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Happy Valentines Day!  Hopefully your day is romantic and if it isn’t don’t worry you’re in good company. Ashley McBryde Recalls Her Worst Valentine's Day FAIL ... "The most romantic thing I've ever done for someone was I booked a stay at a bed and breakfast. But I didn't inform the parties involved that it was one of the most haunted places in the state of Kentucky. ' That's not super romantic. To ME it would have been romantic. But it didn't actually come off that way."

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Eric Church put on a great show over the weekend in Kix Country, HERE he talks about the love he shares with his wife Katherine. "True love to me is when you love a person in spite of all their failabilities, and for me, I have a lot of ‘em. I’m definitely at times hard to love, and that’s what’s great about Katherine and the way she loves me. She loves me in spite of those things and really for those things."

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Newsweek magazine says people were in ‘duck and cover’ mode over the weekend…outside of a Justin Bieber after-party in Los Angeles where someone thought it was a good idea to start shooting things…Three people were wounded. AT the party…Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Kendall Jenner and Khloe Kardashian were at this place ironically enough called the ‘Nice Guy Lounge’

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Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg kicked off the Super Bowl LVI halftime show with one of the duo's most infamous tracks. With Dre all dressed in black in the producer's booth, he introduced a blue-paisley clad Snoop before the pair performed "The Next Episode." Next up, they belted out L.A.'s anthem, "California Love" not a bad show…Eminem and Mary J. Blige did a great job and was that 50 Cent? Man! Inflation is so bad, it done turn 50 cent into a full dollar..

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 Ivan Reitman, the influential filmmaker and producer behind many of the most beloved comedies of the late 20th century, from “Animal House” to “Ghostbusters,” has died.  Reitman died peacefully in his sleep Saturday night at his home in Montecito, Calif., his family told The Associated Press. He was 75

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The NY Post says Team Fluff won yesterday's Puppy Bowl 73-69 as a chihuahua, named Birch, scored two touchdowns. All of the dogs were adopted after the game.

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Superbowl Sunday!!! And Lady A's Hillary Scott has HER pick ... "Fun as it is to watch the Super Bowl when you’ve got veterans in the quarterback seat, I think that it’s really exciting to have a younger class of QBs leading their teams. So, I think that’s the thing that I’m excited to watch, and I’m goin’ for the Bengals. I’m callin’ it.”  My wife and I are intentionally taking different teams…SHE’S taking Bengals…I get the Rams…

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Snacks for the big game are important…The boys from Old Dominion were asked what THEIR favorite Super Bowl snacks were.

Brad Tursi: Favorite football Sunday snack…

Geoff Sprung: I want anything buffalo chicken flavored… anything.

Brad Tursi: I like a good pig in a blanket with nice mustard sauce…

Geoff Sprung: Maybe with a little buffalo chicken sauce on the top?

Brad Tursi: …With a buffalo chicken sauce.

Geoff Sprung: yeah, yeah.

Trevor Rosen: Oh yeah.

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Speaking of the Superbowl…The NY Post reports officials are blaring Bon Jovi's music outside of the Sofi Stadium in Los Angeles. The music is being blared so no one will know what songs are being rehearsed for the halftime show….

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Pop star Adele on the UK program ‘The Graham Norton Show’ touching on a variety of hot topics surrounding her personal life with her boyfriend Rich Paul one of which was the HUGE diamond ring on here finger.  Is Adele engaged? Well when Graham Norton asked, she dodged the question. "If I was, would I ever tell anyone if I was or wasn't?"  but she did say she is working on announcing a new set of dates for her cancelled residency in Vegas.

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Dr. Phil is being hit with toxic workplace allegations less than two years after similar allegations scandalized The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Thursday, BuzzFeed News published a lengthy report surrounding the claims of numerous current and former Dr. Phil employees who shared their experiences of alleged verbal abuse, intimidation and fear while working on the show. All of the allegations are coming from employee-on-employee abuse, none of the reports included Dr. Phil himself.

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Valentines Day is so close and country love I think is the best…and the love songs…

Jordan Davis talks about HIS favorites "You know, me and my wife's first dance was 'I'm Gonna Lose You,' John Legend and Meghan Trainor I think also a love song that I heard the other day is 'Strawberry Wine' from Deana Carter. Great love song. I listened to that a lot. Ooh, Deana Carter. Well done."

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And Jon Pardi he’s learned a lot about the holiday from his wife Summer.  "Is that gifts are cool, diamonds, blah, blah, blah, but to take your time and clear your mind and write something about what she means to you on a card is probably the most least expensive and the biggest price you can give her is just to write and tell her how much you love her on a little card. That's what she taught me for Valentine's Day, so I just do that. It's way cheaper.”

