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Blake Shelton Gets the Bird

Posted Jul 1st 2008 8:00AM by Beville Darden
Filed under: Humor, Chatter

Blake Shelton is known for his sense of humor almost as much as he is for his music. And sometimes the singer's comedic side rubs off on his fans, in a not-so-polite way.

"They think it's fun, because of the 'Some Beach' video, to flip me off. They assume that that's flattering to me and so I flip 'em off back and they love it," Shelton tells Dial-Global. "That's kind of the relationship that I have with my fans. I think that's why they call themselves 'B.S.er's,' because none of them take themselves or me that seriously."

Shelton, who just celebrated his 32nd birthday, is hoping to celebrate a No. 1 hit soon. His latest single, 'Home,' is is sitting at No. 2 on the country charts for the second week in a row. He performed the song on Monday night's episode of 'Nashville Star.'

Blake Shelton, 'Some Beach' Video

Blake Shelton, 'Home' Video

Keith Urban's Wife Makes Special Delivery

Posted Jun 30th 2008 12:00PM by Beville Darden
Filed under: Humor, Chatter

Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman's first child is due within the next few weeks, and the two have been taking Lamaze lessons to prepare. The problem is, Urban isn't quite sure what Lamaze is. During a recent interview with Nashville's WSIX radio station, Urban answered "no" when asked if he was taking birthing classes. But a surprise phone call to the radio show revealed otherwise.

"Hi, this is Keith's wife," Kidman said when DJ Gerry House answered the phone live on the air. "Actually, Keith has been doing Lamaze lessons -- he is selling himself short! He doesn't know the name [of the classes] but he has been very good at it."

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Jessica Simpson Makes Nosy Confession

Posted Jun 25th 2008 10:00AM by Beville Darden
Filed under: Humor, Chatter

Jessica Simpson has been showing her comedic side while she makes the radio rounds, re-introducing herself as a country artist. Take, for instance, her recent interview with Southern California's KFROG, where she praised Nashville for its many virtues, including lack of paparazzi:

"It's so intimidating when paparazzi are around -- you can't sneeze or anything," Simpson said, adding a particularly embarrassing nasal moment: "I have sneezed out a spaghetti noodle before. [laughs] Straight out my nose! I thought something was caught in my throat for like two days, and then one day, I just sneezed out a long spaghetti noodle."

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Craig Morgan's Son Escapes Shark Attack

Posted Jun 16th 2008 11:00AM by Gayle Richardson
Filed under: Humor, Country News, Chatter

Craig Morgan certainly got a lot more than he bargained for on his recent family vacation in the Florida Keys. In addition to snorkeling, scuba diving and relaxing on a boat, the singer's son can add "shark escape" to his list of activities on the trip.

"When the tide was out, you could walk on the reef from the island about halfway to the mainland," Morgan told GAC. So [my son] walked out through there, and a shark had got up on the reef and was swimmin' around."

Morgan's son was completely unaware of the impending danger until his sister started screaming, "Shark!" That caused the little boy to stomp in the water, which incited the shark to chase him.

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Keith Urban Learns a New Word

Posted Jun 9th 2008 6:00PM by Gayle Richardson
Filed under: Humor, Chatter

Dad-to-be Keith Urban is learning a lot about fatherhood, including a few new words. Urban and wife Nicole Kidman have been inundated with baby gifts for their first child, due next month. The problem is, Urban is unfamiliar with some of them.

"We got a tie-dyed jumpsuit thing that we really like," he said backstage at the CMA Music Festival in Nashville, after making a surprise guest performance. When a helpful reporter told him it was a 'onesie', the perplexed Urban replied, "A what?" Then he laughed and explained, "I'm learning a new vocabulary." He also told reporters that one of his favorite gifts was a tiny, Johnny Cash-inspired T-shirt that reads "I crawl the line."

Urban is enjoying having his pregnant wife on the road with him, at least for the time being. "I love having her with me when I tour, but at the same time, it's work. You don't want to ask too much of your family," he explained.

