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Jon Pardi's “Heartache Medication,” has reached Platinum status...and he received his plaque while digging out a pond with an excavator on the back 40 of his property...."I know I'm in work mode, tryin to clean this crappy pond. But, this is awesome coming off of such a successful album as 'California Sunrise'...to come with another record and start off right out of the gate with a platinum single. So, that's pretty amazing. Thank you so much, thank you to all the fans and we'll keep them comin." In fact, he just might store his new plaque in the windshield of his excavator.

Jason Aldean says being forced to take a year off has been nice. He loves spending time with his family..."So, it's been nice, I mean, it's a double edged sword. I love what I do, I love being on the road...Playing shows and traveling, and doing all that stuff but I also love being at home."

The NY Post says Jeff Goldblum's fans want him to make a cameo on ''Saturday Night Live'' as a fly. The impromptu casting call started after a fly landed on Mike Pence's head during the vice presidential debate. Goldblum starred in the 1986 movie ''The Fly''

Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson Celebrates His Instagram Milestone ... "I just heard from my team...yesterday that we have surged passed...blown by...over two hundred million followers on Instagram. Which, makes me incredibly and gratefully the number one followed man in the world." Now if I could just figure OUT Instagram,  I might follow him too...

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Matt Stell Talks About The Meaning Behind his hit song 'Everywhere But On' "The song has to do with the high price of being on the road...and I know a little something about that. The character in the song has been on a journey similar to the one I've been on."

Morgan Wallen has found himself in a pickle he was suppose to be the upcoming musical guest for SNL and is apologizing..."I'd like to apologize to SNL, to my fans, to my team.. for bringing me these opportunities and I let them down... I've tried to find joy in the wrong places and it's left me with less joy so I'm going to work on that  "The country singer came under criticism on Tuesday after appearing mask less at a house party in a TikTok video.

Sharon Osborne Remembers Eddie Van Halen ... and a situation that happened at a bar in Germany between Eddie's bandmate David Lee Roth and Ozzy..."He's doing his kicks and singing shaking his hair around and it's like who are you doing this for! cause no bodies here! He really got on our nerves, and Ozzy got a pair of scissors and every time he'd fly his hair around Ozzy would SNIP...SNIP....SNIP...

Life & Style Weekly Magazine says the prison where Lori Loughlin will serve her time for bribing college admissions officials allegedly serves brunch on the weekends. A source tells the magazine. The Victorville prison she’s been sentenced to offers plentiful music lessons, arts and crafts, and more. If she’s not making art, she can do Pilates, yoga, and spinning class. you know...like you do in prison...as a criminal...

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Garth Brooks is getting the band back together, he's performing at the Billboard Music Awards next week with five of the original seven band members. Garth will also be presented with the prestigious Icon Award at the ceremony. The Billboard Music Awards will be hosted by Kelly Clarkson and air live October 14 at 8 p.m. ET on NBC.

Brad Paisley talks to Ellen about his 'No I In Beer' video..to rescuing donkeys during the pandemic...and recalling the last concert he played before the pandemic shut everything down..."We were up in Saskatchewan, the day after they shut down all of America. Which was really weird because I feel like we got one pass the goalie. I was able to really soak it in with that audience, and I think we all knew.. ok, this is it for a long time."

Each audience member for Saturday Night Live's season premiere walked out with a surprise $150 check. New York's COVID-19 guidelines prohibit live audiences at "media production activities," unless the audience is made up of paid cast, crew or employees. so, by paying the audience...NBC was able to count them as employees which put the show in compliance with the state's COVID-19 restrictions.

Legendary rocker Eddie Van Halen passed away from throat cancer yesterday..in the early days of Van Halen Eddie said the band never took NO for an answer "The bottom line is...we believed in ourselves, just like when no record company wanted anything to do with us we threw our own gigs. We played back yard parties, stuffed lockers in high schools.. we played high schools we played everywhere whether you liked us or not you definitely had heard of us." ..Eddie Van Halen was 65.

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Blake Shelton has Announced His Advisor For 'The Voice' ... "My advisor, has been here a few times right? He's performed on the show but he's going to be my advisor this season....ladies and gentlemen....Kane Brown." Season 19 of The Voice starts Monday October 19th at 7pm on NBC

It's award season and the CMA's are just around the corner...and Reba fills us in on what we can expect. "A great show with great entertainment, lots of fun and it's going to be an action packed event that we're really looking forward to." she says not matter how many people are in the audience. The 2020 CMA Awards air Wednesday, November 11th on ABC.

Shania Twain can't wait to get back to her Vegas show on stage and well, she's been pretty busy        "I'm on stand-bye, I've been writing music...I mean I've got a mountain of songs now. COVID has lasted so much longer than any of us expected so i have enough music for three albums now. I just keep writing and writing and writing"

How would you like to see "Man Of Steel" Star Henry Cavill be the next James Bond if the series producers would have him he says he'd love to. "If Barbara and Mike are interested in me in any capacity to be a part of their movies. I will gladly have that discussion with them. That would be something I would be very keen to explore further." The new bond movie "No Time To Die" has been pushed back and is now scheduled to be in theaters April 2nd 2021

Jimmy Fallon says Coca Cola is planning to discontinue their brand of coconut water called 'Zico'    "It's a big blow for all those people who love pretending that they love the taste of coconut water...Coca Cola new it was time to discontinue Zico because they did it a year ago and no one noticed."

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Jameson Rodgers Was A Baseball Player believe it or not..before he was a country singer.."I grew up playing baseball, I played through junior college...and when that rode came to an end I went to Southern Miss to finish school..and that's when I picked the guitar up"

Dolly Parton Wants To Be On The Cover Of Playboy "Well, there's some truth in that, I just might do it if I can do it in good taste and they want it. I will do it with a really good interview inside..so, yeah, it's possible"...Dolly turns 75 in January

The Karate Kid sequel series Cobra Kai is getting a season 3!! It was also announced Friday that the Ralph Macchio-William Zabka show has been renewed for a fourth a season...I just got through the first two seasons..Season 3 of Cobra Kai will premiere on Netflix on Jan. 8.

Jimmy Fallon says Brach's is selling candy corn "I saw that Brach's is now selling candy corn that taste like Thanks giving dinner...Don't knock it till you spit it out...If that was the vaccine for Coronavirus most people still wouldn't eat them...at this point 2020 is just rubbing it in."

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