Akbar Gbajabiamila, Amanda Kloots, Natalie Morales, Jerry O’Connell and Sheryl Underwood toasted to the end of an era on Friday, Dec. 20 It was a tearful episode of The Talk on Friday ...

"I just wanted to know why everyone is being so nice today ... Talk,' and I'm so grateful to everyone along the way who let me be here, I had been a substitute teacher on daytime talk shows ...