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Tim McGraw says that filming his new show '1883’ can be pretty dangerous especially when they have to take a covered wagon across a river. “About every scene I shot with my horse he was trying to throw me in the middle of the river. I had one scene where my horse is raring up his hooves are slashing in the air my hat falls, I catch it put it back on.  It shows the chaos and the danger and the precarious situation everybody was in.” He says Faith has really gotten good at driving the wagons  '1883' is streaming now on Paramount +.

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Big Changes at ‘The Voice” and this time it’s not the judges.  Unfortunately, for fans, the show will not be returning to TV this January. In fact, it may be some time before you get to see the coaches in action again. It’s not going AWAY According to Fansided, just that Season 22 of The Voice won't be coming back until later this year. They usually run two full seasons during the course of a year, one in the spring and the other in the fall.

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Georgia Bulldog fan Travis Denning celebrated his favorite college football team’s National Championship win Monday night by shot gunning a White Claw…. Turns out, all the beer was all gone…I guess sometimes you gotta do whatcha gotta do. Georgia won college football's National Championship last night by beating Alabama 33-18. It's the school's first national title since 1980.

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Cause of death for Betty White has been released.  The Hollywood Reporter says the cause of death for The beloved Golden Girl and Mary Tyler Moore Show actor died at her home in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles as the result of a Dec. 25^th Cerebrovascular accident, the medical term for stroke.  According to the L.A. County death certificate obtained Monday by The Associated Press.

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Billboard magazine says Snoop Dogg is planning to launch a new hot dog brand called Snoop Doggs.  He already has a line of Gin and cookbooks.. Woman's Day magazine says Queen Elizabeth may move in with Prince William and Kate Middleton because of a recent security breach at Buckingham Palace. I don’t know but that sounds like a movie to me…

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Faith Cracks Tim! - Tim McGraw tells People magazine that Faith really slaps him on their TV show ''1883''. Saying they had this scene where she has to slap him. He was expecting a finger slap but it was a paw to the jaw,” he added. “There was 25 years of pent-up aggression going on! When you see it on screen, you realize it was a genuine hit.”

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The first full-length trailer for "Bel-Air," the reimagined “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” spinoff, is here — and this time around there's definitely no laugh track. The new one-hour series, is a much more dramatic affair than its 1990s sitcom predecessor, “Bel-Air” premieres Superbowl Sunday Feb. 13 on Peacock

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Blake Shelton’s music could put your baby to sleep!  Some of his biggest songs are being made into lullaby renditions.  A company called Rockabye Baby has put together a collection of Blake's music that will be out on February 4th.  If your little one isn't a fan of Blake's, there’s other artists to choose from, Dolly Parton, Miranda Lambert, Johnny Cash, and Shania Twain.

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They say these things happen in three’s, well, we have our number three…Betty White, Sidney Poitier and now Bob Sagat is gone.  He was in Orlando for several comedy shows and was found in his hotel room over the weekend unresponsive.  He was the host of “Funniest Home Videos”…played ‘Danny Tanner’ the dad on “Full House”.  The cause of death has not been released Bob Sagat was 65

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See any good movies??  Spider-Man: No Way Home was number one again at the box office with a 33-Million dollar hall, followed by The 355 the new female led action movie, and The King’s Man rounding up the top three

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And finally - Chia Pet is honoring Willie Nelson with his own chia. The chia is a likeness of Willie and has the Chia plant growing from his head into two long Chia plant braids. Walmart is selling the Chia Pet

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Dustin Lynch ALMOST wasn’t a country music star.   He tells Entertainment Tonight he had a major in biology and chemistry and got into med school and told his parents he wanted to at least give music a legit shot before he went and chased that. They didn’t like it but it worked out.

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Oscar-winning Bahamian actor and former ambassador Sir Sidney Poitier has reportedly died.  Sidney Poitier was the first Black man to win the Academy Award for Best Actor. He was also the first Bahamian actor to do so. Known for MANY movies over the years To Sir, with Love, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, and In the Heat of the Night. Sir Sidney Poitier was 94.

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Leonardo DiCaprio is receiving an honor from London's Royal Botanic Gardens they’ve named a new tree species after him.  The Uvariopsis DiCaprio, aka Leonardo 'Tree' Caprio, It’s an evergreen with large yellow and green flowers that is found in the forest.  The tree is endangered. But Leo’s carrier is not…his latest movie “Look Up” is one of the top movies playing NOW on Netflix.

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Morgan Wallen's 2021 album Dangerous; The Double Album finished out the year as the no. 1 streamed album across all genres among Billboard's charts. Despite being arguably one of country music's most controversial figures over the last year or so.  Morgan is spinning up his “Dangerous Tour” that kicks off at the Ford Center in Evansville, Indiana February 3^rd, and will bring him through the Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines April 29^th.

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A new year means new resolutions and superstitions and traditions.  Penelope Cruz talks to Ellen about HER New Year's tradition of eating 12 grapes in 12 seconds. “We eat 12 grapes, for New Years Eve in the last 12 seconds.  Some people say you ask for one wish for each grape, for others it’s more of a superstition thing.” Penelope Cruz stars with Lupita Nyong’o and Jessica Chastain in a new movie called ‘The 355’ in theaters NOW with an opening take of $350,000 since opening night last night.

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Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson threatened the Cookie Monster yesterday after Elmo tweeted; ''Has anybody ever seen a rock eat a cookie? Elmo is just curious.''

The Rock responded ...

Yes, my friend.

This Rock devours cookies.

All kinds of cookies

I’ll introduce you to #CheatMeals and it’ll change your life.

Tell Cookie Monster to move it over, cuz I’m coming to Sesame Street to kick a** and eat cookies.

And I’m almost all outta cookies.

~ Rock

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Things happen when you’re on stage.  Some country stars forget lines in a song…others FALL off the stage!  Things happen right? Jimmie Allen knows all to well…so, what happened to him? “My jeans split one time like from the back, top of the butt crack to the all the way around to the zipper.  I had my pizza underwear on, I wasn’t embarrassed it just happens I performed the rest of the show with split jeans.” The show must go on!!

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Kelsea Ballerini tells ET Online that she loves going to a McDonald's drive-thru. "You can't take the Knoxville out of the girl! I'm a 10-piece nugget meal, with honey mustard. Been that way since I was a kid. I can't change it now, you know?" Why would you want to….

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Rolling Stone reports The 64th annual Grammy Awards have been postponed due to concerns over the surge in cases of the COVID-19 Omicron variant. holding the show on January 31st simply contains too many risks. We look forward to celebrating Music’s Biggest Night on a future date, which will be announced soon.”

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Whoopi Goldberg has been quarantining in her home because she came down with COVID...and she sounds a little shocked! “I was like wait, what? It was a shock because you know, I’m triple vaxxed, I haven’t been anywhere I haven’t done anything.”

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Speaking of COVID - Hoda Kotb has tested positive for COVID-19. The Today show kicked off this morning with Craig Melvin revealing that Kotb has tested positive for a breakthrough case of COVID-19. Kotb, a long-time staple of the NBC morning show, is vaccinated and has received her booster shot. Amid her positive diagnosis, she will isolate at home, it was confirmed.

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