he became sean "puffy" combs, then puff, puffy, puff daddy, p-diddy, sean john and wilford brimley. feel sorry for his mailman. i've got a package. you know what this means, right, guillermo? >> guillermo: yes, jimmy. >> jimmy: you got to change the sign. you know what? we had quite a streak going. [ applause ] now we're starting over. have you guys been watching the new season of "stranger things" on netflix? [ cheers ] a lot of people have. it's very popular. a great combination of new and classic. a formula that really works for them, full of references from the '80s. now with the next incarnation of the show is taking that a step further with a new spin-off series that teams the kids from hawkins, indiana, with two beloved characters from the '80s, larry and balkee. >> t and balky are back. >> cousin larry, my sister's uncle's dog's nephew needs a place to stay. >> balky, i told you -- >> there he is now. >> who is this? >> his name is dem. >> dem who? >> demo gorgan. >> is he irish? >> nice to meet you mr. o'gorgon. >> you shouldn't have. no, i mean that, you shouldn't have. to

. >>> new name sean combs wants to go by now. >> i can't keep track. >>> live look outside from san jose camera, you can see >>> if you know a little something about country music, probably heard of luke bryan. one of the biggest stars. >> tonight talking about personal tragedy that almost derailed his musical career. here's the story. >> want to put somewhere in the house to watch them hatch. >> second you pick them up and remove them from mama hen, they're not going to hatch. >> this is luke bryan's farm outside of nashville, now filled with joy. blessed with successful career. >> i was on music row every day writing songs. people at capital kept hearing them and next thing you know, getting record deal from capital records. >> wasn't all smooth sailing. "good morning america" anchor spoke to him in special presentation that airs tonight on abc7 news. >> do you think a lot of people are familiar with the adversity he's faced? >> i don't know if everybody knows his brother died when he was about to head to nashville the first time and after grand oel opry debut, sister passes away. afte

fifteen or more years. >> and, i have to tell you, sean ditty combs trying out new name again.took to social media to alert his fans. >> my new name is love. a/k/a brother love. >> all right. love, or brother love, as he says, made the announcement on his 48th birthday telling fans the move was risky, but simply not who he was before. that bridges the grand total to five name changes for the artist, formerly known as ditty, p. ditty, purr daddy, and puffy. and of course not in that order. >> feel free to call me confused. >> i mean, i feel like he's trying to steel philly's mojo with that one. >> we're the sit of brotherly love. >> okay, all right. >> maybe it is a homage to our fair sit. >> i kate said? >> you have a couple he will? >> i do. i used to be call special k, by former colleagues, yes, not really into that one. i used to call -- >> what? >> rara. my friends from high school love that even though they know it annoys me to my core. >> feel free to tweet that. >> don't do. that will can we call you j? >> call you lots every things. >> behind my back, in front every me.

. >> and sean combs sits record straight about his new nickname.ster station 96.5 has those stories and more in the hot minute. >> thanks, ukee and guess contact we will kick things off with philly own rapper meek mill, who was flooded with support after being sentenced to a minimum of two years in prison for violating probation. sketch hart shared this photo with the caption quote the storm will pass, stay strong and keep your head up. rapper jay-z whose company roc nation manages meek mill took to social media to denounce the sentence, calling it heavy handed. >>> also in the rap world we have an update from sean combs , yesterday it was reported that the industry mogul was changing his name to brother love. well, he seems to have had a change of heart. y okay. i didn't change my name. it is just part of my alter egos. >> diddy wsechange created a storm on the internet said he will respond to brother love or any of his other names. on to another video, the webb, one fiance goes above and beyond to sell his ladies 1996 honda accord. now generally

we know him as puffy, p diddy, diddy. >> sean combs he has a new name he wants to us call him, readyor this. it is called brother love. >> yeah, music mogul, he announced it on twitter. he said quote i know it is risky because it could be corny but i decided to change my name before. i'm not who i am before i'm something different. don't try to call him by his old names because he will not respond. >> seriously. >> good to do that, michael eugene jerrick does it all the time he is going to be called brother love. >> brother love. >> or bl. >> what would you be. >> i don't know but that is within of our questions of the day if you were going to change your name what would you change it too i was thinking i could do a combination, i could do brotherly love, because of philly. so if you see me, call me brotherly love. how is that? is that good. >> that is good. >> that that is i thought of. when wayness junior high sometimes you want to be different i wanted to be called caitlin. >> that is completely different. >> karen, close enough but it is something, slice of better. >> thomas what

