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Maddie & Tae postpone tour dates after pregnant Taylor Kerr is placed on temporary bedrest

Maddie & Tae have postponed tour dates, including the dates on their upcoming CMT Next Women of Country Tour: All Song No Static run. Bandmate Taylor Kerr — who is pregnant — has been placed on doctor-ordered bedrest.

The duo broke the news on social media on Monday (Dec. 27), assuring fans that postponing their shows is a precaution to help Kerr and her unborn baby girl stay healthy. They said: “Tae and her baby are doing great, but the doctor has placed her on temporary bedrest. Out of precaution, we are postponing our upcoming tour dates…We appreciate your understanding and we’ll be back on tour with new music as soon as we can!”  Their headlining CMT Next Women of Country Tour was originally scheduled to launch on Jan. 6 in Oklahoma City, Okla., and run through mid-February.

Kerr shared the news of her pregnancy with fans in late November, indicating at the time that her baby girl is due in the spring of 2022. It’ll be the first child for Kerr and her husband, Josh, a Nashville songwriter. The couple tied the knot in February 2021.

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Kane Brown teases upcoming new song ‘Whiskey Sour’

Kane Brown revealed the news of his new song “Whiskey Sour” on social media via a video, which he captioned, “I love getting to sing other people’s stories! This is my next song to release January 14th tag a friend.”  The caption also included the hashtag #WhiskeySour, and finds the country superstar in the kitchen of his Tennessee home singing along to the unreleased new song, which was playing through a speaker situated on the countertop beside him. Listen to the clip of “Whiskey Sour” – here.

Brown has been teasing fans with unreleased new music since the release of his EP, Mixtape Vol. 1.  Over the course of the last few months, Brown shared small clips of unreleased songs on social media including an untitled rap song, “Leave You Alone,” “I Can’t Love You Anymore,” “Something I’d Love To See,” “Riot,” “Nothing ‘Bout Loving You I’d Change” and “Drunk or Dreaming” and more.

Brown is also currently in the midst of his massive 35-date headlining ‘Blessed & Free Tour,’ The tour kicked off on October 1 in Sacramento and will visit all 29 NBA basketball arenas throughout 2021 and 2022.

“Whiskey Sour” will be available everywhere on January 14.

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Meghan King reveals separation from husband Cuffe Biden Owens after 2 months of marriage

Former “Real Housewives of Orange County” cast member Meghan King has split from husband Cuffe Owens after just two months of marriage. Owens is the son of Valerie Owens, who is President Biden’s younger sister.

The 37-year-old King revealed news of the split from Owens, 42, in a series of Instagram stories on Monday. King wrote: “I’ve been asked by many outlets and individuals to comment on the state of marriage. I am rattled. This situation is profoundly devastating. This is obviously not what I imagined when I made my vows — and I’m shocked and saddened by the way things turned out. I am moving forward with my children as we privately process our pain and begin to let go of shattered dreams. At this time I ask for your grace and gentle kindness as I navigate this labyrinth of grief with my family.”

King and Owens were married in Pennsylvania on October 11 in an intimate family ceremony that was attended by President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden. King first introduced Owens as her boyfriend in late September on social media, sharing a photo of her and Owens with their arms around each other and saying: “Trying my best to avoid any cheesy introductions like ‘my main squeeze’… so just meet my man.”

King was a main cast member on “Real Housewives of Orange County” for three seasons from 2015 to 2017.  She split from Jim Edmonds in 2019 after five years of marriage.  Edmonds and King share daughter Aspen, 5, and twin sons Hart and Hayes, 3.

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Take a look at the new trailer for ‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’

Marvel released the first trailer for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, a sequel to 2016’s Doctor Strange. 

The film is a follow-up to Doctor Strange’s (Benedict Cumberbatch) most recent appearance in Spider-Man: No Way Home, and will pick up on the revelations around Wanda Maximoff / The Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) from ‘WandaVision.’

The trailer originally was released as the final post-credit scene for Spider-Man: No Way Home earlier in December, but Marvel has now put it online for everyone to see.   Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is set to hit theaters on May 6. Take a look at the trailer – here.

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness Trailer Reveals No Way Home Fallout: Watch

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Retail holiday sales jump 8.5% compared to 2020, with big online gains

According to a report published Sunday by the credit card company Mastercard, retail sales during the holiday season jumped 8.5% compared with 2020  E-commerce sales were up 11% in 2021 for the holiday season running from Nov. 1 to Dec. 24 compared to the previous year, and online sales were up a massive 61% from 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic led to a historic increase in shopping online.  Online shopping made up 20.9% of all retail sales in 2021, up from just 14.6% in 2019 while the e-commerce boom rages, according to the report.

Steve Sadove, senior adviser for Mastercard, said in a statement that the growth in holiday sales happened early because of “conversations surrounding supply chain and labor supply issues.  Consumers splurged throughout the season, with apparel and department stores experiencing strong growth as shoppers sought to put their best-dressed foot forward.”

The Mastercard report noted that jewelry sales increased 32% percent in 2021 from 2020, and are up 26.2% compared to 2019. Apparel sales are up 47.3% in 2021 compared to 2020, and up 29% compared to 2019.

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Dr. Fauci warns Omicron cases may get ‘much higher’ as more flights are canceled over the Christmas weekend

On Sunday, Dr. Anthony Fauci warned that cases of the COVID-19 Omicron variant are likely to climb “much higher” as the variant wreaked havoc on holiday traveling, with 2,271 flights cancelled as of Sunday.  Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told ABC New’s This Week that  “every day it (Omicron cases) goes up. The last weekly average was about 150,000, and it will likely go much higher.”  As of Sunday, 71,044 people nationwide had been hospitalized with COVID-19. New York on Sunday reported 36,454 new COVID-19 cases, down from a record 44,431 on Friday.

