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Keke Palmer, Don Lemon, Fantasia and Vic Mensa will be honored at the upcoming Hollywood Unlocked Impact Awards, Jason Lee’s entertainment media brand announced on Tuesday.

The event — now in its fifth year — celebrates those who have made a lasting impact on the culture, with contributions across the music, film, media, political, social and creative industries. Tiffany Haddish will return for the fourth year to host the awards show, set for June 20 at the Beverly Hilton. Babyface will serve as the music director for the ceremony, which will also feature performances by Fantasia and Yolanda Adams.

Palmer will receive the Spirit Award, which according to the organization is “given to someone who embodies the feeling of pride and inspiration through their contributions to the entertainment and social communities. They have made an impact on the world by using their platform to uplift the masses and demonstrate that there is...

Olivia Metzger, the independent agent who represents Craig Melvin and Kristen Welker, among others, is no longer running solo.

After leaving CAA in 2017 and building her own agency to represent news anchors and producers, Metzger is selling her OManagement to 3 Arts Entertainment, the production house that has been involved in series ranging from “King of the Hill” to “Hacks,” and has built alliances with Mike Judge and Tina Fey, among others.

Metzger, who also represents Steve Kornacki, Harris Faulkner and Ari Melber, will join as a partner and co-head of 3 Arts’ New York office. Her associate Chelsea Sells will join as well.

The partnership “allows us to offer our clients expanded opportunities across a dynamic media landscape, while preserving the close, individualized attention that has always defined both OManagement and 3 Arts,” says Metzger, in a statement. “By combining our deep experience in agenting and talent development with 3 Arts’ strengths in production and media strategy,...

Native Son has announced the honorees of its 2025 Native Son Awards, recognizing the accomplishments and advocacy of Black gay and queer men.

This year, the organization will honor actor Colman Domingo, costume designer Paul Tazewell, choreographer Sean Bankhead, multidisciplinary artist Derrick Adams, National Black Justice Collective CEO and executive director Dr. David J. Johns and founder of the Black AIDS Institute Phill Wilson.

“I’m deeply honored to receive this recognition at the Native Son Awards,” Tazewell, who made history earlier this year when he became the first African American male costume designer to be nominated for the Academy Award for best costume design, which he later won for his work on Wicked, tells The Hollywood Reporter. “This organization is incredibly close to my heart, and to be acknowledged by a community that celebrates the brilliance and resilience of Black queer and gay men is truly humbling. Thank you for seeing me.

If his posts on his social media site, X, are any indication, Elon Musk is letting a New York Times report that he’s taken so much ketamine he can’t pee right get to him.

“To be clear, I am Not taking drugs!” Musk wrote on Saturday. “The New York Times was lying their ass off. I tried *prescription* ketamine a few years ago and said so on X, so this not even news. It helps for getting out of dark mental holes, but haven’t taken it since then.

Elon Musk was using drugs “far more intensely than previously known,” while helping Donald Trump successfully campaign to get back in the White House last year, The New York Times reported on Friday.

Musk was taking ketamine, Ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms, the newspaper reports, adding that his “drug consumption went well beyond occasional use,” possibly including the stimulant Adderall.

He reportedly told people he was taking so much ketamine, “it was affecting his bladder,” the Times reports, noting that this is a “known effect of chronic use.”

The drug use allegedly took place as Musk was dealing with drama in his relationships with the mothers of his various children.

The Times pointed to Claire Boucher, the musician known as Grimes and mother of three of Musk’s children, jostling for control of their 5 year-old son, X. The child appeared alongside his father in the Oval Office and at other high-profile political events.

One of MSNBC’s best-known personalities is getting into the world of podcasts — even if she’s no longer with MSNBC.

Joy Reid was hosting a Monday-through-Friday program in the early evening for the soon-to-be-spun-off -from-NBCUniversal progressive news outlet as recently as February when she was ousted in a revamp of the network ordered by its new chief, Rebecca Kutler. In the waning minutes of her final broadcast of her program, “The Reid Out,” Reid vowed that viewers would not be hearing her last monologue. “We are not going to stop,” she said.

Now she is ready to go. Starting June 9, Redi will stream “The Joy Reid Show” on Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoons across YouTube and major podcast distributors. The debut episode will feature comedian Amber Ruffin and former South African ambassador to the U.S. Ebrahim Rasool. The program will be based in Washington, D.C.

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There are new details coming out regarding an alleged physical altercation between Sean “Diddy” Combs and his ex, Cassie.

Mylah Morales, a makeup artist Cassie previously mentioned in her testimony, took the witness stand on Day 9 of the 55-year-old music mogul’s trial.

Last week, Cassie told the court that the makeup artist stayed behind to nap as she and her friends went to a last-minute party at Prince‘s home.

