Sam Hunt Girlfriend Hannah Lee Fowler, he was engaged and soon married
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Congratulations to all of the lovebirds who got engaged during the holidays and will remember 2016 fondly. iHEARTMEDIA Country WPGB (BIG 104.7)/PITTSBURGH MD CARSON BLACKLEY got engaged to boyfriend ZEKE BLAKE on NEW YEAR"S EVE. Check out the proposal in a sweet videoshe shared on FACEBOOK. ENTERCOM Country KSON/SAN DIEGO MD/night host GREG RANEIRI also popped the question on NEW YEAR"S EVE to girlfriend MEG. RANEIRI posted on FACEBOOK, "Last NIGHT I officially became the luckiest guy in the world. I asked [MEG] to marry me, and she said yes!"
MERCURY NASHVILLE artist KACEY MUSGRAVES got engaged to boyfriend RUSTON KELLY on CHRISTMAS. MUSGRAVES shared on INSTAGRAM, "I didn"t say yes...I said h**l YESSSS!" She added, "I finally know what everyone means when they say, "you just know."" BLACK RIVER ENTERTAINMENT artist KELSEA BALLERINI also had a CHRISTMAS proposal from boyfriend MORGAN EVANS. BALLERINI posted on INSTAGRAM, "This morning, 9 months and 13 days later, he got down on one knee in the kitchen while I was burning pancakes and asked me to marry him."
WARNER BROS./WMN artist WILLIAM MICHAEL MORGAN recently popped the question to girlfriend JENNIFER WAYNE of WHEELHOUSE RECORDS trio RUNAWAY JUNE. WAYNE shared a photo of her engagement ring on TWITTERsaying, "It"s you and me...Forever." In addition, MCA NASHVILLE artist SAM hunt proposed to girlfriend hannah lee fowler according to PEOPLE magazine. No official word from HUNT yet on social media.
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A former child TV star who has been dogged by controversy in recent years has given his critics more ammunition after he released his own s*x tape in the early hours of the New Year. Orlando Brown, who co-starred on the kid-friendly hit TV series, "That"s So Raven," posted the X-rated footage to social media before quickly deleting it on Sunday, BET reported.
Brown guest starred in several shows by Disney and is best known for his role of Eddie Thomas on "Thats So Raven."While the actorlanded a bit role in last year"s***t movie "Straight Outta Compton," his resume has been relatively sparse since the TV show shot him to stardom more than a decade ago.
The 29-year-old"s latest apparent ploy for attention follows some choice remarks he made about his fellow "That"s So Raven" star, Raven-Symon. Brown has been mired in salacious allegations ranging from drug use to domestic violence, and even at one point went missing. As such, Sunday"s posting of explicit video footage to social media may not come as much of a surprise to those who have followed Brown"s career.
However, for those who have not become familiar with Brown"s exploits, below are five examples of the types of controversy the actor has seemingly courted in the years since "That"s So Raven" went off the air in 2007.
1.brown threatens Symon
Brown seemed to take umbrage at the fact that he was not cast in the upcoming "That"s So Raven" spinoff series. He lashed out at Symon for his exclusion and called her a derogatory term in a video of himself he posted to social media early last month, Vibe reported.
"Raven stop trolling my page, we all know why you wont say sh-t, because Im the truest n---a in the motherf--kin world.Imma end this sh-t, b----stop trolling my page, Im coming to see you and were gonna end this like real world adults, Im not trying to play no more games.Im just saying, be real, be family, and thats it," he said in the video.
2. Claims He Had s*x With Symon
Brown and Symon had a sexual relationship while they were filming "That"s So Raven," he told DJ Vlad in a video interview released this past September. The troubled actor goes into explicit details when describing one of their encounters.
3. Assault, Drug Charges
Brown was arrested for domestic battery misdemeanor and drug charges after he was accused of hitting his girlfriend and carryingmethamphetamines in February. He would go on to be charged withpossession of a drug with intent to sell, and having contraband in jail. It was not the first time drug use had been alleged against Brown.
4. Threatens Woman, Child In Hollywood
Brown was arrested fortwo counts of disturbing the peace and one of public intoxication when he allegedly threatened a woman and her toddler daughter in Hollywood, California, in August 2014, according to MTV News."Tell him Orlando Brown is crazy... I"ll kill you, your mama, your daughter, everybody... Come outside!" the actor said on a 911 phone call. However, authorities did not press charges because they believes the woman did not actually fear for her life.
5. Brown Goes Missing
Brown disappeared for more than 24 hours in April of 2008. He missed meetings and a photo shoot, prompting his manager to alert authorities, People reported at the time. However, he would later surface, saying in part that he just "needed to be alone."
NBC"s Today rang in the new year with a blast from the past on Monday"s show.
Longtime co-host Katie Couric returned as guest co-host for the first time since leaving the morning show in 2006. Couric is filling in all week for co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, who is on maternity leave.