Delta canceled 212 flights, JetBlue 195, American Airlines 158 and United 115 as the major airlines cited staff shortages due to COVID-19 outbreaks. A JetBlue spokesman told CNBC that the airline came into the holiday with is highest staffing levels since the beginning of the pandemic but was still forced to cancel flights amid the Omicron surge.

Fauci on Sunday urged Americans not to “get complacent” despite studies showing Omicron appears to be less severe in terms of causing hospitalizations, noting that a high volume of new infections “might override a real diminution in severity. If you have many, many, many more people with a less level of severity, that might kind of neutralize the positive effect of having less severity when you have so many more people. And we’re particularly worried about those who are in that unvaccinated class … those are the most vulnerable ones when you have a virus that is extraordinarily effective in getting to people.”

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Walker Hayes to perform on ‘Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve’

Walker Hayes will appear on “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2022.” Hayes is set to perform his No. 1 hit, “Fancy Like,” and his new single, “AA,” on the show which airs live on ABC on Dec. 31st.  “New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” will include celebrations in New York City, Los Angeles, New Orleans and Puerto Rico. Seacrest will oversee the proceedings from Times Square.

Hayes is on the “LA Party” lineup, along with OneRepublic, Ciara, D-Nice, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis with Windser, AJR and Daisy The Great, Avril Lavigne and Travis Barker, Big Boi with Sleepy Brown, Maneskin, Masked Wolf, French Montana and more.

The New York festivities will include performances by LL Cool J, Journey and Karol G. Billy Porter of “Pose” fame is set to perform in New Orleans, on the Louis Armstrong riverboat as it travels along the Mississippi River. Daddy Yankee is scheduled to perform in Puerto Rico.

Hayes recently dropped two more singles, “U Gurl” and “AA.” Monument Records also announced a release date for his “Country Stuff The Album,” due out Jan. 21, and including “Fancy Like,” the two new singles and 10 other tracks.

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Miranda Lambert teams up with reality TV series ‘Queer Eye’ for new song

Miranda Lambert revealed on Sunday (Dec. 26) that her new track, “Y’all Means All,” will debut on the Season 6 premiere episode of the hit reality TV series Queer Eye, airing Dec. 31 on Netflix.  This season of Queer Eye was filmed in Lambert’s home state of Texas, with the show’s ‘Fab 5’ heading to the streets of Austin, Texas for a new round of lifestyle and fashion makeovers.

Both Lambert and the show shared news of the song on social media. Queer Eye’s Twitter page read“OMG. We partnered with THE country music queen,” which also added that fans can get a taste of “Y’all Means All” in the Season 6 trailer, dropping Monday, Dec. 27.  Lambert tweetedHere’s one last surprise for y’all this year! A new song “Y’all Means All” will be out on 12/31 to celebrate the new season of @QueerEye that filmed all in Texas!

Lambert has been an ally for the LGBTQ+ community, thanks in part to help and advice from her brother, Luke Lambert, and his husband Marc. Lambert said: “Being in a family where I am surrounded by LGBTQ people, it has me learning and me figuring out how I can be a part of the change and be part of the community and still be the same person I have been as an artist for 20 years.” In the Telemitry Remix video of her “Tequila Does,” Lambert also invited Luke and Marc to co-star, along with a group of other members of the LGBTQ+ community.

You can pre-save “Y’all Means All” at the link – here.

Miranda Lambert Announces New Song, “Y’all Means All” In Collaboration With ‘Queer Eye’ Season Premiere

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Take a look at Zendaya in the trailer for Season 2 of ‘Euphoria’

HBO has unveiled the first official trailer for season 2 of Euphoria.  Zendaya returns as Rue Bennett, and is joined by other familiar faces as she “must find hope while balancing the pressures of love, loss, and addiction,” per a series synopsis.

The return of the drama—which was supposed to be filmed in March 2020 before the pandemic shut down production —will also include cast memebers Hunter Schafer, Nika King, Eric Dane, Angus Cloud, Jacob Elordi, Algee Smith, Sydney Sweeney, Alexa Demie, Barbie Ferreira, Maude Apatow, Javon Walton, Dominic Fike, Storm Reid, and Austin Abrams.

Season 2 premieres on Jan. 9 on HBO, with new episodes dropping weekly. Check out the Euphoria season 2 trailer – here.

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‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ tops North American box office for second weekend

Spider-Man: No Way Home is the No. 1 movie in North America for a second weekend, earning an additional $83 million in ticket sales as of Sunday night.   The film, starring Tom Holland and Zendaya, has earned about $467 million domestically. Last weekend it brought in $253 million of the total $283 million gross of films.

Spider-Man: No Way Home also earned a total of around $1 billion worldwide, making it the only film since 2019’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker to reach the milestone. Globally, it earned $587.2 million last weekend, ranking as the third largest worldwide opening weekend in history behind only Avengers: Endgame and Avengers: Infinity War, both of which also featured Holland as Spider-Man.

Coming in at No. 2 this weekend is Sing 2 with $23.8 million, followed by The Matrix Resurrections at No. 3 with $12 million, The King’s Man at No. 4 with $6.4 million and American Underdog at No. 5 with $6.2 million. Rounding out the top 10 were West Side Story at No. 6 with $2.8 million, Licorice Pizza at No. 7 with $2.3 million, A Journal for Jordan at No. 8 with $2.2 million, Encanto at No. 9 with $2 million and ’83 at No. 10 with $1.8 million.

‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ Third-Best Christmas Ever With $31.7M US; Domestic At $467M+ & $1.05B WW – Sunday Update

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