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But while there, Cassie rushed out once she saw Diddy, whom she said she didn’t speak to before going to the party.

According to Cassie, Diddy tracked her down and beat her in another room while the makeup artist was in the vicinity, and stayed with her for a few days as her injuries healed.

“I caught a glimpse of him (Combs), so I ran out as fast as I could because I thought he was angry,...

The stars are in Brooklyn ahead of the 2025 Met Gala!

Kerry Washington, Emma Roberts, and Zazie Beetz stepped out for the 2025 Brooklyn Artists Ball on Tuesday (April 29) held at the Brooklyn Museum in Brooklyn, New York.

Fellow stars in attendance included Keri Russell, Lily Allen, Swizz Beatz, Saturday Night actor Cory Michael Smith, Don Lemon and husband Tim Malone, Stranger Things actor Caleb McLaughlin, and Moana actress Auliʻi Cravalho.

Keep reading to find out more…During the event, Laufey took to the stage for a performance.

The event was made possible by Dior and many of the stars wore outfits by fashion brand to the party.

While speaking with Wwd, Keri talked about visiting the Brooklyn Museum when her kids were younger.

“I used to come with our then-toddlers,” Keri recalled. “We used to come in the olden days when they had dance parties on Saturdays. I didn’t grow up in New York,...

Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon were once two of CNN‘s top stars and would often be found gushing over one another, especially during their nightly handovers. But was their bromance fake? On a recent episode of Patrick Bet-David’s Home Team podcast, Cuomo implied his on-screen friendship with Lemon was just for the cameras and that their handover banter was actually the brainchild of former CNN boss Jeff Zucker. Cuomo claimed that Zucker told him, “You’ve gotta stay over on [Lemon’s] show to help mitigate whatever’s going to come out of his mouth.” In addition to their nightly handovers, Cuomo and Lemon hosted The Handoff podcast and went on tour together. However, when asked if he would ever consider podcasting with Lemon again, Cuomo responded, “Why would I do it?” “You think he’s going to apologize to me?” the NewsNation host continued. “I have nothing but good stuff for him.

Jim Acosta, a former chief White House correspondent and anchor for CNN, has signed with WME for representation.

Acosta joined CNN in 2007 after beginning his career in local radio and television and with CBS News, where he covered issues including the 2004 presidential election, the Iraq Qar and Hurricane Katrina. He covered Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton’s campaigns for the 2008 presidential election at the beginning of his time at CNN before becoming a national political correspondent and covering Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign. He was promoted to senior White House correspondent during Obama’s second term as president, then became chief White House correspondent in 2018, during Donald Trump’s first term as president.

Acosta left CNN in January of this year, and has since pivoted to doing independent journalism on Substack, where he has more than 300,000 subscribers, more than 10,000 of which are paid. There, he does daily live broadcasts, having...

Don Lemon says he was “harassed” by both “women and men” during his 17 years at CNN.

“I have been harassed by women and men in the work[place]. And some things are not even…it’s ridiculous,” Lemon told Bill Maher during an appearance on his “Club Random” podcast. “Now look, there are some things that are really egregious, but not everything is Harvey Weinstein-level.”

CNN declined Variety‘s request for comment.

Without naming any names, Lemon said there was one incident where a “young lady” coworker “tweaked my nipples” while in the cafeteria before saying, “‘Oh, it’s cold in here!'”

“I said, ‘Ok, you realize if I did that they’d be walking me out the door right now?’” Lemon said. “But I didn’t care to go to Hr. I didn’t say anything because I was just like, ‘It’s a double standard, it’s fine.

Ex-CNN anchor Don Lemon alleged to Bill Maher on the latter’s podcast, Club Random, that he was sexually harassed by colleagues while working at the network multiple times. Throughout the two-hour interview (watch it below), Maher and Lemon talked about the shifting landscape of media bias, the existence of rational Maga Republicans, and the broadcaster’s experiences as a gay Black man. Early on in the episode, they talked about experiencing harassment in the workplace. “I’ve been harassed by women and men in the work,” he claimed to the podcast host. “There are some things that are really egregious, but not everything is Harvey Weinstein-level.” According to Lemon, he had uncomfortable moments with colleagues and he alleged that included being touched inappropriately in a CNN cafeteria by a female coworker in Atlanta, Georgia. The “young lady tweaked his nipples” and then said, “Oh, it’s cold in here,...

Don Lemon recently appeared on Bill Maher’s “Club Random” podcast and got into a debate with the host after claiming that a “huge faction of the Maga movement” is “really fucking racist.” Maher disagreed by saying: “I wouldn’t say huge. No.” The topic came up when the duo discussed the backlash that ignited over Tom Hanks’ “Black Jeopardy” sketch during the “SNL50” event last month.

