Cleaner way to remove 2nd word from string. Currently using split, splice, then join

I have a function to always remove the 2nd word from a sentence.

public cleanMessage(message) {
    let cleanedMessage: any = message.split(' ');
    cleanedMessage.splice(1, 1);
    cleanedMessage = cleanedMessage.join(' ');
    return cleanedMessage;
  }

cleanMessage('Hello there world')
// outputs 'Hello world'

Is there a cleaner way of doing this?