and her husband prince philip is 95. the queen recorded her annual christmas message earlier this month. prince charles was already in the christmas spirit yesterday. he attended a holiday, vent for the elderly in london. charles will join his mom in the country. this is tradition. this was footage of the royal family last year and this year there is a break in the royal christmas custom, will and kate wendt be there. >> they will spend christmas with the middleton and he's expected to spend it with the queen on the estate and it's a very formal way to spend christmas and one that he's enjoyed for many years. >> what about marry's girlfriend meghan markle. christmas is reserved for the royal family only and harry and meghan have been dating less than a year and she's expected to spend the holidays with family in los angeles.

time to roll out our favorite celebrity confessions in 2016. when amy schumer sat down with cameron math son he got her talking about her exes and you know how she has that famous lower back tattoo and maybe they can bond over ink. >> you have a great lower back area. >> that is very >> are you really tan or is it fake? >> i swim outside a lot. >> it was supposed to say every day i'm hustling, but -- >> let's see if it's ready. >> okay. yeah, it looks great. it's perfect. >> it says the day i'm hustling. some of it didn't come off. >> amy loved it so much she instagramed it out to her 5.4 million followers. the author of the girl with the lower back tattoo is going strong with ben hennish. she and the custom furniture designer met on a dating app. >> how is ben different from some of the guys from your past? >> he's totally different.

we go for narcissist and he's not a narcissist, and he's just very supportive and loveriing ai think we're just very proud of each other. >> in the book you recount some of your past relationships and did you reach out to them and give them a head's up? >> no. no. i changed their names. the guys in the chapters that were more difficult, i was in an abusive relationship and lost my virginity. i'm not in constant contact with those guys if you can believe it or not. >> and she said, what was your reaction to that? >> i shrieked. >> playing meryl streep in a biopic. amy schumer, of course. >> she said it so fast i just screamed. it was just funny that people -- is it happening? no, she's alive. >> amy was recently cast as barbie in the new live action film and despite what you may have read online, she and j. law are definitely still friends who will be starring together on screen.

>> jennifer's movie and an update on that. >> i sent her a rude text and i called her, i called her and talked about myself. i'm just realizing. we have to get it on our calendars. >> it is always good when you can work with one of your besties and make a whole lot of money. speaking of superstars cher has lived her entire life holding nothing back, she's not done. do not count her out because 70 is the new 70. ♪ ♪ >> it's been 50 years since your first song made the charts on the billboard. >> i know. i'm just older than dirt. >> you're not older than dirt. in your mind, what do you think? >> i feel like -- in my mind i just totally forget, and the other day i thought i was 60 and then i thought i'm 60. oh, my god, i never expected to live this long. ♪ ♪ >> she doesn't look or sound 70,

but earlier this year some tabloids printed that the icon was close to death. >> there were all these reports, cher's sick. this may be her last birthday. >> they got a lot of mileage out of that, and i was in st. tropez eating ice cream with my friends. they're taking pictures. do they think i'm dying and i'm out here partying and all that? it sells magazines. >> well, cher fans, rejoice. she is returning to the stage that launches in the monte carlo in vegas and in the d.c. area. yeah, her career is still on fire. what about her love life? >> what is cher looking for in a man? >> i like a guy with a sense of humor, and i like someone who's cute. >> you tended to date very pretty men. >> yeah. >> her past boyfriends include val kilmer, and richie sam bor a tom cruise before he made it big and actor rob came, well letti.

