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died Thursday at 79, just as he was settling into a life of happy semi-retirement, more interested in talking about his grandson Richard — a talented baseball player and the light of Jerry’s life — than anything to do with television or his nearly 30-year run as the bemused host of “The Jerry Springer Show.” That’s who Jerry was — the British-born son of Holocaust survivors and a mensch who never took his on-camera persona very seriously. If he did, I would have been worried: Jerry was trained as a lawyer and was far more interested in social issues and politics (he was the mayor of Cincinnati from 1977 to 1978).

the view.James Brolin, 82, appeared Wednesday on “The View” to discuss his long career and his role narrating the new season of the Netflix series “Sweet Tooth.” Things took a turn, however, when producers displayed an enlarged print of a photo his son Josh Brolin, 55, posted Saturday on Instagram sans clothing. “Oh my God!” the elder Brolin yelled as he turned away from the photo of his nude son.

occasionally pre-recorded episodes of “Live with Kelly and Ryan,” sometimes in order to accommodate the “American Idol” host’s busy schedule splitting time between New York City and Los Angeles. Ripa and Seacrest would most commonly tape a Friday episode prior to broadcast — something they did for Seacrest’s final episode last week. Given that this Friday’s installment of “Live with Kelly and Mark” has likely been pre-recorded, it appears Ripa and Consuelos will work just three days this week.

“Now What? With Brooke Shields.” “It was not something I’d ever do again,” O’Donnell continued.The 61-one-year old was a moderator on the show during the 2006 to 2007 season. At that time, she famously had a few tiffs with her fellow co-stars, including one especially volatile 2007 tussle with conservative commentator Elisabeth Hasselbeck – something she spoke more about during the podcast appearance.

Leslie Jones is ready.The comedian revealed to People that she wants to be considered as the new host of “The Daily Show.”“It definitely should be a black woman,” the 55-year-old said.“It would be great to have a black woman on late night. It’s time.

announced his impending departure from the hit CBS talk show last year.With the final episode penciled in for April 27, Corden confessed to feeling “a huge amount” of fear and anxiety about the decision to step away from the gig.“I haven’t felt this scared since I decided to take the show, to move here. I haven’t felt such unstable ground… [But] I have to embrace that fear,” he said at a PaleyFest event in Los Angeles on Sunday.“I’m just aware that what I’m trying to do isn’t the road that’s often traveled.”Corden revealed he will be shifting his focus onto theater work after feeling a sense of “urgency” to leave the CBS show and the Golden State as a whole.“It couldn’t feel more urgent within me to leave to do that [theater],” he explained.

to having “tantrums” on set during filming. Grant recently courted controversy during the Oscars after his red-carpet interview with model Ashley Graham went viral.

Jane Fonda, “It’s never too late” — especially when it comes to owning a vibrator.During an appearance on Thursday’s episode of “The Drew Barrymore Show,” Fonda, 85, implied that she uses a sex toy to unwind — and even gifted Barrymore one.Fonda appeared on the show alongside her “80 for Brady” co-star, Lily Tomlin.“I heard, Jane, you relax with like, baths and meditations,” Barrymore said during the segment. “Is it true that there also might be an adult toy involved?” “There is,” Fonda confirmed of her self-love ritual.The “Monster In Law” star even divulged where she keeps them.

they were both promoting their respective new projects. “Oh my God, I just wanted to say ‘Hi’ because you were so kind to me,” Whitman, now 34, told Aniston, 54, in a video of their heartwarming reunion. “It’s always stayed with me,” she continued, before embracing Aniston.

“The Drew Barrymore Show,” it was revealed that Lucy Liu took “beautiful” naked photos of Barrymore on the set of “Charlie’s Angels.”The two starred together in the 2000 film and its 2003 sequel, “Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle.” “Do you know what I was actually trying to find?” Barrymore asked Liu on the show. “I was trying to find the nude photographs you took of me on the set of ‘Charlie’s’ in my dressing room.”Liu revealed that she still had them in her possession.

Whoopi Goldberg’s appearance during Monday’s episode of “The View.”Goldberg, who has been wearing eyeglasses for 28 years, hosted without them, explaining during the “Hot Topics” segment that she had undergone eye surgery over the weekend. “I had an operation, and they replaced the lens and the lens they replaced it with is kind of like my eyeglass lens,” the 67-year-old announced.

reports Entertainment Weekly. It was announced Thursday that Seacrest, 48, would leave the daytime talk show after six years and focus on hosting the singing show “American Idol. “This is something that [Kelly] and I have been talking about for a long time, and it was a tough, tough decision,” Seacrest stated.

Joe.“And actually, it was weird, because he asked for my e-mail. And he e-mailed me something very nice, a complimentary thing.

the 17th season of “Rachael Ray,” which premiered earlier this month (2 p.m./Ch. 7).

having co-hosted “The View” for seven seasons (2007-2014) and, last season, frequently guest hosting for Wendy Williams, who missed the entire season of “The Wendy Williams Show” — which was cancelled after 13 seasons by Debmar-Mercury, the producers behind “Sherri.”“It’s a completely different setting and we’re in a new studio,” Shepherd, 55, told The Post. “Am I borrowing anything [from ‘The Wendy Williams Show’]? Nope.

nasty spill on air when she attempted to mount her “dangerous” swivel chair at the start of the episode. Fast forward to Sept.

new clip posted Tuesday to her official YouTube channel.Shepherd had several memorable stints on ABC’s daytime mainstay over the years, appearing on about 600 episodes and even scoring the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host in 2009.The “30 Rock” star also shared sage words from her former “The View” moderator Goldberg, 66: She advised that being a host is “never about you, it’s always for someone else… [and] know that you’re taking people on a journey.”However, Shepherd revealed that O’Donnell, 60, gave her “the best advice” out of all of her former co-hosts. “She told me how much money she makes,” Shepherd said with a smile.As for TV interview icon Walters, 92, she directed the Chicago native to “always be curious” and “ask questions, never take no for an answer.”Late stand-up legend and talk show pioneer Joan Rivers also dropped a nugget of advice before she died at 81 in 2014, telling Shepherd that “funny girls will always work!”“Sherri” is set to premiere on Sept.