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Willie Nelson Is Snoop Dogg's 'Soldier'

Posted May 14th 2008 6:00PM by Beville Darden
Filed under: Crossovers, Humor

Snoop Dogg has gone country, with a little help from Willie Nelson. The iconic rapper and country legend have teamed up for Snoop's latest single, 'My Medicine.'

"It has a country-music feel to it," Snoop tells MTV of the duet. "I shot the video in Amsterdam and Nashville during the Country Music Awards . . . It's not a typical hip-hop song, but once people listen to it and see the visual effect to it, they're gonna enjoy it."

Snoop and Nelson recorded the song and parts of its video in Amsterdam on April 20 -- "4/20" -- a self-proclaimed holiday for marijuana advocates. (Just in case you were wondering what these two have in common.) They became fast-friends on the trip, hanging out in their hotel, playing dominoes and card tricks. But who smoked more? When MTV asked Snoop Dogg that question, the rapper admitted it was him. "But Willie's a soldier -- stars, stripes and bars," he said.

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Dwight Yoakam Breaks 'Tonight' Record

Posted May 14th 2008 2:00PM by Beville Darden
Filed under: Humor, Country News, Movies and TV

Dwight Yoakam's performance on 'The Tonight Show with Jay Leno' Thursday will go down in the history books. It marks his 24th appearance on the show, breaking the record for most musical performances by any artist on the late-night talk show. The former 'Tonight' record-holder is Yoakam's buddy, Lyle Lovett, with 23 appearances.

"Jay and I always joked about it," Yoakam says. "I guess Lyle and I have made a career of doing Jay's show."

Yoakam first appeared on 'The Tonight Show' back when it was hosted by Johnny Carson. That performance was just after Carson interviewed another record-breaker: a girl who blew the world's largest bubblegum bubble.

Trisha Yearwood Talks Teens

Posted May 14th 2008 11:00AM by Linda Laird
Filed under: Humor, Chatter

Her marriage to Garth Brooks made her an instant step-mom to three girls, and Trisha Yearwood jokes that her husband is darn lucky to have her around to help out with them. The angelic-voiced singer tells GAC that Brooks does a good job in handling his daughters' issues for the most part, but there are some things that only a woman can understand.

"Now we're getting to that teenage thing where it's the hormones," she says. "There are times when you are talking about what happened at soccer practice, and all of a sudden, someone bursts into tears for no reason at all. And that's when he will look at me and go, 'You're gonna have to take this one, 'cause I don't understand. I can't fix this one.' It's funny, because in a house full of women, there's just times when he's outnumbered and he just has to put up his hands and walk away."

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Dierks Bentley, Ex-Con?

Posted May 13th 2008 11:00AM by Linda Laird
Filed under: Humor, Chatter

Dierks Bentley reveals in this month's special country music edition of PEOPLE magazine that he wasn't always the perfect kid. When the singer was 18, he set up a lemonade stand with a few friends -- and got caught spiking the lemonade with vodka!

"The cops told us we had to leave and were cool about it, but they came by again and we were plastered," Bentley explains. "We all went down to the little jail, but it was pretty harmless fun."

These days, Bentley sticks to beer. But he counter-acts those boozy calories with some hardcore workouts. He has made Men's Fitness magazine's annual list of the 25 Fittest Guys in America. Bentley, dubbed by the magazine as the "road warrier," says he finds a new gym in every city he visits.

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Dierks Bentley Drinks His Way to Brilliance

Posted May 9th 2008 11:00AM by Beville Darden
Filed under: Humor

Dierks Bentley is a genius, at least according to the maker of his favorite beer, Bud Light. Bentley is the latest addition to Anheuser Bush's 'Real Men of Genius' advertising campaign. The television ad will begin airing later this month. It starts with the statement, "Today we salute you, Dierks Bentley, Mr. Sad Country Song Songwriter." Bentley says he worked hard to gain that title.

"I've had to nurse a lot of hangovers over the years to reach this status," he jokes. "It is pretty funny to be on the same list as 'Mr. Restroom Toilet Paper Refiller' and 'Mr. Push Up Bra Inventor,' not to mention 'Mr. Tiny Thong Bikini Wearer' and 'Mr. Bass Plaque Maker.'"