Hanks popped up in the sketch as Donald Trump supporter Doug, a character he first played on “SNL” eight years ago. Sporting a red Maga hat, Doug freaks out when Kenan Thompson’s “Black Jeopardy” host goes to shake his hand. The sketch led to Republican backlash on social media, with many accusing “SNL” of making all Trump supporters out to be racists.

“I get all the bad things about the [Trump] administration, but if you think they don’t shake Black people’s hands,...

Former CNN anchor Don Lemon revealed that he was subjected to sexual harassment in the workplace on multiple occasions throughout his career while appearing on Bill Maher’s podcast this weekend and the veteran broadcaster shared a dark part of his past as he explained his thoughts and experiences with gender and power dynamics.

Lemon was the guest on Club Random, Maher’s podcast, featuring lengthy and loose interviews with notable cultural figures and newsmakers. Over the nearly two-hour episode, the two discuss the shifting landscape of media bias, the existence of rational Maga Republicans and Lemon’s experiences as a gay Black man. Early in the episode, the two TV hosts touch on the topic of harassment and Lemon delves into his brushes with uncomfortable moments with colleagues, which include being touched inappropriately by a woman in a CNN cafeteria and being sexually harassed by a superior at the cable news channel.

Don Lemon, former anchor for CNN, slammed Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly for celebrating the cancelation of longtime MSNBC host Joy Reid‘s show.

Reid’s show, The ReidOut, aired its final show on Monday. Many people and public figures have expressed their upset over the cancelation, including MSNBC’s own Rachel Maddow, who slammed the network for making a “bad decision.”

President Donald Trump even weighed in, celebrating Reid’s firing.

Reid was the first African American woman to ever host her own night show. Several other news shows hosted by people of color have been canceled under the new leadership of MSNBC President Rebecca Kutler.

At the news of the cancelation of The ReidOut over the weekend, Kelly posted to X calling Reid “the absolutely worst person on television” and asserting, “Joy Reid has viciously mocked the tears of every white person she’s helped cancel over the...

Joy Reid’s exit from MSNBC triggered many conservative commentators to take cheap shots at her on social media.

Over the years, former Fox News host Megyn Kelly has criticized some of Reid’s comments on her cable news show. After chatter that the news network was making changes and axing Reid, Kelly took to social media to celebrate.

“Remember when Joy Reid laughingly mocked ‘white women tears’ as pathetic and offensive to her? Who’s crying now, Joy? Good riddance to the absolute worst person on television, and shame on NBC for letting it go on this long,” read Kelly’s post on X.

Kelly echoed her words about the former Reid Out host, quoting a video of Reid breaking down in an interview after her last show on MSNBC.

“Joy Reid has viciously mocked the tears of every white person she’s helped cancel over the years for some imaginary racial slight,...

The acid-tongued reaction from Megyn Kelly following the sudden departure of Joy Reid from MSNBC last week has provoked the wrath of former CNN anchor Don Lemon, launching a battle of words between the two ex-Prime Time newshow hosts, with Lemon telling Kelly to “go fuck yourself.”

The dismissal of Reid from the left-leaning cable news network that aired The ReidOut from 2020 until her recent sacking was announced on Sunday and is part of restructuring plans the network confirmed Monday. This overhaul coincides with the Trump administration’s massive overhaul of federal agencies, as well as CBS News potentially settling a suit with Trump over its editing of an interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris and shortly after ABC News settling a lawsuit filed by the president.

Kelly, who was fired from Fox News and later from NBC News, where she hosted Today for two years until 2019, was quick...

Keith Olbermann, who dominated MSNBC as the host of “Countdown” from 2003 to 2011, railed against the network (via The Daily Beast) after it cut ties with hosts Joy Reid, Alex Wagner, Katie Phang, Jonathan Capehart and Ayman Mohyeldin. He posted on X: “An MSNBC purge so brutally racist it makes you think it was done by Musk.”

“They didn’t even try to hide the racism by firing an unnecessary white anchor like [Katy] Tur or [Stephanie] Ruhle as cover,” he added.

On his “Countdown” podcast, Olbermann continued to address the matter by saying: “When the company is in trouble, when a dollar might not be earned, you won’t hear crap out of [Rachel] Maddow or [Lawrence] O’Donnell, or [Chris] Hayes, or [Symone] Sanders, [Michael] Steele, or [Alicia] Menendez, or Jen Psaki. I will profusely apologize to anybody at MSNBC who stands up in defense of Joy Reid and says, ‘This stinks. This makes us white. This...

