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ViacomCBS has opened the door to working again with Nick Cannon, more than a month after the company severed ties with him over anti-Semitic comments the multi-hyphenate made on his podcast. Speaking at a town hall with employees Monday, Chris McCarthy, president of entertainment and youth brands at ViacomCBS, praised work that Cannon claims to …

Racism and anti-Semitism were second nature to him, and yet the cancel culture gives him a free pass every time. In a cancel culture targeting everyone from Confederate to Union generals, Columbus to Winston Churchill, Francis Scott Key to even Abraham Lincoln and all of Mt. Rushmore, and where the racial statements and attitudes of …

Nick Cannon says that his maternal great-grandfather was a Spanish rabbi. The comedian made the claim while appearing on the American Jewish Committee’s online program “AJC Advocacy Anywhere,” telling the host that he only learned about his family’s Hebraic roots after he was fired from ViacomCBS last month for spouting anti-semitic comments. “My mother has …

Kanye West will have at least one vote for president. Mariah Carey‘s ex, Nick Cannon, is supporting Kanye West’s run for president, saying America needs another black man in office. “I love it!” Cannon said about Kanye’s run for president to TMZ, during a recent visit to Los Angeles International Airport. “Yeah. We need another …

Holocaust survivors are demanding Facebook remove posts denying that the genocide they escaped ever happened. The survivors are speaking out in a social-media campaign launched Wednesday by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, which argues that Facebook has been too lenient towards Holocaust deniers. The Claims Conference plans to post a new video …

Nick Cannon paid a visit to the Simon Wiesenthal Center and Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles in response to backlash over anti-Semitic remarks he made on his podcast last week. According to a press release from the center, the “America’s Got Talent” alum spoke with senior officials and heard stories from Holocaust survivors on …

Days after making anti-Semitic statements on his podcast, Nick Cannon is sitting down with Rabbi Abraham Cooper to discuss what happened. “I made a lot of people mad,” Cannon, 39, told Cooper on the latest episode of “Cannon’s Class.” “[I made] your community mad. I made my community mad by apologizing.” Cooper replied that the …

Nick Cannon’s eponymous new talk show will no longer be premiering in September 2020. Dembar-Mercury, the producer and distributor of the syndicated talk show, announced the news on Friday. “The ‘Nick Cannon’ talk show will not debut this year. After conversations with Nick, we do believe that his public comments don’t reflect his true feelings …

Nick Cannon will remain the host of Fox’s “The Masked Singer” after he came under fire for making anti-Semitic comments on his YouTube series, “Cannon’s Class.” “Nick has sincerely apologized, and quickly taken steps to educate himself and make amends,” Fox said in a statement Wednesday. “On that basis and given a belief that this …

ViacomCBS has fired Nick Cannon after the TV host and producer made “hateful” anti-Semitic comments in a recent episode of his podcast. “While we support ongoing education and dialogue in the fight against bigotry, we are deeply troubled that Nick has failed to acknowledge or apologize for perpetuating anti-Semitism, and we are terminating our relationship …