Jerry Springer on his daytime TV exit: ‘I was competing against myself’

Jerry O’Connell issued a heartfelt apology to his “Stand By Me” co-star Wil Wheaton on the latest episode of “The Talk”.

Karamo, the new nationally syndicated daytime talker hosted by Queer Eye star Karamo Brown, has been sold in 90% of the U.S. for a fall 2022 debut.

Renee Zellweger opened up in a rare new interview about her career beginnings, especially with the project that gave her the push she needed, 1996's Jerry Maguire.MORE: Renee Zellweger and Ant Anstead stun fans with PDA packed photo during very special weddingIn an interview with Sirius XM's The Jess Cagle Podcast, the host talked to the actress about first seeing her make the press rounds when she was cast in the Tom Cruise-starrer.VIDEO: The Thing About Pam official trailer"They brought this young woman in, this is Renee, she's from Texas," he said. "And they said that she's going to be in this new movie with Tom Cruise.""You weren't a deer in the headlights, but I was like 'wow, this is a very different kind of person to be put into this big media machine'," he continued. MORE: Renee Zellweger reveals personal reason she stepped away from the spotlight"What was that time like for you, because it was suddenly going from not famous to being in the biggest movie with the biggest star and all of this attention?"Renee eventually paused before answering: "Yeah, that was weird," which elicited a chuckle from the hosts.

Giving his opinion. Amid Josh Peck and Drake Bell‘s feud, their former Drake & Josh costar Jerry Trainor admitted that he wasn’t sure what words of wisdom he could offer them — but attempted to do so, anyway.

John C. Reilly plays Los Angeles Lakers owner Jerry Buss in the HBO series Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty. Buss recruited Magic Johnson and turned the Lakers around beginning the late 1970s. Although Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was already on the team, Reilly said Buss’s color-blind recruiting paved the way for his success.

35th annual Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards! At Sunday's awards ceremony at The Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California, a number of your favorite movie stars, musicians as well as films, TV shows and video games were recognized. See which one of your favorite stars took home an orange blimp.

No one knows better than Jerry Springer that his rowdy, unpredictable tabloid talk show was a big step in people accepting the rowdy, unpredictable Donald Trump as president.The one-time mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio, whose self-named talk show ran for 27 years, was questioned by SiriusXM host Dean Obeidallah on Friday if he thought there was a connection between “The Jerry Springer Show” and “what people let people get away with,” Trump’s behavior and, ultimately, his acceptance.“Yes, there’s no question. The behavior of some of the people on the show is exactly Donald Trump,” Springer said.

Writers Guild of America East have settled on proposed changes to the constitution that will change how the guild develops its plans to unionize digital media companies. The guild’s leadership announced Thursday that it will start a campaign called “#NextChapter” that will include online meetings with members about the proposed constitutional amendments, on which the WGAE Council unanimously recommended a “yes” vote ahead of a referendum later this spring.

The WGA East, whose leaders last year talked openly about spinning off their digital news members into a separate union, is now fully embracing them by proposing changes to the guild’s constitution that would ensure “balanced representation” on its governing body for members from its different work sectors.

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorLeaders of the WGA East have reached a compromise after months of friction over the membership base of the union that represents film and TV writers on the East Coast.The WGA East council voted unanimously to pursue major changes to the union’s constitution to allow for different classifications of membership. The council is recommending changes that will be voted on in a member referendum later this spring.All of this is an effort to settle the divide over the WGA East’s big push during the last decade to organize writers for digital news and entertainment outlets.“The WGAE Council has spent the last several months working together and with an outside facilitator.

MIAMI -- Surrealist photographer and photomontage pioneer Jerry Uelsmann has died in Florida. He was 87.Uelsmann died Monday in Gainesville, where he was a professor emeritus at the University of Florida, according to a statement from the College of the Arts.Decades before the invention of computer programs like Photoshop, Uelsmann began assembling photographs from multiple negatives and extensive darkroom work to create surreal landscapes and other images.“The work is iconic, and so was Jerry," School of Art + Art History Acting Director Elizabeth Ross said in the statement.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterDigital sensation JoJo Siwa has bounced from her planned feature film debut.The YouTuber, “Dancing with the Stars” contestant and highly visible LGBTQ figure told Variety that she is no longer attached to a movie adaptation of “Bounce,” based on the YA book by Megan Shull. Furthermore, insiders familiar with the project said that Paramount Pictures has also removed the project from its development slate.“That project got put on hold, and then went away,” Siwa told Variety at the GLAAD Media Awards on Saturday.

Jason Alexander is mourning the loss of his "TV mama" Estelle Harris. The actress, who played George Costanza’s (Alexander) short-fused mother on "Seinfeld," passed away at age 93.The star’s agent Michael Eisenstadt confirmed her death in Palm Desert, California, on Saturday evening. "One of my favorite people has passed - my tv mama, Estelle Harris," tweeted the actor.

the Oscars incident between Will Smith and Chris Rock.Rock appeared at the ceremony at the Dolby Theatre on Sunday (March 27), at which both Smith and Pinkett Smith were present, to hand out the award for Best Documentary Feature.During his appearance, Rock commented that he couldn’t wait to see Pinkett Smith in “G.I. Jane 2”, alluding to her bald head.

EXCLUSIVE: Harry Hamlin (Mad Men) has signed on for a series regular role in the AMC series Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches, and for a supporting role in the film 80 for Brady for Paramount Pictures and Endeavor Content.