The singer tied the knot with his wife, fellow country singer Meghan Patrick, on Sunday during a ceremony at a friend’s farm in Nashville.
The couple was married by Mitchell’s high school football coach and longtime friend, and they exchanged vows under an archway that Meghan made with her father, which was also adorned with a horseshoe he crafted. The topper on their cake was the same one used at Meghan’s grandparents’ wedding.
Meghan wore a dress designed by Rue de Seine and snakeskin boots made by Lucchese, while Mitchell’s groomsmen had boutonnières containing feathers from a bird he hunted.
“Trust, respect, [and] never stop flirting or dating each other [keep our relationship strong]. Fight for each other, not with each other,” they shared with Peopleahead of the wedding, adding that they’re most looking forward to “getting to call each other husband and wife.”
The couple got engaged last November at the Nashville bar where they first met.
“AngelaBassett is a Vibe,” reads the title of Essence‘slatest cover story featuring the award-winning actress.
For the November/December issue, Bassett opened up about a plethora of topics, including navigating Hollywood after career-early gigs like Boyz N the Hoodand filming Black Panther: Wakanda Forever without ChadwickBoseman.
Bassett said she felt butterflies when returning to set. “There are these two things that we were dealing with: the loss of our leader and trying to meet the expectations of an audience,” she said, adding, “The mantle is monumental, but it’s not so heavy that we can’t accomplish what we all gathered together to do.”
Bassett told Essence she and the cast and crew worked nonstop during filming — 10 hours straight for five to six days a week. According to director RyanCoogler, she easily adapted to the work schedule and “was always there on time and right where you needed her to be.”
To help with the hectic schedule, Bassett said, “I would try to make the best of it. Play some music, add a glass of wine to that after we wrapped, and then get some rest for another early pickup.”
The 64-year-old actress is no stranger to late nights and early mornings. “You have to stay hungry and you have to remain hungry,” she said while reflecting on building her decades-long entertainment resume after ’90s classic Boyz N the Hood.
Bassett cites her working-class upbringing as the source of her industrious work ethic.
“I think a part of me, or part of us as Black women, is that we become used to the stress of life,” she said. “It can become so pervasive, so everyday, that it’s just what it is…”
It was all about Michael Bublé on Dancing with the Stars! Michael made it abundantly clear how “honored” he was to be invited onto the show because he’s a longtime fan.
He opened the night with an energetic performance of “Sway.” He also brought his “Higher” music video to life on the ballroom floor thanks to Derek Hough and Hough’s fiancé Hayley Erbert, who respectively choreographed and starred in it.
While sitting with the judges, Michael eagerly praised the contestants for doing his songs justice.
One highlight was when drag queen Shangela revealed she was secretly carrying around two fried chicken drumsticks during her tango to Michael’s “Hollywood.” Apparently head judge Len Goodman had criticized Shangela for not having “crispy legs” last week, so her mother whipped up her signature recipe to sway the judges. “This is the best day of my life,” Michael raved.
He also charmed Bachelorette Gabby Windey who performed a rumba to his song “Home” by declaring at the end of her routine, “I have sung this song a billion times and that is easily the sexiest version I have ever seen.”
He also got to geek out over Jordin Sparks by revealing he’s been a fan of her voice since 2007, when she won American Idol, and declared himself a fan of her dancing.
Michael also lavished praise upon Wayne Brady, who unfortunately lost several days of rehearsal due to illness and exhaustion. “I’m bitter over how jealous I am of you,” he scolded. “Why are you so good at everything, dude?” He later awarded Wayne a 10.
He also saluted deafactor Daniel Durant for interpreting “Feeling Good” into an emotional foxtrot. Michael raved, “You are amazing. My new hero!”
Incubus will kick off 2023 with a quick run of tour dates.
The four-show outing launches January 31 in Corpus Christi, Texas and will stay in the Lone Star State for stops in San Antonio on February 2 and Houston on February 3 before wrapping up February 4 in New Orleans.
Incubus’ 2022 included a summer tour with Sublime with Rome. The outing was briefly interrupted after frontman Brandon Boyd injured his back.
The most recent Incubus release is the 2020 EP Trust Fall (Side B), which followed the band’s 2017 album, 8. Earlier this year, Boyd dropped a new solo album called Echoes & Cocoons.
Joe Nichols is living with an attitude of gratitude that’s reflected in his new single, “Good Day For Living.”
The title track of his most recent album, “Good Day For Living” captures how he shapes his reality through positive thinking.
The song’s lyrics allow him to see the bright side of life’s unfortunate situations, such as when the air conditioning blows out or money falls out of his pocket. He vows to not make “no worry no bigger than it is when it isn’t.”
Though Joe didn’t write the track, it does capture how he walks through life with gratitude.
