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Eddie Vedder is not a fan of Mötley Crüe — and apparently the feeling is mutual.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorDavid Crosby and Stephen Stills have joined Neil Young and Graham Nash in asking their labels to remove their collective recordings from Spotify.According to the announcement, in support of stopping harmful misinformation about Covid-19 on Joe Rogan’s Spotify-hosted podcast, the musicians have decided to remove their records from the streaming platform including the recordings of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young; Crosby, Stills & Nash and Crosby-Nash, as well as Crosby’s and Stills’ solo projects. Nash has already begun the process to take down his solo recordings.In a unified statement, the band members commented, “We support Neil and we agree with him that there is dangerous disinformation being aired on Spotify’s Joe Rogan podcast. While we always value alternate points of view, knowingly spreading disinformation during this global pandemic has deadly consequences. Until real action is taken to show that a concern for humanity must be balanced with commerce, we don’t want our music – or the music we made together – to be on the same platform.” Reps for Spotify did not immediately respond to Variety‘s request for comment.Following a similar request by Joni Mitchell, the move reunites the five artists, who have been friends and collaborators since the 1960s, in a stance that they certainly could not have imagined 50 years ago.

David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash have issued a statement supporting former bandmate Neil Young in seeking the removal of their music from Spotify in protest of podcaster Joe Rogan.

Zack Sharf Graham Nash and India Arie are the latest music artists to announce they are following in the footsteps of Neil Young and Joni Mitchell by removing their music from Spotify. Nash said in a statement that he “completely agrees” with his Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young bandmate Neil Young after “having heard the COVID disinformation spread by Joe Rogan on Spotify.” Nash added, “I am requesting that my solo recordings be removed from the service.”While Young, Mitchell and Nash exited Spotify because of Joe Rogan’s podcast spreading COVID misinformation, India Arie noted on Instagram that she is leaving Spotify because of Rogan’s “language about race.”“Neil Young opened a door that I must walk through,” Arie wrote on Instagram.

Alyssa Scott is letting the world know that she is feeling “centered” as she works on healing from the tragic death of her and Nick Cannon’s five-month-old son Zen. Fans have been checking in on the singer as Nick Cannon revealed that he’s expecting his eighth child on Monday, Jan. 31. She expressed the positives that her son brought her in his short time on earth including “expanded my heart in ways I never thought possible” and “filled that space with compassion” on a heartfelt Instagram post.

Nick Cannon is preparing to become a dad again! The 41-year-old performer and talk show host announced on the Monday episode of his show,, that he and model Bre Tiesi are currently expecting a baby boy. A source tells ET, «Nick and Bre have been very close friends for a while. They have also worked together and know each other extremely well.

Nick Cannon is reportedly expecting his eighth child.The star lost his five month old Zen from a rare form of brain cancer on December 5 2021. Now, TMZ reports that Nick is expecting a baby with real estate agent Bre Tiesi and that the star recently held a baby shower in Malibu. Nick can be seen in the images wrapping his arm around Bre, who is cradling a baby bump in snaps obtained by the American website.

Gayle King has signed a new deal with CBS News, after speculation about her future with the pending expiration of her contract.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorGayle King, who over ten years at CBS News has become one of that ViacomCBS division’s most recognizable personnel, has signed a deal to stay with CBS News.“I still feel that in many ways I’m just getting started,” King told listeners of her SiriusXM radio program on Friday.Speculation has risen in recent weeks whether CBS News would keep both King and her colleague Norah O’Donnell, both of whom had contracts that were set to lapse this year. King last signed an extension with CBS News in 2019, when Susan Zirinsky, the former CBS News president, rebuilt the network’s morning-news program, now known as “CBS Mornings,” with her at the center.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editortephen Hayes, the conservative political analyst who raised eyebrows in November when he took to The New York Times to announce his breaking ties with Fox News Channel as a longtime contributor, is taking up with NBC News in advance of the midterm elections.Hayes is expected to appear regularly across all NBC News properties, including TV shows like “Today,” “Meet The Press” and the streaming outlet NBC News Now. His first appearance under his new contributor deal with the NBCUniversal news division is expected to take place this Sunday on “Meet The Press.”Hayes is a founder of “The Dispatch,” a digital publication that espouses a center-right  point of view.

CBS just unveiled the official cast list for the new season of Celebrity Big Brother!

Showcase” event.“Showcase,” an annual variety comedy show spotlighting up-and-coming performers, has served as a launching pad for the careers of numerous stars, such as Kate McKinnon (“Saturday Night Live”), Tiffany Haddish (“Girls Trip”), Ego Nwodim (“Saturday Night Live”), Nico Santos (“Superstore”), Drew Tarver (“The Other Two”) and Nicole Byer (“Nailed It!”). Formerly a live theatrical production attended by executives, casting directors and talent agents across the entertainment industry, this year’s Showcase will be a pre-filmed hour of sketch comedy shot on location in Los Angeles.

CBS News and Stations announced an overhaul Monday that included a new studio in New York, and a new slate of programming. CBS News Miami also became the company’s 13th local streaming service, launching Monday.

CBS News is rebranding its streaming channels as CBS News Streaming Network, with a new slate of programming featuring more of the network’s broadcast talent, including a Person to Person series hosted by Norah O’Donnell and Gayle King tapped to anchor the first of new CBS Reports documentary projects.

Nick Jonas, 29, and his wife Priyanka Chopra, 39, announced on Jan. 21 that they are parents to a newborn baby. In a statement posted on Nick’s Instagram, the couple wrote, “We are overjoyed to announce that we have welcomed a baby via surrogate.” As fans left their well-wishes in the comments section of the post, which now has almost 1.4 million likes, Nick’s two brothers – Kevin 34, and Joe Jonas, 32 – commented with matching heart emojis. A source close to Nick told HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY that it was not news to his brothers, as they have been helping Nick prepare for the baby for quite some time!

Hulu’s Annie Luo is joining Peacock as EVP, Global Partnerships and Strategic Development.

A new video is aiming to entice people to come to Loch Ness in search of its most famous inhabitant.

election and campaign correspondent.Costa, co-author with Bob Woodward of “Peril” about the final days of the Trump administration, said that he's concerned about the fragile state of the American democracy and the need to aggressively cover attempts to undermine it.Costa has been a national political reporter at the Post since 2014.“I really wanted to grow as a journalist and find new ways to tell the story of our political times,” he said in an interview. “To me, there's no place better than CBS News with its legacy and integrity to do that.”He said the Post is a “first class organization” and that he was open to potential collaborations between the newspaper and CBS News.Reporting for “Peril” and attempts by former President Trump to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election made clear to him the need to closely follow efforts to change how America votes and how that vote is counted, he said.He begins at CBS News' Washington bureau on Feb.

Robert Costa, who has been national political reporter at The Washington Post and was host of PBS’s Washington Week, is joining CBS News as chief election and campaign correspondent.