Fox has a game show in the pipeline called “Spin the Wheel” . . . and JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE is one of the co-creators. On each episode, contestants will have the chance to win up to $20 MILLION. The specifics haven’t been announced . . . but the show involves contestants answering pop culture trivia questions, and spinning a giant, 40-foot wheel. At some point, contestants are able to decide whether to walk away, OR risk it all and spin the wheel one last time. DAX SHEPARD from “Parenthood” is the host . . . and it doesn’t sound like Timberlake will appear on the show, but he is one of the executive producers. A premiere date hasn’t been announced.
CHARLIE SHEEN is trying to get his child support payments reduced, because he claims he can’t afford them anymore. Charlie pays $20,000 a month to DENISE RICHARDS for their daughters Sam and Lola, and $55,000 to Brooke Mueller for their twin sons Bob and Max. But he says he’s down to less than $10 million, and the bills are piling up. And he can’t find steady work because he’s been “blacklisted from many aspects of the entertainment industry.” He owes millions to his lawyers, the IRS, and the bank for his mortgage, and he’s past due on gardening and pool-cleaning bills. Back in February, he put his Beverly Hills estate on the market for $10 million. In 2010, Charlie was the highest-paid actor on TV, making $1.8 million PER EPISODE of “Two and a Half Men”.
James Bond’s Aston Martin tops a list of the Greatest Movie Cars of All Time. It’s followed by Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, the DeLorean from “Back to the Future”, and Herbie the Love Bug.
Disney’s live action “Christopher Robin” movie is out today. It’s up against the Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon comedy “The Spy Who Dumped Me” and the sci-fi thriller “The Darkest Minds”.
CARRIE UNDERWOOD and BRAD PAISLEY are back. They’re returning to host this year’s “CMA Awards”. It’ll be their 11th straight year. Carrie says, “Our planning time is [a] lot of work and it can be stressful, but it’s also fun too getting in the room with the writers and swapping ideas.” They go for the comedy but they always stay respectful of the genre. The CMAs are going down November 14th on ABC. As for the nominees . . . LUKE BRYAN, DAN + SHAY, and SUGARLAND will announce those on the August 28th edition of “Good Morning America”.
BEN AFFLECK will direct MATT DAMON in a movie about a guy who rigged the McDonald’s Monopoly game. It’s based on a true story.
GRANGER SMITH’s wife Amber plays the love interest in his “You’re In It” video. She didn’t have to go too far for the shoot . . . they filmed it 70 miles from their home in Texas.
Carrie Underwood is on the cover of the September issue of “Redbook”, and they asked if she and Mike Fisher are planning to have “a big family.” (Their son Isaiah is three.) She said, “I’m 35, so we may have missed our chance to have a big family. We always talk about adoption and about doing it when our child or children are a little older. In the meantime, we’re lucky to be a part of organizations that help kids, because our focus right now in our lives is helping as many kids as possible.” They also brought up her accident last fall . . . and wondered if the facial injury shook her confidence. She said, “Any time someone gets injured, it looks pretty bad in the beginning, and you’re like, ‘What is this going to wind up like?’ You just don’t know. “It was also a perception thing, because I look at myself and see it quite a bit, but other people are like, ‘I wouldn’t have even noticed.’ Nobody else looks at you as much as you think they do. Nobody notices as much as you think they will, so that’s been nice to learn.”
Here’s yet another amazing thing KENNY CHESNEY has been doing since Hurricane Irma devastated the Virgin Islands last fall. He’s brought around 1,400 needy cats and dogs to the U.S. “The post-Irma island was just a terrible existence and no place for a dog. A lot of people had to leave their pets behind . . . there are a lot of animals that had to ride out these storms and live in the aftermath with no food, no nothing.” He had to bring is own dog to the states too. An 18-year-old pit bull mix named Cookie . . . but she passed away almost as soon as she got here. He said, “She was older, so it was timing more than anything. “She was a big part of my life [so] on my next trip down we took her ashes and said goodbye and scattered them in the ocean. I didn’t want her to be buried anywhere else. I wanted her to be a part of the fabric of where she lived her whole life.” Kenny is donating the proceeds from “Songs for the Saints” to his Love for Love City Foundation. “It consumed my year. I have a little bit more compassion and empathy in my life than I did before.”
LINDSAY ELL is a skilled guitarist. Taste of Country came up with a way to showcase that talent by putting together a medley of her solos from performances in their studio.
Sunday at 8:00 p.m. on ABC: Scotty McCreery vs Chris Kattan on “Celebrity Family Feud”. …there’s a preview clip making the rounds of his grandmother stealing the show. She actually flirts with the show’s host, STEVE HARVEY. Her name is Paquita, she’s originally from Puerto Rico, and she’s adorable.
Ryan Lochte is 34.
Tom Brady is 41.
Jay North is 67.
Martha Stewart is 77.
Martin Sheen is 78.
Tony Bennett is 92.