we can now call sean combs anything we want. >> it was only a couple days ago when diddy forbade us to love. love and maybe you're changing your name too, well, not so fast. >> i was only joking, okay? i didn't change my name. it's just part of one of my alter egos. one of my alter egos is love. but to set the record straight -- >> what? >> there if you have it, not ready to fully leap into the light. but it's a small step. he just wants to be diddy again. >> not puffy, not puff daddy, not p-diddy? they're all on the table. >> yep. call him baby daddy, call him anything. >> what's your alter ego's name? >> man, wow, no, i'm not going to go there. >> ooh, we hit a sensitive spot. >>> next up, forbes is out with their list of highest-paid television hosts. >> well, no surprise, we're not on the list. >> no. let's run down the top three, though. he joined kelly for live this year. and has all those other red carpet and hosting gigs, too. >> dancing her way into the second place time slot, ellen degeneris, with $77 million. >> ooh. who beat that? the top spot goes to -- >> fish or cut bait

. >> sean combs form earle la known as p. diddy decided to mark his 40th birthday by changing his name yet again, have a look. >> i decided to change my name again. i am just not-- i'm just not who i am, before. i'm something different. so my new name is love, aka brother love. >> trevor: that's right, ladies and gentlemen, diddy is dead, long live brother love. now look, i don't mind diddy changing his name. but doing it on your birthday is a really inconsiderate move. right? first of all, what name do people now sing in the song. happy birthday dear did-- brother love aka love brother love, it's just going to be chaos. they are going to come out with the cake and did didly will be like why is the top of my cake missing. well, i don't know, why did you change your name. can you imagine if you got him a custom monday grammed robe, everybody is mad like who the hell is p. diddy, huh, huh, brother love is not feeling the love right now. so just to recap, there was puff duedy-- puff daddy, puff, puffy, sean john, diddy, p. diddy

. >>> over the weekend, rapper and producer sean combs announced he has changed his name to brother lovesays it was all just a joke. the music mogul has gone by the names puffy, diddy, p diddy, puff daddy, but he said that brother love, that was simply just one of his alter egos. combs said he will answer to any of his former nicknames, including love. good to know. >>> speaking of nicknames, heard break drake is still preparing for love. he revealed to the hollywood reporter he is collecting birkin bags for his furthture wife. the rapper hopes to gift the collection of $10,000 handbags to the woman he chooses to settle down with. but is eyeing a $160,000 first edition harry potter and the sourcer's stone book for himself. >> she better like the color. >>> a throne fit for a king. it's not what you expect. it's a golden toilet. you can see it is covered in louis vuitton monogrammed handbags. that went on display in los angeles yesterday at the newly opened trade z showroom. it's covered in level from 24 luxury louis vuitton bags. 24 of those things. the couture toilet is on sale for only

got to tell you hot off press, it was all a joke, diddy does not want to be called, brother love, sean combs announced he was changing his name to brother love. it turns out he was just kidding around. diddy is still diddy for now but he is known for changing his name. he has also been known as p diddy, puffy and puff daddy. i think i have been giving this serious thought. where he went wrong if he wanted to change his name to brother love he should have had a video or song. remember when he changed from diddy, it was p, d, i, it was very catchy. >> the voices in my head say brother love was a wwf wrestler too. >> really. >> is he into wrestling. >> yes. >> you know who our 5:00 a.m. producer is. >> i hear voices in my head. >> bruce pitchard he played brother love see he gives me more information. >> i don't know if he is a wrestling fan he didn't want to compete with that territory >> he didn't want want to go with jake the snake i guess. >> let's not go with that one. >> andre the giant,. >> it is kind of crappy out there. >> very technical. >> yesterday was by far worse then it will be t

and brotherly love is something philly knows all b it might be inspiration for sean ddy combs new moniker. >> my new name is love, aka, brother love. >> brother love is no stranger to the name change, world, in the 1997 he was known as puff daddy, then sean john, puffy, p diddy, dropped the d and just diddy and then king combs for a week. then he believe the change comes ahead of the release of his sixth studio album due out in december. >>> and john stamos who paid tribute to gene wilder by stepping foot in his shoes for a special live to film concert presentation, of the 1971 classic williewonka and chocolate factory. look at john go in the night of pure imagination, stranger things star wolf hart played charlie while weird al owned the stage as the leader. that is your hot minute i'm be x from today's 96.5. >> all right. >> i got make a list. >> i got to do research i think there has been a brother love. >> brother love. >> that can be the next thing. >> still ahead, red, white, dessert wine, so many to choose from that was good. >> how do you know what wine goes with what dish? we wil

