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Fresh off an Emmy Award win, John Legend is sticking withTV and becoming a coach on NBC’s “The Voice.”
Legend won an Emmy on Saturday as a producer of NBC’s “Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert,” making him an EGOT – someone who’s won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony award. Legend will join fellow singers Kelly Clarkson, Adam Levine and Blake Shelton as coaches on “The Voice.” The show is vying for its fourth straight Emmy for outstanding reality competition category at Monday’s 70th prime-time Emmy Awards ceremony.
The 39-year-old has another shot at an Emmy on Monday. He’s nominated for best actor in a limited series or movie for “Jesus Christ Superstar.”
Cosby prosecutor opposes effort to have judge step down
The prosecutor in Bill Cosby’s sexassault case is opposing the actor’s demand that the trial judge step down before this month’s sentencing.
Cosby’s lawyers say Judge Steven O’Neill has a long-standing grudge with a key pretrial witness and should recuse himself. O’Neill is set to sentence Cosby on Sept. 24 over a 2004 encounter with a woman at his estate near Philadelphia.
The witness is a former county prosecutor, Bruce Castor, who declined to charge Cosby when the woman came forward in 2005.
Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele noted in a court filing Thursday that the judge handled some 2,000 criminal cases during Castor’s tenure.