Howard Stern has replaced outgoing judge Piers Morgan on the hit NBC summer reality competition ‘America’s Got Talent,’ the Huffington Post is reporting. Stern made the announcement on his Sirius radio show, confirming the news that he signed an official contract to appear on the upcoming seventh season. After Morgan decided to leave ‘America’s Got Talent’ this year, the sixth season, to focus on his CNN show ‘Piers Morgan Tonight,’ NBC raced to find a replacement as controversial a judge as he was. Of his hiring, Stern said “I’m going to be Piers on steroids. It’s going to be a no-nonsense judge…I’m going to go there as a serious judge…I…

Piers Morgan has been a fringe player in The News of the World phone hacking scandal, and, according to The Hollywood Reporter, he is subject to become a bigger suspect. According to the site, Lord Justice Leveson announced Thursday that Morgan–former “America’s Got Talent” judge and host of CNN’s “Piers Morgan Tonight”–will be called to “explain himself” over some comments he made in 2007. Those comments he made related to phone hacking. According to the site, Morgan, who was also the former editor of The News of the World and The Mirror, reportedly told model Naomi Campbell his views on phone hacking after she asked if he had allowed hacking…

Piers Morgan was, until this week, the face of both NBC’s “America’s Got Talent” and CNN’s “Piers Morgan Tonight.” Now that Morgan has stated that he’s leaving “Talent,” tweeting, “Turned out that juggling’s harder than it looks, so I’m going to focus on CNN,” news has surfaced that a new judge may have been found. According to The Hollywood Reporter, shock jock Howard Stern is currently in talks to replace Piers as a judge on the popular talent show. According to the article, Stern is a huge fan of the show and is enthusiastic about being involved with the show. This would be great for NBC–not only does Stern have…

Piers Morgan has confirmed that he won’t be returning for the next season of ‘America’s Got Talent,’ in an effort to spend more time on his CNN show, ‘Piers Morgan Tonight,’ AOL TV is reporting. The television host tweeted the news, saying “I’m leaving ‘America’s Got Talent’ after six wonderful years. Turned out that juggling’s harder than it looks, so I’m going to focus on CNN.’ Morgan also confirmed the news on his CNN talk show, adding “Big thanks to NBC, Fremantle, and of course, my friend Simon Cowell, for giving me such a great opportunity. It’s been a blast.” The ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ winner also joked to his colleagues on…

According to The Huffington Post, Morgan Freeman said in an interview with Piers Morgan Friday that he believes the Tea Party’s stance is rooted in racism. When asked whether President Obama’s presidency has made racism in America better or worse, Freeman says that he feels it has made it worse because Obama has now become a Republican/Tea Party target. “Their stated policy, publicly stated, is to do whatever it takes to see to it that Obama only serves one term,” said Freeman. “[W]hat does that, what underlines that? ‘Screw the country. We’re going to do whatever we do to get this black man, we can, we’re going to do whatever…

Mariah Carey and husband Nick Cannon have already been visited by Child Protective Services after the April 30 birth of their twins, Moroccan and Monroe, US Magazine is reporting. The ‘America’s Got Talent’ host told one of the competition show’s judges, Piers Morgan, on his CNN evening talk show ‘Piers Morgan Tonight’ that “Child Protective Services actually came to see me while I was in the hallway.” Cannon added that there had been “allegations that there was drug and alcohol use during the stay in the hospital.” Cannon said the visit was a misunderstanding, and started when a nurse suggested to Carey “that if you drink Guinness, the dark beer,…

Think Susan Boyle has got talent? Meet Paul Potts an Opera singer who was the 2007 winner of “Britain’s Got Talent” from producer Simon Cowell. Synopsis: The search for the next big variety act in the UK is on with ITV’s Britain’s Got Talent. Popular comedians and hosts Ant and Dec join the judges Simon Cowell, Piers Morgan and Amanda Holden on this highly anticipated show that will culminate in not only a big cash prize of £100,000 for the winning act, but also a starring slot performing in The Royal Variety Performance. Stay tuned to Shockya.com for the latest from Britain’s Got Talent.