Jenny McCarthy got emotional over the end of MTV’s all-music era, 30 years after the beloved cable channel launched her career.
In a January 2026 video posted by TMZ, the former MTV host admitted she was taking the loss of the original all-music channel very hard. “Isn’t that sad?” she said. “I'm still mourning the loss from it. Those days were, I mean, it gave me my start, and it was really the place that allowed me to be myself the most out of any job I've done so far.”
McCarthy, 53, also recalled her first tapiong for the MTV dating show Singled Out which she co-hosted from 1995 to 1997 with Chris Hardwick before landing her own self-titled sketch comedy show on the network.
”On the first day of shooting Singled Out, we shot it in Lake Havasu, and I lit my hotel room on fire and almost died the night before,” she revealed. “So that was my very first taping of Singled Out. I accidentally left the candle on, and it burned through my hot rollers and lit the whole room on fire!”
When asked if she thought there could be a new version of MTV in the future, McCarthy replied, “They tried it. It didn't work.”
Jenny McCarthy, Chris Hardwick and Carmen Electra during 1996 MTV's Singled Out with Jenny McCarthy at Hollywood Center Studios in Los Angeles, California, United States. (Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic, Inc)Photo by Jeff Kravitz on Getty Images
MTV made a splashy launch as television’s first-ever all-music network on Aug. 1, 1981, playing Pat Benatar andRod Stewart videos in heavy rotation. Over the years, the network added game shows and reality TV programming and spawned into multiple channels.
On Dec. 31, MTV permanently ended its 24-hour music video feeds globally, per Deadline. MTV Music, MTV 80s, MTV 90s, Club MTV, and MTV Live ceased broadcasting in the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Austria, Poland, Hungary, Australia, and Brazil.
McCarthy shared a post to Instagram to mark the end of the Music Television era.
“Today we say goodbye to MTV,” she captioned a montage of some of her past moments on the network. “This channel didn’t just play music videos — it gave a generation permission to be loud, weird, expressive, emotional, rebellious, creative, and completely ourselves. It shaped culture, careers, friendships, fashion mistakes (especially mine), and memories we’ll never forget. Today we say goodbye to MTV on television, but what it gave us lives on forever — in the laughs, the risks, the late nights, and the feeling that anything was possible if you were brave enough to try.”“Thank you for believing in me. Thank you for the memories. Forever grateful. ??✨,” McCarthy added.
McCarthy isn’t the only MTV OG feeling the loss. Martha Quinn, one of the five original VJs alongside Mark Goodman, Nina Blackwood, J.J. Jackson, and Alan Hunter, responded to fans online as the all-music channels went dark worldwide.
When one fan on X noted that MTV exposed viewers to music from all genres and cultures, Quinn replied, “MTV united the states of America.”
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