WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19. 2025

Taylor Swift is reportedly taking a break from her friendship with Blake Lively, because she regrets being dragged into Blake’s fight with “It Ends with Us” director Justin Baldoni. 

A$AP Rocky was found not guilty of felony assault yesterday, and he literally dove into Rihanna’s arms when the verdict was read.  He also told the jury, quote, “Thank y’all for saving my life.” 

Mindy Kaling got her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame yesterday,

Here are some new tours and festival lineups that were just announced:

1.  Dierks Bentley announced the 2025 Broken Branches Tour with special guest Zach Top.  The tour will start on May 29th in Austin, Texas . . . and wrap up August 30th in Clarkston, Michigan.              Aug 7 Camden, NJ     Aug 15 Holmdel, NJ    Aug 28 New York City      Aug 29 Burgetsstown, PA

2.  Vince Gill will embark on a solo tour to celebrate his 50th year of touring.  It will feature more than 30 dates, as well as four shows at the Ryman in Nashville.                                                                                   May 8 Rochester, NY – Kodak Center Main Theater 

May 9 Wilkes-Barre, PA – The F.M. Kirby Center for the Performing Arts

May 10 Reading, PA – Santander PAC

May 15 Baltimore, MD – The Lyric Baltimore

3.  Jason Aldean, Dierks Bentley, and Bailey Zimmerman will headline the 2025 Watershed Music Festival at the Gorge Amphitheater in Washington state.  The festival takes places August 1st, 2nd, and 3rd.

4.  And the lineup for Willie Nelson’s 13th annual Luck Reunion was announced as well.  Willie & Family will be joined by Charley Crockett, Tommy Prine, Shane Smith and the Saints, and many more.  The show takes place March 13th on Willie’s ranch in Spicewood, Texas.

Tennessee Titans quarterback, Will Levis, made an embarrassing mistake when he first met Hardy. He said it was back when he was in college at the University of Kentucky, and Hardy was at a local bar.  Well apparently, Will misheard that Hardy was Morgan Wallen’s MANAGER, so when he met him that’s all he could talk about. Eventually Hardy corrected him, and let him know that he was, in fact, NOT Morgan’s manager . . . and was actually a musician himself. Will said he smoothed things over and now the two are friends.  But, that’s gotta be awkward.

Zach Bryan did a pop-up show before the Super Bowl in New Orleans with comedian Shane Gillis. Shane said that Zach and his band wanted to go on first, and that Shane could do a stand-up set afterwards. Well Shane quickly put a stop to that.  He said, “Bro, that would be the worst possible show of all time.  Comedy cannot follow music ever.” Zach was cool with it.  Shane said his set was fair to middling. So then after that, Zach went out and crushed his set . . . and Shane was stoked with the decision he made.  He said, “You thought I was going to follow that?”

Luke Combs said, “I’ve never met George Strait, ever.  I feel like everyone in the world has, and I haven’t . . . I’m at the point where I’m salty about it.” George does keep to himself these days.  Maybe they should just do a collaboration to force this meeting into existence.

An intruder broke into the home of Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman. They were not home at the time, but one of their employees scared the person off. It happened over the weekend when someone smashed a glass window to gain. Unclear what, if anything, may have been stolen here — when Nicole and Keith get back home they will have to take a look around to see if anything is missing. So far, police have made no arrests but the official investigation is ongoing.

Lady Gaga will be her own musical guest when she hosts “Saturday Night Live” on March 8th and she has released the track list for her upcoming album “Mayhem”.

Millie Bobby Brown is 21. 

Victoria Justice is 32.  Tori Vega on “Victorious”.

Ophelia Lovibond is 39.  Kitty, “Elementary”. 

Haylie Duff is 40.  Hilary’s big sister

Justine Bateman is 59.  She played Mallory Keaton on “Family Ties”,

Seal is 62. 

Leslie David Baker is 67.  He’s Stanley on “The Office”.

Jeff Daniels is 70

Smokey Robinson is 85. 

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