Rapper Eve is new 'The Talk' host

NEW YORK — Musician and actress Eve has been unveiled as a new permanent host of CBS' "The Talk," joining Julie Chen, Sara Gilbert, Sharon Osbourne and Sheryl Underwood. 

Eve, whose full name is Eve Jeffers Cooper, replaces Aisha Tyler on the show. The Grammy winner is best known for her hit "Let Me Blow Ya Mind," a duet with Gwen Stefani, her TV sitcom "Eve" and appearances in the "Barbershop" films. 

Angelica McDaniel, an executive vice president at CBS, called Eve an "accomplished and dynamic performer, musician, wife and stepmother" who will add "a new layer to the show as we continue to evolve season to season."

A new name?

Sean Combs says he was only joking when he announced recently that he had changed his nickname from Diddy to Love, as in Brother Love. 

The rapper and producer took to Twitter and Instagram to set the record straight after he says he learned "you cannot play around with the internet."

He says Love is one of his "alter egos." Combs' other nicknames over the years include Puff Daddy, Puffy, P. Diddy and Diddy. He now says he'll answer to any of those names and also Love. 

That's the opposite of what he said in a video posted on his 48th birthday.

He told fans in that message that was going by "Love, a.k.a. Brother Love" and wouldn't answer to anything else.

Ifill honor

A college in Boston will name one of its schools after the late Gwen Ifill (EYE'-ful), a co-host of PBS' "NewsHour" and veteran journalist who moderated two vice presidential debates. 

Simmons College announced recently the Gwen Ifill College of Media, Arts and Humanities in honor of Ifill, who graduated from the private college in 1977 with a communications degree. 

A former reporter for The New York Times and The Washington Post, Ifill switched to television in the 1990s and covered politics and Congress for NBC News. She moved to PBS in 1999 as host of "Washington Week" and also worked for the nightly "NewsHour" program. She and Judy Woodruff were named co-hosts in 2013. 

Ifill died of cancer last year at age 61.