The List for Thursday, September 28th 2023

Welcome to The List,

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.

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