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Luke Bryan’s Docuseries, 'Luke Bryan: My Dirt Road Diary' is about to launch on IMDb TV and he says watching it…was a bit of an emotional ride..“to see some of these images of me and my sister and us growing up as kids. I mean, there’s some moments in there where it’s just impossible not to get emotional and shed some tears ''Luke Bryan: My Dirt Road Diary'' starts streaming today on IMDb TV and is free to watch…

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Florida Georgia Line played the inaugural show at the new FirstBank Amphitheater in Franklin, Tennessee on Tuesday, putting on Together: Feeding Nashville, a star-studded benefit show to raise money for Feeding Nashville. The show raised over $450,000 in funds to combat food insecurity in Music City,

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Kanye West is paying $150,000 per day in rent to live at Atlanta's Mercedes-Benz Stadium. He is there to finish recording his new album..why? because he’s a “wild and crazy guy”….

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People magazine says the final season of Ellen DeGeneres's talk show is going to premiere on September 13th. Guests during the final season will include George Clooney, Justin Timberlake. Ellen says she has given away $450 million during her 19 years on the air.

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I like Big Macs but not as much as Don Gorske he holds the Guinness World Record for most Big Macs eaten in a lifetime with 32,340. “I’m closing in on 50 years next year of eating them every day.  My habit right now is to eat two a day and that would be live 14 a week” Don says he'll keep eating Big Macs until he has to put them in a blender in order to eat them.

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Winning an Olympic medal like Tamyra Mensah did is outstanding but to celebrate it by singing a Carrie Underwood song…priceless….”I can’t get it out of my head, cause I am a champion, I was born for this I was made for it! I love it!!” U.S. Olympian Tamyra Mensah Stock won the gold at the Tokyo Olympics in the women’s wrestling freestyle category. Carrie retweeted this with the caption, 'Congratulations, @MensahTamStock ! #YouAreTheChampion'.

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The Paramount + Steaming service hit ‘Yellowstone’ is going to have a prequel CALLED ‘1883’ AND a couple pretty famous country music stars are in the show alongside Sam Elliot.  Tim McGraw and wife Faith Hill!! They will play James and Margaret Dutton, the patriarch and matriarch of the Dutton family. Tim took to Instagram to share the news. “1883’ premiers on Paramount + March 4^th….

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In a surprise announcement from Netflix on Thursday, the streaming giant revealed some major news for one of its most popular series, in addition to releasing a first look promo. Cobra Kai will be back for Season 4 a lot sooner than we thought this time around, with Netflix revealing the series will return this December! And promises Season 4 that is going to elevate everything to the next level.

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Ryan Reynolds had it tough during the lockdowns, here he dishes on coloring wife Blake Lively's hair while quarantining…”I did a nice slow drip down to blonde, one hand on the brush one had on the gin.” That’s how I like my hair stylist DRUNK while cutting my hair!!  Ryan has a new movie called “Free Guy” in theaters August 13^th;;

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Marvel is BIG on origin stories for their superhero’s  on the big screen so,…HERE DAN gives us the origin story for Dan + Shay….

Dan: “We were at a party, at my house, and per usual, we were playing guitars, and passing guitars and singing covers. So Shay and I were hanging out that night, and I distinctly remember, I was like ‘This guy is pretty good at singing.’ And the next day we wrote a song, and that song got put on hold by a major artist that night, and we started writing more, and more songs. And we’re like, ‘This is going to work,’ and then somebody told us, ‘You guys should be a duo,’ and we’re like ‘Let’s do it.’”

Shay: “And here we are.”

And THEY will be at the Iowa State Fair Saturday August 21^st

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And speaking of new music Carly Pearce is following up on her 2020 project 29 with an expansion into a full album, announcing this week that 29: Written in Stone will be released on Sept. 17. The 15-song project will include the seven songs from 29 as well as eight new tracks…..

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Brooke Shields is still active at 56, looks great and youthfull..turns out the secret it…donuts…  “I like to do pilates, and then I like to go get donuts.  It’s a huge donut on a stick.”

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The trailer for the new Venom movie is out.. "Venom: Let There Be Carnage"  It’s the sequel to the 2018 comic book film starring Tom Hardy, as Eddie Brock, One side of Eddie is a journalist who lives a normal life. But his other half is Venom who feeds on people. In the movie Eddie interviews a serial killer, Cletus Kasady, who is played by Woody Harrelson, who later turns into Carnage, also a predator.  I’m sure we’ll preview it in “At The Movies” closer to the release date which is September 24^th

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Elvie Shane On His New Song, 'My Boy' ... " “My Boy” is a song about my son and our relationship. It was inspired by a social media post that said “I don't have a stepson I have a son that was born before I met him” and man, that really resonated with me And man, has it been great to see it connect with you folks. We appreciate you!"…You can find Elvie Shane’s ‘My Boy” on his EP Country Roads

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Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani had around 40 friends and family members in attendance when they got married at Shelton's Oklahoma ranch last month, which means that some of the pair's famous friends were left off the guest list. Speaking to SiriusXM's Storme Warren last week, Shelton revealed that he's had "awkward" conversations with friends who weren't even aware that the wedding was happening….they had the best honey moon…going NOWHERE…they just stayed in Oaklahoma - Gwen Stefani was recently spotted out in Los Angeles wearing Vans sneakers with Blake Shelton's face on the top of them.

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Team USA Swimmer Caeleb Dressel..won five gold medals at the Tokyo Olympics. He talks about being happy, and his thoughts on being a top athlete then  Today show’s Craig Melvin asked an important question..”Yes, I’m happy, it was really fun competing.  This is the pinnacle of our sport, to be able to do that on a world stage, with the rings in the background and the world watching.

Melvin – “Can you humbly accept being called the best in the world now.”

Dressel – “No, because the moment you do that, the moment you let complacency sneak in you get passed.”

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The Salt Lake Tribune says Ken Jennings is the leading candidate to take over as the permanent "Jeopardy!" host. Ken had the best ratings out of all of the guest hosts while George Stephanopoulos scored the lowest. The permanent host is expected to be announced in time for the show's Fall premiere on September 13th.

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