“Time” magazine’s 100 most influential people of 2024 include Dua Lipa, Patrick Mahomes, and Michael J. Fox.
Production on “Law & Order: SVU” was halted for about 20 minutes, while Mariska Hargitay helped a little girl find her mother. The girl saw Mariska’s badge and thought she was a real cop.
Katy Perry is leaving “American Idol” after this season. Katy was asked who she’d like to see take her spot on the judge’s panel and Jelly Roll’s name immediately came to mind. She said, “Jelly Roll was crazy . . . I was convinced at anything he said. He could run for president, he could be my pastor, I might go back to church for him. “So, I love him . . . And to have [Luke Bryan, Lionel Richie], and Jelly on the show would be amazing.” She thinks it’s his ability to give constructive criticism in a kind way that would make him an awesome “Idol” judge. She said, “I want a truth-teller, that’s what I want. I want someone who’s not afraid to tell the truth in a graceful way.”
Morgan Wallen’s first concert since his chair-throwing stunt is this Saturday at Ole Miss. And everyone online is making the same joke. Their football coach Lane Kiffin posted a shot of the stadium getting set up for the concert and said even Morgan is “transferring to the Sip” . . . short for “Mississippi”. The collective response in the comments has been some variation of this: Make sure those chairs are BOLTED DOWN! Someone also zoomed in on a VIP area with around 20 chairs in it and said, “Someone needs to watch this section closely.” Other comments include: “Chair throwing contest at The Grove” . . . “Hide your chairs, hide your wife” . . . “Lock y’all’s upper windows” . . . and maybe the best advice, “Hide the alcohol.”
“Fancy Like” by Walker Hayes gets a lot of hate for not being country . . . and he gets it. He says, quote, “If you’re traditional country sounds only, you probably don’t like bass. “You probably don’t like that I can kinda sound like a rapper at times . . . [but] as many people who literally can’t stop rewinding it, you’re just gonna get some hate.” Walker isn’t even sure how he fits in the genre. Quote, “I got no business ever saying I’m a country WESTERN artist. I’ve never lassoed a cow [and] I’m scared of horses.”
Kenny Chesney knows he has an ego when he’s performing. But he doesn’t let it leave the stage. “I think you have to have a little bit [of ego] to be great up there [with] the way we do things . . . “I work really hard at leaving that person up there. I don’t take that person with me backstage in my everyday life.”
“Crazy Rich Asians” is being turned into a stage musical.
Jason Kelce is a man who knows what he likes — and what he doesn’t. One thing he doesn’t like? Underwear. “I do not wear underwear, and I don’t wear underwear based on comfort,”
America Ferrera is 40.
Kourtney Kardashian is 45.
Melissa Joan Hart is 48. “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” and “Melissa & Joey”.
Conan O’Brien is 61.
Eric McCormack is 61. Will on “Will & Grace”.
Jeff Dunham is 62.
Jane Leeves is 63. Daphne on “Frasier”, and Joy on “Hot in Cleveland”.
Eric Roberts is 68. Julia’s brother and the father of Emma Roberts. He’s the mob boss, Salvatore Maroni, in “The Dark Knight”.
John James is 68. Jeff Colby on “Dynasty” and “The Colbys”.
Rick Moran is is 71. “Ghostbusters”, “Spaceballs”, “Honey I Shrunk the Kids”, “Little Shop of Horrors”, “Parenthood”, and Barney Rubble in “The Flintstones”.
Hayley Mills is 78. Classic Disney star who played twins Susan and Sharon in the original 1961 version of “The Parent Trap”. She also won an Oscar for Disney’s “Pollyanna”, and starred as the teacher on the first season of “Saved by the Bell”, before the show moved from Disney to NBC . . . back when it was still called “Good Morning, Miss Bliss”.
