Former “Bachelor” COLTON UNDERWOOD came out yesterday, during an interview with ROBIN ROBERTS on “Good Morning America”. He told her, “I’m the happiest and healthiest I’ve ever been in my life.” Colton was the Bachelor in 2019, but he admits he’s known since he was a freshman in high school. He’s spent most of his life either fighting it or denying it. Roberts asked Colton if he misled the women on his season of “The Bachelor”, and he said, “I do think I could have handled it better. I just wish I wouldn’t have dragged people into my own mess of figuring out who I was. I genuinely mean that.” That especially applies to the woman he ended up choosing, CASSIE RANDOLPH. They had a pretty nasty breakup. He said, “I wish that I would have been courageous enough to fix myself before I broke anybody else.” Cassie hasn’t commented, but a source says she’s “still processing” the news. Colton was famous for being the VIRGIN Bachelor, and now we know why. Colton is currently working on a Netflix series to document his new “journey”. Fans of the franchise are happy for Colton, and some even think he should do a gay season of “The Bachelor”. But a lot of them don’t want HIM to head that season, because of the way he treated Cassie after they broke up. At one point she had to get a restraining order because he was STALKING her.
The ACMs announced another early winner yesterday. KANE BROWN’s “Worldwide Beautiful” was named Video of the Year. He’s the first black solo artist to win that award. He said, “I wrote it with three of my buddies. We were [saying] it would be a great day when everybody could just see the beautiful in the world. We’re all a little different, but we’re all just different types of beautiful. So we wrote a song about it.” (Other early winners were Gabby Barrett and Jimmie Allen who won ACM Best New Artist awards last week.)
BLAKE SHELTON turned his back on some food he cooked in the smoker on his back deck, and when he returned an opossum was having a feast. Blake posted two clips of the encounter. The first is the food thievery . . . and in the second he’s petting the opossum, which is perched on a railing. He wrote, “At least I made a new buddy. Also, I don’t recommend petting wild animals. It just so happens that I have the vodka reflexes of a rattlesnake.”
REBA MCENTIRE is postponing all but one of her “2021 Reba Live In Concert” tour dates. The new tour will pick up January 13th, 2022, in Evansville, Indiana and run into mid-March. If you have tickets, hang onto them because they’re good for the new dates. Details are at Reba.com.
CHRIS STAPLETON is still juggling this year’s All-American Road Showtour dates. He had to reschedule a bunch of shows, and cancel the one in Atlantic City, New Jersey. You’ll find the new dates plus refund details at ChrisStapleton.com.
Remember a couple of months ago when BRETT YOUNG got heartbeat tattoos of his daughter Presley, and his second baby who’s due this summer? Well, the ink stops there. Quote, “I think dad needs to stop now. It’s already gonna be hard enough to tell them they can’t get any when I have as many as I do.”
MICK JAGGER isn’t interested in writing an autobiography. He tried in the ’80s, but he quit because he found it “dull and upsetting.” He says, quote, “I really didn’t enjoy it . . . reliving my life, to the detriment of living in the now.”
If you read Matthew McConaughey’s memoir “Greenlights”, then you may remember a guy named Larry who had a long struggle with addiction. Turns out it was old school country singer LARRY GATLIN. He opened up about it in an interview with “People“. (Larry is 37 years sober.)
Maisie Williams is 24. Arya Stark on “Game of Thrones”.
Emma Watson is 31. Hermione Granger in the “Harry Potter” movies, and Belle in the live action “Beauty and the Beast”.
Seth Rogen is 39. Pumbaa in the “Lion King” remake and Mantis in the “Kung Fu Panda” movies.
Luke Evans is 42. Gaston in “Beauty and the Beast”. He’s also Bard the Bowman in “The Hobbit” movies, Dracula in “Dracula Untold”, and Owen Shaw in the last three “Fast & Furious” movies.
Chris Stapleton is 43. Country superstar.
Emma Thompson is 62. Mrs. Potts in “Beauty and the Beast”. Your children also know her as “Nanny McPhee”,
