KTLA News Veteran Lynette Romero Joins KNBC as ‘Today in LA’ Anchor

Megan Thee Stallion took the “Saturday Night Live” stage in her hosting debut over the weekend, and delivered a fun, confident monologue that intentionally teased, but avoided, the elephant in the room.

Megan Thee Stallion took the stage in her hosting debut over the weekend, and delivered a fun, confident monologue that intentionally teased, but avoided, the elephant in the room.Megan walked out into the spotlight in Studio 8H rocking a black, semi-sheer ensemble and a bright smile and lit up the room with her enthusiastic charisma.However, the news of her home in Los Angeles getting broken into while she was in New York preparing for the show hung in the air as many waited to see if she would address the news in her opener.«I do pride myself on being an open book,» Megan said, toward the end of her monologue. «So with that being said, I would like to address a certain incident that I'm sure is on everybody's mind.»After a well-delivered dramatic pause, Megan shared, «No, I do not know why Popeyes took the Hottie Sauce off the menu.»«And hotties, if you want the sauce back, you gotta take that up with the Popeyes lady, not me! Alright?» She added with a laugh, before kicking off the show.Megan Thee Stallion’s Monologue! #stallionnightlivepic.twitter.com/pDji7Z1S37Two men broke into Megan's Los Angeles home on Thursday, TMZ first reported. Law enforcement sources told the outlet that took more than $300,000 in jewelry, cash and electronics.Megan took to Twitter on Friday to address the news, writing, «Material things can be replaced but I’m glad everyone is safe.»«Hotties I'm really sorry but after SNL I really gotta take a break,» she tweeted on Friday, just minutes after addressing the break in.

The Grammys are reclassifying the song “Super Freaky Girl” from the rap category to the pop category.

Kanye West was seen with a new mystery woman amid everything going down right now.

Lynette Romero began a new chapter in Los Angeles Monday by making her debut on NBC Los Angeles.

The suspect accused of fatally stabbing two people on the Las Vegas strip and injuring six others appears to have been caught on camera by a news outlet in Los Angeles two days before the attack.  "He was asking for help," ​Telemundo 52 cameraman Jorge López said, according to a news article from the outlet. "He kept telling me: 'I just want a chance, I just want to start from scratch.'" López was on assignment in downtown Los Angeles outside city hall last Tuesday when he was approached by a man who identified himself as Yoni Barrios.

Deadline Nikki Finke has died at age 68.According to her family, Finke died in Boca Raton, Fla. on Sunday morning after a prolonged illness, as confirmed by Deadline.Finke grew up in Sands Point on Long Island before graduating from Wellesley College.

Nick Jonas has opened a new rooftop restaurant and bar!

EXCLUSIVE: Circle of Confusion has hired Literary Manager Jon Kee to join the firm.

CAA has hired Lee Schroder in its Motion Picture Marketing department. 

Joe Otterson TV Reporter HBO Max has given a straight-to-series order to a new comedy series from Chuck Lorre and Nick Bakay with Sebastian Maniscalco set for the lead role, Variety has learned. The single-camera show is titled “How to Be a Bookie.” HBO Max has given it an eight-episode order. Per the official logline, “A veteran bookie (Maniscalco) struggles to survive the impending legalization of sports gambling, increasingly unstable clients, family, co-workers, and a lifestyle that bounces him around every corner of Los Angeles, high and low.” Lorre and Bakay serve as co-writers and executive producers on the show. Maniscalco will executive produce in addition to starring, with Judi Marmel also executive producing. Warner Bros. Television is the studio. Chuck Lorre productions is currently under an overall deal at WBTV. The show marks Lorre’s first series at HBO Max.

Dr. Frank Rubio traveled to the International Space Station on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft from Kazakhstan.

fan-driven boycotts of KTLA, confirmed on Tuesday that she has been hired at Los Angeles rival KNBC, as TheWrap previously reported Monday. “Breaking Good News. I’m joining the legendary ⁦@NBCLA⁩ family as anchor for Today in LA.

It’s official: Lynette Romero, who left KTLA abruptly this month, will join Today in LA as anchor and reporter. Romero will anchor NBC4’s weekday newscast from 4-7 a.m. alongside co-anchor Adrian Arambulo, meteorologist Belen De Leon and traffic anchor Robin Winston. Her first day on-air will be October 10.

Bella Kidman Cruise followed in the footsteps of her parents Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise into the arts – but instead of acting, she chose to pursue painting and digital illustration.MORE: Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise's son Connor's new fishing video leaves fans in aweThe 29-year-old has already amassed a strong body of work and a following in the thousands, and her latest achievement marks just another feather in her cap.VIDEO: Nicole Kidman’s relationship to adopted children with Tom CruiseBella took to social media to share that some of her work had been put up on display in an exhibition by Ikon Los Angeles.She shared a photograph of some of her art that had been lined on the walls, featuring a variety of graphic images steeped in horror and wondrous color.MORE: Bella Cruise shares rare personal news that will make her famous parents happyThe artist shared her gratitude for the accomplishment on her Instagram Stories, writing: "So excited to have this collection on display at @ikonla."Her fans quickly took to the comments section of the post to cheer her on as well, commenting with expressions of amazement and leaving behind heart and raised hand emojis.A post shared by IKON LOS ANGELES (@ikonla)Bella's artwork is on display at Ikon LA"I'm a proud owner of one of Isabella's portraits," one fan gushed, while another called it: "Amazing art!!!" and a third also simply deemed it: "Amazing!"Bella and her brother Connor adopted by the Hollywood couple when they were together, and while she resides in the UK with her husband Max, her brother is a deep sea fisher and meat expert.MORE: Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise's son Connor's fishing photos divide fansMORE: Bella Cruise's life away from parents Nicole Kidman and Tom

Joshua Alston To be a network police or medical procedural in the past decade is to want for a companion series. From there, the goal is to crawl kudzu-like across the schedule until the primetime grid is bespeckled with colons and occasionally clogged with three-hour crossover events. Still, ABC’s “The Rookie,” now in its fifth season, has never seemed an obvious choice for the Dick Wolf treatment.  Not because the show lacks ambition, though it does possess the happy-go-lucky quirk of a “Characters Welcome”-era USA drama. But “The Rookie” puts all its weight on the title character and stars the supernaturally charming Nathan Fillion, the kind of performer whose charisma can cut through even the schlockiest material. Creating a spinoff would require an equally charismatic performer who, like Fillion, can go from gravitas to goofiness at a moment’s notice. Enter Niecy Nash-Betts, just such a performer, to topline “The Rookie: Feds,” a show well-crafted and thoughtful enough to feel like more than a perfunctory franchise expansion. 

Romero had left after 24 years with the station to “pursue another opportunity.” Mester later paid tribute to his co-anchor on-air, while simultaneously protesting the move and apologizing to Romero for the way the general manager, Janene Drafs treated her. He was subsequently suspended and then fired. Viewers were not pleased about losing tow of their favorite local newscasters and took to social media with profanity-laced rants against the station.

A Los Angeles news anchor was canned after going off-script on-air and criticizing management for how they dealt with his former colleague’s departure – and viewers are not too happy about it!

Mark Master has been fired from L.A. television station KTLA days after being suspended for openly calling out his bosses for the way they treated co-host Lynette Romero’s departure.