ABC is negotiating for a second season of “The Conners”. Meanwhile, JOHN GOODMAN said working on the show has been wonderful, and he doesn’t keep in touch with ROSEANNE.
BRETT ELDREDGE was was sitting next to a lady who had been eating Cheetos . . . and then she started to nod off. But she was still kind of eating the Cheetos as she was going to sleep. He says, “She was talking in her sleep and using her hands and her hands were coming towards me. So she had Cheeto fingers and talking in her sleep and moving towards me like the Cheeto monster . . . and I’m freaking out. “I didn’t know if anybody else knew what was going on but it was one of the strangest moments in my memory that I’ve ever had.”
ERIC PASLAY has become a father for the first time. His wife Natalie gave birth to a daughter last Saturday in Nashville, and they named her Piper. He told “People”, “It took three days for us to name her. “We needed to get to know our baby girl before we could choose. After getting many smiles and much laughter from all her cute little sounds and squeaks, Piper suddenly fell into place and seemed right for her.”
Live Nation is planning to bring back the Route 91 Harvest Festival . . . and they’re going to do it in Vegas again, although not in the exact same location. They’re looking at the fall of 2019. Obviously, they’re going to leave no stone unturned when it comes to safety and security . . . and they’ll make sure everyone knows it. The question is will people be able to move on from the horror and still buy tickets.
SONDRA LOCKE lost her battle with cancer. She was 74. She dated Clint Eastwood and appeared in several of his movies, including “The Outlaw Josey Wales” and “Sudden Impact”.
ALYSSA MILANO is writing a series of children’s books about an 11-year-old girl who “seeks to create social change in her community.”
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s tumultuous custody battle has caused problems with their children. Pitt, 54, is not on good terms with sons Maddox, 17, and Pax, 15, but “has accepted that he’ll likely never be able to repair their relationship”.
“Dirty Dancing” star JENNIFER GREY is joining “Grey’s Anatomy” in a “secret role.”
JOHN MELLENCAMP says his best songs are the ones that aren’t on the radio, and his hit songs, “really weren’t that good as far as songs go.”
The new Bruce Springsteen disc “Springsteen on Broadway” is one of the CDs coming out this week. Another other options -the new album from Mitchell Tenpenny “Telling All My Secrets”.
ALAN JACKSON is doing a North American tour next year, and it’s looking like they’re all weekend shows. It’ll kick-off January 25th in Louisville, Kentucky . . . and will stretch into September. Saturday, May 18 – Hershey, PA (Giant Center) ++ w/ William Michael Morgan
LUKE BRYAN asked his family and friends to be in his “What Makes You Country” video. It features his sons Bo and Tate, his nephew Til . . . plus a few of their close friends.
MAREN MORRIS was the most-played female artist on country radio for the second year in a row. That’s according to Mediabase, which measures nationwide radio airplay.
CHRIS CAGLE is coming out of retirement for one show. He’ll be performing at Guthrie’s River Ruckus in Iowa on July 27th. They’re going to record it and put it on an album and DVD that fans will get with their ticket package.
The Boot chose their Top 10 Country Collaborations of 2018. Number One is Jason Aldean and Miranda Lambert with “Drowns the Whiskey” . . . followed by the Maren Morris, Zedd, and Grey mega-hit “The Middle” . . . and then Sugarland and Taylor Swift with “Babe”.
RILEY GREEN recorded a stripped-down version of “Break Up More Often”
TRAVIS DENNING is hitting the road early next year. His Heartbeat Of A Small Town Tour will kick off February 1st in Rome, Georgia . . . and run into late March.
ON NETFLIX TODAY: THE INNOCENT MAN _ This new six-part true-crime series, based on the John Grisham book of the same name, re-investigates a pair of murders that took place in a small Oklahoma town in the 1980s.
Vanessa Hudgens is 30.
