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Luke Bryan heads on tropical vacation with family

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ABC/Image Group LALuke Bryan and family are beachside for a post-holiday vacation. 

In a series of photos and videos posted on Instagram by Luke’s mother, LeClaire Bryan, the family is vacationing somewhere tropical with palm trees and crystal blue waters. 

Among the other family members on the trip are Luke’s wife, Caroline, their two sons Bo and Tate, nephew Til, and nieces Jordan and Kris.

Part of the trip includes a ziplining adventure, with Luke’s wife Caroline sharing a video of her mother-in-law saying “I can’t wait” just before takeoff, while another clip shows LeClaire and Tate soaring above a beautiful sandy beach as the rest of the family cheers them on.

“Not sure where I am, but I ain’t coming home. Just me and the family alone for 5 days,” LeClaire shares alongside the video.  

This isn’t the first time LeClaire has hit the beach with the family.  She also makes an appearance in her son’s video for his #1 hit, “One Margarita.”

By Cillea Houghton
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As details emerge of her Spanish "flavored" wedding, Hilaria Baldwin denies claims of cultural appropriation

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Walt Disney Television/Yolanda Perez(NEW YORK) — As the Daily Mail detailed the “Spanish flavored” wedding ceremony of Alec Baldwin and the lifestyle influencer Hilaria Baldwin, she insisted Wednesday to The New York Times that she’s never been unclear about her true heritage. 

“The things I have shared about myself are very clear,” she insists. “I was born in Boston. I spent time in Boston and in Spain…I moved to New York when I was 19 years old and I have lived here ever since. For me, I feel like I have spent 10 years sharing that story over and over again. And now it seems like it’s not enough.”

The bilingual fitness model and yoga instructor called “very disappointing” a now-scrubbed bio on her acting agency page that previously noted she was “born in Mallorca, Spain, and raised in Boston, Massachusetts.” The New York Times reports, “she can only assume the agency used unverified information from the Internet to write a sloppy bio.”

The interview with the Times comes after a Twitter user accused Baldwin of a “decades long grift in which she impersonates a Spanish person,” complete with interviews Baldwin had in which she appears to affect a Spanish accent, and comments about her parents, who are actually from Massachusetts.

That accuser, who subsequently made her viral tweets private, talked to The Times under the condition of anonymity. She noted that Baldwin’s American identity was what the paper described as an “open secret,” adding that the “grift” tweet string came from the fact that, “We’re all bored and it’s just seemed so strange to me that no one had ever come out and said it, especially for someone who gets so much media attention.”

The flap sent Mrs. Baldwin to Instagram over the weekend to “clarify” some details. There, the mother of Eduardo Pau LucasCarmen GabrielaLeonardo Ángel and Romeo Alejandro insisted for the record that she’s a “white girl” born “Hillary,” not Hilaria, which she said is what her Spanish relatives called her and which she eventually adopted professionally.

Baldwin also chalked up to nervousness appearances in which she seemed to drift into a Spanish accent: the Twitter user that started the flap cited a Today show gazpacho cooking segment in which Baldwin claimed on camera not to know the English for “cucumber.” Baldwin insisted on Instagram, “Sometimes I mess it up. It’s not something I’m playing at.” 

Meanwhile, The Daily Mail Wednesday detailed the couple’s bilingual 2012 wedding ceremony in New York City, in which Mrs. Baldwin waved a Flamenco fan and wore a head covering similar to a traditional Spanish mantilla. The paper also cited an interview with Vanity Fair Espa?ol, in which Baldwin recalled how her parents, who are from Massachusetts, couldn’t pronounce “Baldwin.” In Spanish, Hilaria explained, ‘I had to repeat it to my family three times: ‘Baldddwinnn.’ And the third time they said ‘Oh, we already know who it is! Why didn’t you pronounce it right the first time?” 

Mrs. Baldwin denied accusations of cultural appropriation, telling The New York Times that her parents’ frequent vacations to Spain, where they now live in retirement, shaped her life.