“I think the number one take away for me emotionally is that it’s filled with gratitude, the kind of happiness that comes along with gratitude. In my personal life, I feel like the happiest moments of my life are always followed by gratitude,” he explains of the “fun song.” “That changes my perspective on the way I live. Situations or circumstances or things in life, good and bad, don’t change how I think — the way I think changes how I see things. So this song in a very lighthearted, ditty, ‘what’s a guy got to do’ kind of way, represents that very thinking.”
“Good Day” is nearing the top 30 on country radio, serving as his biggest hit since his 2014 chart-topping single, “Yeah.” Joe is also known for hits “Brokenheartsville,” “Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off,” “Gimme That Girl” and “Sunny and 75.”
Joe wrapped his Good Day For Living Tour in September and has shows booked through the end of the year.
As promised, earlier on her Instagram, Taylor Swift released the video for “Bejeweled,” at the stroke of midnight Tuesday with a little help from some friend for the Cinderella-inspired clip.
Swift plays “House Wench Taylor,” who’s forced to scrub the floor while her wicked step sisters, played by Este, Danielle, and Alana Haim, as well as “Stepmommy,” Oscar-winning actress Laura Dern, prepare to attend a ball in hopes of getting a marriage proposal from the prince.
We then see Swift transform herself into a “Bejeweled” princess who leaves a stream of glitter in her wake, splashes around in giant champagne glasses with “Fairy Goddess” Dita von Teese and ghosts Jack Antonoff.
“I want[ed] to make a video that is just for the fans who like certain things like glitter and easter eggs and lots of little cameos, she told Jimmy Fallon during an appearance on The Tonight Show.
“So basically I was thinking about Midnights, the the concept, and I was like, ‘Where do we hear about a lot?'” she continued. “We hear about it a lot when we talk about the Cinderella fairytale. And so I was like, ‘What if we did a little twist on a Cinderella story and I could cast my friends.”
The video also contains “a psychotic amount of Easter eggs” in the video, said Taylor, who claimed to have “a PDF file for the Easter eggs in this video,” because there are so many we could not keep track.”
Todd Rundgren is among the well-known music artists taking part in the 2022 edition of the Celebrating David Bowie tribute tour, which kicked off earlier this month and is plotted out through a a November 13 concert in Phoenix.
Rundgren tells ABC Audio that he’s glad that he was able to choose some songs from his favorite era of Bowie’s career, David’s early-’70s period, to perform on the trek.
“I think I was lucky in that I sort of demanded and was granted songs that I thought would work well for me, like ‘Life on Mars?’ and ‘Space Oddity’ and ‘Changes,” Todd notes. “So I got to claim a lot of that early ‘songwriter-ly’ stuff.”
He adds, “The young David Bowie wrote songs with great changes and words you could identify with.”
Rundgren also is singing a couple songs from a bit later in Bowie’s career — “Young Americans” and “Station to Station” — while admitting he’s not as enamored with much of David’s later work.
Meanwhile, Rundgren reports that he isn’t playing as much guitar on the tour as he initially expected, while pointing out that he’s doing a lot of costume changes during the shows, as is his tour mate Angelo Moore of the band Fishbone.
“It’s up to him and I to kind of … keep things lively [with] costume changes and props and that sort of thing,” he notes.
In addition to Rundgren and Moore, the Celebrating David Bowie tour lineup also features ex-King Crimson singer/guitarist Adrian Belew, Spacehog‘s Royston Langdon and veteran singer/songwriter Jeffrey Gaines.
In addition, guest artists will make appearances at select shows, including Thomas Dolby, who will perform in Annapolis, Maryland, on October 31 and November 1. Visit CelebratingDavidBowie.com for a full list of dates.
HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel, House of the Dragon, concluded its first season in a big way, drawing the premium cabler service’s biggest audience since GoT‘s conclusion in 2019.
House of the Dragon 9.3 million viewers Sunday night across all platforms, based on a combination of Nielsen and first party data, according HBO. That despite stiff competition from Sunday Night Football and the final game of the Major League Baseball ALCS between the NY Yankees and Houston Astros.
“We’re so thrilled to see House of the Dragon catch fire with Game of Thrones fans around the world, as well as new viewers who are discovering the world of Westeros for the first time,” said Casey Bloys, Chairman and CEO, HBO and HBO Max. “Congrats to [Co-Creator/Executive Producer, George R.R. Martin, Co-Creator/Co-Showrunner/Executive Producer/Writer, Ryan Condal, Co-Showrunner/Executive Producer/Director, Miguel Sapochnik] and the whole House of the Dragon team on an incredible first season.”
House of the Dragon debuted August 21, to the largest audience for any new original series in the history of HBO and the best series launch on HBO Max across the U.S., Latin America, and Europe. The series is averaging 29 million viewers per episode in the U.S.
The complete first season of House of the Dragon is now available to stream on HBO Max.
