Tuesday 20th May 2025
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Whether you like it or not, Taylor Swift is expected to be in the house when Travis Kelce and the Kansas City Chiefs take on the New York Jets at MetLife Stadium this Sunday. That’s local for Taylor, because she owns a place in New York City.
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Madame Tussauds in Nashville will be unveiling their new wax figure of Kacey Musgraves tomorrow. There’s a video of Kacey seeing it for the first time, and it’s pretty cool to witness her reaction. Not only did she approve, she says they nailed it. And she explained HOW they nailed it. It took twenty London-based artists about six months to create the figure.
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Now that the writers’ strike is over, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, and Stephen Colbert are all returning to late night on Monday. HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher” returns Friday, and “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” returns Sunday.
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The Daily Mail says Sharon Osbourne recently had another facelift after a previous one made her look like “Quasimodo.” She needed more surgery to fix her face. Osbourne says, “This last one was a kind of fix-it job from the guy that did it before. I looked like Quasimodo, because I had one eye here, one eye there. It was wicked.’’
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Kelsea Ballerini did one of her photo dumps that featured pics of her at a waterfall, buying pumpkins, grabbing a bite outside somewhere . . . and onstage doing karaoke with Karen Fairchild. They sang the Little Big Town classic “Girl Crush”, and Kelsea called it “a new core memory.” Click HERE for pics.
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Kevin Bacon wanted to be taken as a serious actor in the ’80s, so he rejected the fame that came with being in “Footloose”. He tells Penn Badgley on the podcast “Podcrushed” He was “Horrified” – “The last thing I wanted to be was a popstar. I was very very uncomfortable with photoshoots and magazines and all of these things that I had dreamed of as a kid.” He wanted to work with Scorsese..he wanted to BE Di Niro… Everything that he dreamed of as a kid gave himself doubt and anxiety. Somehow I feel closer to Kevin Bacon now…at least by 6 degrees…
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And finally, Here’s your reminder that tonight’s “People’s Choice Country Awards” starts at 8:00 p.m. Eastern on NBC.
You can catch The List, weekdays at 2:20 and 4:20 on Iowa’s BEST Country KIX 101.1
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Well, this is unexpected. Steve Perry and Willie Nelson just teamed up to re-record Journey’s “Faithfully.” That’s right—two legends, one power ballad, and a whole lotta “What decade is it?” It’s all to celebrate 40 years of Farm Aid. So cry, sing, and hug a tractor. It’s what they would’ve wanted.
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Hold my popcorn. Word is Blake Lively threatened to leak Taylor Swift’s private texts unless Tay backed her in a feud with Justin Baldoni. A source says Taylor is panicking, spiraling, and basically curled up in a pile of cardigans. Blake’s legal team? They say this is all a lie and quote, “untethered from reality.” Which ironically sounds like Taylor’s next album title.
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Jelly Roll thought his criminal past might keep him from performing in the UK on Post Malone’s Big Butt—I mean Big [Beep] World Tour. But plot twist—he got the green light! That’s right, Jelly’s headed to England for the first time ever. Tottenham Stadium, get ready... America’s favorite reformed bad boy is bringin' the southern fried chaos overseas.
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Prince Harry’s apparently put on a few... and Meghan Markle’s not having it. A source says she wants him off the chips and on the celery—less beer belly, more yoga mat. She hikes, she juices, she probably hasn’t had a carb since Suits. Meanwhile, Harry’s somewhere with a bag of crisps like, “What’s wrong with a little salt?” Oh, marriage.
You can catch The List, weekday at 4:20 with Jonathan Knight. Only on Iowa’s BEST Country KIX 101.
