The best country music news and Nashville gossip at your fingertips. Helping you keep up with your favorite Nashville superstars and country music celebrities since 2008. Read today what you'll be talking about tomorrow.
Just in case you hadn't heard, Eric Paslay is officially off the market.
Eric broke the news to The Tennessean last week, telling the newspaper that he proposed to girlfriend Natalie Harker on December 30.
The pair met when Natalie worked at Paslay's previous publishing company and became friends. When she left the company, the pair became more than just friends.
Eric jokes that he has to keep her around since she's good for his career.
"She was the one that got a bunch of my songs cut, heck all of my hits recorded," said Paslay, who had a hand in writing Jake Owen's "Barefoot Blue Jean Night" and Eli Young Band's "Even if it Breaks Your Heart." "We've got a bunch of fun memories together. I keep joking, 'I guess I have to keep her.' I'd be a fool to let her go."
The pair plan to have a very short engagement and will marry this spring.
"She's already got the venue and a dress and all kinds of stuff," Eric revealed. "She's on it. She's pretty organized, so that's good. She hasn't been a bridezilla, so that's even better."
Hunter Hayes is currently over the big pond in England having the time of his life, but right after the People's Choice Awards, the little heartthrob was snapped holding hands with rumoured girlfriend Libby Barnes at LAX.
JustJared reported this on January 8th. But as recent as last week there were reports that he has yet to confirm the relationship. While I know there are some Hayniacs out there that aren't too happy, at the end of the day no matter Hunter's relationship status is, isn't it nice to see him happy?
Hope he's enjoying time in the UK, but excited for him to get back on American soil and see him in action where he really shines...on stage.
Danielle is like any other girl her age when it comes to social media, except that she happens to be famous. Which proves to be a bit of an issue when you want to share how you feel about your boo thang. This time though, Danielle was so overcome with love that she went ahead and just poured her heart out:
Sometimes it's crazy to post personal things on social media nowadays because of the feed back but when I'm feeling "crazy" about something it's self then I just can't help it. I love you more than you or anyone could ever know. It blows my mind every single day
And you know what? Good for her! I think these two are adorable together!
Follow me on Twitter for more music stuff! @AshleyAHelene
There's been a whole lot written about Jason Aldean and Brittany Kerr's relationship and how it began as an affair, but could it be that there's another cheatin' heart story that's currently flying under the radar?
Ooh, plot twist!
We've all heard Brantley Gilbert and his fiancée Amber's crazy romantic love story that sounds like it was plucked straight from a Hollywood movie: Girl and boy fall for each other, girl and boy break up, boy goes on to become a famous singer/songwriter and writes a bunch of songs about girl, boy comes to his senses and wins girl back, boy puts a ring on it and they all live happily ever after.
Unfortunately, it sounds like there may be one step that's been left out of the retelling of the cute couple's love story... a divorce and claims of infidelity.
Yikes!
According to Radar Online, Amber was married (is still married?) to a guy named Brock Anderson at the time that she and Brantley rekindled their relationship. According to the usual "source," the pair married back in 2012 and began having trouble late in 2013. Amber started spending more time with her family and sometime earlier this year told her husband that she was going to the grocery store and just never came back.
Now that's an interesting exit strategy.
In March, Amber filed divorce papers and Brock ended up countersuing on the grounds of adultery.
It's not mentioned if anyone was named as the other man in the divorce documents, but according to the unnamed source, Amber's husband guessed who Brantley's new fiancée was before her name ever became public.
The pal says, “I remember when Brantley announced in October that he was engaged to a then-unnamed schoolteacher.
“We all thought how wild it would be if it turned out to be Amber – and Brock said, ‘I’m pretty sure it is her’.”
Yep, there's gotta be a country song in this story somewhere.
Update: A reader emailed and pointed me in the direction of a sort of funny (in a sweet way) new interview Brantley gave with US 103.5 that was posted today where the singer gives a very, very specific date as to when he got back in touch with Amber. In fact, the date of first contact and the date of first meeting up with her is important enough that he gives both. He says he found out that Amber wanted to reconnect with him on June 15. He says he was so excited to meet back up with her that he drove right over to see her for the very first time the next day, June 16. Did you catch that? It was June 15 and 16.
See, he's not a homewrecker at all. Not that anyone actually cared if he was or not.
In fact, I'm actually surprised at how little people care about this story, but it's sweet that Brantley wants to be sure that everyone knows that he didn't reconnect with his lady love until a full month after she had filed divorce papers.
No worries, Brantley. We all still think your love story - that re-started on June 15thand 16th - is very romantic and sweet. Go forth and marry and be happy.
Check out the video below to hear Ty talk about what it feels like to walk the red carpet with Matt for the first time, their future plans, and what he's got going on musically at the moment.
And be sure to catch Ty out on tour with Jamie O'Neal and Andy Griggs in 2015.
For the last week I've had strep throat. I feel so bad for always just thinking of it as a bad sore throat whenever my kids came down with it growing up because OMG! I literally thought I was going to die.
