Former Days of Our Lives and Guiding Light star Crystal Chappell co-hosted the 25th Annual Emery Awards with Good Morning America’s Sam Champion on November 10. The event, held at Cipriani Wall Street, honored Ralph Lauren’s Charles Fagan, Newark, NJ Mayor Cory Booker and Macy’s.  The yearly celebration is thrown by the Hetrick-Martin Institution, which helps provide empowerment, education and advocacy for LGBTQ young people age 12-24 and their families. See more photos after the jump!

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CBS has tried pretty much everything to make The Early Show competitive with NBC’s Today and ABC’s Good Morning America, with little luck. Now it’s changing things up once again. According to the New York Times, Charlie Rose and Gayle King are joining The Early Show, which will focus on hard news. Reportedly, the show’s new format will take a page from MSNBC’s Morning Joe and ABC’s The View and be more conversational.

The plan calls for Mr. Rose, who has contributed in the past to the network’s most popular program, “60 Minutes,” to help lead the 7 a.m. hour with Ms. Hill, who joined CBS from CNN in early 2010. READ MORE

It looks like the ratings race between NBC’s Today Show and ABC’s Good Morning America is getting a bit more interesting. According to the Wall Street Journal, GMA “moved to within a daily average of 397,000 viewers of Today” during premiere week in September. In its coverage of the WSJ’s article, The Hollywood Reporter reveals Today’s average lead over GMA shrank to just 270,000 viewers last week. However, it isn’t all bad news for NBC's money maker. Reportedly, “it continues to dominate among the core viewers aged 25 to 54 years.”

Former Guiding Light actor Doug Hutchison and his new wife 16-year-old aspiring singer, Courtney Stodden sat down with Good Morning America to defend their new marriage. The couple explained how their courtship started over the Internet and with Stodden's parents blessing.  The duo also reveals a reality show is possibly in the works (Color me shocked, NOT!) Watch the controversial interview after the jump! READ MORE

Barbara Walters has landed one of the biggest “gets” of the moment. According to ABC News, Walters will have a “wide-ranging” interview Jose Baez, Casey Anthony’s attorney. The interview, which will be his first network interview since the jury returned with ia not guilty verdict will cover “his courtroom strategy, his client’s demeanor, the reasons he thinks she was found not guilty, how he was ceaselessly second-guessed by trial watchers and the media during the six weeks of testimony, and his new found fame.”

Outrage erupted on social media sites, such as Facebook and Twitter, after a jury acquitted Anthony of murder, manslaughter and child endangerment on July 5. Portions of Walter’s interview will air on World News, Primetime Nightline and Nightline on July 6 and on Good Morning America and The View on July 7.