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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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Everyone is looking forward to a positive 2022…Chris Stapleton is looking to go on the road as well as Jordan Davis with Dierks Bentley early in the new year and Jon Pardi? He’s looking forward to new music if he could just…get…to it…"We haven’t had no time to work on it because I’ve (only) been home about two or three days for the past three months, it seems like, and I haven’t been writing. I’ve been doing nothing but touring. So, I’m gonna get some songwriting in and finish this album.” He sounds a little frustrated…

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Zac Brown has a unique way of working out.  Telling GQ magazine that he does it while playing video games. Saying he’s got an overactive brain, so he had to figure out some way that he could do cardio. So, he set up his Arc Trainer right in front of his PlayStation and play’s ‘Madden’.  The time slips by fast—mentally, he’s going to play football; and doesn’t even think about working out…. maybe have to try that…

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Producer Steve Boettcher says Betty White recorded a tribute to her fans 10 days before she passed. He tells Entertainment Tonight that the greeting will most likely appear in Betty's upcoming movie, ‘Betty White: A Celebration’. saying “It was kind of a tribute to her fans that were going to be with her at the event.  ‘Betty White: A Celebration’, in theaters one night only on Betty’s 100^th birthday January 17^th you can see it at Movies 12 in Ames, Cinemark in Altoona and Jordan Creek 20 in Des Moines.

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A little something for the beer drinker and Dallas Cowboys fans in 2022.  Fox NFL announcer Troy Aikman is releasing a new beer in February called Eight. The healthy beer is made with organic grains, antioxidant hops and no sugar. The beer only has 90 calories BUT will NOT help you throw a fifty yard pass into a trash can.  Although you may THINK you can after a few of them.

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He’s putting down the shield and putting on his dancing shoes…Captain America Chris Evans is reportedly going to play legendary actor Gene Kelly the iconic musical movie star of ‘Singin’ in the Rain’.  Just weeks after another Marvel Studios star Tom Holland (Spider-Man) confirmed he was going to make a movie about Fred Astaire.  No studio is attached to it yet, but the script is in development.

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Have you seen the new show 1883?  Just two episodes in and it looks pretty good…the prequel to the highly rated “Yellowstone” Starring Tim McGraw and Faith Hill…. Tim Says He Got Valuable Acting Advice from Billy Bob Thornton On The Set... " He was like the angel on my shoulder. The best advice he ever gave me is, if you think you’re not doing enough, you’re probably still doing too much." ''1883'' is currently streaming on Paramount +

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The final season of “This Is Us” returns tonight, Sterling K. Brown who plays Randal explains with all the emotional ups and down his character has faced what a “happy ending” for Randal would look like on the show. “He fights so much within himself, is he enough. Is he black enough, does he fit in this family does he fit in the black community? I just want him to know he belongs wherever he is, is what I call ‘happiness for Randal’ “This Is Us” returns for it’s final season tonight on NBC

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NBC says the 'Betty White Challenge' is trending online. The challenge calls for people to donate $5 to animal shelters on what would have been White's 100th birthday on January 17th. The challenge reads: “Make her 100th birthday the movement she deserves.”

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First kisses remember yours?  Was it everything you thought it would be?  Sometimes it doesn’t go as planned…Thomas Rhett's First Kiss Wasn't Memorable ... "First kiss was 15 on my parents’ trampoline. And we literally clanked teeth. Have you ever clanked teeth? It’s horrible. I mean, there is no recovering from that. But somehow, someway it did.” Location,  location location…You never want to have your first kiss while trying to do summersaults on a…did he say his PARENTS trampoline??

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We Got This Covered says plans for a Knight Rider movie are on hold due to time constraints. Director James Gunn tweeted "My friend David Hasselhoff and I have discussed doing a modern continuation of Knight Rider many times. The primary hurdle has been there aren’t enough hours in the day to do all the cool things I want to do!"

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For the longest time cowboy hats were a thing in country music.  Everyone from Tim McGraw to Garth Brooks…the “Hat acts” of the 90’s were huge…then hats went away for a while…now…2022 those hats are making a comeback…Dustin Lynch has a bunch of cowboy hats but how many does he know? “I have no idea how many cowboy hats I own, I opened a closet at my house and found 40 boxes of cowboy hats I didn’t know I had. So, we’re in the dozens…dozens and dozens of cowboy hats right now.” The one he wears on any given day depends on the mood he’s in.

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Chris Stapleton Can't Wait To Get Back To Touring In 2022..and he has a message for all of his fans, “Yeah, we’re comin’ and I hope you show up.  That’s my message and I can not wait to see you. It’s going to be awesome.” his ‘All-American Road Show Tour is set to hit the road again in support of his second and third studio albums “From A Room: Volume 1 and Volume 2 kicks off in Oklahoma February 18^th.

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Today the world mourns the loss of a Hollywood Icon.  Betty White just weeks before her 100^th birthday.  She is in the Guinness book of world records for having the longest TV career by an entertainer for a female.  Her career stretched more than 79 years…our ‘Golden Girl’ will be missed…Betty White passed peacefully in her home in Brentwood December 31^st…she was 99

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If there was a movie about Elvira Mistress of the dark’s life, who would you want to play Elvira!!??  Well, Elvira wants Dolly Parton to play HER in a new movie about her life.  She says you have to have someone with the right “attributes”

And Nicolas Cage tells Variety Magazine he no longer wants to be known as an actor….He wants to be known as a “thespian” because it’s more like Shamanism…getting a little ahead of ourselves I think..I’ve seen his latest movies…

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The big numbers at the box office over the holiday weekend goes to Spider-Man: No Way Home earning 52-Million dollars followed by Sing 2 and the King’s Man rounding out the top 3 raking in 4 and a half million dollars.

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