>> you turned the whole thing on its head. >> it wasn't -- i swear to god, it was because older men did not like me. i'm not kidding. >> i don't get that. >> older men like younger girls. >> that's not necessarily -- >> and older men were afraid of me, you know? didn't want to -- like, i don't want to -- their baggage, i don't want to deal with that. >> and she continues to do it. she has two movies in the works and a broadway musical based on her life from the producer of hamilton. she is not slowing down. >> i'm not sure anybody in hollywood is busier than andy cohen. he's got the real housewives to handle and he wrote a new book which pulls no punches with his celebrity friends from strahan to oprah, even taylor swift. nobody gets away unscathed. >> taylor swift and katy perry at the met after-ball party. what happened? >> i'm an idiot is what happened. i say the wrong thing to everybody, and here i am, i say the absolute wrong thing to

taylor swift. she's looking for a place to sit because lady gaga is going to perform. your friend katy is over there and there's all this room. i think she probably thought i was being shady. >> andy unfiltered is part of what makes him so popular with audiences and with celebrities. he's best buds with katy and her ex john mayer. >> we have a real bromance. the fact that i hosted the friends, and i went and met john mayer after the show, and who are the only other people in the restaurant but the cast of friends including jennifer aniston, and i was sitting there with john and said i'm going over to that table. john stayed behind. >> one big regret, bailing oprah. >> anderson and i were -- and maybe she'll invite us for a sunset shot of tequila. he's, like, it's not going to

happen, dude. get over it. i wake up to a text from gayle that says oprah wanteds you to come over for brunch with anderson. >> because that happens -- never! >> i had to pass up on brunch at oprah's. >> there are so many dishy tales and more from the andy cohen diaries and at new york's palm restaurant, he and michael strahan once had a face-off about what he said about michael for walking away from live on gma. why leave the show where you're the king and your name's in the title to go to a show where you're one of many people and it's not your show. the book is a cavalcade of things that i've said that i regretted. i regret saying that thing to taylor swift. i'm a moron. >> kelly clarkson tells us about her surprising new career move while having two kids in two years. >> play with each other while mommy has a glass of wine. >> you've been a hypnotist.

>> bryan cranston's crazy past career. >> walter white married us. >> cameron gets acting lessons from tv icon c

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oprah made a pretty great confession today. >> lost over 40 pounds. i can honestly tell you i struggle no more. >> there's the money shot. 62 years old and proud in a tight-fitting show every curve black body suit doing yoga. also dances while eating pasta, walks her dog and fits into some skinny jean, down 40-plus pounds. that means oprah's still dropping weight after nancy sat down with her in march. >> weight watchers works. >> yeah. >> i love bread, and i probably at this point lost about -- i would say 30 pounds. i usually drop about five pounds a month. it's slow, but it's definitive. yes! ♪ ♪

♪ >> 2016 has definitely been a year to remember for kelly clarkson because she became a mom for the second time, but how does she feel if her kids wanted to be a singer one day just like her? that is one of the things we learned when kelly opened up about her new baby boy with our jennifer pero. >> he likes to chill. he loves anything. he loves to be entertained by his sister. that's why we had them so close together. play with each other while mommy has a glass of wine. >> not at all. things have been taken out. we're done! >> after remy, it wasn't done and that's okay. kelly has her hands full as stepmom to her husband's two kids and 2-year-old daughter river rose who looks so cute at her first christmas parade. >> she's sweet, but she is definitely in her terrible 2s. she goes nuclear off of the smallest things and she'll be,

like, fine and then devastating. this is the most stupid thing ever. >> she's dramatic already. >> like her mom. yeah. >> kelly clarkson. >> the girl who won "american idol" back in 2002 was adding to her resume. the grammy winner is now a children's author with her first-ever picture book, river rose and the magical lullaby. >> it wasn't like i wanted to do this and we started from scratch. i did this for my daughter. i wrote little stories for her. >> if any of your four children came up to you and said mom, i want to audition, what would you say? >> it's such a hard job a lot of the time, and if they do it go for it. they have ia famous mom so that's going to suck. >> still ahead tonight -- >> she threatened to kill me or have me killed. >> bryan cranston bombshells. his crazy ex, troubled childhood and what you never knew. >> i found myself shaking on the

floor. >> we're with jerry springer celebrating 25 years of talk show madness. >> and comedy legend carol burnett on her soap opera past showing "e.t." her best soap stare. >> your husband is not really your husband. he's a reincarnation of your dead grandmother. closed captioning provided by --

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by christmas morning you'll be calling me son. i'll be calling you dad. >> i don't think it's going to happen. >> i think it's going to, dad. >> stop that. >> what? >> dad. >> too much. bryan cranston has his hands full with james franco in the new comedy "why him" that opens tomorrow, but the craziest stuff that happened to bryan actually happened in real life and bryan went through it all starting with this mesmerizing fact. >> you've also been a hypnotist. >> yes, i have. yes, i have. ta-da! >> how did you do that?