Couric"s return was heavily teased by the program on social media last week and over the weekend, and her appearance was included in the morning highlights at the top of Monday"s show. After the major news stories, Today"s intro featured a compilation of footage and photos from Couric"s 15 years on the show as well as what looked like footage of Couric arriving to Studio 1A on Monday morning wearing sunglasses and carrying a cup of coffee.
At the top of the show, Matt Lauer joked that it was January 1997 since Couric was again by his side. She jokingly introduced herself to him before saying how thrilled she was to be back for the week. Couric also joked that the return might seem a bit like, cue the music, The Twilight Zone for Lauer.
As Lauer and Couric moved through the news during the 7 o"clock hour, various correspondents and even incoming White House press secretary Sean Spicer all took a minute to welcome back Couric.
The two also returned from commercials with a clip of Lauer"s first day co-anchoring Today with Couric, back in 1997, with Couric joking of their short hairdos, "Apparently we had the same hairstyle." She also seemed to be making herself at home, adding, "My side of the desk is a pigsty, and yours is all neat and tidy,"" she said. "Some things never change."
Lauer and Couric also reunited with Al Roker, who appeared via video from Pasadena, where he was on hand for NBC"s coverage of the Rose Parade. Roker joked about how the three of them had aged, saying, "What"s a little frightening, Matt, is you and I look horrible, and she still looks fantastic." He added that he looked forward to reuniting with Couric in person Tuesday.
Couric seemed in good spirits throughout the morning, displaying her trademark perky personality, and even joining an a capella performance on the plaza. And the large crowd gathered outside, despite it being a cold, rainy morning, seemed thrilled to see her as well, chanting "Ka-tie" when Couric and Lauer took their first trip outside during the 8 o"clock hour.
"It just feels like I never left," Couric told Lauer an hour into Monday"s show. "And you make it so easy, Matt, because you"re so great at this job."
Couric, who turns 60 on Saturday, was in a unique position to join Dr. Oz for a segment about health at that age. But that segment wasn"t without a couple of bloopers, with Lauer jumping in toward the end to physically move Couric and Oz to the right, saying they were still in front of the first of several vertical panels. At the end, Oz told Couric "despite Matt"s criticism, you did beautifully," leading her to blow a raspberry at him. But then she flubbed the throw to the local news, saying "This is Today" before remembering to add, "but first your local news."
She also participated in the morning"s discussion of trending topics, as seen in the video below.
there were rumors of couric returning to guest co-host when Guthrie went on maternity leave with her first child in 2014, but it didn"t happen then. Couric anchored Today for 15 years, from 1991 to 2006, before leaving for the CBS Evening News. Couric and Lauer have stayed friends, and her return comes ahead of the latter celebrating his 20th anniversary on Today on Jan. 6. The long-running morning show, meanwhile, also will celebrate its 65th anniversary on the air all of next week, leading up to the official anniversary on Jan. 14. Next week"s shows will be co-hosted by another familiar face, Meredith Vieira, who served as Lauer"s co-host from 2006 to 2011. Vieira was a guest co-host during Guthrie"s first maternity leave.
Jan. 2, 10:32 a.m. An earlier version incorrectly stated that Today would be celebrating its 40th anniversary next week. It will actually be celebrating its 65th anniversary. The Hollywood Reporter regrets the error.
RAW: 49ers CEO Jed York holds news conference on firing of Jim Tomsula
The 49ers will be searching for their third coach in as many years, and while their direction under owner Jed York has devolved from perennial contender under Jim Harbaugh to firing both Trent Baalke and Chip Kelly within the past few days, one thing is for certain: York isn"t going anywhere.
Speaking with the media on Monday to explain the newest direction the 49ers will look to take with no remaining people to attribute blame to, York was asked why he wasn"t dismissed like the others, giving a clear reminder who"s boss.
I own this football team. You dont dismiss owners, York said via the Mercury News. Im sorry thats the facts and thats the case, but thats the fact and Im going to do everything I can to get this right. This isnt about doing everything we can to make money. Its about building a championship culture.
The 49ers reportedly owe $69 million to Kelly, previous head coaches Jim Tomsula (2015) and Jim Harbaugh (2011-14) and their assistants. This time around, York asserted the future head coach and general manager will have a relationship, citing characteristics of an ideal GM candidate which include "someone that can evaluate talent, create culture and communicate well.
York says the process is underway, and it"s been reported they Niners have requested Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels and director of player personnel Nick Caserio for an interview. Other names reportedly include Chiefs director of football operations Chris Ballard for their GM opening, while Bills interim head coach Anthony Lynn is expected to get a look for the coaching job.
York apologized to the fans for a disappointing 2016 showing, admitting the marriage between Kelly and Baalke "didn"t work". Yet, York refused to acknowledge whether letting Harbaugh walk was a mistake, choosing to keep things in the present.
"We need to make sure were looking forward and doing everything that we can to get this team back. Its very easy to play revisionist history. Im just not going to play that game," york said.
Billie Lourd Felt Awkward Being Princess Leia"s Daughter
Billie Lourd, the daughter and only child of actress-author Carrie Fisher, has broken her public silence about the recent deaths of her mother and of her maternal grandmother, film legend Debbie Reynolds.