Don Lemon did not hold back while addressing Megyn Kelly‘s comments about Joy Reid. After Kelly made a negative post on X about Reid’s firing from MSNBC, Lemon fired back by calling out the former Today star. Lemon was referencing Reid’s X message that said, “Remember when Joy Reid laughingly mocked ‘white women tears’ as pathetic and offensive to her? Who’s crying now, Joy? Good riddance to the absolute worst person on television, and shame on NBC for letting it go on this long.” On the Monday, February 24, episode of his YouTube show, Lemon said, “Let me just say to Megyn Kelly, in my 30-something years as a journalist and my 50-something years as a person of color, go f**k yourself. Okay? I usually don’t like to talk about her because she’s one of those people, she thrives on it, she has built...

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Don Lemon is not holding back when it comes to his opinion of Megyn Kelly.

The former Fox News host reacted on Monday to MSNBC canceling The ReidOut, a primetime program hosted by Joy Reid… someone Kelly clearly has no respect for.

Just consider what she wrote on Twitter shortly after Reid got the axe.

Don Lemon and Megyn Kelly attend The Hollywood Reporter 35 Most Powerful People In Media 2017 at The Pool on April 13, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Hollywood Reporter)

“Remember when Joy Reid laughingly mocked ‘White women tears’ as pathetic and offensive to her? Who’s crying now, Joy?” Kelly wrote on the aforementioned platform.

“Good riddance to the absolute worst person on television, and shame on NBC for letting it go on this long.”

Fast forward a few hours to Lemon taking a few moments during his...

Former CNN host Don Lemon skewered Megyn Kelly as a “racist” and told her to “go f–k yourself” for being so happy that soon-to-be former MSNBC host Joy Reid had lost her job.

Lemon made the harsh comments in a video posted on Monday, saying, “Let me just say to Megyn Kelly, in my 30-some years as a journalist and my 50-some years as a person of color, go f–k yourself, Ok?”

He then said Kelly built the second half of her career, following her time at Fox News and NBC, being a “troll.” Kelly currently hosts her namesake radio show on SiriusXM — a program that is also available as a podcast and as a YouTube show.

What set Lemon off? He was upset about an X post from Kelly on Sunday, in which she said “good riddance” to Reid, who she called the “absolute worst person on television.

Joy Reid’s sudden exit from MSNBC continues to draw fiery responses from current and former television news personalities. Don Lemon recently took to Instagram (via The Daily Beast) to slam Megyn Kelly, who celebrated Reid’s departure by calling Reid the “absolute worst person on television.”

“Let me just say this to Megyn Kelly,” Lemon said in a direct-to-camera address. “In my 30-some years as a journalist and my 50-some years as a person of color: Go fuck yourself, okay?”

Lemon went on to slam Kelly as a “troll” and a “racist” and rebuke her claim that Reid had a habit of going after white woman on her show and “mocking white women’s tears.”

“No, the worst person on television was fired from NBC and the ‘Today’ show a few years ago, and that’s Megyn Kelly!” Lemon fired back. “That’s the worst person who’s not on television anymore.

“Fox & Friends” was not laughing at Tom Hanks’ portrayal of a racist President Trump fan during the “SNL50” special on Sunday.

On Monday morning, co-host Lawrence Jones said he doesn’t “censor comedy, but that wasn’t funny.”

Fellow “F&f” co-host Kayleigh McEnany felt the same way, saying “SNL” “must have gotten the script from Don Lemon.”

“Remember when he made fun of Maga voters, or his guest did for not being able to point out a country on the map? That’s ridiculous,” she said.

Hanks played a man named “Tracy” who was wearing one of President Trump’s trademark red Make America Great Again hats while appearing on “Black Jeopardy,” but it was actually a recurring bit — Hanks played the same character on “SNL” before in a “Black Jeopardy” sketch in 2016. The original sketch is the second most-watched “SNL” sketch of all time.

On Sunday’s anniversary show,...

Rebecca Kutler was named president of MSNBC Wednesday, dropping an “interim” designation from her title and taking on the mantle of moving the progressive network forward as it grapples not only with coverage of President Trump but splitting off from NBC in a spin-off being orchestrated by corporate parent Comcast.

In her short tenure at the helm, MSNBC’s ratings have begun to moderate after a significant post-election dip, largely on the strength of Rachel Maddow retuning to regular primetime appearances during Trump’s first 100 days in office. It will be up to Kutler to lead the network if, as previously announced, Maddow returns to her current once-a-week routine. She will also have to determine how to fill Andrea Mitchell’s noon spot — and, potentially, much of the daytime schedule, if MSNBC is separated from the newsgathering assets of NBC News in the spin-off.

Kutler “has the big-picture strategic view...

So many stars stepped out to attend Michael Rubin’s annual Fanatics Super Bowl Party ahead of the big game on Saturday night (February 8) in New Orleans, Louisiana.

The big game takes place and Sunday and sees the Kansas City Chiefs facing off against the Philadelphia Eagles. It could be a historic game if the Chiefs win as they’ll become the first team to win three Super Bowls in a row.