Variety reported.“Bee made television history in the late night space, paving the way for female voices in what has traditionally been, and continues to be a male-dominated landscape,” the 52-year-old comedian’s reps said to The Post about her seven-season run. ” ‘Full Frontal with Samantha Bee’ consistently broke barriers with Sam and her team boldly using political satire to entertain, inform and empower viewers, while embracing critically underrepresented stories, particularly about women.”Premiering Feb. 8, 2016, Bee’s gig came months ahead of Donald Trump’s whirlwind presidency.

video with his 5.9 million Instagram followers earlier this week — and fans raced to the comments section to drag his co-star for perceived offenses.“You need to tell Kelly to stop interrupting you. That’s very rude,” one disgruntled fan sniped. “She does it throughout the show … every show.

infamous toxic workplace scandal that saw three of her most senior staffers axed from “The Ellen Show.”The comic is preparing to take to the stage at Warner Bros lot in Burbank, Calif., one last time to wrap up her hit talk show on Thursday after 19 seasons on air.DeGeneres refused to go off air without briefly touching on the controversy that rocked her popular show in 2020 — including claims she was rude to staffers. “I have to just trust that whatever happened during that time, which was obviously very, very difficult, happened for a reason,” she told The Hollywood Reporter.“I think that I learned a lot, and there were some things that came up that I was shocked and surprised by.

“toxic” workplace allegations. The 64-year-old funny woman took to Twitter after filming wrapped on Thursday afternoon, sharing a snap of herself looking pensive on the show’s stage. “Today we taped the final episode of ‘The Ellen Show’ which airs on May 26th,” the comedian wrote beneath the image.Clearly in a reflective mood, she subsequently reminisced on the 19 years spent filming the show.

TV paternity tests is amazed that his catchphrase has ingrained itself into Americana.“Who would have thought that when it comes to slogans and monikers that “You are not the father/You are the father … would become part of pop culture,” Povich told The Post. “The memes that people have used … I’ve seen postcards that say, ‘And Joseph, you are not the father!’ when it comes to Christmas cards.

“Judge Jerry” after three seasons leaves Springer without a small-screen home for the first time since “The Jerry Springer Show” launched in 1991 — its host “The Ringmaster” of his raucous daytime circus for the next 27 years.“Right now I’m just taking a little bit of time to try out this retirement thing,” Springer told The Post. “I’m 78 and NBC/Universal has been so great to me.

NEW YORK — Veteran daytime talk show host Maury Povich is retiring, with the last original episodes of “Maury” set for broadcast in September after 31 years on the air.NBC Universal confirmed the impending exit of the 83-year-old Povich on Monday. Old episodes are likely to live on in some form, however, with the company saying that “the show has thousands of lively, entertaining and dramatic episodes that will continue to be successful in daytime for years to come.”“I’m so proud of my relationship with NBC Universal and all those who worked on the ‘Maury’ show but as I occasionally tell my guests on ‘Maury,’ enough already,” he said.His show hit upon a successful formula many years ago and has stuck with it: using tests to reveal, on the air, the father of babies where paternity is in question or lie detectors to see if a spouse is cheating or not.It wasn’t highbrow entertainment, but was popular enough for Povich to build a devoted audience among viewers young enough to be his grandchildren.Povich was a television journalist before going into the talk show world, beginning in Washington, where his father, Shirley, was a well-known sportswriter.

a “toxic” culture on the set of the wildly popular program. Those claims surfaced back in 2020, prompting DeGeneres to offer an on-air apology for not being aware of the alleged problems plaguing her production.

have shared allegations with BuzzFeed News that cast a dark shadow on the long-running advice program. In the CBS daytime show’s 20 years on air, psychologist McGraw has gained a reputation for his affable, no-nonsense advice and so-called “Phil-isms” — as one goes, “We teach people how to treat us” — that he doles out to guests and their families on the brink of crisis.“Everyone was just pretty miserable.

opened up about the ghostly presence.“I grew up watching Westerns, and I bought this house, and it was owned by a guy who did Westerns, so I must have been a fan of his,” Spencer, 51, explained to DeGeneres, 63, who said the loves stories about haunted houses and believes in ghosts herself.Luckily, Spencer’s ghost is of the friendlier “Casper” variety than those in “Poltergeist” — at least to her.“My ghost can haunt me, but he doesn’t haunt me,” Spencer noted.

without its beloved host. And her absence may be a good thing.Ratings for the talk show jumped a shocking 33% for the week ending Oct.

Tamron Hall has created a “toxic” work environment at her eponymous “Tamron Hall Show,” executive producer Candi Carter has left her job, according to a new report.“Candi was so done with Tamron that she requested that ABC take her off the show,” network insiders told the Daily Mail in a blistering report published Friday. “The environment that Tamron has created on her show is toxic.

People. “I’ve had to apologize, which I’m happy to do in order to save mine and everybody else’s job.