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First lady Jill Biden talks divorce and hope, martinis and fries in first solo TV chat on Kelly Clarkson's popular daytime show.

First lady Jill Biden sat down from the East Room at the White House for her first TV interview with Kelly Clarkson on "The Kelly Clarkson Show."?

Not your usual pairing but that's what first lady Jill Biden wants first thing post-COVID-19, she revealed when she sat down with Kelly Clarkson at the White House in her first solo TV interview since the inauguration of President Joe Biden.

First lady Jill Biden sat down with Kelly Clarkson for her first major TV interview, in the East Room of the White House.

The episode of "The Kelly Clarkson Show" airs Feb.

As it turns out, Biden, 69, and the chatty, no-filter Clarkson, 38, seemed to get along like a house on fire judging from clips of the show released Wednesday. Clarkson made clear she approves of Biden's post-pandemic yearning. .

The one-on-one "conversation" ("I don't like the word 'interview,'" Clarkson said) took place in the East Room earlier this week under socially distanced conditions: The two were maskless but seated far apart.  .

The episode of Clarkson's nationally syndicated talk show, "White House Edition with the First Lady, Dr.

Was there was any place in the White House they weren't allowed?  Not on the furniture, Biden said, although she added she caught the younger dog, Major, on the couch once. 

She talked about coping with grief after son Beau Biden died of cancer in 2015, about balancing work and motherhood, and about the presidential couple's nightly date.