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Dolly Parton fans can have their cake and eat it, too. The singer just launched a partnership with baked-goods line Duncan Hines, offering two cake mix flavors and buttercream icing to match.

The mixes, Southern Style Coconut Flavored Cake Mix and Southern Style Banana Flavored Cake Mix, will hit shelves this March. Plus, Dolly has assembled special baking collection boxes, including both flavors of cake mix, plus buttercream and chocolate buttercream icings, a custom spatula and a tea towel. Those boxes went on sale Wednesday morning, and by 10:30 a.m. ET, they had sold out.

Dolly, who also recently announced the second round of her Jeni’s Splendid custom Strawberry Pretzel Pie ice cream flavor, tells People that sweets were a rare treat in her home growing up.

“Growing up poor, we didn’t have a lot of sugar, so we didn’t have cakes all the time,” she remembers. “So when Mama made special cakes, we loved being in the kitchen.”

The singer still loves cake, but she admits that her biggest culinary weakness isn’t necessarily a dessert.

“If I’ve been on a low-carb diet or something for a while, the first thing I want to do when I break it is have some cake — or potatoes. That’s my weakness,” she admits. “Usually that’s why I fall off any diet, is for the love of some sort of a potato.”

Dolly’s also got a new book coming out. Her first novel, Run Rose Run — which she co-wrote with James Patterson — will be published in March. She’s also releasing a companion album of the same name.

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Megan Thee Stallion joins Jennifer Lopez in the new Coach spring 2022 “That’s My Ride” fashion campaign which was unveiled Tuesday.

The “Hot Girl Summer” stars in a 30-second commercial modeling Coach designs as she has fun riding bumper cars at a seaside amusement park to the music of Patrice Rushen‘s 1982 Grammy nominated track, “Forget Me Nots.”

“THEE main attraction. Riding with @coach’s iconic Horse and Carriage print for Spring 2022,” Megan commented on Instagram. “What’s your ride hotties?”

Coach is one of several endorsements for the three-time Grammy winner. She will also appear in a Super Bowl commercial for Frito-Lay. In a comical teaser she posted this week, as Meg walks toward her trailer and attempts to enter, she is shocked to see the long arm of an animal reach out the door, knock her name plate on the ground, and lock the door from inside.

Last year, the Glamour Woman of the Year honoree became a partner with the Popeye’s chicken franchise, and signed a production deal with Netflix. In 2020, the “Body” rapper was named a Revlon global ambassador.

In March, Thee Stallion will join the Dupa Lipa “Future Nostalgia” tour, and in April, she will perform at the Coachella Festival.

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Mutton chops, “mad farmers who can’t get to their fields” and “me trying to be GQ”: Tim McGraw takes a walk down music video memory lane in a new reaction video the singer posted to his YouTube channel.

The singer looks back at three videos — 1994’s “Down on the Farm,” 2003’s “She’s My Kind of Rain” and 2016’s “Humble and Kind” — in the clip. He takes plenty of cracks at his fashion sense and youthful sensibilities throughout the video, but Tim has some sentimental stories to share, too, like how Oprah Winfrey helped inspire the music video for “Humble and Kind.”

“I knew that when we did the video, we had to figure out some way to make it special,” he remembers.

He got inspired after watching the trailer for Oprah’s Belief documentary series, which featured footage of people across the world, from a variety of different cultures.

“I thought, ‘Boy, that’s the way I want this video to look,’” Tim explains. So he sent the song to [producer, director and actor] Tyler Perry, a partner in Oprah’s OWN network, asking if it would be possible to use some of the footage from Belief for his video.

“I sent him the song, and he called me back, and he was crying on the phone about how wonderful the song is,” the singer recounts. “And he said, ‘I just sent it to Oprah, I hope you don’t mind, and she said you can have any of the footage that you want.’”

Tim concludes, “I just think it’s one of the most beautiful videos that we’ve ever shot.”

“Humble and Kind” won several awards, including Video of the Year at the 2016 CMT Music Awards.

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Coldplay frontman Chris Martin is a big fan of his band’s “My Universe” collaboration with BTS and, in a new interview, he joked the stylish septet has a “bizarre” effect on his group.  According to the British singer, BTS makes Coldplay look like a gang of awkward older men.

“It’s quite a bizarre,” he laughed on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on Wednesday as he pointed to a photo of them all posing together. “We look like their gym teachers.”  Still, Chris has nothing but nice things to say about the Grammy nominees.