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Poor Tim McGraw with three daughter and Faith on his arm you would think he’d learned something about women but “I have learned absolutely nothin’. It’s still an enigma for me, women. There’s no hope, and I think that’s the beauty of it. They’re the most complicated and beautiful things in the world.” Hang in there buddy, it’ll be ok

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People magazine says Bob Saget died of a head injury. Investigators think and was confirmed by the family on Wednesday that he hit his head and then went to sleep without realizing he was injured. No drugs or alcohol were involved in Bob's death. He passed away in his sleep

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Forbes is out with their list of highest paid Entertainers of 2022. On it you’ll find Blake Shelton at the bottom earning around $55 Million, also on the list Reese Witherspoon, Dwayne ‘The Rock” Johnson in the top five…and at the very top? Lord Of The Rings Director Peter Jackson at a whopping $580 Million.

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The first trailer for Jurassic World: Dominion, the long-awaited conclusion to the Jurassic franchise, has been released -- and the original Jurassic Park stars are back. If you remember from 2018's Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, dinosaurs have now escaped from the islands where they were previously held and are spreading chaos across the globe.  The trailer teases to be the “epic conclusion” of the Jurassic era. In theaters this summer. See the teaser below….

https://youtu.be/nFYAfFs3Emw

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Today is National Pizza Day!!! Darius Rucker remembers when he used to mop floors and make pizza ... he says: "I was fifteen, and I worked at a pizza place, and the guy decided that at fifteen, that I could not only clean the floors and wash the dishes, but I also had to make pizza. So, for two months, he taught me how to make pizza" I wonder if he still makes pizza at home…for the kids…and then cleans up…you know..old habits  and all.

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Variety magazine says production costs for ''Mission Impossible 7'' have soared past $290 million. That's $100 million more than ''Mission Impossible: Fallout'' cost to produce in 2018. They’re blaming the larger cost on the Coronavirus and not so much Tom Cruises antics. After a couple delays Mission Impossible 7 is set for release September of THIS year.

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Valentines Day has changed so much, especially if you’re married with kids…it used to be a nice dinner, a glass of wine, watch a movie but Thomas Rhett in HIS house says being “romantic” is very different. “Me being romantic is really just helping, if that makes any sense. Like, if something is out of place, put it up. If the kids need to go take a nap, I make lunches in the morning before the kids get up to go to school, and all that kind of stuff. And so, when I’m off the road, being super present with my kids has turned into the new romanticism.”

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Saturday Night Live star Pete Davidson is now calling Kim Kardashian his girlfriend officially and The NY Post says he has a Kim Kardashian prayer candle on display in his bedroom. He was doing a Zoom interview when a reporter questioned him about the candle. It shows Kim in a blue gown holding a cross…creepy….

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Yellowstone fans will be happy to know that season 5 has a premiere date. Executive producer David Glasser says “It’s the prime of the show, and there is A LOT of story to tell” Yellowstone recently held its Season 4 finale, and the big episode set a massive ratings record. According to Deadline, the finale nabbed 9.3 million total viewers in Live+Same Day. This is up 81% when compared to the Season 3 finale, Shooting (figuratively) will begin in May with the Dutton family back on your TV  this fall.

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The 2022 Razzie Award Nominations have been announced.  The Razzies honor the worst movies in the industry. And for 2022 just to name a few, for Worst Picture making the list “Space Jam: A New Legacy” and “Infinite” for Worst Actor: LeBron James for “Space Jam: A New Legacy” and Mark Wahlberg for “Infinite” get the idea? A special category for this years “Razzies” called “Worst Performance by Bruce Willis in a 2021 movie….Guess who won…..

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Valentine’s day is just under a week away and for Carly Pearce she appreciates the small things ”For me, it’s about the little things and about the everyday things that just make you feel appreciated and makes you feel like your significant other is thinking of you. The thought really counts.”

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Who are YOUR idols…the people YOU look up to, to aspire to be like.  For Cody Johnson he tells TexasMonthly.com that he aspires to be just like Willie Nelson. "There is not an artist in the history of my 32 years on this earth that has ever influenced me as much as Willie Nelson.  Being able to play whatever you want and stay true to who you are just like he does means so much.”

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The Naked Gun franchise could it make a comeback?  Liam Neeson says Seth MacFarlane has approached him about rebooting the franchise. Telling People magazine, Seth and Paramount came him about it, and that he wasn’t really sure about taking his career in that direction. Adding, “I think the action movies will draw to a close, they have to. Audiences aren’t stupid, they’re gonna go, ‘Oh, this guy, Liam Neeson. He’s got to be 71, 72, 73…’ I’ll stop at some stage.”

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Is Katy Perry giving fellow American Idol Judge Luke Bryan the stink eye?  Luke thinks so..telling GMA Katy is jealous of his close relationship with her fiancé’ Orlando Bloom!   Luke is rehearsing for his residency in Las Vegas that kicks off this Friday.

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The 94th annual Academy Awards will be held at Hollywood's Dolby Theatre on Sunday, March 27…the nominations are out among them; Dune, the sci-fi epic starring Timothée Chalamet, earned 10 nods, while Belfast and West Side Story got seven.

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