OPRAH WINFREY has only three close friends. She said, “I don’t have a lot of friends . . . There’s Gayle [King] . . . Maria [Shriver] . . . Bob [Greene]. And that’s about it, you know? Gayle and Maria, I met around the same time . . . 42 years [ago].” Everyone knows who Gayle and Maria are . . . and Bob is her personal trainer. They met at a Colorado spa years ago. Oprah said, “I never really expanded that circle until recently . . . You know, I had become friends with a couple of people in my later adult life in the past five years . . .Surround yourself with someone who is as happy for your happiness as you are for your happiness . . . You need friends that are happy in their own lives so that they can actually be authentically happy for you.”
If I told you DAN + SHAY once performed in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle costumes you’d probably think it was for Halloween. And you’d be right. But this is about what their fans did after that. “Fault” magazine asked DAN SMYERS to share a good tour story, and he said, “In 2014, we dressed up as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for Halloween and wore them on stage. After that night, our fans brought us ‘Ninja Turtle’ gifts at every show for at least two years. I’m talking suitcases, stuffed animals, books, T-shirts, candy, everything you could ever imagine.”
BLAKE SHELTON revealed the track listing for the Deluxe version of his “Body Language” album, which is out December 3rd. There are four new songs, including “Throw It on Back” with Brooks and Dunn, “Fire Up the Night” with Hardy, plus “We Can Reach the Stars” and “Come Back as a Country Boy”.
Guess what DUSTIN LYNCH and RILEY GREEN do in their “Huntin’ Land” video. They go hunting. They also hang out, clear some brush, and get behind the wheel of the John Deere. It was filmed on Dustin’s Tennessee farm.
REBA MCENTIRE has made a “few” bold fashion choices in her day . . . but she has NO regrets about any of them. “Whatever I put on and wear, I own it. I’ve had some pretty outlandish things that I’ve worn on stage and, people say, ‘Oh, weren’t you embarrassed?’ “I say, ‘No, at the time I thought I looked really good so I’m gonna own it and be proud of it.'”
Y’know what’s great? LUKE COMBS sitting on a couch with his guitar and a couple of friends . . . while singing a little bit an unreleased song. This one’s called “The Kind of Love We Make”.
CLINT EASTWOOD won a $6.1 million judgment against a Lithuanian CBD company that was using his likeness
SHANNEN DOHERTY won $6.3 million in her lawsuit against State Farm, which refused to pay up when her house was damaged by a wildfire in 2018.
DEREK HOUGH sat out last night’s “Dancing with the Stars” due to possible exposure to COVID.
Yesterday was a bad day for MARK ZUCKERBERG. It all started Sunday night, when a former employee named Frances Haugen did an interview with “60 Minutes”, exposing all kinds of internal corruption at Facebook . . .Including the fact that Facebook intentionally prioritizes incendiary content, because they make more money that way. Also, they KNEW Instagram was increasing suicidal thoughts and eating disorders among young girls, and really didn’t do anything about it. Then, yesterday at about 11:30 A.M. Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger all went down . . . and didn’t return until the evening. By 4 o’clock, they’d lost nearly $60 million in revenue. And Zuckerberg saw his personal net worth decrease by about $7 BILLION. It’s still not clear what caused the outage, but it appears to have been a problem with the Domain Name System.
Nicky Hilton is 38.
Jesse Palmer is 43. Your new host of “The Bachelor”. He’s the former NFL quarterback from the show’s fifth season. He used to play for the Giants.
Kate Winslet is 46.
Mario Lemieux is 56. Hockey legend.
