Piers Morgan makes Eva Longoria cry

Piers Morgan has gone and done it again: reduced another of his celebrity guests to tears on American TV show Piers Morgan Tonight. And this time it was pretty Eva Longoria.

Eva got a bit emo as she talked to Piers last night about her divorce from basketball husband Tony Parker, and said that playing the whole thing out in the public eye was humiliating but added that she wished him all the best in life.

She said that it was a heartbreaking time and that trying to rediscover who she was afterwards was one of the hardest things she’s ever been faced with.

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Sheryl Crow Sings a New Tune With 'If It Makes You Healthy' Cookbook

Sheryl Crow is a busy rock star and activist raising two boys as a single mother. When Crow battled breast cancer five years ago, she took that as a wake-up call to eat better. Around this time she met chef Chuck White, who taught Sheryl how to eat seasonal, vitamin-rich food that would boost her health and singing voice.

The two have now teamed up on a cookbook called 'If It Makes You Healthy,' which is brimming with delicious and nutritious recipes.

How did you meet Chuck?
I have worked with Chuck off and on for three years. He's extraordinarily talented. We have this mutual love for incorporating the healthy components of food and the knowledge of wellness and disease with prevention and I wanted him to share what it is that he does. He had been on tour with me and cooked in my home while I had been recording.
When you're not touring or doing albums do you cook for yourself?
For the most part when I'm home I cook for me and my kids. We sit down and eat meals. I cook the things I learned from Chuck. I'm always looking for healthy ways to feed my kids. My 10-month-old eats everything. Wyatt's a little pickier. The one thing he loves is pasta and there are lots of different ways to make pasta with quinoa or spaghetti squash so he's not just eating plain carbs. There's always creative ways to feed kids.

Does the music business today depress you?
For somebody like me who makes records to go out and play, I would play no matter what; it's unfortunate that the climate is what it is. I enjoy playing live.

Before you got diagnosed with cancer, did you eat a lot of junk food?
We would eat what was at the gig. Not to knock the catering companies, but you would eat catering that was sitting out all day or eating from room service and then when I was diagnosed five years ago and I became a student of nutrition and wellness and really wanted to be proactive in getting well. I think now what we know from the information we get about antibiotics in the meat and pesticides in produce that there's a direct correlation to disease and there are components of food that are very disease-defensive and it's food that we can incorporate. We wanted everything in the book to be delicious and not boring.



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Recording Academy Makes Series of Sweeping Changes to the Grammy Awards

In a shocking move, the Recording Academy has announced a series of broad and sweeping changes to the Grammy Awards that will see the number of prizes presented reduced from 109 to 78 and gender-based categories in pop, R&B, rock and country stripped away entirely with awards for "solo performance" in each genre being awarded instead.

"Every year, we diligently examine our awards structure to develop an overall guiding vision and ensure that it remains a balanced and viable process," Recording Academy president Neil Portnow said in a statement. "After careful and extensive review and analysis of all categories and fields, it was objectively determined that our Grammy categories be restructured to the continued competition and prestige of the highest and only peer-recognized award in music."
A number of instrumental categories have been dropped, and many other categories have been folded in an effort to consolidate. For example, Best Contemporary R&B Album has been eliminated as a stand-alone category, though sets that would have qualified for the prize will remain eligible in the broader category of Best R&B Album. All told, four R&B awards will now be handed out instead of eight. Rock, country and pop will also hand out four prizes, down from the seven each genre awarded at last year's 53rd Grammy Awards.

The General Field categories -- Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year and Best New Artist -- were not affected by today's announcement.

The Academy has also amended its rules on entries and voting. For a category to move forward with five nominations, it must receive no less than 40 artist, album or song submissions. If a category receives between 25 and 39 entries, only three nominations will be announced.

If less than 25 submissions are received for any given category, an award will not be presented that year, and if the category continues to receive fewer than 25 entries for three consecutive years it will be discontinued.

Next year's ceremony will mark the first time since 1991 that fewer than 80 Grammys will be awarded. (A vast majority of prizes are handed out during a non-televised ceremony that immediately precedes CBS' broadcast; only 10 awards were handed out during the televised event.)

The reason why so few awards are handed out during the televised ceremony: performances.

Relive Lady Gaga's show-stopping take on 'Born This Way' below:



"The part that not everybody will be happy about at first is getting their heads around the fact that things have changed," Portnow told Billboard. "But the fact is: Everybody

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