While JEFF BEZOS is preparing to launch himself into space, his ex-wife MACKENZIE just gave another $2.7 BILLION to various charities. That’s on top of the $6 billion she gave away last year. MacKenzie and her new husband Dan Jewett say they’re troubled by the increasing concentration of wealth among just a few people, and their goal is to, “give away a fortune that was enabled by systems in need of change.” MacKenzie is worth roughly $60 billion. She and Jeff divorced in 2019, and she walked away with a 4% stake in Amazon. After the split, she signed the Giving Pledge, which is a promise by rich people to give away the majority of their wealth. It was designed by Warren Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates.
SALMA HAYEK’s pet owl once landed on HARRY STYLES’ head . . . and regurgitated a ball of rat fur onto it. But Salma says, “He was okay, he was [kind of] cool. He didn’t scream.”
American track and field star SHELBY HOULIHAN won’t make this summer’s Olympics. She’s been banned for testing positive for steroids. But she claims it was a false positive caused by a pork burrito she ate before her test.
The ACMs has lost almost half of its viewership since 2018. And now CBS has rejected the show’s asking price of $22 million to air it next year. They didn’t even give a counter-offer. CBS has had the ACMs since 1998.
BRETT ELDREDGE has announced the dates of his Good Day Tour. It kicks off September 16th in Cleveland, Ohio . . . and runs into early November. Oct 21 in Phila Nov 25 in Reading
Lauren Alaina will star in the Hallmark Channel’s “Roadhouse Romance,” the first movie of their 2021 “Fall Harvest” programming event. She will star as Lt. Callie Jackson, who returns home after a military tour, expecting everything to pick up right where she left it. But, her late Grandfather’s BBQ joint is struggling, and her high school sweetheart has moved on. She has a run-in with a TV director passing through town, who teaches her that sometimes it’s best to look forward instead of looking back. “Roadhouse Romance” will premiere Saturday, September 11th at 9 pm
“Tiger King” star JOE EXOTIC is launching his own cannabis line . . . even though he’s in prison.
GABBY BARRETT posted a video thanking everyone for her Female Video of the Year award at last week’s CMTs. It’s a fan-voted awards show, so she wanted everyone to know how much she appreciated their support. She also said she’s “so sad” that she couldn’t perform, but stopped short of explaining what “personal circumstance” kept her from being there.
TIM MCGRAW’s 22-year-old daughter Maggie got her Master’s Degree at Stanford University. He posted pics from graduation day, and wrote, “I have such admiration for her work ethic, her fierce love of her family, and especially her passion to make the world a better place. Go get ’em my sweet girl! Proud Pop.”
Mark Wahlberg has been hitting the gym to sweat off the 20 pounds he gained for a movie role. And this weekend he got the toughest work-out there is — working out alongside enlisted Marines. Wahlberg visited the Marine Corps Air Station in San Diego, Ca., to cut the ribbon on a new gym on the base. The gym uses the F45 Training program, which is a 45-minute high-intensity circuit training class. Wahlberg is an investor in the system.
During an interview with Andy Cohen on his SiriusXM show Radio Andy, 68-year-old Michael Bolton said he once babysat Paula Abdul! So how that happened was, her older sister was dating his guitarist and he was writing songs, demoing them to try to get a record deal in L.A. and they wanted to go out one night and they realized they couldn’t because they couldn’t leave Paula.
What to look forward to in the movie theatres: JENNIFER LOPEZ will star in a sci-fi thriller called “Atlas”.
KRISTEN WIIG will star in a “feminist thriller” called “The Husbands”.
Eddie Cibrian is 48.
John Cho is 49. Mr Sulu on Star Trek
Phil Mickelson is 51
