“Bachelor in Paradise” fans rejoice: ABC announced its fall schedule yesterday, and you’re getting FOUR HOURS of your favorite show every week! “BiP” is taking over Mondays from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m., now that “Dancing with the Stars” is moving to Disney+ . . . and it’ll also air for two hours on Tuesdays. JESSE PALMER will host. ABC is holding the new season of “The Wonder Years” until midseason, but they say it’s not because they had to fire producer-director Fred Savage over inappropriate behavior. The new Gina Rodriguez show “Not Dead Yet” is also being held for midseason, along with the returns of “A Million Little Things”, “American Idol”, “The Bachelor”, and “Judge Steve Harvey”. They’re also adding “Celebrity Jeopardy!” to their Sunday night lineup, to pair with “Celebrity Wheel of Fortune”. It sounds like Mayim Bialik is going to host, but for some reason they won’t admit it yet. The other new shows on the fall schedule are a spinoff of “The Rookie” called “The Rookie: Feds”, starring Niecy Nash. . . and “Alaska”, starring Hilary Swank as a disgraced New York journalist seeking redemption at a newspaper in Anchorage.
GABBY BARRETT says her husband Cade Foehner gave her the PERFECT Mother’s Day gift this year. And if you’re thinking, “Hey, tell me about it so I can get the same thing for my partner next year.” Well, hang on. He got her a ring, but not the kind from the corner jewelry store. She talked about it in a recent interview. “This ring that I have on . . . [this] white part is breast milk, which you can save and preserve as a gift for mothers. The top is [my daughter’s] birthstone. My husband got it made for me because he knew I really wanted to do that.” Their daughter Baylah May was born last year, so they obviously used the breast milk from when she was a baby. They might do it again because Gabby is expecting their second child, a boy, later this year.
KEITH URBAN was on yesterday’s “Ellen DeGeneres Show”, and it got pretty emotional. It was his 20th appearance, and as you may know, the show is coming to an end next week. Ellen had a request. She asked him to sing a song, so he did “Blue Ain’t Your Color”. He even referenced her a couple of times in the song. And when he was done, he GAVE her the guitar. Here’s what he said, quote, “This is a 1960 Gibson Les Paul Jr. that I’ve had for a long time, and it’s on a lot of records. This is a gift to you from me, because this is my 20th time on the show, which is unbelievable.” There was another surprise. He wrote a letter to her ON the guitar, and she read it out loud. Here’s what it said: “Dearest darling Ellen, you’ve been a believer in me and my music since 2004 when I first came on your show. “I’m deeply grateful for all the years, laughs, weird-a** cologne commercials and your passion and support. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I wish you love and light on your journey ahead. Your friend always, Keith Urban.”
JERRY LEE LEWIS and the late KEITH WHITLEY are the 2022 inductees into the Country Music Hall of Fame . . . along with music executive Joe Galante. Jerry Lee is being inducted in the Veterans Era Artist category, and Whitley in the Modern Era Artist category. They’ll be formally inducted during a ceremony this fall.
LUKE COMBS has released the full track list for his album, “Growin’ Up”, which is out June 24th. One of the songs is called “Outrunnin’ Your Memory”, and it’s a duet with Miranda Lambert.
DARIUS RUCKER is starring in one of those “fixer-upper” shows. It’s called “Rucker’s Reno” and it’ll follow Darius and his team as they restore a historic mansion in his hometown of Charleston, South Carolina. They’ll also visit some of the area’s top attractions. It debuts May 30th on the Design Network.
CODY JOHNSON is a road animal. He just added 22 MORE headline shows to his fall schedule. If you check out the tour calendar on his website you’ll see what I mean. His Johnstown appearance on August 13 is sold out. August 18 and 19 he’s in NY and on the 20th in Milton, DE
“Law & Order” star CHRISTOPHER MELONI says he works out NAKED at his home gym, and doesn’t black out the window. Quote, “I’m okay with that. My wife is not.”
SELMA BLAIR is so socially awkward that she has BITTEN people, including Sienna Miller, Seth MacFarlane, and Kate Moss. She says, quote, “My system gets overwhelmed and instantaneously short-circuits . . . In my life, social interactions have been cumbersome.”
CHRIS ROCK could very well be the host of the 2023 OSCARS. At least an executive at ABC is open to the idea. The WILL SMITH-free ceremony will take place Sunday, March 12th.
DAVID BLAINE is doing a Las Vegas residency, but he’s only working one weekend a month because his show is so intense and physically demanding.
RYAN GOSLING will play the lead in a movie version of the old LEE MAJORS series “The Fall Guy”.
Paramount confirms “Yellowstone” Season 5 began filming in Montana on Monday. HELEN MIRREN and HARRISON FORD are going to be in a “Yellowstone” prequel series called “1932”.
Schitt’s Creek star Sarah Levey is pregnant with her first child
2 days after his team was knocked out of the Stanley Cut playoffs, Toronto Maple Leafs star Mitch Marner was carjacked at gunpoint in a movie theatre parking lot on Monday night
The dress Judy Garland wore in the Wizard of Oz was supposed to go up on the auction block this month. Now, that’s being put on hold as a Wisconsin woman says it actually belonged to her uncle, who founded the drama department at The Catholic University of America. It was supposed to be auctioned off to benefit the school. It’s expected to go for upwards of $1.2 million.
Kristen Chenoweth is opening up about a tragic moment from her childhood. Back in 1977, 3 Oklahoma girls were killed on a camping trip, an incident known as “The Girl Scout Murders”. She was supposed to be on that trip but got sick and her mom wouldn’t let her go. ABC is doing a 4-part documentary on those murders, which will air on HULU
Eric Clapton, a critic of coronavirus vaccines and pandemic restrictions, has tested positive for COVID and canceled 2 upcoming gigs because he is “anxious” about spreading the virus.
David Nail is 43.
Tina Fey is 52.
George Strait is 70
