JANUARY 16, 2019

Hailey Baldwin is feeling the love from her mother-in-law. Justin Bieber’s mom, Pattie, took to Instagram yesterday to share a super-cute selfie of herself and her son’s new wife, and had some sweet words for the 22-year-old model. “What a gift!” she said along with a heart-eyes emoji, in the caption to the beaming snapshot, which shows Baldwin giving her mother-in-law a kiss on the head. Baldwin returned the kindness, writing “Love you” in the comments to the adorable pic.

 

You’re about to pay a lot more for Netflix. Yesterday, they announced their largest price-hike in their 12-year history, and their second increase in 15 months. The standard, most popular plan will go from $11 per month to $13 . . . the lowest plan will go from $8 to $9 . . . and the highest plan with ultra-high definition will jump from $14 to $16.  So most people will be paying another $2 a month, or $24 a year. The rate change will be phased in over the next three months for all current customers.  And it’ll be immediate for any new subscribers.

 

As a parent, it’s so hard to keep up with all the imaginary holiday characters your kids believe in. Over the course of your children’s lives, you’re BOUND to slip up now and then.  That recently happened to IDINA MENZEL. She Tweeted, “The tooth fairy didn’t show up last night.  Mom put tooth in tissue and son hid it under pillow.  Then mom fell asleep and woke up this morning to son with tears. Tooth fairy didn’t come.  That tooth fairy better get her [stuff] together.  #badmoms”

 

RIHANNA is suing her own father, for trying to use their last name in business ventures. Rihanna says that Ronald Fenty and another man started a talent agency in 2017, called Fenty Entertainment, and have been falsely posing as Rihanna’s managers in order to attract clients. She also says he’s trying to trademark the name for a line of boutique resorts. Rihanna has already trademarked the Fenty name for her Fenty Beauty line, and her “Savage x Fenty” lingerie collection. She’s also got a Fenty Puma line.

 

CAITLYN JENNER did the 10-Year Challenge, and it’s just like the memes you’ve probably seen, with Caitlyn on the right, and BRUCE on the left. She said, “Now THAT is a 10-Year Challenge.”

 

Thanks to the POLAR VORTEX, frigid temperatures are expected in Kansas City for this weekend’s Chiefs / Patriots game. In fact, it could very well be one of the coldest games in NFL history.

 

A new “Ghostbusters” movie is in the works that’ll be a follow-up to the first two, and ignore the 2016 version with the all-female crew. It’ll be directed by the son of the man who did the first two, but there’s no word if any of the surviving actors are coming back.

 

HGTV is reviving”Extreme Makeover: Home Edition”, which originally ran for nine seasons on ABC, from 2003 to 2012. A new 10-episode season will premiere sometime later this year.

DIERKS BENTLEY is in the development stage on two different shows. “I’m working on a couple of shows.  One is going to be about the Hot Country Knights.  (Hot Country Knights is Dierks’ ’90s cover band that you may have seen opening at his shows.) They would be performing and interacting with people in live situations. But he might have to do some actual acting in the other show, which he says is like the sitcom “Cheers”.  It’s set in a fictional Nashville bar where musicians and others deal with stuff happening in the record business. He’s collaborating with one of the writers from “Modern Family”.

 

RUSSELL DICKERSON has been married to his wife Kailey for five years. Some advice he “When it comes to an argument, ‘Do you want to be one, or do you want to be the one that won?’ “[My] wife and I would rather be one than have a right or wrong, or make anyone feel lesser than the other.  It’s a lot about laying down your pride and apologizing.”

 

Anna Faris is such a cool ex-wife … she offered to officiate Chris Pratt and Katherine Schwarzenegger’s wedding!! Anna talked a little bit about her ex-hubby and revealed she and Chris were texting the morning after he asked Katherine to marry him.

 

Julianne Hough is opening up about having Endometriosis. She said she first started experiencing symptoms back when she was 15, but thought it was just what it feels like to be a girl with bad periods. I didn’t think to go to the gynecologist. Years later, while competing on Dancing with the Stars, she finally went to the ER, but at that time nobody could tell her what was wrong with her.

 

“Live at the Opry” has video of JON PARDI performing “Night Shift”. It’s from his show there back in October.

 

DOLLY PARTON’s 2003 hits collection “Ultimate Dolly Parton” is at #10 on the “Billboard” Top Country Albums chart- because it includes the song, “Here You Come Again” . . . which is on an Applebee’s commercial . . . and it has people downloading and streaming it like crazy. Dolly even Tweeted about it.

 

 

Lin-Manuel Miranda is 39.

James Young is 39. Founding member of the Eli Young Band.

Kate Moss is 45.

Ronnie Milsap is 76.

A.J. Foyt is 84

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