HELEN MIRREN is on the cover of “People” magazine’s annual Beautiful Issue. She says, “I never considered myself ‘beautiful.’ And [at] my age! So I was amazed
HOWIE MANDEL got COVID earlier this month . . . and the quarantining was the hardest part. “I went insane. I still feel like I’m recovering from that, the insanity. And I’m not joking. I got incredibly depressed, incredibly neurotic.”
HAILEY BIEBER shared the full story about her stroke to raise awareness and provide resources. She had a small hole in her heart that she had surgery to get closed up. She is doing much better now, and just takes daily blood thinners and aspirin.
OLIVIA WILDE got served with custody papers by her ex JASON SUDEIKIS while she was giving a presentation at a film convention. But a source close to Jason says he had no idea it was going to happen that way, and he never would have condoned it.
LADY GAGA’s new song “Hold My Hand” comes out on Tuesday, and she calls it a “love letter to the world. I’ve wanted you to hear it for so long. And I’m so excited to give it to you.”
When MORGAN WALLEN got canceled last year, he still had friends who stood by his side the whole time, and one of them was JASON ALDEAN. Jason talked about it in a recent interview. “There was a small group of us that had [his] back in the whole thing. When everybody else was beating up on him. Where I’m from, when you got a friend that’s down, you don’t just step on ’em and keep ’em down . . . you help them get back on their feet and teach ’em and try to help them be better. That’s what we try to do, and I think a lot of people knew that.” He also showed solidarity by performing with Morgan, Tyler Hubbard, and Luke Bryan back in July . . . and at Morgan’s Nashville show last month. He does think Morgan’s punishment was “a little excessive” . . . but at the same time he learned from it, and that’s always good.
CHRIS JANSON’s fourth album, “All In”, is out tomorrow . . . and so is the new single, “You, Me & the River”. It’s a duet with his fishing buddy ERIC CHURCH, and he has a great story of how that came together. “I was coming in from Montana, and had just landed about 3:30 in the morning. My phone dinged and it was this voice memo from Eric. He said, ‘Hey, this is a little bit dark, but I wanted to see what you think.'” Chris listened to the rough version and loved the song. And then on a whim texted back asking Eric if he’d like to make it a duet. He said “I thought he’d say no, but he immediately texted back, ‘I’m in.’ “I looked at my wife and was like, ‘I guess I’m doing a duet with Eric Church now.’ I was like, ‘Am I really on that level where he respects me enough to send me a song?’ Holy schnikes.”
DARIUS RUCKER is launching a music fest in his hometown of Charleston, South Carolina. The first-ever Riverfront Revival Festival is going down October 8th and 9th and will include performances from Brothers Osborne, Jimmie Allen, Trampled By Turtles, and Charley Crockett.
THOMAS RHETT uses his own kids to do research. They do weekly dance parties in the basement, and he pays close attention to the music that grabs them. “I’m like, what is it about that [song]? [And] so a lot of the time I’m trying to make songs that they’ll be like, ‘I love that.'”
The music world is littered with songs that artists passed on, and then kicked themselves for it. GARY LEVOX says Rascal Flatts said no to “Fly Over States”, which was a hit for Jason Aldean . . . and “Don’t You Wanna Stay” which Jason did with Kelly Clarkson.
GISELE BUNDCHEN just did her first magazine cover in nearly four years.
The trailer for “Chip n’ Dale: Rescue Rangers” looks pretty funny and features a bunch of Disney characters, like Flounder from “The Little Mermaid” and Pumbaa from “The Lion King”.
There’s a MICHAEL J. FOX documentary in the works that’ll cover his rise to stardom and his battle with Parkinson’s disease.
KIRSTIE ALLEY was revealed as the Baby Mammoth on “Masked Singer” last night.
AMY POEHLER says she’s “always standing by” for a “Parks and Recreation” reboot.
Jessica Alba is 41.
Jonathan and Drew Scott are 44. “The Property Brothers
Penélope Cruz is 48.
Jay Leno is 72.
Ann-Margret is 81.
