the aisle to meet them and the trio embrace.
“You kept that a secret?!” Bertinelli exclaims, pointing an accusing finger at Malick. But there are clearly no hard feelings, as the three actresses hug and marvel while the crowd applauds.
Fans will get a chance to see the full reunion on Monday’s show.
Bertinelli, Malick, and Leeves starred alongside the late and great Betty White in the beloved sitcom, which premiered in 2010. Hot in Cleveland follows three middle-aged best friends who live glamorous Los Angeles lives until they make an emergency landing in Cleveland on their way to Paris. After falling in love with the city — and the attention they get there — they decide to stay and live in the home of sassy caretaker Elka Ovstrosky (White). The series, which was often compared to White’s previous hit The Golden Girls, spanned six seasons.
In a previous clip from The Drew Barrymore Show‘s latest season, Bertinelli cited White when asked about the best advice she’s ever received from a costar.
“She really taught me about gratitude,” Bertinelli said. “I thought I was grateful. She was just living, breathing gratitude, every second of her life, every moment I was around her. She was grateful for the good, the bad, the ugly, all of it. And I have learned through going through really challenging things of the past five years, I’m grateful for the hard stuff. It’s sucked, and I wish I didn’t have to go through it, but there was no other way for me to learn a better way.”
She concluded, “So, gratitude for sure. Every moment, I’m grateful for. Even the hard stuff. Especially the hard stuff. That’s Betty White.”
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Betty White, Wendie Malick, Jane Leeves, and Valerie Bertinelli on ‘Hot in Cleveland’
White, a five-time Emmy-winning actress with a legendary career, died in December 2021. Bertinelli, who has starred in a number of long-running TV shows, now serves as a lifestyle expert on the fifth season of The Drew Barrymore Show. The talk show has made a trend of staging onscreen cast reunions, so while Bertinelli was clearly surprised to reconnect with her Hot in Cleveland pals, she previously discussed the possibility with Entertainment Weekly, pointing out that it’s a bittersweet reality whenever she and her old costars come together.
“Betty [White] is gone from Hot in Cleveland, but Jane and Wendie are still around. Touched by an Angel — Roma [Downey] is here, but John [Dye] and Della [Reese] are both gone,” she said in February. “Anything I would do a reunion with, there’s some missing pieces, which always kind of breaks your heart.”
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That said, she added, she’s been “so lucky” to work alongside so many wonderful people.
“Hot in Cleveland was a great set. One Day at a Time was a great set. The Drew Barrymore set — it’s an amazing set full of really kind, good people,” Bertinelli continued. “I’m so lucky to be doing this for 50-some-odd years and to run into very few a–holes. I count myself like one of the lucky ones.”
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