The first teaser for “Toy Story 4” came out yesterday, and all your favorite characters are back . . . plus a new one. His name is FORKY, and he’s a plastic fork with googly eyes and pipe cleaner arms. So he’s a SPORK, so maybe he should have been named “Sporky”? Anyway, he knows he’s not in the right place, because he yells, “I don’t belong here . . . I’m not a toy!” “Toy Story 4” comes out next June.
The L.A. Rams have a play called ‘Halle Berry.’ You could hear quarterback JARED GOFF calling for it during Sunday’s game. The real HALLE BERRY wants to know what it is . . . but the team won’t say.
The night before her show in New Orleans last week, CHRISTINA AGUILERA went to a bar, and asked the band if she could sing with them. She was DENIED. She told her crowd the next night, “The guy from the band would not . . . give up his mic. He was older and he wasn’t feeling it.”
As always, there will be plenty of surprises at the CMAs, but there’s one thing there WON’T be this year. Politics. At least not while BRAD PAISLEY and CARRIE UNDERWOOD are in front of the mic. Brad says, “I’m not gonna touch that. I just don’t find politics funny anymore.
QUEEN’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” soundtrack debuted at #3 this week, making it the band’s highest-charting album in 38 years.
LUKE COMBS is bringing his mom to the CMAs, and at some point during the night she WILL be meeting CHRIS YOUNG. He says, “My mom is just a big fan. [She] loves Chris Young. Like, she LOVES him. When I go back to my childhood room, it’s full of memorabilia of myself and then pictures of Chris Young. I wake up to him . . . it’s like, Chris Young: He’s right there. He’s, like, watching me while I sleep, you know? “ LUKE BRYAN will open the show with a performance of “What Makes You Country”, but he won’t be alone. He announced that a “slate of rising stars” will be joining him.
FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE and BEBE REXHA definitely made the right move by recording “Meant to Be”. And even though it’s a massive hit, TYLER HUBBARD would love to see it take the next step and win Single of the Year at the CMAs. “I think it’d be cool to get up there and share a stage with Bebe . . . just to share that moment, I think it’d be really special. That song has changed all three of our lives. And it’s just unexpected and very, very cool to see what that song’s done this year and how it’s connected with our fans and continued to inspire us even.”
Alex Trebeck has come across thousands of contestants since he first started hosting “Jeopardy” in 1984, but he admitted some players really get on his nerves. The 78-year-old game show says he gets bothered by players who “jump all over the board even after the Daily Doubles have been dealt with.” Trebek said he doesn’t understand what they are hoping to achieve.
KANE BROWN posted some “amazing” news on Twitter. His new album “Experiment” has rack up the most first day streams for a country album in the U.S.A. ever on Apple Music.
JAKE OWEN, CHRIS STAPLETON, and TIM MCGRAW are three of the four headliners at the Wisconsin edition of Country Thunder 2019. They haven’t announced the fourth yet. Other performers include Trace Adkins, Michael Ray, Ashley McBryde, Lindsay Ell, and LoCash. It’s July 18th through 21st.
BROTHERS OSBORNE is extending their headline tour into next year. They’ll kick it off in Chicago on January 10th . . . and take it through April 27th in Columbia, Missouri. Jan. 25 – Philadelphia, PA – The Fillmore*
Tonight is the debut of “Real Country”, the singing competition starring Shania Twain, Jake Owen, and Travis Tritt as expert panelists.
MILEY CYRUS and LIAM HEMSWORTH lost their Malibu home, but their animals are okay. Miley Tweeted, “I am grateful for all I have left.” Meanwhile, Liam and his brother LUKE were out helping with the recovery effort. LADY GAGA visited a wildfire shelter, where she spoke to evacuees, and even sang to a 98-year-old woman. SANDRA BULLOCK donated $100,000 to the Humane Society to help animals affected by the fires.
“Jimmy Kimmel” – Jake Owen.
Jimmy Kimmel is 51.
Whoopi Goldberg is 63.
