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NEW YORK — Julie Chen has left the cast of the CBS daytime show “The Talk” a week after her husband, CBS Corp. boss Leslie Moonves, was ousted from the company due to sexual misconduct charges.
Chen announced her decision via a taped message on the show Tuesday, saying she needed to spend more time at home with her husband and their son. She appeared from the set of “Big Brother,” the prime-time CBS show where she is the host.
Chen made no mention of the case involving Moonves. She appeared to fight back tears when she thanked crew members.
One of her co-hosts, Sara Gilbert, said “we love you, Julie,” after the taped message was over and just before the show concluded.
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LAS VEGAS — A rebel yell will be heard again in Las Vegas.
Palms Casino Resort and Live Nation on Tuesday have announced Billy Idol is returning for his second residency at the Pearl Concert Theater.
The 62-year-old, known for such hits as “Rebel Yell,” “Dancing with Myself” and “Mony Mony,” will be joined by his longtime guitarist Steve Stevens for the 10-show run in 2019.
Idol will play five dates in January and five dates in October. Tickets go on sale Friday.
Idol's new disc, “Vital Idol: Revitalized,” featuring remixes of his classic hits, will be released Sept. 28.
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Days before Bill Cosby's scheduled sentencing on felony sex assault charges, his wife demanded Monday that a Pennsylvania ethics board investigate the judge over what she called bias.
Camille Cosby renewed allegations that trial judge Steven O'Neill had a grudge with a key witness, former Montgomery County District Attorney Bruce Castor, in a 2016 pretrial hearing.
O'Neill sent the case to trial afterward, and Cosby was convicted at a retrial this spring of drugging and molesting a woman at his home in the area in 2004.
Camille Cosby traveled to Harrisburg on Monday to file a complaint with the state Judicial Conduct Board.
“My husband was improperly prosecuted in a trial presided over by an unethical judge who seeks to compound his unethical behavior by sentencing Bill Cosby, now 81 years old and unsighted, for a charge that the former DA and the judge's rival, Mr. Castor, determined was unwarranted and would never be prosecuted,” Camille Cosby said in a statement.
Defense lawyers filed a similar motion in Montgomery County Court last week asking O'Neill to step down before Monday's sentencing.
Cosby, 81, faces up to 10 years in prison on each of three felony counts, but would likely get far less time under state guidelines. He has been on house arrest at his estate near Philadelphia since the April 26 conviction.