>> it's a little scary. >> that is a little scary. wow! you better be careful with those people. the people that act with you better be careful. >> before making it as an actor, he was a farm hand, security guard, a dating consultant who matched up couples and even a licensed minister. >> how many marriages have you performed? >> i've performed a dozen or so. >> you could perform a marriage if you wanted to today? >> yeah. it's still legal, and i can't help, butwonder if there's someone at one point watching "breaking bad," oh, my god, i think walter white married us. honey! >> he has endureded a lot of pain. when he was a kid, his father, an actor, a bandoned the family. and in his memoir, he writes about one of the most terrifying experiences he had with a troubled girlfriend. >> she acted insanely and threatened to kill me or have me killed and i had this epiphany.

i saw myself hurt her, kill her. >> in your imagination. >> oh, my god, it was so real, i didn't know it was my imagination. >> wow! >> until i found myself shaking on the floor and sweating and realizing that this is what i've come to. one of the most disturbing times i've ever had. >> you say you channelled this in playing walter white. >> if it's useful in anything in being able to draw from your own personal experiences, yeah. you pull that out and in this case use it for something artistic and creative as opposed to dangerous. >> bryan is not the only star who dropped a tell-all in 2016, carol burnett also wrote one, but in our interview she confess sh ed that she has a school girl crush on cameron matheson. >> i love me some carol, and earlier she did this. >> i miss "all my children," i

miss you. >> i was a fun of "all my children" and ryan lavery. >> oh, no, honey, i'm not just one of your fans. i mean, oh, my goodness! lord have mercy. >> since she's such a fan, we have to do a little game of soap opera stare. your husband is not really your husband. he's a reincarnation of your dead grandmother. >> she's a master at the soap fake slap. >> i've just been using you for your money. ♪ ♪ >> oh! >> that was really good. >> brava, ms. burnett! carol is celebrating one of her famous moments in her new book "in such good company." >> thank you, i saw it in the window, and i just couldn't resist it. >> the one when we were doing "went with the wind," this will

be one of the funniest site gags in the history of television and that outfit is in the smithsonian. >> can we just point out how good carol looks at 83 years young. she says her grond soandsons ar help keep her going. >> this year mikes a milestone and it's been 25 years since springer cemented his place in pop culture by showcasing some of the craziest parts of humanity. here's the thing, peoplen still can't get enough of him. >> anybody can be a talk show host. you do three things to be a talk show host. you have to be able to do, he did what? come on out, we'll be right back. if you can do those three lines, you've got a career. >> it's the first secret to jerry's success, make it look easy. >> this is the greatest show we've ever done. we spent a lot of time with springer over his 25 years on the air and he became the king of baby dadding fighting. jerry carried a ball to the kind

of ringleader that made him a pop culture icon. >> the day i figured out, wow, we're on to something there were two cultural moments that impacted me, and one was being on the simpsons. >> we're back. homer, how does it feel to know your baby was fathered by a space octopus? >> it made me angry, jerry. >> and the other was the cover of "rolling stone," and that was the first time i thought people are noticing. >> none of that goes to his head. that is his success secret amidst the stupidity. >> our show is a circus, period. it has no redeeming social value. 25 years from now i don't think i'll be talkative, but if you just yell loudly, jerry, what do you think? say something. i know what i'm going to put on my tombstone. >> what's it going to say?

>> i won't be right back. >> at its height in 1998 the springer show had more viewers than "the oprah winfrey show." that was the infamous episode, i'm marrying a horse. >> all righty then. in entertainment tonight birthdays which nominee is husband of the prince of wales, is it ray hard he, john feinnes or prince of wales. coming up next.

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