Ahead of the game, a horde of celebrities including Ciara, Emma Roberts, Martha Stewart, Miles Teller and Diplo attended the party at The Sugar Mill. We pulled together pics of more than 50 stars who were there!

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Emma Roberts

Martha Stewart

Ciara

Travis Scott

Post Malone

Latto

Lala Anthony

Miles Teller

Gayle King

Kevin Costner

Pete Davidson

Quavo

Shaquille O’Neal...

The NFL Honors event is not just for football players. Actors and musicians attended too!

Country singers Jelly Roll and Shaboozey were among the stars who stepped out for the 2025 NFL Honors event on Thursday night (February 6) at Saenger Theatre in New Orleans, La.

Also in attendance at the annual awards show were Jon Hamm and wife Anna Osceola, Hailee Steinfeld who supported fiance Josh Allen, Terry Crews, Nikki Glaser, Wendell Pierce, Flavor Flav, Blu DeTiger, Don Lemon, and Kay Adams, among others.

The event, which aired on Fox, recognized the NFL’s best players, performances and plays from the 2024 season.

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Terry Crews

Jelly Roll

Shaboozey

Hailee Steinfeld and Josh Allen

Jon Hamm and wife Anna Osceola

Nikki Glaser

Fyi: Nikki is wearing a Rebecca Vallance gown.

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The 9th Annual Blue Jacket Fashion Show kicked off New York Fashion Week on World Cancer Day, raising awareness and funds to support the prostate community, improve early detection and reduce mortality.

Don Lemon attends Blue Jacket Fashion Show

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The Blue Jacket Fashion Show, now in its 9th year, continues to elevate prostate cancer awareness, as stars hit the runway at their annual event. The event’s presenting sponsor is Johnson & Johnson. Additional sponsorship from Lisc. The show benefits Zero Prostate Cancer, the nation’s leading advocacy, awareness, and support foundation.

In addition to live streaming the event at Fgi.org, Fgi hosted “viewing parties” across the country hosted by local Fgi chapters in Chicago, Philadelphia, San Antonio, Washington DC, Saint Louis and Kansas City.

Additionally, community members, event participants, and guests were invited to get screened for prostate cancer with a...

Don Lemon fired back at Kanye West after the controversial rapper called the former CNN host a “goofball” and claimed Lemon spread an incorrect rumor that West and his wife, Bianca Censori, were kicked out of the Grammys. Censori shocked the red carpet by wearing a nude outfit. The couple then left the event without ever going inside the Crypto.com Arena.

Despite online rumors that West had been booted from Grammys, sources close to the Grammys told Variety at the time that such claims were “not true” and that West simply “walked the carpet, got in his car and left.” West targeted Lemon in a since-deleted Instagram post as the source of the rumors, although Lemon denied it in a video posted to his YouTube page.

“First of all, Kanye, Yee, Ye, whatever your name is — I did not start a rumor about you being kicked out of the Grammys,...

Don Lemon and Kanye West exchanged public messages on social media Monday following Lemon’s attempted interview with the rapper as he arrived to the Grammy Awards red carpet.

The feud began with a since-deleted post from West, who now goes by Ye, saying that Lemon — whom he called a “goofball” — started a rumor that Ye and his wife, Bianca Censori, were kicked out of the Grammy Awards on Sunday night.

Ye and Censori’s arrival made waves when Censori took off her black coat to reveal a completely sheer dress without underwear. Rumors later swirled online that the couple had been escorted out because they were not invited, though this proved untrue.

Lemon responded to West’s post with a video. “First of all, Kanye, Yee, Ye, whatever your name is — I did not start a rumor about you being kicked out of the Grammys,” he said. “I actually corrected it.

It seems Donald Trump is making awards shows political again.

After high-profile ceremonies were mostly apolitical last year as celebs grew quiet after speaking out against Trump from awards show stages in his first term, the 2025 Grammys, the first major awards show in Trump’s second term, featured a number of references to some of the most controversial actions the president has taken at the start of his second term.

Lady Gaga issued perhaps the strongest call out to Trump’s anti-trans executive orders, including a first-day proclamation that the U.S. would only recognize two genders (male and female) and that those “are not changeable.” Accepting the Grammy for best pop duo or group performance for her “Die With a Smile” duet with Bruno Mars, Gaga declared, “Trans people are not invisible. Trans people deserve love. The queer community deserves to be lifted up. Music is love.”

Earlier in the night,...

Chuck Todd, the former “Meet the Press” moderator, is leaving NBC News, he told colleagues in a memo issued Friday, a move he’s making in order to pursue ventures outside the NBCUniversal empire.

Todd had in recent weeks been meeting with other news outlets and potential employers, according to people familiar with the matter. His current contract with NBC News had been expected to lapse at some point after the 2024 election.

