"Entertainment Tonight" hired Menounos as a correspondent in 2002, where she reported on movies, music, and fashion. She left the program in 2005 to focus on her acting career, though she would join rival program "Access Hollywood" that fall as a correspondent. She went on to co-host a few episodes of the "Today" show in the late summer and fall of 2006 as well as in April 2007. In 2003, Menounos appeared on the November 30 episode of "Punk'd" where she was one of many celebrities caught in the awkward and embarrassing "Red Carpet Interviews".