Old Dominion was honoured last week with the Angels Among Us Award, which acknowledges their longtime commitment to St. Jude Children's Hospital. The group admitted that they felt drawn to support St. Jude from their first visit early on in their career. "Our first tour of the hospital really moved us all and it just seemed like it gave us a real perspective on why we do what we do. And it's a really easy thing to do when you're in our position when you get to do what you love to do and then someone asks for help. It's a blessing to us to be a part of it," Matthew Ramsey shared. Old Dominion joins previous Angels Among Us recipients including Randy Owen, Brothers Osborne, Scotty McCreery, Florida Georgia Line, Lady A, Jake Owen, Brad Paisley and Darius Rucker.
The Concert for Carolina benefit concert was held Saturday night at Bank of America Stadium. Just over 82,000 fans bought tickets for the show. Luke Combs and Eric Church, who organized the event, were headliners along with James Taylor and Billy Strings. Others artists who were part of the lineup included Sheryl Crow, Keith Urban, Scotty McCreery, Chase Rice, Parmalee, Bailey Zimmerman and more. Dolly Parton, who wasn't performing, announced that she would be donating $1 million to the cause, as part of the $100 million Bezos Courage and Civility Award that she received from Jeff Bezos in 2022. Eric Church shared that his foundation is launching a home-building initiative called Blueprint of the Blue Ridge. The goal is to build 100 homes in Avery County, N.C. David Tepper, who owns the Carolina Panthers, and his wife Nicole donated the Bank of America Stadium and the stadium team also footed the bill for parking, workers' wages and taxes during the night. Because of everyone's efforts they were able to raise a staggering $24,513,185 for Hurricane Helene relief efforts.
Fans have been begging Carrie Underwood to share her leg workout for years, and she finally has. In a video posted on her page and Fitness 52, Carrie takes you slowly through the exercises behind her sculpted legs. She starts with a "Squat Pulse." Next, she goes into a move called "Touchdowns." Then comes the "Bulgarian Split Squat." Then the "Bulgarian Deadlift." Carrie ends her leg workout with some "Bench Toe Taps." Give it a try...if you dare.
Jelly Roll has hit his first 100-pound weight loss goal and is looking to lose more by the time his Beautifully Broken Tour hits Canada in March. "That's why next year when y'all see me, you won't recognize me," Jelly Roll says to his crew in a video posted to social media. "I am going to get under a pile of weights in a way that I never have." His personal chef, who has been travelling with him, shared a few of Jelly Roll's favourite meals while out on the road. "We just passed the halfway point of the tour and Jelly has been crushing it," Chef Ian Larios says in the video update. "We're out here walking the arenas, playing basketball, boxing." Fans flooded the comments section of Jelly's update to show their support.
Brett Young had enough and walked off stage after multiple fights broke out in the crowd during his show in Detroit last Friday. Many videos from the night show him standing onstage, looking surprised by all the fights as the rest of the crowd is confused and annoyed. It actually looked like he was going to end his show early, but then Brett reassured the fans that he would come back out after security dealt with the numerous situations. "This is incredible to me that this happens at Brett Young concerts," he said when he came back onstage. "You guys, have my full permission to not - and I can't believe I'm saying this - get in any more fights tonight, please. I love you. Let's play some music," he told the crowd as he resumed his concert.
Zach Bryan and Brianna "Chickenfry" LaPaglia have broken up. He confirmed the news in a post on Tuesday - only one day after they ended their relationship, and she says she wasn't expecting the news to become public yet. In a post on Instagram, Zach explains that he has had an "incredibly hard year" on a personal level and that Brianna loved him though it. However, "I thought it would be beneficial to both of us to go our different ways," he says. In her response, Brianna says she'll be ready to talk about it after she takes time to grieve the loss of the relationship. The couple recently celebrated their one year anniversary. Rumours about a break up started when fans noticed that Zach was on Raya, a celebrity dating app.
Gabby Barrett has just announced the release of a new Christmas album called Carols and Candlelight. She shared the news with her followers on social media, posting the cover art for the project and a snippet of her rendition of "I'll Be Home for Christmas." The album is due out on November 8th.