(WASHINGTON) — With early voting underway in more than half of Florida’s counties as of Monday — 15 days before Election Day — Gov. Ron DeSantis is urging supporters to cast their ballots sooner rather than later, despite calls from Donald Trump and some other Republicans to wait until Nov. 8.
DeSantis has made election integrity a key issue since Trump began trumpeting false claims of a stolen 2020 election and has supported various measures to that end, including the creation of an election police force which made controversial fraud arrests in August.
But the governor has also repeatedly noted that Florida voters should feel confident in their own elections — and feel confident voting early or by mail, two methods that Trump has baselessly criticized as allowing fraud.
After returning to the trail in the wake of Hurricane Ian, DeSantis split with Trump on this issue. The former president told Nevada rally-goers on Oct. 9 that voting early would make it easier for Democrats to cheat. He didn’t provide evidence.
DeSantis’ message, though, is: Any form of voting will do.
At campaign events, he sometimes takes a tally. “
How many of you are going to do a mail ballot?” he asks.
“Early in person?” he adds.
Silence turns into cheers when he asks about “Election Day.”
On Sunday in Bal Harbour, DeSantis pushed back on that preference, telling a packed Jewish community center to get to the polls as soon as possible to avoid a “mulligan” in two weeks.
“If you wait till Election Day, you get a flat tire, you can’t take a mulligan,” DeSantis said then. “Whereas if you vote early, you do it, you’re in the can. If something happens [while you’re on your way], you got another shot at it.”
“We can’t be complacent about this,” he added then.
Democrats, like DeSantis, have been recommending early voting.
“I encourage you not to wait until Election Day,” Val Demings, the Senate nominee challenging GOP Sen. Marco Rubio, wrote on Twitter on Monday.
Florida, a perennial swing state, is the site of several key races this midterm cycle, though Republicans there are optimistic about their chances given voters’ disapproval of President Joe Biden and concerns over the economy and inflation.
DeSantis, for example, is up by about eight points over Democratic opponent Charlie Crist, according to the FiveThirtyEight polling average. He and Crist, a former Florida governor, debated Monday during their lone face-off, in South Florida.
Though early in-person voting began less than a day ago, nearly 1.2 million Floridians have already sent in their mail ballots, state data shows. Michael McDonald, a political science professor and voter turnout researcher at the University of Florida, told ABC News that turnout for this midterm election is shaping up to be on par with 2018, which had the highest turnout of any midterm since 1914.
Registered Democrats have the edge in mail voting thus far, casting almost 50,000 more votes than their Republican counterparts, according to the state Divisions of Elections.
Yet Republicans, who have requested over 400,000 fewer mail ballots, are returning the ones they have at a higher rate. In Florida, whoever requested a mail ballot in 2020 was automatically sent one in 2022. Due to high Democrat mail turnout during the last presidential cycle, it is likely that the disparity in requests is due to the carryover from 2020 and not simply enthusiasm by Democrats about the voting method in 2022, McDonald said.
Historically, Democrats in Florida have turned out more than Republicans for early in-person voting while the GOP then sees larger numbers on Election Day.
But in 2020, as Democrats increasingly favored mail ballots amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Republicans also began to lead in early in-person voting. McDonald said.
“Republicans in the state of Florida don’t see as much of a threat from allowing those different forms of voting and promoting it, because they know that their campaigns are capable of turning their supporters out,” McDonald said.
“DeSantis has very, very deep pockets for his campaign. So they’ve got a machine that can do the voter mobilization,” he added.
Rubio, who is also seeking reelection, held a rally on Monday to promote early in-person voting. He has echoed some of Trump’s suspicions about other early voting methods. At a debate last week with Demings, Rubio said that “there’s danger involved in drop boxes” because someone could attack them.
Republicans in other states have both criticized early voting periods and encouraged their voters to use “whatever way you want,” as Arizona gubernatorial nominee Kari Lake put it earlier this month.
“If you have a mail-in ballot, I think that you should mail it in. I want people to vote,” Lake said then.
Separately, she recently suggested to ABC News that she didn’t like that “Election Day” had become “election season.”
Demings, for her part, has spent the last two days touring from the Panhandle to the Keys to get out the vote.
Although Democrats have a substantial mail-ballot request lead, many of those votes remain outstanding.
“The challenge is going to be for the Democrats to really motivate their voters. And if they can, we’ll start seeing it in the statistics,” McDonald said.
(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Monday’s sports events:
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
Philadelphia 120, Indiana 106
Toronto 98, Miami 90
NY Knicks 115, Orlando 102
Houston 114, Utah 108
Chicago 120, Boston 102
Memphis 134, Brooklyn 124
San Antonio 115, Minnesota 106
Portland 135, Denver 110
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
Washington 6, New Jersey 3
Ottawa 4, Dallas 2
Winnipeg 4, St. Louis o
Edmonton 6, Pittsburgh 3
Vegas 3, Toronto 1
Carolina 3, Vancouver 2
NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE
Chicago 33, New England 14
