CANDACE CAMERON BURE’s last conversation with BOB SAGET just shows you what a great guy he was, and how close they were. It was about two weeks before he died. They were texting about having dinner together, and they, “got into a little tiff.” Bob’s flight got delayed, so the dinner never happened. But the next day he wrote back and he was, “apologizing, saying he was cranky and he was just so sorry.” He told her, “I love you more for the trouble you’re giving me, if that’s even possible.” And she replied, “I love you. I could never be mad at you. Roll my eyes at you? Yes. But never mad.”
Ads for Super Bowl 56 are sold out, and some of them were purchased for $7 million. Anything above $6 million would have been a record this year. Meanwhile, 62% of Americans say they’re at least as interested in the commercials as they are in the game.
BRETT YOUNG shared a video on Wednesday of his two-year-old daughter Presley. She’s in the kitchen holding a stuffed animal, and she’s crying while saying, “I need to get daddy back ’cause I love him. I need to get him back.” Brett’s wife Taylor is filming it and she tells Presley she’s sorry . . . but the little girl keeps saying she misses her daddy and needs to get him back. It ends with Taylor giving her a big hug. Brett captioned it, “I’m not crying. You’re crying.” Somebody in the comments wrote “So precious. She needs her daddy back.” Brett replied, “I’m on my way.”
In honor of Black History Month, Sony Music asked their artists to share a few thoughts about who influenced them. MITCHELL TENPENNY points to Michael Jackson and Usher as the reason he became a performer in the first place. “I was obsessed with their music, their melodies, how they danced. I wanted to be like that. They influenced how I create music, how I write music, how I sing melodically. I sung to their records all the time.”
RODNEY ATKINS and his wife ROSE FALCON were on “The Drew Barrymore Show” promoting their album, “Rod + Rose”, which came out last week. They also shared the story of how they got together in the first place. They were on tour, and Rodney was totally into her, but didn’t make a move until the final night. Things were going well, until he got pulled away for something . . . and when he came back, she was gone. “I thought, man, I missed that chance. “On the bus there was a book she left, and she wrote a note with her number and said, ‘Maybe we could get together and write or something.'”
DOLLY PARTON will be hosting the “57th Academy of Country Music Awards”. It’s going down March 7th in Las Vegas, and will air on Amazon Prime. The timing is very good for Dolly. Her new album, “Run, Rose, Run” will be released three days earlier, on March 4th.
Severe weather forced MORGAN WALLEN to postpone 3 shows on his Dangerous Tour. Tomorrow night’s Allentown show has been moved to May 27th.
KANE BROWN has been grinding it out on the road, and he has that big Livestream concert tonight . . . but he still made time to write this wonderful message to his wife Katelyn the other day on social media. “Two babies at the house while I’m on the road . . . and still holding the fort down. You’re a super woman and I just wanted to let you [and] everyone else know how appreciative I am of you. My Rockstar.” Speaking of Kane Brown. He gave JORDAN DAVIS an “expensive” Rolex watch as a gift for opening the first half of the Blessed and Free Tour.
JOHN MELLENCAMP says BOB DYLAN used to call him in the middle of the night to read lyrics he was working on . . . and John had to tell him to stop.
Clint Black is 60. Country singer.
Lawrence Taylor is 63.
Alice Cooper is 74
Dan Quayle is 75.