“There’s never a perfect time to leave a place that’s been a professional home for so long, but I’m pretty excited about a few new projects that are on the cusp of going from ‘pie in the sky’ to ‘near reality,’ Todd told NBC News staffers in a memo Friday. “So I’m grateful for the chance to get a jump start on my next chapter during this important moment.”

He said his “Chuck Toddcast...

It’s not even been a week since Donald Trump took the presidential reigns of the United States of America and the tremors of his actions can already be felt across the world. From his rigid citizenship regulations to the outright immigration crackdown, countries around the globe are waiting with bated breath to see what the former real estate mogul will do next.

Selena Gomez in a still from Only Murders in the Building | Credits: Hulu

In light of these actions, actress and singer Selena Gomez posted an emotional video reacting to the nationwide immigration enforcement.

While many celebrities have lauded the Only Murders in the Building star for her candor, others have called her out openly, with some officials even maintaining an unapologetic stance to the entire situation.

Selena Gomez’s emotional reaction to Donald Trump’s immigration sweeps

Selena Gomez expressed her dissatisfaction and anger over the recent...

Broadcast journalist Jim Acosta is believed to be leaving CNN. This follows the network removing Acosta’s morning show from its schedule. Notably, Acosta spent years with the network, particularly gaining fame as a White House correspondent.

Jim Acosta Joined CNN Back In 2007, Gaining Fame As A White House Correspondent

Acosta started his media career in radio. By 1994, he broke into television, first working for a Fox affiliate. The following year, he would get his first on-camera job.

Starting in 2003, Acosta would serve as a correspondent for CBS News. During his time there, he would cover stories from the Iraq War to Hurricane Katrina.

Jim Acosta – YouTube

In 2007, however, Acosta would join CNN. While there, he would gain prominence as the network’s chief White House correspondent during the Obama and Trump administrations. By 2012, he would be promoted to national political correspondent. In 2021, he became the network’s chief domestic correspondent.

Jim Acosta, the aggressive CNN correspondent who has gained notice for holding interview subjects to account from perches in the White House press room and on newsroom sets, is poised to leave the Warner Bros. Discovery-backed outlet after a shake-up in its schedule that left him without anchoring duties during daytime hours.

Acosta is expected to inform viewers of the decision as soon as Tuesday when he ends his program, according to a person familiar with the matter. CNN declined to make executives available for comment. The Status newsletter reported on Monday night that Acosta had made a decision to exit.

CNN stood ready to keep Acosta employed, according to people familiar with the situation, but wanted to move him to non-traditional hours: between midnight and 2 a.m., a slot CNN has used in the past to show repeats of its primetime schedule for viewers on the west coast.

It has been over seven years since The Today Show terminated Matt Lauer’s contract after serious sexual misconduct allegations arose against him. When Hoda Kotb announced her retirement, some rumors indicated that Matt wanted to get his job back on the show. That didn’t happen, and he had no chance. However, one person thinks that Matt deserves a second chance.

Don Lemon recently discussed Matt, who he believes deserves a chance to return because “the public misses him.”

Don Lemon Thinks Women Want Matt Lauer Back

Lemon appeared on the Hollywood Raw podcast on Thursday and was asked about Matt Lauer. In a shocking moment, Don said that he feels that Matt should return and make his comeback. Don believes that, despite the sexual misconduct allegations, “women still love him.”

Matt Lauer YouTube

In the interview, Lemon said he has seen proof that “people love him” and “women love him.

Don Lemon has gone to bat for his friend and former Today host Matt Lauer, claiming that “women love him” and the “general public would accept [him] back” on television. The former CNN anchor talked about Lauer on a recent episode of the Hollywood Raw Podcast with Dax Holt and Adam Glyn, where he said if the former NBC News anchor came “back to digital,” he could “set his own course” for returning to the media. Lauer joined NBC in 1992 as the co-anchor of the early weekday news show Today in New York before joining the Today show full-time in 1994. NBC News terminated Lauer’s contract in November 2017 after an unidentified female NBC employee accused him of sexually harassing her during the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. The accuser was later revealed as former NBC News producer Brooke Nevils, who went public with her story in 2019 in Ronan Farrow’s book Catch and Kill.

Don Lemon suggested that it may be time for Matt Lauer’s comeback, claiming, “The public loves him.”

On a recent episode of the Hollywood Raw podcast, the former CNN anchor opened up about his friendship with the disgraced journalist. NBC fired Lauer from the Today show in 2017 following sexual harassment allegations from a former employee. Other women later came forward with similar allegations.

“I only got to know Matt after, you know, the whole situation happened and because we live in the same town and we have mutual friends,” Lemon said. “Whenever I see Matt out and about, or, you know, even with us, if we go out to dinner, my husband and I will go out to dinner with him and his fiancé. And people love him.”

