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Mickey Guyton performing on 'The Late Show' tonight

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Phylicia J.L. MunnMickey Guyton is making her late-night TV debut tonight. 

The powerhouse vocalist will perform her Grammy-nominated song “Black Like Me” on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, which airs at 11:35 p.m. ET on CBS. 

“So excited for tonight with @colbertlateshow thank you for the opportunity,” Mickey shares on Instagram

“Black Like Me” is up for Best Country Solo Performance at the 63rd annual Grammy Awards, with Mickey making history as the first Black female solo artist to be nominated in the category. The Grammys air on March 14 at 8 p.m. ET on CBS.

“Black Like Me” is featured on Mickey’s latest EP, Bridges, which includes her previous single, “What Are You Gonna Tell Her?”

By Cillea Houghton 
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How the NFL will honor health care workers at Super Bowl LV

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iStockBy: JULIA JACOBO, ABC News

(NEW YORK) — Quarterbacks Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes won’t be the only stars of Super Bowl LV.

The health care workers who have been working tirelessly to keep the COVID-19 virus at bay will be honored during the first Super Bowl game ever played during a pandemic.

Here is how the NFL is putting a spotlight on health care workers.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has invited 7,500 health care workers to attend the game, the NFL announced last month.

Only 22,000 of the nearly 66,000 seats at Raymond James Stadium, home to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, will be available for fans.

Most will come from hospitals and health care systems in the Tampa and central Florida area, but all 32 NFL teams will also select health care workers from their communities, according to the NFL.

All of the health care workers who will attend will have received both doses of the vaccine.

In addition to the tickets, a game day experience will be held for the health care workers, the NFL said.

“These dedicated health care workers continue to put their own lives at risk to serve others, and we owe them our ongoing gratitude,” Goodell said in a statement.

The NFL is hosting the #TikTokTailgate, a pregame event for the health care workers in attendance, which will be headlined by pop star Miley Cyrus.

Cyrus confirmed the news in several Instagram posts.

“I can’t wait to put on a show for the NFL’s honored guests before the game…. Health care workers from Tampa and around the country!” she wrote Jan. 24.

Only health care workers will be in attendance, but the event will be live-streamed, according to the NFL.

The event will also include special gusts, surprise musical performances and game day cooking segments, according to CBS, which is broadcasting the Super Bowl this year.

Suzie Dorner, a nurse manager at Tampa General Hospital, will not only be cheering for her hometown football team but will be honored on the field as well.

Dorner, who has been named as one of the three honorary Super Bowl captains, has been working in Tampa for more than eight years and has “worked selflessly, as all nurses do, to prioritize others and work endless hours” throughout the pandemic, according to the NFL. She lost two grandparents to COVID-19 as well.

Dorner was “speechless” upon hearing the news, she told Derrick Brooks, a former Tampa Bay Buccaneer and chair of the Tampa Bay Super Bowl LV host committee.

The pandemic has been “really mentally, emotionally and physically exhausting” for all health care workers, Dorner said.

“To be honored at the Super Bowl makes everything that we’ve all been through this year, it makes it a little bit more tolerable and something to celebrate everything that we’ve been through, the good and the bad things,” she is seen telling Brooks in a YouTube video posted by the NFL.

The honorary captains — Dorner, a Los Angeles educator, and a Marine Corps veteran from Pittsburgh — will take part in the coin toss ceremony before kickoff Sunday.

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Carly Pearce performing on 'Ellen' Tuesday

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Allister AnnCarly Pearce is the “Next Girl” heading to the Ellen DeGeneres Show. 

The chart-topping singer is performing her latest single, “Next Girl,” on The Ellen DeGeneres Show Tuesday. The performance comes seven years after Carly debuted on the show as a backup vocalist for actress and singer Lucy Hale when the latter performed “Lie a Little Better.”

I couldn’t be more excited to be performing #nextgirl on the @TheEllenShow this Tuesday,” Carly writes on Twitter   

“Next Girl” is climbing the country charts, and is currently in the top 30. It serves as the follow-up single to Carly’s chart-topping duet with Lee Brice on “I Hope You’re Happy Now,” her second #1 hit. 

Check local listings for where and when Ellen airs in your market.

By Cillea Houghton 
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Paul Bettany tells "lazy" teens to "stop watching 'WandaVision' for 5 mins…and shovel some snow"

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Disney+/Marvel Studios(LOS ANGELES) — You know the snow that’s blanketing the East Coast right now is a major deal when an actor actually tells people to stop watching their brand-new show and go out and shovel. 

Paul Bettany, star of WandaVisiontweeted earlier today, “Dear teens across the U.S. – it’s a big snowstorm. I just shoveled my sidewalk, then walked the dog & saw other ancients shoveling their sidewalks.” 

“Teens stop watching #WandaVision for 5 mins & shovel some snow u lazy puppies,” he added. “If you’ve already shoveled, ignore my rude message.” 

Bettany then followed up his message two hours later with, “Okay Teens across America, that’s enough shovelling snow! Get back inside and watch #WandaVision I haven’t got all day!”

Perhaps fans of the Disney+ show wanted to wait to start shoveling because they were preoccupied by the new mid-season preview of the series, which just dropped today. 

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By Stephen Iervolino
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'Rhythm, Country and Blues' to be released on vinyl for first time

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MCA NashvilleRhythm, Country and Blues is getting the vinyl treatment. 

The popular 1994 album that features a variety of collaborations between legendary country and R&B artists will be released on vinyl for the first time on February 19. 

The album features such duets as Vince Gill and Gladys Knight on Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell‘s classic “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing,” Trisha Yearwood joining forces with Aaron Neville on Patsy Cline‘s “I Fall to Pieces,” and the 1945 standard “Since I Fell For You,” popularized by Lenny Welch and reimagined by Reba McEntire and Natalie Cole.

George Jones singing with BB KingPatti LaBelle with Travis Tritt, and Little Richard with Tanya Tucker are among the other collaborations featured on the platinum-selling Rhythm, Country and Blues, which shot to #1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart and reached the top 20 on the Billboard 200 and Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts in 1994.

By Cillea Houghton 
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