Receiving all of your prayers and kind words over the past week has given me strength during a time I thought strength could not exist, the Scream Queens actress, 24, posted on Instagram Monday, alongside a photo of herself as a child, playfully posing with her mother and her grandmother. There are no words to express how much I will miss my Abadaba and my one and only Momby. Your love and support means the world to me.
Lourds father is high-profile Hollywood agent Bryan Lourd, with whom Star Wars star Fisher had a relationship from 1991 to 1994.
Fisher, 60, had suffered a heart attack on a flight from London to Los Angeles on Dec. 23 and died four days later. The following day, Reynolds, while helping her son, Todd Fisher, plan the funeral arrangements, died of a stroke at age 84.
Billie Lourd began an acting career after graduating from New York University in 2014. She stars as Sadie Swenson aka Chanel #3 in the cast of the Fox horror-comedy series Scream Queens and played Lt. Connix of the Resistance in the film Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), featuring her mother as Gen. Leia Organa. In the small role, Connix asks the command center, General, are you seeing this? Both characters will reappear in the next Star Wars movie, due out Dec. 15.
Lourd also has been cast in the film Billionaire Boys Club, a remake of the 1987 NBC miniseries about a real-life Ponzi scheme that ended in murder.
Lane Kiffin recalls Nick Saban"s strict style and "ass-chewings"
The confetti had not stopped falling inside Georgia Dome, and Lane Kiffin stood on the turf, at about the 30-yard line, and considered his immediate future. He had straddled the line between Florida Atlantic head coach and Alabama offensive coordinator for a month. One game remained, the biggest game, after Alabama had throttled Washington in a College Football Playoff semifinal on Saturday. Kiffin imagined nothing would change.
"I"ll be back in Alabama," Kiffin said. "We do stay here tonight. We"re going to leave in the morning. I"ll be with the team. It"s a [recruiting] dead period. It"s not like we"ve got a month. We basically just have a little bit longer of a week. It"ll all be dedicated to Alabama. The No. 1 focus will be finishing what we started."
The stunning announcement Alabama made Monday afternoon, then, may have blindsided Kiffin. Nick Saban declared Kiffin will "focus on [his] new head coaching job at Florida Atlantic."
What that means is, Saban could not stand Kiffin being around his program, even for one more week, the seven days before the Crimson Tide faces Clemson in a national title rematch.
Kiffin helped Saban during his three years in Alabama, modernizing an offense that had started to become dated, leading three different quarterbacks to three Southeastern Conference titles and three playoff appearances. But Saban helped Kiffin much more. Kiffin earned $1.4 million in a high-profile job. He landed on his feet after a humiliating exit as southern cal"s head coach, when kiffin admitted there were few schools soliciting his services.
And now their relationship has ended awkwardly, as most relationships with Kiffin tend to do. When he parted ways with the Oakland Raiders, owner Al Davis used a slide show to illustrate his misdeeds. He left Tennessee with a disorganized, late-night news conference and with a crowd of angry students and fans gathered outside the football complex. USC fired him at a private airport in the wee hours. And now Alabama has dismissed him on the eve of the national championship.
Saban"s announcement made it seem like a mutual parting. The strain of trying to set up his recruiting at staff at FAU while leading Alabama"s offense had become too much, not productive for the team or Kiffin. There"s some truth in that. But part left unspoken is both more important and blatantly clear: Saban wanted Kiffin to take a hike.
The final straw may have been the remarkable story published last week in Sports Illustrated. Kiffin said he had not any fun coaching at Alabama, equating three years to 21 -- as in dog years. He complained about the cost of alimony and taxes. He presented scientific evidence his personality shared nothing in common with the personalities of Saban or the other coaches he worked with. He made these comments, and more, with the backdrop of house hunting in South Florida, trying to find something in the $6 million range, with a view of the water.
Saban does not permit assistant coaches to speak with reporters during the season. During bowl preparation, there are many opportunities when all coaches from participating schools must talk. Kiffin"s hiring at FAU also gave him occasion to speak publicly. When given the chance, Kiffin was everything Saban wants kept light years away from his program: brash, distracting, selfish.
Alabama"s performance in Peach Bowl probably didn"t convince Saban of Kiffin"s focus. The Tide wanted to be conservative to thwart Washington"s turnover-happy defense, so an explosion couldn"t be expected. But the Tide passed for only 57 yards, and Kiffin wasn"t able to get Bo Scarbrough-- clearly the best player on the field -- a significant workload until the fourth quarter.
So Alabama will turn to Steve Sarkisian to call plays in the national title game, against a Clemson defense that has future NFL players and a defensive line that might rival even Alabama"s. Sarkasian spent the season ensconced in Alabama"s program, and his knowledge of Kiffin"s offense dates back to their time together at USC. But changing coordinators a week before the biggest game of the season cannot be ideal.
Kiffin, it turns out, will not be where he thought he would be this week. He will be far away from Alabama, which is just where Nick Saban wants him.