“I genuinely love these people,” he stated. “It was cool to see how their life is.  It’s a very different kind of band to us.  And it’s much more disciplined in a certain way.”  Chris added that Coldplay might not adapt very well to their strict schedule, but said he enjoyed being a part of their world when they spent time in Korea to work on “My Universe.”

He revealed how Coldplay and BTS’ worlds collided, saying the septet “asked [us] to do a song with them,” and Chris wondered, given their different sounds and styles, “How are we going to fit these two things together?”

“Then the idea started to seem really attractive in its weirdness, and then one day the right song arrived,” he continued. “It felt really natural.”

“My Universe” went to number one on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the British group’s first chart topper since 2008’s “Viva La Vida.”

Looking ahead to Coldplay’s future, Chris confirmed the band has three more albums in them — and one will be a musical — and they’ll all be out by 2025. “I think that’s what feels right, to us,” he clarified, adding they’ll still go on tours together, but, “the story of our albums ends then.”

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Billie Eilish is giving her artsy fans something to talk about — she’s hosting an art contest where one lucky winner will have their artwork predominantly displayed during her tour.

Taking to her Instagram stories on Wednesday, the “bad guy” hitmaker announced, “I’m going on tour this year and designing merch right now and I know how creative all of you guys are, so I wanted to see if you guys would like to be involved!”

The Grammy winner excitedly continued, “I am going to pick out my favorite piece of fanart to be on one piece of official merch on my tour.”  She added she “cannot wait” to start judging submissions because “I know it’s gonna be amazing.”

Billie has teamed with the art program, Adobe, for her ongoing contest that aims to find the perfect design for her tour t-shirt.  “Your creativity could be on display in the merch booth and onstage before her show,” the Billie Eilish X Adobe disclaimer adds.

In addition, the grand prize winner will be hooked up with $10,000 and will be flown to one of Billie’s shows, where they can bring a friend to enjoy the concert.  Plus, for all you artsy folk, the big winner will also cash in on a full-year free subscription to Adobe Creative Cloud, which grants full access to their numerous apps.

There will be 10 runners-up, who will be awarded $1,000 each and also be able to fly to one of Billie’s upcoming tour dates with a friend.  Those who make the cut will also be able to see their artwork up on the stage.

To enter, designs must be made using an Adobe app and be posted to Instagram using the two hashtags “#BillieXAdobe” and “#Contest.” The deadline is February 15.

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After Kanye West said that he personally delivered a second sex tape to his estranged wife, Kim Kardashian, Kim claims that the video does not contains any sexual content.

The first video, titled Kim Kardashian, Superstar, featuring Ray J, was recorded in 2002 while Ray and Kim were celebrating her 23rd birthday in Mexico. It was released in 2007 by Vivid Entertainment. Kardashian filed a lawsuit against the company, then later dropped the suit and settled for a reported $5 million. Last year, Ray’s former manager, Wack 100, claimed in September he had possession of a second sex video that “was more graphic and better than the first one.”

Kanye said in an interview with Hollywood Unlocked with Jason Lee Uncensored that he retrieved a second sex tape and gave it to Kim. “I went and got the laptop from Ray J myself,” West said. “Got on the red-eye and met this man at the airport, then got on the red-eye, came back, delivered it to her at 8 a.m. in the morning.”

“She cried when she saw it,” Yeezy continued. “You know why she cried when she seen the laptop? It represents how much she’s been used. It represents how much people didn’t love her and they just saw her as a commodity.”

“After review, there was nothing sexual unseen, only footage on the plane on the way to Mexico and footage at a club and restaurant on the same trip,” Kardashian’s representative tells Entertainment Tonight. “Kim remains firm in her belief that there is no new second tape that exists. After 20 years, she truly wishes to move on from this chapter with focus instead on the positive things she continues to do as a mother, entrepreneur and advocate for justice reform.”

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Madonna has always been a big supporter of Britney Spears, and now she’s floated the idea of the two actually touring together,  — despite the fact that Britney has said she’s not interested in performing.

During an Instagram Live session on Tuesday, Madonna is told by someone off camera that fans are asking if she’ll ever do a world tour again.  “Hell yeah! Got to! Stadium, baby!” she responds.

“Me and Britney, what about that?” she continues. “Yeah, I’m not sure she’d be into it, but it’d be really cool. We could re-enact, like, the original kiss.”

Madonna was referring to the controversial smooch she planted on Britney during the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards while performing Madonna’s song “Hollywood.” Madonna also kissed Christina Aguilera during that performance, but nobody seems to remember that part. 

Two months after that, Madonna and Britney released their collaboration “Me Against the Music.” In 2008, Britney joined Madonna onstage for “Human Nature” during the Queen of Pop’s Sticky & Sweet tour.