“Women love him. They’re like, ‘Matt, oh my God, can I get a picture? I love you. I miss you on television,...

Don Lemon thinks audiences would love to see Matt Lauer back on TV, “now that [being] canceled is over” with Donald Trump back in office.

Speaking to the “Hollywood Raw” podcast, the former CNN anchor gushed that, as far as he can tell, “people love” the former “Today” show host, who was fired in 2017 by NBC for “inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace” which the network determined “may not have been an isolated incident.”

2 years later, in Ronan Farrow’s 2019 expose “Catch and Kill,” Lauer was accused on the record of sexually harassing several former NBC colleagues, and one former NBC producer accused him of raping her. The book also reports that Harvey Weinstein once attempted to use his knowledge of Lauer’s behavior to convince NBC to back off reporting about his own sexual misconduct. Lauer has denied all accusations.

Lemon added, “Whenever I see Matt out and about — or...

Don Lemon is defending his friend Matt Lauer and shares how the former Today host could return to media after his firing from the NBC morning show.

The former CNN anchor revealed that he has seen the public’s reaction to Lauer and believes that he could stage a comeback.

“I think that if he could come back to digital, he can set his own course,” Lemon said on the Hollywood Raw Podcast with Dax Holt and Adam Glyn.

“I only got to know Matt after, you know, the whole situation happened, because we live in the same town and we have mutual friends,” Lemon said. “Whenever I see Matt out and about — or you know, if we go out to dinner, my husband and I go out to dinner with him and his fiancée — and people love him.”

Lemon added, “Women love him! They’re like, ‘Man, oh my God,...

Don Lemon appeared on the “Hollywood Raw Podcast” with hosts Dax Holt and Adam Glyn (via Entertainment Weekly) and shared his belief that “the public misses” Matt Lauer, who served as the co-anchor of NBC’s “Today” from 1997 to 2017. Lauer was fired in 2017 after an NBC employee accused him of sexual assault. Several more women then came forward with sexual misconduct claims against him. Although Lauer denied the sexual assault allegations, he did admit in a statement at the time that “there is enough truth in these stories to make me feel embarrassed and ashamed.”

When asked on the podcast if Lauer could mount a comeback to the news industry, Lemon answered: “If he could come back to digital, he can set his own course.”

“I only got to know Matt after, you know, the whole situation happened, because we live in the same town and we have mutual friends,...

The Wendy Williams saga remains sad and confusing for fans. Williams did two interviews this week, and it sounds like she did them without conservator Sabrina Morrissey’s knowledge. Now, Wendy’s family, who said Sabrina cut them off from seeing her, is trying to raise money to help get her released from the facility where she lives.

Here is what her family is doing to raise money and how it might not help get Wendy released.

Wendy Williams’ Family Starts GoFundMe To Help Gain Her Freedom

Wendy Williams made some comments in her interviews that have family and fans fearing for her. She mentioned she was moved into a long-term care facility in New York City by her conservator, Sabrina Morrissey. She also noted how her financial fortune disappeared. Finally, she said she wanted to leave and move to Florida to be by her family.

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Rapper-turned-mogul Snoop Dogg is feeling the heat for performing at the Crypto Ball, an event in Washington D.C. preceding Donald Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration.

When video surfaced of the rapper performing at the Friday night event, held at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium and hosted by former PayPal COO David Sacks, fans expressed anger and shock online. The Shade Room posted a video of Snoop — along with Rick Ross and Soulja Boy — on stage performing, and the comments section was filled with outrage over The Voice judge’s decision. “This is culturally embarrassing and disrespectful asf,” one reaction read. “Not a check in the world worth selling my soul to the Devil…” another commenter remarked.

Former CNN anchor Don Lemon covered the performance on his live stream, Lemon Live at 5, wondering aloud whether Snoop and other Black hip hop artists are “sellouts [or] grifters who only care about a dollar?...

Wendy Williams said a lot of things this week in two different interviews. She spoke to her longtime friend, Don Lemon, on his podcast. She also spoke to DJ Envy and Charlamagne Tha God on the Breakfast Club podcast. In both, she seemed distressed that she was locked away and wasn’t allowed to see her family and loved ones. However, she also seemed concerned about her treatment.

Here is what Wendy had to say about the treatment in the facility she was admitted to in New York.

Wendy Williams Says She Is Taking Lots Of Mystery Medication

In the interviews, Wendy Williams said that she feels that the facility she lives in is like a prison. While this is not a basic long-term care facility and is instead a luxury care facility with around-the-clock medical care, she feels that she can’t do anything but just look out the window.

