TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2024

Gordon Ramsay is America’s favorite celebrity chef, according to a new survey.  He’s followed by Rachael Ray and Bobby Flay.

Jelly Roll is still on his Beautifully Broken Tour, and recently he jumped onstage and surprised one of his openers, Alexandra Kay. It was right after her set, and she was about to leave, when Jelly showed up with nothing but nice things to say about her. He said, “Before she leaves the stage, I want to tell y’all a little bit about this young woman . . . in our business she does it, what we call, ‘completely independently’. “Which means she has no record label.  She has no financier . . .  It’s her and her best friend Beth, and they’re doing this completely by themselves.  She has worked her [butt] off to get on this tour.  My wife’s a fan, I’m a fan, my daughter’s a fan.” And then he closed it out by saying, “Support independent music.  But as a girl-dad, more importantly, support independent women.” Good job for Jelly for speaking up as a girl-dad . . . and good job to Alexandra for getting on one of the biggest tours in the world, without any support from the music industry.

Vince Gill plays with the Eagles now and they have a residency at The Sphere, but he doesn’t think that playing there is all it’s cracked up to be. He said, “It’s the most people I’ve ever been ignored by.  You’re playing, and they’re looking at all the stuff on the ceiling.  They’re not paying attention to you. Music, to me, has never been visual . . . A great show, to me, is watching Merle Haggard stand there singing me great song, after great song.  That’s still what I want to hear when I go hear music.  I don’t necessarily want to see it.”He’ll be playing with the Eagles there through March.

Carrie Underwood shared her go-to workout routine for when it’s leg day.  She does”Bulgarian split squats.”  She posted the video on her fitness app’s Instagram if you want to check it out.  She launched the app Fit52 with her trainer a few years ago.

Lana Del Rey’s country album “Lasso” was supposed to be out this fall, but she’s spending some more time on it.  She says, “The songs I have, I love . . . [but] I don’t want to turn it into something that’s half-cooked.” There’s no release date yet.  ” I want it to be what it was supposed to be.”

Here are some of the best country songs featured in movies:

1.  “9 to 5” . . . by Dolly Parton . . . from “9 to 5”.

2.  “I Walk the Line” . . . by Johnny Cash . . . from “I Walk the Line” (1970).

3.  “Eastbound and Down” . . .  by Jerry Reed . . . from “Smokey and the Bandit”.

4.  “Aint No Love in Oklahoma” . . . by Luke Combs . . . from “Twisters”.

5.  “Dueling Banjos” . . . by Eric Weissberg and Steve Mandell . . . from “Deliverance”.

6.  “Coal Miner’s Daughter” . . . by Loretta Lynn . . . from “Coal Miner’s Daughter”.

9.  “Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head” . . . by B.J. Thomas . . . from “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”.

10.  “How Do I Live” . . . by Trisha Yearwood . . . from “Con Air”.

“Jumanji 3” is coming in December of 2026. 

The Dodgers beat the Yankees 4 to 2 last night.  They can sweep the World Series if they win Game 4 tonight.

Tracee Ellis Ross is 52.  Diana’s daughter. 

Winona Ryder is 53. 

Randy Jackson is 63. 

Kate Jackson is 76.  Sabrina Duncan on “Charlie’s Angels”.

Richard Dreyfuss is 77.  Matt Hooper in “Jaws”.

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