In November, a source told Page Six that Madonna had been in contact with Britney “multiple times” as Britney fought to end her conservatorship. 

In other Britney news, she’s shared an Instagram post in which she claims that during her conservatorship, she was forced to “wear two layers of tights every night” while performing in Las Vegas, and was “never allowed to go to the spa,” or even drink coffee or tea.

“My friends from home would show up, going to the spas, drinking champagne, no lie, and I was the loser working and entertaining them at night,” she adds. “Doesn’t sound like a good deal to me either…I’m here to remind them all that being treated like an equal individual doesn’t require much … just RESPECT.”

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Fans can go behind the scenes on a late 2021 stop on Old Dominion’s We Are Old Dominion Tour, thanks to a new episode of CMT’s digital series, On the Road.

The cameras follow along as Old Dominion heads to St. Augustine, Florida for back-to-back sold-out shows. The concerts took place last December, and were the last two stops on the band’s tour.

In the episode, Old Dominion share what goes on when they’re not onstage, too: Viewers can watch the band mates golfing, riding motorcycles and spending time with their road family.

It’s the return of CMT’s On the Road series, which pivoted to an Off the Road spinoff during the COVID-19 pandemic. Normally, the show follows artists for a day in the life on tour, but amid pandemic-related shutdowns, it showed how touring artists were navigating the pandemic and life at home.

Old Dominion’s On the Road episode airs Wednesday at 5 p.m. ET. You can watch it on CMT’s social channels. Before it airs, check out the trailer on Facebook.

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After being awarded $4 million in her defamation lawsuit against YouTube blogger Tasha K, Cardi B hopes her victory will help bring an end to lies about celebrities on social media.

After a jury ordered the blogger, born Tasha Kebe, to pay $1.25 million on Monday to Cardi for posting false rumors, $1.5 million more in punitive damages was added Tuesday. Plus, she was ordered to pay the “I Like It” rapper’s $1.3 million legal bill.

The Grammy winner accused Kebe of making false claims that she was a prostitute, had contracted herpes, used drugs, and performed a sex act with a beer bottle, among other accusations.

In responding to the verdict, Cardi said in a statement to People, “We can no longer be a society that turns a blind eye to blatant lies. The unchecked behavior and provably false content on platforms like YouTube have to be addressed and removed.”

“The constant harassment and lies that are reported as factual from journalists and bloggers have to end.” She added, “We’ve also seen countless stories of children and adults deciding to take their own lives due to cyberbullying and intentional attacks.”

During the trial, the Hustlers star testified that Kebe’s remarks caused her to be “extremely suicidal.”

Cardi said in her statement that fans have “learned about the darkest time in my life,” writing that it was “fueled by the vile, disgusting, and completely false narratives that were repeatedly and relentlessly being shared online.”

“I thought I would never be heard or vindicated and I felt completely helpless and vulnerable,” Cardi continued.

The 29-year-old entertainer shared that she didn’t want “justice” solely for herself, noting that “the intentional harm that was done to me, is done to countless others every day.”

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Lady Gaga is further breaking down House of Gucci and how she channeled Patrizia Reggiani, the woman who was famously convicted of arranging the murder of her ex-husband, Italian fashion heir Maurizio Gucci.  The “Applause” singer also revealed why she turned to acting in the first place, saying it allowed her to escape a traumatic childhood.

Speaking to Jake Gyllenhaal for Variety’s “Actors on Actors” segment, Gaga admitted she wanted to become an actress long before she wanted to pursue singing.  “Since I was a little girl, I was so mercilessly bullied, and I had a really strict upbringing. So acting for me was a way to totally escape who I was,” she revealed. “And I think I’ve done it my whole career with taking on the artistic persona of whatever music I’m writing and living inside my art. And for films, it’s different, but it’s not.”

Part of that escape, she says, is becoming the characters she plays.  The Oscar winner revealed new information about how she transformed into Patrizia, saying she studied animals.

“I studied a house cat for the beginning of the film. And then at the funeral, when she sees Al Pacino’s character, she suddenly turns into a fox because she’s hunting now,” she described. “I watched foxes hunt and they’re really funny, because they hunt mice in the snow and they leap up and they burrow. I actually did exercises in my hotel room where I would be the animal.”

The Grammy winner studied one more animal to complete Patrizia’s transformation — the panther. “It was because the panther moves slowly, but then when it kills its prey, it is really violent and it’s really ugly, and then after, it cries,” she revealed.

“I chose these animals as a way to map the physicality of the character,” said Gaga. 

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