Jelly Roll was recently started talking about his weight loss journey. He said, “I have lost all of this weight, and gonna lose another 100 pounds . . . I was so fat, that I’m STILL FAT. Think about that, I was so fat that I’m sitting on your bus right now at 375 pounds and we’re proud of me.” Everyone in the room cracked up throughout Jelly’s speech. He also says in the interview how he wants to go through the entire process in front of everyone, so they can see his daily struggles.
Randy Travis is getting his own movie. And another big country star is playing him . . . Clay Walker. They announced it at the Grand Ole Opry on Wednesday night. The title is “Forever and Ever, Amen” after his 1987 hit and 2019 memoir. Randy’s wife said they want to “tell [his] life story just as he lived it.” Clay said it’s a story of “deep struggles,” “redemption,” and a man who’s overcome a lot of challenges. He called it a story that deserves to be told. Clay is 55, so he’ll obviously play him in his older years, with younger actors also stepping in. Randy was 54 when a stroke robbed him of his voice in 2013. They plan to start filming this summer in Nashville and North Carolina, and say it’ll hit theaters sometime next spring.
Sources say Jennifer Lopez is “furious” over all the pictures of Ben Affleck spending time with Jennifer Garner.
Patrick Dempsey is returning to racing . . . and you can watch it happen in a Fox Sports documentary called “Destined to Drive: Patrick Dempsey’s Return to Racing”.
Amanda Gorman is 27. America’s first National Youth Poet Laureate.
Laura Prepon is 45. Alex on “Orange Is the New Black”. Before that, she was Donna on “That ’70s Show”.
Jenna Fischer is 51. Pam on “The Office”.
Peter Sarsgaard is 54. The Gotham City D.A. in “The Batman”.
Wanda Sykes is 61.
E. L. James is 62. “Fifty Shades of Grey” author.
Taylor Dayne is 63. “Tell It to My Heart”
Bryan Cranston is 69. Walter White on “Breaking Bad”.
Lynn Swann is 73. NFL Hall of Famer who won four Super Bowls with the Pittsburgh Steelers (1975, 1976, 1979, and 1980). He was the MVP of Super Bowl 10 in 1976.
Peter Wolf is 79. Lead singer of the J. Geils Band. Biggest hit: 1981’s “(Angel Is A) Centerfold”. Before that, they had a lesser hit with “Love Stinks”, which Adam Sandler resurrected in “The Wedding Singer”.
