Art Streiber/CBS @2020 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.(LONDON) — After four seasons on The Talk, Eve is saying goodbye.
During Monday’s episode of the CBS talk show, the 41-year-old rapper and actress announced that she would be leaving the show at the end of the year.
“I’ve known this weekend I was going to say what I’m going to say but it still doesn’t make it easier,” she began.
“It’s been a crazy year for all of us and I’ve been so grateful that I’m able to stay here in London and do the show but I can’t see, for me, the foreseeable future traveling back at the moment and have decided at the end of December this will probably be my last time on the show in this capacity as a host,” she shared.
“This is one of the hardest decisions in the world. I wish I hated one of you but I don’t,” she joked, referencing the entire staff including her co-hosts Sharon Osbourne, Sheryl Underwood and Carrie Ann Inaba. “It would just make it so much easier.”
For the current season of The Talk, Eve, born Eve Jihan Jeffers Cooper, has been fulfilling her hosting duties from London — where she and husband Maximillion Cooper are currently based — due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and related travel restrictions between the U.S. and U.K.
Aside from the global health crisis, Eve also expressed a desire to spend more time with her family, which includes her husband and her four stepchildren, and potentially some new additions.
“Obviously, staying home has been such a blessing because my husband and I got to know each other in a different way, in a beautiful way, so I want to be closer to him,” she said. “I want to concentrate on expanding our family, being with my family.”
NBC(NEW YORK) — NBC has given a contract extension to Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon, an insider tells The New York Times. His previous deal ran through 2021. Further details were not revealed of the extension were not revealed.
Meanwhile, the network officially announced on Monday that Jamie Granet-Bederman, a longtime producer on the NBC late-night show, will become its third showrunner in as many years. Once the #1 show in late-night, The Tonight Show has dropped to third place in its time slot.
Murray Close/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) — Harrison Ford honored Sean Connery — who played his on-screen dad in the 1989 feature Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade — following the legendary actor’s death on Saturday at the age of 90.
“He was my father…not in life…but in Indy 3,” Ford said in a statement to Variety. “You don’t know pleasure until someone pays you to take Sean Connery for a ride in the side car of a Russian motorcycle bouncing along a bumpy, twisty mountain trail and getting to watch him squirm. God, we had fun — if he’s in heaven, I hope they have golf courses. Rest in peace, dear friend.”
George Lucas, creator the Indiana Jones franchise, also paid tribute to Connery, writing in a statement, “Sir Sean Connery, through his talent and drive, left an indelible mark in cinematic history. His audiences spanned generations, each with favorite roles he played.”
“He will always hold a special place in my heart as Indy’s dad,” added Lucas. “With an air of intelligent authority and sly sense of comedic mischief, only someone like Sean Connery could render Indiana Jones immediately into boyish regret or relief through a stern fatherly chiding or rejoiceful hug. I’m thankful for having had the good fortune to have known and worked with him. My thoughts are with his family.”
The BBC reported Saturday that Connery died peacefully in his sleep in the Bahamas, having been “unwell for some time,” according to his son, actor Jason Connery.
ABC/Eric McCandless(LOS ANGELES) — With The Real host Jeannie Mai forced to withdraw from the competition due to emergency surgery, competitors weren’t staring down the promised threat of a double elimination on Monday’s Dancing with the Stars. However, that didn’t ease up the pressure because, also that night, everyone had to master two dances for the very first time.
The additional dance was a relay challenge where couples vied over a potential three extra bonus points for performing a certain dance to the same song back to back. The competitors were divided into groups of three and were tasked to memorize a new routine to either the cha-cha, Viennese waltz or the samba.
Unfortunately, Selling Sunset star Chrishell Stause wasn’t able to rise above the added challenge and the audience sent her to the bottom two alongside Disney Channel star Skai Jackson.
Judges Carrie Ann Inaba, Bruno Tonioli and Derek Hough, while disappointed over the audience vote, unanimously decided to keep Jackson in the competition.
Rising to the challenge of performing an additional dance, however, were two individuals who earned perfect scores on Monday and ended the night at the top of the leaderboard.
Catfish host Nev Schulman and Olympic figure skater Johnny Weir both earned a final score of 30 out of 30 by not only obtaining the top scores for their first routine, but clinching the maximum amount of bonus points for their subsequent relay challenge.
Schulman danced to two Ariana Grande collaborations on Monday, the first being her duet “Stuck With U” featuring Justin Bieber. His charismatic Viennese waltz impressed the judges, who eagerly handed him straight nines.
Then, Schulman kicked it up a notch on the ballroom with his vivacious cha-cha to Grande’s collaboration with Lady Gaga, “Rain on Me,” earning three additional points to finish the night with a perfect score.
Weir’s first dance was an extremely smooth foxtrot to Shawn Mendes’ “Wonder” and it dazzled the judges, who readily handed him straight nines, as well.
However, it was the relay challenge where Weir truly shined — a Viennese waltz to Whitney Houston’s “I Have Nothing.” The figure skater’s raw and emotional mastery of the romantic routine earned him the maximum amount of bonus points, 3, allowing him to join Schulman at the top of the leaderboard.
Another dancer that rose to the double dance challenge was One Day at a Time actress Justina Machado, who was tasked to perform two divergent routines. The actress’ first performed a lively Samba to “Magalenha” before slowing things down when competing against Weir with her flowing Viennese waltz. She earned two out of the 3 possible bonus points.
The most emotional moment of the night came when Jeannie Mai spoke directly to fans to express how heartbroken she is that her journey on DWTS ended the way it did. The television personality explained that she had a throat abscess that became so infected, her throat would have closed up had she not undergone immediate emergency surgery.
“I‘m just so thankful I had the experience on Dancing with the Stars. It was, hands down, one of the best journeys of my life. So thank you so much,” Mai emotionally conveyed to the camera. “I love you guys.”
Dancing with the Stars pays homage to the biggest names in music next week for “Icon Night,” where dancers will perform routines inspired by the most beloved artists in history. The episode airs next Monday at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.
Here are the current standings:
First Place: Nev Schulman, host of Catfish, with Jenna Johnson — 30/30 Johnny Weir, Olympic figure skater, with Britt Stewart — 30/30
Justina Machado, One Day at a Time star, with Sasha Farber — 29/30 Kaitlyn Bristowe, former star of The Bachelorette, with Artem Chigvintsev — 28/20 A.J. McLean, member of Backstreet Boys, with Cheryl Burke — 27/30 Skai Jackson, Disney Channel star, with Alan Bersten — 27/30
Lowest score: Nelly, Grammy Award-winning rapper, with Daniella Karagach — 23/30
Andrew Toth/Getty Images for New York Comic Con(LONDON) — Thanks to his work on The Walking Dead, Andrew Lincoln is used to dealing with the undead, so the Ghost of Christmas Past is no problem.
He’ll be meeting that spirit, as well as the ghosts of Christmases Present and Future, as Ebenezer Scrooge in this year’s Old Vic Theater version of Charles Dickens’ tale A Christmas Carol.
The production of the Jack Thorne play adaptation will be livestreamed as part of the famed London theater’s Old Vic: In Camera series. In keeping with COVID-19 rules, there will be no audience for the production, which takes the stage for 16 shows from December 12 through the 24th, though it will feature 18 performers, a full set, and a live orchestra.
Tickets for viewing the production will be made free for schools and care facilities, though 80,000 will be made available to the public.
Art Streiber/CBS @2020 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.(LONDON) — After four seasons on The Talk, Eve is saying goodbye.
