TUESDAY, MAY 14, 2024

NBC unveiled its schedule next year ay . . . Snoop Dogg is joining Season 26 of “The Voice” as a coach.  Also getting his own spinny chair for the first time will be Michael Bublé.  They’ll be joined by Gwen Stefani and Reba McEntire. Reba also has a new sitcom on the way called “Happy’s Place”. There was also a lot of buzz around the trailer for a Peacock miniseries called “Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist”, starring Kevin Hart and Taraji P. Henson.  It’s about an armed robbery that took place on the night of Muhammad Ali’s comeback fight in 1970.

If you think about Lainey Wilson, what comes to mind?  Easy, right?  It’s her bell bottoms.  It’s her signature look.  She’s asked about it a LOT . . . and she’s talked about how she wanted to have something to set herself apart. But there’s another cool angle to it.  She wanted to have an iconic “Air Jordan” look.  Sort of. In the early days of her career, she and her manager were taking a tour of the Country Music Television offices.  And while they were admiring the photos of country icons up on the wall, the executive showing them around said, “All the legends . . . you can recognize by their silhouette.” This comment stuck with Lainey . . . so she went all-in on the bell bottom aesthetic, matching it with a wide brim hat to really stick out. if you were to look at a silhouette of all the major country stars, you’d instantly know which one was Lainey.  So, she definitely accomplished that goal. She’s also the only female nominated for Entertainer of the Year at the ACM Awards.  The show takes place Thursday, May 16th.  Go Lainey!

Seven artists are up for Entertainer of the Year at the ACMs this Thursday, including Luke Combs.  So, who does HE think should win? Someone asked and said he wasn’t allowed to pick himself.  The other six nominees are Chris Stapleton, Cody Johnson, Jelly Roll, Kane Brown, Lainey Wilson, and Morgan Wallen.  So, who’d he pick? He thinks KANE BROWN deserves it most.  “He has never gotten the recognition that I think that he deserves, [and] he works really hard.” It’s Kane’s 15th ACM nomination, and he’s only won once.  He took home Video of the Year in 2021 for “Worldwide Beautiful”.  Luke might actually deserve it more than anyone though.  It’s the fifth year in a row he’s been up for Entertainer of the Year, and he’s never won.  He leads all ACM nominees this time with eight total nods.

Morgan Wallen has already taken over this country . . . now he’s taking his invasion overseas. Morgan has added six European dates to his “One Thing at a Time” tour.  He’ll play Stockholm, Oslo, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Glasgow, and Dublin in August and September. Larry Fleet and Lauren Watkins will open.

Shania Twain shared a selfie with pink hair from her “Haute Living” cover shoot, and the comments are relentless.  Many fans are saying she looks unrecognizable, even comparing her to a Kardashian or Sofia Vergara.  And some are wondering what work she had done, especially her teeth. Shania says, quote, “You can FEEL how much fun I was having.  Expect me to be coloring my hair, doing what I dare in Vegas, sorry not sorry!!”  She just kicked off her third Las Vegas residency in celebration of the 25th anniversary of “Come on Over”.

Kelly Clarkson and Whoopi Goldberg both admitted to employing pharmaceutical aid to lose weight. 

George Clooney will make his Broadway debut in a stage version of his movie “Good Night, and Good Luck”.

Miranda Cosgrove is 31. 

Rob Gronkowski is 35.  He spent nine seasons with the New England Patriots and two as a Tampa Bay Buccaneer.

Dustin Lynch is 39.  Country singer.  Biggest hits:  “Small Town Boy”, “Where It’s At (Yep Yep)”, and “Cowboys and Angels”.

Mark Zuckerberg is 40.  He started Facebook out of his dorm room in 2004.  Today his net worth is $164.2 billion.

Amber Tamblyn is 41.  Charlie’s long-lost daughter on “Two and a Half Men”. 

Sofia Coppola is 53.  Director of “Lost in Translation” and “The Virgin Suicides”.  She’s Francis Ford Coppola’s daughter and Nicolas Cage’s cousin.

Cate Blanchett is 55. 

Danny Wood is 55.  New Kids on the Block.

Fabrice Morvan is 58.  The survivor of Milli Vanilli.

C.C. DeVille is 62.  Poison guitarist

George Lucas is 80.  “Star Wars” and “Indiana Jones” legend.

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