“Who is to say what you’re allowed to absorb and not absorb growing up?” she tells the publication. “This has been a part of my whole life and I can’t make it go away just because some people don’t understand it.”

By Stephen Iervolino
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"Couple things": Kane Brown and wife Katelyn share video imitating each other

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Matthew BerinatoKane Brown and his wife Katelyn are finding ways to amuse themselves at home.

Last week, Kane posted a blooper reel of himself trying to imitate his wife, promising that a full video was forthcoming. Kane delivered on this promise with a video of him and Katelyn attempting their best impressions of each other.

The clip begins with Kane on the elliptical, peddling ferociously with a towel wrapped around his head and a bottle of water in hand.  “Babe, how many calories do you usually burn? I’ve been going for two hours and I have 53,” he calls into the other room.  Apparently, “babe” is a word used frequently in the Brown household.

The camera then cuts to Kane, still with a towel on his head, approaching his wife, who is in character as her hubby, wearing a Pizza Hut hat and playing video games, getting furious when she loses the game after Kane asks her to cuddle.

The video ends with Kane, aka Katelyn, spending so much time moisturizing his face before bed that he misses the movie his wife rented for them.

“Did you watch the whole movie?” he asks defensively while still in character. “Babe, you’ve been in there for over an hour. You’re going to bed, not out to dinner,” Katelyn replies as her husband.   

“Couple things,” the country superstar captions the video with an eye roll and crying laughing emoji.  

The couple wed in October 2018 and welcomed their daughter Kingsley one year later.

By Cillea Houghton
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'NCIS,' other CBS shows extend holiday hiatus due to LA COVID-19 surge

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“SEAL Team” – Cliff Lipson/CBS ©2020 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.(LOS ANGELES) — NCISNCIS: Los AngelesSEAL TeamWhy Women Kill and Diary of a Future President are among the shows extending their holiday hiatus for a week amid Los Angeles County’s COVID-19 surge, according to Variety.

Those shows are set to resume production on January 11, while other CBS Studios shows are scheduled to resume later in in the month, insiders tell the industry trade.

So far, CBS is the only major studio known to be pausing or delaying production due to the pandemic.  Other TV studios are in the process of determining the fate of their productions moving forward.

While TV studios have implemented increased safety measures, such as mask-wearing on set and segmenting casts and crews into “zones” to regulate contact, there are a number of productions that have reported clusters of positive COVID-19 cases to Los Angeles County health officials through November and December.

Several crew members of Apple TV’s Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet who tested positive for the virus disputed the producers’ initial assertion that there was no evidence of transmission at work.  The Lionsgate TV production recorded nearly 20 positive cases, according to Variety.

Los Angeles County reported 13,661 new COVID-19 cases and 73 deaths on Monday. Statewide, California logged a record high of 66,811 cases that day.  Los Angeles County now reports the most COVID-19 infections of any other U.S. county, with 746,666 cases as of Wednesday afternoon, according to Johns Hopkins University.

By George Costantino and Stephen Iervolino
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Carrie Underwood has two songs in the top 10 on the 'Billboard' Hot Country Songs chart

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UMG NashvilleCarrie Underwood is riding high on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. 

This week, Carrie scored her first top-10 hit on the chart in two years as her duet with John Legend, “Hallelujah,” soars to #3 and her other original Christmas tune, “Favorite Team of Year,” sits at #5. 

The last time Carrie was in the top 10 on the chart was when “Cry Pretty” peaked at #5 in 2018. She now has a total of 29 songs that have reached the top 10, 14 of which have made it to number one. 

Additionally, “Hallelujah” marks John’s first appearance in the top 10 on the Hot Country Songs chart. He previously charted inside the top 20 earlier this year with Kane Brown on their duet “Last Time I Say Sorry.” 

My Gift, the album that boasts “Hallelujah” and “Favorite Time of Year,” is currently spending its fifth week at #1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart.

By Cillea Houghton
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