Nev Schulman is opening up about switching career paths and learning his long-running show Catfish was canceled.

In a new interview, the 41-year-old host of the MTV series revealed the shocking way he found out it was no longer moving forward , over a year after the last season aired.

While speaking with Variety this week, Nev said he learned the show was axed at the same time as everyone else!

“I had the sense the show wasn’t going to get renewed, but there was never anything communicated to me,” he dished.

Nev hosted the show across nine seasons and almost 300 episodes, from the time it first premiered in 2012 until July 2024, when the last episode aired. However, amid parent company Paramount’s merger with Skydance Media, he was in the dark on the future of the show.

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