Wendy Williams did a surprise interview that her niece set up for her. Now, she has spoken to her old friend Don Lemon in another interview. This interview had Don, a former CNN host who is now a podcaster, ask Wendy if she was really “incapacitated.” Her answer was blunt and clear.

Here is what Wendy had to say and why Don thinks that her conservator is blocking her from seeing her family during this tough time in her life.

Don Lemon Interviews Wendy Williams

After her surprise interview with Charlamagne tha God on The Breakfast Club, Wendy Williams spoke to her longtime friend Don Lemon for his podcast. On The Don Lemon Show, the host asked Wendy about the idea that her conservator has said she is “incapacitated.”

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Wendy was not happy about this. She told him that her life was “ridiculous.” She said she was...

Depending on who you ask, CNN anchor Jim Acosta is getting a chance to speak to a much broader audience with an assignment at a new and non-traditional time slot, or he’s being removed entirely from the usual daily discussion around the news.

Executives at CNN have asked Acosta to take a new role, anchoring a show that would air from midnight to 2 a.m. on the eastern coast of the U.S., according to two people familiar with the matter. Even so, the show has been pitched a chance to deliver live breaking news to audiences on the West coast and overseas at times when viewers in those regions are still active and craving information.

The offer was issued this week, according to these people, and Acosta, who gained a broader profile at CNN with his coverage of the White House during the first administration of President Donald Trump,...

Rashida Jones, a respected news operator who has led MSNBC for four years, will leave the NBCUniversal cable outlet to pursue other opportunities, she informed executives and staffers Tuesday.

She will be replaced on an interim basis by Rebecca Kutler, a veteran news executive with a long track record of managing talent and devising innovative programming concepts. She takes the lead role at MSNBC as it faces not only the challenges of covering the Trump administration for its demoralized liberal audience, but also the prospect of being spun off into a new publicly traded company by corporate parent Comcast.

The executive swap takes place as MSNBC is grappling with a significant downturn in its ratings. Between the election and the end of 2024, MSNBC’s primetime audience between the ages of 25 and 54 — the demographic most prized by advertisers in news programming — fell 65%, according to data from Nielsen. There has been concern that the network,...

Don Lemon has chimed in on the Morning Joe debate regarding whether people should “be civil” towards President-elect Donald Trump and his incoming administration. The former CNN anchor blasted MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski for their recent discussion about “civility” towards Trump and Maga supporters. On Friday’s (January 10) Morning Joe, Scarborough and former RNC chair Michael Steele got into a heated debate after the former praised Barack Obama for being friendly with Trump at Jimmy Carter‘s funeral. On the latest episode of The Don Lemon Show podcast, the former CNN This Morning co-host referenced a comment made by The New Yorker’s Susan Glasser during the Morning Joe discussion. Glasser warned against too much “civility,” comparing it to Vladimir Putin’s rise in Russia. “Do you guys understand what she said? Do you guys get what she said?” Lemon said, per Mediaite. “They’re trying to make people civil,...

The streaming service could offer live news surrounding more big events after drawing decent ratings on Election Night 2024.

Is Prime Video about to start its own news division? The idea might give some Washington Post readers pause, but the idea that Amazon is getting further into the news business isn’t so farfetched. According to an exclusive reporting from Variety, Amazon is mulling a larger entrance into the news broadcasting space after drawing good ratings to its 2024 Election Night coverage med by veteran anchor Brian Williams.

Key Details: Amazon reached around 4 million viewers with its Election Night coverage. The company is in early talks to offer more news coverage around select, important events. Available, veteran anchor talent abounds should Prime Video want to continue its news offerings. 30-Day Free Trial $8.99+ / month amazon.com

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As the results of Election Night 2024 became known, Brian Williams looked to the future. ”Our country is about to change again,” he told viewers of a news special he was hosting on Amazon Prime Video, with a diorama of a highway lane placed behind him. “And life, of course, goes on. Hell, my next gig is to emcee our firehouse annual dinner on Saturday night in New Jersey, my hand to God.”

Williams and others like him may have more to look forward to than hosting community potlucks.

Amazon has been holding exploratory talks about possible news concepts, according to four people familiar with the matter, a sign that the streaming and e-commerce giant sees a chance for news to bolster its economics, even as traditional players in the space are grappling with tougher times. CNN, ABC News, CBS News and NBC News have all cut staff in recent months,...

We’ve got questions, and you’ve (maybe) got answers! With another week of TV gone by, we’re lobbing queries left and right about Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, Squid Game, Landman, Skeleton Crew and more!

1 | Catching up on the Netflix movie Carry-On…. You mean to tell us that no one (especially eagle-eyed Dean Norris) noticed Taron Egerton continually “talking to himself” while on duty? And have you ever seen a Tsa officer just step away from their machine for indeterminate lengths of time, with no one standing by to take over? (On a busy Christmas Eve?...