Robert Costa Jumps to CBS News From Washington Post

Maura Higgins has slammed trolls for claiming she’s “too skinny” as she revealed she can receive hundreds of messages a day criticising her appearance. Irish beauty Maura, 31, rose to fame on Love Island in 2019 and has since carved out a successful career, signing a modelling contract last year with Elite Models, which also represents the likes of Kendall Jenner.

Eamonn Holmes' agent has denied claims the TV star was axed from his Friday slot on ITV show This Morning because “viewers didn't want to watch him anymore”. The 62 year old, alongside his wife, Ruth Langsford have been replaced from hosting the Friday shows by Alison Hammond and Dermot O’Leary. ITV's decision decision to replace him reportedly followed ITV bosses carrying out extensive analysis which revealed that Eamonn’s popularity had waned, The Mail on Sunday has claimed.

From kid to costar! Candace Cameron Bure had a great time working with her daughter, Natasha, on the latest Aurora Teagarden Mysteries movie.

MAURA Higgins looked incredible in a racy dress at London Fashion Week last night. The ex Love Island contestant, 31 arrived at the Oh Polly show on Saturday in a black dress that revealed plenty of skin.

HALLE BERRY had to answer difficult questions about her sexuality after accidentally showing her teenage daughter a lesbian sex scene she was in. The Hollywood actress, 55, plays a UFC fighter who beds a man — and a woman — in Netflix hit Bruised. And she said 13-year-old Nahla was stunned when she saw the love scenes during an early screening, telling her superstar mum: “We need to have some conversations.” Halle, who has made her directing debut with the sports drama — revealed her film editor unexpectedly jumped to the movie’s raunchiest moment during the screening.

EX-Apprentice star Luisa Zissman has blasted daytime TV — saying Loose Women is boring and the £500 fee for Good Morning Britain is “s***”. The entrepreneur, 37 — who’s also appeared on This Morning — claims she has quit telly altogether to focus on business. The mum of two was a runner-up on Lord Alan Sugar’s show in 2013 and a contestant on Celebrity Big Brother a year later.

THIS Morning bosses axed Eamonn Holmes from his coveted presenting position at ITV after research found that he was unpopular with viewers. The veteran presenter blasted station bosses in a recent interview with the Daily Mail, accusing them of being "sly" and hypocritical over his departure.

DALE Critchlow, who appeared in the hit movie Napoleon Dynamite, has died, his family announced. He famously played Farmer Lyle in the 2004 movie, directed by Jared Hess.

MATT LeBlanc has been spotted in Los Angeles for the first time since The Sun revealed he has split from his TV producer Aurora Mulligan. The Friends star, 54, looked downcast on a stroll in Sherman Oaks, wearing a long sleeve gray shirt, distressed blue jeans and eye-popping red sneakers.

STRANGER Things star Millie Bobby Brown looked unrecognisable as she transformed her style for her 18th birthday. The actress and boyfriend Jake Bongiovi, son of legendary rocker Jon Bon Jovi, turned into Barbie and Ken for the special occasion.

JIMMY Carr is facing a fresh backlash after reportedly joking that child sex abuse victims should laugh off their trauma in an unearthed podcast interview. The controversial comedian has been criticised by Childline founder Dame Esther Rantzen, 81, for his comments.

TELLY property shows veteran George Clarke has split from his wife, we can reveal. It comes after estranged Katie Morgan Jones, 42, said last month: “It’s time for change.” The couple had been splitting their time between homes in London and Gloucestershire.

GOOD Morning Britain bosses have reportedly "given up" trying to find a replacement for Piers Morgan and will continue rotating its current male presenters. The brilliantly outspoken and controversial media personality infamously quit the popular morning programme last year after he stormed off set following a row with weatherman Alex Beresford. The row came over his remarks dismissing Meghan Markle’s mental health battle.

MEGAN Barton Hanson has sent fans wild after flashing her underboob in a tiny bikini while holidaying in the sunshine. The former Love Island star took to her Instagram with the saucy snap, which saw her kicking back and catching rays in Morocco.

KIRSTIE Allsopp’s Location, Location, Location has been branded fake by an ex employee who also revealed her “diva" demands. A former researcher alleged the 50-year-old’s property show “cons” viewers. The ex-employee on the popular Channel 4 series also claimed Kirstie and co-star Phil Spencer, 52, are not involved in researching homes.

FANS have caught their first glimpse at Michelle Keegan as she makes her RuPaul's Drag Race debut. Former Coronation Street star Michelle will join Drag Race UK vs The World judges panel alongside BBC Radio 1 DJ Clara Amfo.

ANT and Dec looked completely unrecognisable tonight as they transformed into drag queens for an epic Saturday Night Takeaway performance. The Geordie duo became Angels of the North, Lady Antoinette and Miss Donna Lee, for the End of the Show Show and they gave Ru Paul a run for his money.

EASTENDERS has celebrated a number of iconic characters since it first hit our television screens back in the 1980s. None more so than the members of the Fowler family, who were part of the original cast line-up on the long-running BBC One soap. Holding the title of the longest serving family in EastEnders, the Fowler's were first seen in 1985 during the first episode of the show.

MRS Brown’s Boys is returning to the BBC as a series for the first time in almost a decade. The last run of the hit comedy, based around the family of Brendan O’Carroll’s foul-mouthed Irish “Mammy” Agnes Brown, aired in 2013.

