APRIL 5, 2017

An analytics service claims BEYONCÉ is the most influential celebrity on social media, and that each one of her posts is theoretically worth $1 million. SELENA GOMEZ is the runner-up.  Her posts are worth $750,000.

 

In a surprising move, TONY ROMO has retired from the NFL after 14 seasons, and has joined the CBS announce team. He’ll replace Phil Simms and be paired with Jim Nantz for the network’s game coverage.

 

SHIA LABEOUF’s latest movie “Man Down” made it to U.K. theaters this past weekend, and it reportedly grossed just $8.70. So, it apparently only sold ONE ticket.

 

One woman’s vice in another woman’s AmEx card — and when it comes to traveling, Miranda Lambert doesn’t leave home without some backup booze. “My assistant packs — I call it my nanny bag — she packs a bag of liquor for emergencies, for meltdowns and things like that,” the ACM Award winner admitted to the New York Post at the ceremony. her flight had been canceled to the ceremony, so she ended up having to ride in a bus to Las Vegas with her tour manager. “I’m like OK, we’re good, I’m golden. We just need a cooler of ice and we’re going. It was fun,” she said. In January, Miranda revealed her song “Ugly Lights” was about tying one on. “I got divorced so I started drinking a little extra,” she said during a concert. “I found myself in Midtown in Nashville three nights in a row at like last call and with the lights coming on, and I’d be sitting there. So I wrote a song about it.”

 

Amazon has acquired streaming rights to 10 NFL Thursday night games for the upcoming season. The one year deal is worth about $50 million.  The games will be available only to subscribers of Amazon’s Prime service.

 

The Disney Channel has ordered the That’s So Raven spinoff called Raven’s Home. The new series will star Raven-Symone and Anneliese van der Pol who reprise their roles as besties Raven Baxter and Chelsea Daniels.  The series will start with Raven and Chelsea as divorced single mothers raising their two separate families in one house.

 

There’s a new album out called “Metal Disney”, that has heavy metal recordings of classic Disney songs like “Under the Sea” and “A Whole New World”.

 

BRIAN KELLEY of Florida Georgia Line admitts he has a craving – “If I [drive] by a Krispy Kreme and the hot sign’s on-I don’t care what time of day it is, I’m going in. That’s a Kelley family rule.  If you drive by, you have to go in.  If you see it, there’s a reason you saw it.  You go.”  He does have one limit.  He won’t do the Krispy two days in a row.

 

BRETT ELDREDGE was asked about his dating status and he admitted that he’s ready to commit. He said, “I’m just wanting to find that gal that wants my heart.  Because I’m ready to give it.”

 

“People” has a slide show featuring the stuff CHRIS LANE did on Sunday as he prepped for the ACMs. Important things like practicing his golf swing . . . pumping up his biceps . . . and popping mints into his mouth before the red carpet.

 

RONNIE DUNN dropped $2.25 million for a horse ranch in Nashville, and I love how Realtor.com describes it. Quote, “[The] completely fenced parcel of land contains grassy meadows, mature trees and foliage, a stream, and a barn, all conveniently located within chipping distance of the Harpeth Hills Golf Course.”

 

 

Troy Gentry is 50

 

 

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