AUGUST 28, 2019

When “Saturday Night Live” returns for its 45th season next month, LESLIE JONES will NOT be along for the ride. She’s leaving to concentrate on her upcoming Netflix standup special and her movie career, which includes a part in the “Coming to America” sequel. She’s also going to host a new version of the game show “Supermarket Sweep”. Several networks are already bidding for it. Leslie joined “SNL” in 2014, as a writer.  She was nominated for 3 Emmys, in 2017, 2018, & 2019. KATE MCKINNON just signed a new deal. “SNL” returns on September 28th with host WOODY HARRELSON

 

DEMI LOVATO has joined the final season of “Will & Grace”. According to E! Online, she’ll play Jenny, a woman “with her guard up [who] comes into Will’s life in an unexpected way.” There’s no word how many episodes she’s doing, or when the third and final season will premiere. By the way . . . Demi’s new gig is the reason she missed Monday night’s “VMAs”.  People were speculating that she did it to shade TAYLOR SWIFT, because she took Scooter Braun’s side in their feud.  But she shot that down.

 

The site TheRichest.com has a list of the wealthiest country stars. Here’s the Top 10

  1. Dolly Parton, 73, $500 million
  2. Shania Twain, 54, $400 million. Today is also her birthday.
  3. Toby Keith, 58, $365 million
  4. Garth Brooks, 57, $330 million
  5. George Strait, 67, $300 million
  6. Kenny Rogers, 81, $250 million
  7. Kenny Chesney, 51, $190 million
  8. Reba McEntire, 64, $95 million.
  9. Alan Jackson, 60, $95 million
  10. Brad Paisley, 46, $95 million

Brad is the youngest person on this list, but if Taylor Swift was still country, she’d blow him out of the water. Taylor is 29, and is reportedly worth $400 million, which would rank her second or third on this list.

 

The nominees for the 2019 CMAs will be announced later TODAY on “Good Morning America” by Jimmie Allen and Ashley McBryde. The nominations will be followed by a performance of “If I Know Me” by Morgan Wallen. The 53rd Annual CMA Awards will be hosted by Carrie Underwood, Reba McEntire, and Dolly Parton, and will air live from Bridgestone Arena in Nashville on Wednesday, November 13th at 8:00 P.M. on ABC.

 

CARLI LLOYD – the co-captain of the U.S. women’s national soccer team – could be the first person to go from winning a World Cup to winning a Super Bowl. Last week, she kicked a 55-yard field goal at a Philadelphia Eagles / Baltimore Ravens practice, and that resulted in LEGIT offers to try out for NFL teams. Nobody’s saying which ones, and if this happens, it won’t be until next season, at the earliest. Her coach says, “If she’s going to do this, she’ll do it – she’ll train in the offseason, she’ll get herself ready so that she just doesn’t do it for the sake of doing it.  If she’s going to do it, she’s going to do it so that Receiver Keenan Allen thinks the prospect of Carli playing football is funny.  He Tweeted, “Sound sweet ’til somebody blocks the kick and all of a sudden she on defense.

 

TIM MCGRAW and his 22-year-old daughter Gracie are on a road trip this week, and they’ve done a lot of singing in the car. Tim even posted videos of them singing Barbara Streisand and Barry Gibb’s “What Kind of Fool”, which was a Top 10 hit in 1981. He captioned it, “PIPES!!! Dang, this girl can sing!  Gracie and I having fun with Babs and Barry on our trip.  #ChaseYourDreamsGirl.”

 

After cleaning up at the “VMAs”, TAYLOR SWIFT is headed to London to spend time with her boyfriend JOE ALWYN.

 

RODNEY ATKINS and his wife Rose welcomed their second child together on Monday. It’s a boy, and they named him Scout Falcon Atkins.  That’s Rodney’s third son.  They have a 20-month-old son named Ryder Falcon, and Rodney has a 17-year-old son named Elijah from a previous marriage.

 

When KANE BROWN performs the “Good Morning America” Summer Concert Series with Marshmello on Friday, you’ll be able to experience it in VIRTUAL REALITY. You’ll be able to choose from several different viewpoints . . . onstage, in the front row, or from the middle of the crowd . . . and watch full, 360-degree video. All you need is a smartphone or an iPad with the ‘MelodyVR’ app.

 

BRANTLEY GILBERT says at one point he considered being a relationship counselor. “All the girls would come to me with their problems and I’d write songs and talk ’em through it and all that.  I was like, ‘Maybe I’d be good at that.’  [But] I figured I’d be responsible for more divorces than SOCIAL MEDIA when I really thought about it.  So that got exed out.”

 

 

 

 

 

Alana Thompson from “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo” is 14.

Kyle Massey is 28. Disney Channel star

Cassadee Pope is 30.

Leann Rimes is 37.

Jake Owen is 38.

Jack Black is 50.

Jason Priestley is 50.

Shania Twain is 54.

Emma Samms is 59.

Scott Hamilton is 61

Daniel Stern is 62.

Wayne Osmond is 68.

David Soul is 76.

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