sean combs now says that he was just joking when he said he'll change his name to brother love. n to the conclusion you can't play around on the internet. and the odds that this -- adds this is overwhelming response from the media and it led to a lot of cop fusion. didn't really change his name it's part of one of his altar egos people can address him by any of his older names if you still want to call call me loving cami love, baby. >> i think that he might have maybe had drink or two when he did that. >> or three or four. >> or three or four. >> or six or seven. >> i was being nice. here's the thing. you can sell a record when you're puff daddy, diddy, puffy, sean combs, because it sounds good, right? um-hmm. >> how you going to be hiphop talking about yeah, yeah, yeah, what, what, brother love. [ laughter ] >> yeah, yeah, what. >> yes. >> before the love. >> i know. what was the name of exactly. >> i'm on the rise brother love. >> maybe he's the one on the sir rock vodka. >> that's your best free style yesterday. >> it sounds good with a bottle of vodka. >> there are four micr

and sean and p. diddy combs. i remember meeting him some years back.it is not all kind of flowers in the hair. it is a bit of punk rock, hip hop. we're trying to do something different. >> jimmy: i'm glad you mentioned diddy and the diddy happens to be here tonight. [ cheers and applause ] >> how are you? >> oh, man! >> jimmy: what do you have there in your hands? the giant piece of cardboard. >> isn't this great, y'all? [ cheers and applause ] i know we're having a good time but this is history today. this is, you're seeing people work together to take care of others that can't take care of themselves. that's the greatest gift in the world for you to be able to give people. and we want to thank you. you did a lot of great things on the journey. but the most important thing that did you was you got the check, baby. >> jimmy: that's a check for $500 million. now, this is the amount of money that you've raised so far to fight aids. diddy, diddy is giving you $500 million tonight. >> diddy just got nervous. >> did you get the memo? it's red, not blue. >>

sean p. diddy combs has a new name.you what it is, the man originally named as puff daddy explains the reason why he decided, once again, to change his name. >> i'm just not who i am before. i'm something different. so my new name is love. aka brother love. i will not be answering to puff daddy, diddy or any of my other monikers. >> mentioning that he's had several monikers from that undisclosed seaside location. it's all about love. >> and brother love says he will not answer to any of his previous names, as you heard, or any of the previous monikers, puff, puff daddy, sean, p. diddy, king combs, and for one week in 2011, swag. >> what is it? what is it, i just am not who i am or i was not who i used to be. >> maybe he's been hanging around tyrese too long. they both need to stay off the twitter machine. >> it's all love. brother love. >> get your people. >> what? and that's not a tissue protection. lysol kills over 100 illness-causing germs and viruses, even those that may cause runny noses. lysol. what it takes to pr

. >> sean combs. >> that is all of them. >> i think that is it there is another one, added to the list >> ready, it is love or brother love. >> lets see how he says it. >> i have been planning on& this and i decided, i know it is risky. it could come off as corn toy see people like yo, i decided to change my name again, i'm just not who i am before. i'm something different. so, my new name is love. ka, brother love. >> he is joking, right. >> he looks serious. >> he says he will not even address you if you call him by the former names. >> my gosh. >> so i will be, brotherly love. >> nice. >> because we're here in philadelphia. >> that makes sense. >> karen. >> for a nickname for me i always wanted to be called caitlin. i want something better then that. >> caitlin. >> you don't even know how are people are allowed to evolve but one of the things i have been praying on this i have been praying on if a child has cancer, or bad things. you don't pray on i'm changing my name. >> i'm going to speak a word up in here. >> his name is his business. yes. >> because jay-z, and his was smaller ja

. >>> sean diddy combs, no longer diddy, or p diddy, or puff daddy. no, he has changed his love.e said he knew it was risky, because it would come off as corny. >> he is brother love. >> you know people are going to call him p diddy. >> of course. >>> taylor twist's upcoming album isn't even out yet but it's already breaking records. preorders for reputation makes its target the biggest music presale of all-time. her album is due out this friday. >>> speaking of music, a broadway crowd got a surprise when elton john surprised them at the lion ♪ the circle. ♪ and the circle of life >> yeah, he wrote the music for the hit, and its stage adaptation. >> we're going to have to get you out more often. >>> the burgundy and gold player on a mission, and it's much more than just a laundry project. you're going to see how a new school washer and a dryer will make a big difference for students. >> yellow weather alert for some showers whbeat the odds so i can play with my grandkids. so i can celebrate 50. when i was 14, they saved my heart so i could bring family tog