“Storage Wars” star DAN DOTSON recently sold off a storage unit for $500 and later found out that it had $7.5 million in it. The money was inside a safe. It’s not clear whether Dotson knew the safe was in there, or why he didn’t try to open it himself. But the new owner did, and found the cash. Soon after finding the money, the new owner got a call from an attorney representing the ORIGINAL owners of the unit. They offered the new owner $600,000 to return the cash – but the two sides eventually settled on $1.2 million. So it’s legally yours, why would you return it for ANYTHING? Why not just keep the $7.5 million? Well, Dotson and his wife Laura summed it up in a YouTube video: The money was probably DIRTY. Why else was that kind of cash stuffed in a storage unit and not a bank? So if you keep that cash, who knows who might be coming after you?
HUGH HEFNER reportedly had a bunch of personal SEX FILMS and other materials buried at sea 20 years ago, because he didn’t want them to be stolen and leaked.
JAKE OWEN is going to be a dad again. His girlfriend Erica Hartlein is due in late spring or early summer. He made the big reveal on Thursday’s “Coming Home” special on ABC. He and Erica were visiting his parents and his brother Jarrod in Florida when he said, “This will throw you guys for a loop. Haven’t told anyone but, Erica and I will be having a little addition to our Owen family.” The couple has been dating for over a-year-and-half. There’s no word if they’re planning to get married. Jake has a six-year-old daughter named Olive Pearl from his marriage to former model Lacey Buchanan.
BEBE REXHA and FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE’s hit “Meant To Be” has finally been knocked off the top of the “Billboard” Country Singles Chart. The new #1 is KANE BROWN’s “Lose It”. “Meant to Be” was #1 all year for 50 straight weeks. It obliterated the previous record set by Sam Hunt’s “Body Like a Back Road”, which topped the chart for 34 weeks last year. Ironically, that was also knocked off the top by Kane Brown when he and LAUREN ALAINA hit Number One with “What Ifs”.
MICHAEL JORDAN handed out Thanksgiving meals in his hometown of Wilmington, NC . . . where people are still recovering from Hurricane Florence.
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER visited California firefighters who are battling the wildfires, and even served them breakfast . . . and KANYE WEST is donating $500,000 to the relief effort.
DOLLY PARTON tells “People” that she’s “never once” thought of retiring and would only slow down if her husband Carl Thomas Dean needed her. “I’d still find a way to work and be productive. I just hope I fall dead in the middle of a song, hopefully one I wrote, right on stage. That’s the way I go.”
Whiskey Riff checked-in on the two kangaroos that LUKE BRYAN bought his wife Caroline for Christmas last year. They’re doing fine and living on Brett’s Barn, the animal rescue they started in honor of their niece who died when she was about a month old.
“Live at the Opry” posted video of KACEY MUSGRAVES performing “High Horse”. It’s from her show there back in September.
The legend of Gritty the Philadelphia Flyers’ mascot continues. Somebody posted a clip of him crashing a wedding reception in Philly on Friday. He makes a grand entrance, blows kisses, hugs the newlyweds . . . and dances with the bride.
“Ralph Breaks the Internet” won the box office over the holiday weekend – nearly $84.5 million. It was the second-best Thanksgiving opening ever. “Frozen” made $93.6 million back in 2013. The new “Lion King” trailer got 224.6 million views in 24 hours, which fell just short of the record. “Avengers: Infinity War” is still the REAL king, with 238 million views.
“Monday Night Football” at 8:15 p.m. Eastern on ESPN. The Houston Texans host the Tennessee Titans.
The sixth season premiere of “The Great Christmas Tree Light Fight” at 8:00 p.m. on ABC.
“The Voice” at 8:00 p.m. on NBC. The Top 11 perform live.
Joe Nichols – 42
Tina Turner is 78.