Bentley's tour is sponsored by Anheuser Busch's Bud Light. He says the partnership is "the pinnacle for a dude that likes to drink beer."

Dierks Bentley Live Performance

Brad Paisley Has Birth-Inducing Hit

Posted Apr 17th 2008 5:00PM by Beville Darden
Filed under: Humor

One-year-old Huck Paisley may not be talking yet, but it's fairly safe to say he loves Dad's latest hit, 'I'm Still A Guy.' It practically coaxed him out of the womb! Brad Paisley says his wife, Kimberly, went into labor within an hour of hearing that song for the first time.

"We had just finished it," he tells Dial-Global of the writing session for the song. "I came home and I played it for her, I walked back over to my friend, Kelley's [Lovelace], who's next door, and sat down with he and Lee [Thomas Miller]. We were just reveling in it, we loved what it said. We were like, 'This is great! I'm definitely puttin' this on the record.' And then she called my phone and said, 'My water broke.' So we broke her water with this one."

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Kellie Pickler Is Learning to Stay Mum

Posted Apr 10th 2008 10:00AM by Scarlet Wu
Filed under: Humor, OMG!, Movies and TV, Chatter

Choosing your words wisely is sometimes a hard lesson to learn, and it's one Kellie Pickler is trying her best to master. The 'American Idol' alum has talked publicly in the past about hardships in her family and love life. And she says that has resulted in some awkward fan encounters.

"Random people in a grocery store will come up and tell me what I should do: 'Oh, you should have left him a long time ago.' It's weird . . . they don't know anything but a paragraph they read in the paper," says Pickler. "I have to keep my big mouth shut about anything personal."

But, old habits die hard. The 21-year-old singer broke her new rule last week on 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show.' When asked about her love life, she disclosed that, against her reservations, she's dating someone in the music business.

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Billy Ray and Miley Cyrus Talk Paparazzi and Tattoos

Posted Apr 2nd 2008 6:00PM by Beville Darden
Filed under: Humor, Chatter

Billy Ray Cyrus has been famous for almost two decades, but he's never had to deal with the media quite so much as he has lately, now that his daughter Miley is one of the most famous faces in the biz. Cyrus says he's not a big fan of the paparazzi who consistently chase Miley, but he does have a strategy for dealing with them.

"When i see people trying to take pictures of my little girl, I usually try to roll down the window and get a picture of them, because I just want to know who's stalking my family," he said on 'Extra.' "I'll go knock on the window and say, 'I just want to see your face, because you're taking pictures of my little girl.'"

Miley jokes that her dad also tells the paps, "If I have to hunt you down and kill you, then I need to know what you look like."

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Jewel Prefers Cookies Over Bikinis

Posted Mar 24th 2008 10:00AM by Beville Darden
Filed under: Concert News, Humor

Jewel is asked all the time why she hasn't straightened her crooked front teeth, now that she can afford it. But, as demonstrated on a video on her MySpace page, Jewel's choppers act as what she calls "a little can opener." The country-pop singer is seen in the video tearing open a cookie wrapper with her teeth. Between bites of her dessert, she also discloses in the video that she turned down an opportunity to be on the cover of Shape magazine.

"I didn't feel right about the fact that I'm a songwriter," she says. "I stand for serious things, and yet there I am oiled up in a bikini."

Jewel's first country album is due June 3. She's also set to go on tour with Brad Paisley this summer.

Jewel, 'Stronger Woman' Video

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Carrie Underwood Jumps for Joy

Posted Mar 20th 2008 2:00PM by Beville Darden
Filed under: Humor

When it comes to her success, Carrie Underwood is still a kid at heart. The country idol tells Jam! Showbiz Music that she still gets excited about the perks of her job.

"To be quite honest, I jumped up and down on the bed about three days ago," said Underwood. "I mean, when you are on tour and in a really nice hotel, things are just so amazing. You are treated so cool. They put out all kinds of things, like these great baskets in your room. They really know how to treat a lady. So, I jumped on the bed!"

Underwood says those "pinch-myself-moments" happen not just at awards shows or concerts, but also in some unexpected situations.

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