And no, I'm not exaggerating in the least. I honestly thought for the first two days that I was sick that my husband was going to come home from work to find me dead in a pool of my own Nyquil-filled ... well you get the point. It was THAT bad.
But I'm on the mend now that I'm pumped full of antibiotics, so let's get to some news, shall we?
Like did you see that Taylor Swift was photographed kissing her best friend Karlie Kloss at a concert last week?
Or maybe she wasn't. The photos are pretty dark and grainy, but it sure looks like she was laying a big fat wet one on the Victoria's Secret model.
Hell, can you blame Taylor if she was mackin' on the model? I mean Karlie's hot. There's also video of the two and this GIF of them sharing an up-close-and-personal conversation.
Naturally, people are now wondering if maybe the two are more than just best friends. Well go ahead and wonder all you like, just make sure you don't ask Taylor's rep to comment on the pair's relationship status.
The New York Daily News made the mistake of doing that very thing, and let's just say the question went over like a 100-pound lead balloon.
"It's sad that on the day it's announced Taylor has three Grammy nominations for 'Shake It Off,' I have to shake off this crap," she told the Daily News with maybe a little more disgust than was necessary.
Come on, Taylor getting multiple award nominations, even Grammy Award nominations, is nothing new. Taylor possibly being caught making out in public with her freakishly similar best friend? Now that's a new and interesting twist in the singer's usually extremely boring dating story.
This is Taylor Swift we're talking about. The girl has built a very large part of her career on her past relationships, so you'd think her rep would be used to these sorts of questions by now. Of course, I'm a blogger and these sorts of entertaining stories are like candy to me. Being Taylor's rep during these sorts of entertaining stories? Probably like being stuck with Bill Murray in your own little Groundhog Day, but with more email and no sappy Hollywood ending in sight. So pretty much hell on Earth.
Guess I should cut her some slack.
As for Taylor and Karlie, neither of them seems too concerned that people think they're possibly a couple and neither one has bothered to comment. So good on them.
UPDATE: Taylor tweeted this this morning:
As my 25th birthday present from the media, I'd like for you to stop accusing all my friends of dating me. #thirsty.
The rumor started with Media Mass, a website who states that it is "a humorous parody of Gossip magazines, all stories are obviously not true."
Good to know. Unfortunately, to know this about them you have to dig for that bit of helpful information. That means that when they have a story like this it always gets people worked up over something that's 100% not true and isn't meant to be taken as gossip gospel.
Would definitely help if a site who claims to be a "humorous parody of Gossip magazines" was actually funny, but that's just me.
This morning, a story I wrote back in May about Brantley Gilbert possibly having a new girlfriend has been going crazy. I wasn't quite sure why until I just read that the singer is now engaged.
Well that explains that.
Brantley told DJ Bobby Bones in an interview this morning that he's engaged to a gal he's written many of his songs about.
so @BrantleyGilbert just announced he's engaged to the girl he wrote about in "more than miles". Congrats bud.
Brantley explained during the interview, "She was the one who got away for about five years, then kind of came back around, and I can honestly say I've never been happier. She's the one."
Sweet.
This is Brantley's second engagement in as many years. His last, to actress and singer Jana Kramer, ended in August of last year.
As for Brantley's possible girlfriend I wrote about back in May, her name is Molly Bouchon and she apparently works for a PR firm in Nashville. I was told by several people after I wrote the story that the two weren't actually dating (despite there being loads of pictures of them looking cute together) and that she was just doing PR stuff for him. I don't think Brantley gave the name of his new fiancé in his interview, but he did say that he had known her for like 10 years and she's a teacher. Since Molly is like 22 or 23 (and in PR), I doubt seriously this is his fiance. If she is, he probably has some 'splainin' to do.
So I guess for now we'll just have to keep speculating and wondering who the lucky lady is.
Congrats to Brantley and his mystery love.
Take a listen to Brantley announcing his engagement below.
Good news all you dudes out there, Jana Kramer is once again a free agent.
A couple of weeks ago Jana had made an admission on Twitter to missing her man, Washington Redskins tight end Michael Caussin. It was the first mention that she was dating someone. Visiting his Twitter, it was full of all kinds of little love notes to Jana and the two seemed like a cute couple.
Unfortunately, things seem to have ended on a not-so-happy note not too long after Jana's first mention of Caussin.
On August 21, Caussin made his last entry on Twitter saying: I have the very best girlfriend! Cannot wait til my @kramergirl gets here tonight!
By August 23, the two had broken up.
Jana wrote on Twitter just two days after Caussin said he was excited to see her: Never trust anyone.
She then confirmed that things were over:Here's to being SINGLE again
Neither has said what happened, but some people have indicated that Caussin cheated. Jana's tweets do have a message though:
"Players gonna play play play play play"
"Heartbreaks gonna break break break break break"
Well hopefully Jana can at least get a good song out of the heartache.
Recent Comments