Wednesday 1st January 2025
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The NFL season kicks off tonight and surprisingly The Dallas Cowboys who are America’s favorite NFL team, gets that moniker but only by a slim margin. They got 9% of the vote in a poll, followed by the Chicago Bears at 8%, then the Green Bay Packers and the Pittsburgh Steelers with 6% each…meanwhile, Gisele Bundchen still hasn’t returned to the Brady house from Costa Rica…and the first game for the Buccaneers is September 11th against the Cowboys…
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Can you imagine FGL’s Tyler Hubbard acting in a movie or TV show? Would he even be interested? ” I’m interested but I’m not actively pursuing it, if that makes sense. I joke and say I’m probably a really bad actor, if I had to actually act. But I could play a role that reflects a redneck from Georgia pretty well if anybody needs that in a film. So, I’m ready.”
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Anna Kendrick will direct and star in a movie based on the true story of a serial killer who went on “The Dating Game” in 1979, and was chosen by the female contestant. In 1978, a woman named Cheryl Bradshaw appeared on the show. And she chose a guy named Rodney Alcala. Well, Rodney turned out to be a SERIAL KILLER. And Cheryl somehow sensed something wasn’t right, because she refused to go on the date with him . . . which was obviously the right choice.
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Jon Pardi Shares Advice For Aspiring Artists, saying every artist you see has “been there” everyone that’s been on TV or whatever have been where you are and you have to get over that. “You just gotta get back on..you know, to the grind and always look for something positive. I know it’s hard to do sometimes, you might wake up the next night with a great song title and write a song and it changes your whole carrier.”
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Tom Hanks was almost a Storm Trooper!! He tells the Happy Sad Confused podcast that he almost made a cameo in the 2018 Star Wars movie ”Solo: A Star Wars Story”. But he couldn’t make it work, he couldn’t get there in time to do it. Adding, That was one thing about Star Wars, within the first 45 seconds of it, as soon as you saw a stormtrooper… those guys running around in those stormtrooper outfits, you were in the hands of something that had been really well-thought-out.”
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The nominations for the “56th Annual CMA Awards” were announced yesterday, and first-time nominee Lainey Wilson leads the pack with six. Morgan Wallen is up for Entertainer of the Year, which is huge because he was still canceled last year and wasn’t eligible for CMA solo awards.
Miranda Lambert remains the most-nominated female in CMA history. She’s up to 61. Overall, that’s the third most . . . behind George Strait’s 83 and Alan Jackson’s 81.
Taste of Country thinks Walker Hayes got snubbed and that he deserved a Best Male Vocalist nomination . . . and they don’t understand why the CMAs always overlook Kane Brown. Everyone is mad that Scotty McCreery got snubbed. “The 56th Annual CMA Awards” will air November 9th on ABC. Will YOU be watching??
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The official state funeral for former President Jimmy Carter will be held Jan. 9 at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., the White House confirmed Monday.
He died, Sunday in his hometown of Plains, Georgia. The Nobel Peace Prize-winner's wife of 77 years, Rosalynn, also passed away in the modest house they built together in 1961…
President Joe Biden has declared that day as a National Day of Mourning and has ordered U.S. flags to fly at half-staff for 30 days. Jimmy Carter was 100...
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There’s been a Smith sighting! For the first time since May, Will and Jada Pinkett Smith were spotted out together recently. The couple, who Jada revealed to have been separated for eight years, dined with friends in Calabasas. In one photo they’re chatting with one another while walking. In another shot, Jada leaned in and wrapped an arm around her estranged husband…. then flipped him…slapped him and told him to keep her name out of his mouth!!
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Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan's newest smash, Landman, features an impressive all-star cast, but if you have been paying close attention, you may have also noticed a very special guest star on the show. Tim McGraw and Faith Hill's daughter, Audrey, has popped up on Landman more than once in recent weeks.
Audrey McGraw first appeared on Landman during Episode 5, titled "Where Is Home." She played the role of Shelby, who lives next door to the house the main character Tommy (Billy Bob Thornton) lives…inviting his daughter “Ainsley” to a Patch Party…
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And lastly…If you're a DIEHARD FAN of Jelly Roll, you may have known this, but for everyone new to the bandwagon: Jelly recorded a song 10 years ago with Uncle Kracker… called "Sunday Morning" . It was NOT about CHURCH . . . it was about waking up hungover after a wild weekend partying like they were in a "fraternity house. “.. you can find it if you search…
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The last couple of years have been quite a whirlwind for Jackson Dean, and he’s had the opportunity to check off quite a few things on his career bucket list, including several venues he’s always dreamed of playing. But are there other venues he still dreams of performing in? “I’ve already done the Ryman, I’ve already done the Opry, I’ve done Red Rocks. Now, the funny thing is like, where are we gonna go next? I mean, the next step is to headline these places for sure, but where’s the next place? It’s a really great question I haven’t been able to answer for a little while. And I’ve been thinkin’ about, you know, where’s the next goal? I’ve even thought about all the O2s over in Europe and stuff. And I’m sure there’s stadiums over there and places over there that I don’t know about that I’d love to go. But I mean, I’ve been three years tourin’ around this country and gotten to all the lower 48 and played so many places. But yeah, we’re gonna keep settin’ goals for ourselves, and we’ve just checked so many off at this point ,you know. It’s a funny little problem to have.”
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With the New Year quickly approaching, a lot of people will be making resolutions to improve certain aspects of their life. Considering Tim McGraw is probably one of the fittest guys in country music, his resolution probably won’t have to do with working out or eating healthier. So, we wondered if there was something in Tim’s life that he feels could use some improvement. “Gosh, there’s way more things on my list that I need to get better at than there are things that I’ve gotten better at. You know, we’re all a work in progress and every day you’re trying to do something to make yourself a better person. Some days you fail at that and some days you don’t. It’s hard not to dwell on the things that you’ve done wrong, but if you dwell on those things you sort of get lost in the muck. And my philosophy, I don’t always accomplish it, but all you can do is try to do the next best thing. You know, if you do something wrong, just try to do the next best thing.”
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About 65 million combined viewers watched the Kansas City Chiefs top the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Baltimore Ravens battle the Houston Texans, according to the NFL and Netflix. They report they were the most streamed NFL games in U.S. history, according to Nielsen. What do you know..no gliches…like with the Tyson-Paul fight…
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Speaking of Netflix…One of Netflix’s biggest shows is officially back. The second season of South Korean thriller Squid Game premiered on the streamer on Thursday, over three years after the show premiered in 2021. Additionally, there will be one more season, with the third and final season premiering sometime in 2025.
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