COVID.Downing Street has said that Prime Minister Boris Johnson will reveal details of his “living with COVID” plan on Monday (February 21) – outlining that factors such as vaccination, testing, and anti-viral drugs will be enough to keep people safe, rather than expecting infected people to stay at home.Self-isolation regulations for those who test positive and their close contacts are expected to cease by the end of this week.“COVID will not suddenly disappear, and we need to learn to live with this virus and continue to protect ourselves without restricting our freedoms,” said Johnson. “We’ve built up strong protections against this virus over the past two years through the vaccine rollouts, tests, new treatments and the best scientific understanding of what this virus can do.”He added: “Thanks to our successful vaccination programme and the sheer magnitude of people who have come forward to be jabbed, we are now in a position to set out our plan for living with COVID this week.”Labour’s Shadow Health Secretary told BBC‘s Sunday Morning today (February 20) this was “declaring victory before the war is over”, that ending mandatory self-isolation was “not the right thing to do” and that this was a distraction from the ongoing ‘partygate’ scandal.“At this stage the PM risks muddying the waters,” he said. “We want to see the government publish the scientific advice because at the moment this seems very premature.”“He continued: It seems like Boris Johnson is keen to declare victory before the war is over in the hope he gets some headlines about ‘victory day on COVID’ instead police officers asking questions about actions in Number 10.”Labour Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting tells #Raworth that dropping remaining

Microsoft and Activision Blizzard regarding the recent acquisition occurred days after the report on CEO Bobby Kotick.An SEC filing was published on Friday (February 18) stating that Kotick and Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer entered talks about the acquisition on November 19, just three days after a report alleged that Kotick had known about Activision Blizzard’s misconduct for years.In September of last year, it was announced that Activision Blizzard was cooperating with an SEC investigation into the allegations of sexual harassment at the company, which this filing refers to.Part of the SEC filing reads: “On November 19, 2021, in the course of a conversation on a different topic between Mr. Spencer and Mr.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorABC News is planning a wide array of special coverage in February devoted to Black History Month, including two primetime specials and bespoke segments across the news division’s various programs.“While we remain dedicated to telling the impactful and important stories around the Black community all year long, ABC News will provide special coverage throughout February to salute Black excellence,” said Kim Godwin, president of ABC News, in a prepared statement. “We will celebrate and honor Black culture across all programs and platforms, taking an in-depth look at issues past and present while spotlighting those who have overcome significant obstacles and paved the way for a better future.”The ABC News series “Soul of a Nation” will present “Screen Queens Rising” on Thursday, February 3 at 8 p.m..

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Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorFox News will install Lawrence Jones and Brian Kilmeade in new solo hours on Saturday nights, filling two holes vacated when the Fox Corp.-backed network moved Jesse Watters and Jeanine Pirro to new weekday duties.More to come….

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.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorOne year into the Biden administration, the nation’s big TV news organizations’ hopes for a return to normalcy have yet to be borne out.While White House activity has found a more familiar cadence during President Joe Biden’s first year — ABC News political director Rick Klein calls it “professional” — many of the TV reporters who cover the place say their working lives have yet to return to pre-Trump rhythms. The ongoing pandemic and ramped up demands for streaming initiatives have increased pressure on correspondents and news organizations at a time when traditional ratings are down.“Today was bananas,” says Cecilia Vega, ABC News’ chief White House correspondent, during a recent phone interview that started just after 11 a.m.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorNBC News is going to get out of Washington in January of 2022 so it can figure out who will be coming to Washington in 2024.When Chuck Todd appears on MSNBC’s “Meet The Press Daily” Wednesday and Thursday, he will do so from Georgia, where he will meet Georgia officials and candidates for office, all part of a bid by NBC News to fan out across the nation to find the most important stories that will affect this  year’s midterms and the 2024 presidential race.“You cannot be a national news organization and cover the campaign process from Washington and New York,” says Carrie Budoff Brown, the NBC News senior vice president who oversees “Meet The Press” and has been assigned to oversee the unit’s midterms coverage. “You really need to get out of those two places.” Over the next weeks and months, NBC News correspondents will seek out influential people in battleground states and try to suss out emerging storylines in hopes of getting ahead-of-the-curve information to news and politics aficionados.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorKendis Gibson, a veteran anchor who  worked most recently for MSNBC, is jumping to a new role at CBS’ Miami station, WFOR, where he will anchor the morning and noon newscasts.The move shows ViacomCBS bringing in new local staffers under Wendy McMahon, co-president of the company’s news and stations unit, and Gibson says he welcomed the chance to take on a wider range of reporting than he was able to do at MSNBC, where he was anchoring early mornings on weekends. “I wanted to get away from working in the hyper-partisan 24/7 political news space,” he tells Variety.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorLara Logan, the former “60 Minutes” and CBS News correspondent who has recently been doing documentary work for Fox News Channel, is no longer being represented by UTA after she made controversial remarks comparing Dr. Anthony Fauci to Josef Mengele, the notorious Nazi physician.A person familiar with the matter confirmed a Monday report in Mediaite Monday that said UTA had dropped Logan several weeks ago after she made the remarks during a Nov. 29 conversation with Fox News anchor Pete Hegseth on “Fox News Primetime.” She said that to some people Fauci “represents Joseph Mengele.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorCBS News is placing new emphasis on streaming video, luring an executive from The Wall Street Journal to oversee the broadband news venture once known as CBSN.The ViacomCBS unit hired Anthony Galloway, who had been overseeing a range of audio and video initiatives at the News Corp.-backed broadsheet, as its new senior vice president of streaming. Galloway, who will report to Neeraj Khemlani, co-president of a unit that comprises CBS News and local stations, is expected to oversee day-to-day programming and production for CBS News’ streaming service.

Neeraj Khemlani, the president and co-head of CBS News and Stations. So Happy Valentine’s Day to the two of them, we suppose.Sokoloff will lead a centralized bookings unit encompassing CBS News’ broadcast and streaming platforms.