PEOPLE ARE TALKIN’
Less than two weeks ago, there was talk that SCARLETT JOHANSSON was secretly married . . . and that turned out to be TRUE. Scarlett and her fiancé ROMAIN DAURIAC married in Montana on October 1st.
This year's most-searched celebrities on Bing.com are, in this order: Kim Kardashian, Beyoncé, Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry, and Justin Bieber.
Beyoncé is the Most-Searched Musician of 2014, according to Bing.com. Robin Williams is the Most-Searched Celebrity Who Died, and LeBron James is the Most-Searched Athlete.
The site HitFix.com put together a list of "The 10 Funniest Game Shows of All Time." "Match Game" is #1 . . . followed by "Hollywood Squares" and "Family Feud".
TMZ claims ROSIE O'DONNELL has become a, quote, "malcontent" on the set of "The View", and is "impossible to deal with." She's upset because she thought SHE was going to be the moderator, and instead WHOOPI GOLDBERG got it
The seventh and final season of "Parks and Recreation" will premiere on Tuesday, January 13th. There will be 13 episodes, and NBC is going to burn through them in just over ONE MONTH.
"Rolling Stone" has released a list of "The Top 50 Albums of 2014." U2's "Songs of Innocence" was #1, followed by BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN's "High Hopes".
LANA DEL REY is touring with COURTNEY LOVE as her opening act next year…for the first eight shows.
BONO is still recovering from his bike accident, so BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN and COLDPLAY singer CHRIS MARTIN stood in for him at a U2 concert last night in New York.
BACK IN THE DAY
2007 – A special edition of Jason Aldean's Relentess is released exclusively at Wal-Mart. The disc is packaged with a D-V-D featuring live performances of several songs — including "Hicktown," "Why," "Amarillo Sky," "Johnny Cash" and "Laughed Until We Cried."
2001 – In the largest bankruptcy in American history, Enron Corporation files for Chapter 11 reorganization.
2000 – Tim McGraw and Faith Hill play a show in Hampton, Virginia to benefit the families of the sailors killed or injured in a terrorist attack on the U-S-S Cole. A hole was blasted in the hull of the ship several weeks earlier as it was docked in the Persian Gulf.
1994 – "Hollywood Madam" Heidi Fleiss is convicted in Los Angeles of three counts of pandering.
1982 – a surgical team at the University of Utah Medical Center performed the first ARTIFICIAL HEART IMPLANT. The patient, 61-year-old Dr. Barney Clark, lived for 112 days with his new fake heart. The artificial heart was invented by a VENTRILOQUIST . . . the late Paul Winchell.
1962 – A Texas doctor invents breast implants.
1949 – GENE AUTRY'S "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer" hit the record charts. The "red-nosed reindeer" concept came from a 1939 Montgomery Ward ad campaign.
1804 – NAPOLEON BONAPARTE was crowned Emperor of France. Just as the Pope was going to place the crown on his head, Napoleon grabbed it and put it on himself.
The Next Big Beauty Trend is Women Dyeing Their Armpit Hair?
Roxie Hunt is a stylist at a salon called Vain in Seattle. And she's leading the charge on a new beauty trend for 2015: Women dyeing their ARMPIT hair.
That's right: Instead of shaving your armpit hair, you let it grow like crazy . . . then dye it a crazy color like blue or red.
Roxie says that growing and dyeing your armpit hair is EMPOWERING. She's been growing her own armpit hair for five years and says the few women whose pit hair she's dyed have all been very excited.
There's no word on whether this trend has spread beyond just Roxie's shop in Seattle . . . but now it's getting nationwide attention, so you never know where it could go.
Five Steps to Become a Morning Person
According to an expert…
1. Don't keep your alarm next to your bed. The idea is to FORCE yourself to get out of bed, to deal with your alarm. It's simple, and you've probably heard it before . . . but you probably haven't done it, because the idea isn't all that appealing.
2. Find a reason to be excited about waking up. Then think about it before falling asleep. If your last thought before bed is, "I HAVE to get up in six hours," then you're more likely to wake up thinking, "I can't believe it's already time to get up."
But if your last thought is something you're excited about . . . like eating something delicious for breakfast, or even just that first cup of coffee . . . then you're more likely to think about THAT when your alarm goes off.
3. Brush your teeth immediately. Don't start making coffee or check Facebook until you've done it. The brushing itself wakes you up, and so does the taste of toothpaste.
4. Drink a glass of water. It's common to be slightly dehydrated when you wake up, because you've gone six-to-eight hours with no water. And being dehydrated causes fatigue. In fact, if you constantly feel tired, you might just need more water, not sleep.
5. Break a sweat. Which is the one most of us can't seem to find the time or energy to do. But exercise wakes you up WAY more than a shower does.
Country Music Headlines
BRAD PAISLEY is not happy with the lazy lyrics in today's country music. He says, quote, "There are phrases that are cliché that we as songwriters owe it to ourselves to not use again. When we come around to more diversity lyrically, we can go back and say 'tailgate' again and not have people cringe.
CARRIE UNDERWOOD is altering her diet while she's pregnant . . . although she's still not eating meat. She says, quote, "I am definitely more on the vegetarian side, but as soon as I am not pregnant anymore I will go back to being vegan."
Last night's "CMA Country Christmas" had tons of highlights, but if we had to pick two, we’d go with JENNIFER NETTLES holding her own with IDINA MENZEL on "Let It Go" . . . and STEVEN TYLER and BRAD PAISLEY ripping through "Run Rudolph Run".
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LUKE BRYAN had to cancel his appearance on tonight's "CMT Artists of the Year" because of a death in the family. His brother-in-law Ben Lee Cheshire passed away over the weekend. He was the husband of Luke's late sister Kelly.
People.com asked some country stars to name something they did this year that was naughty, not nice. BRETT ELDREDGE stayed out to an "ungodly hour" after the CMAs . . . while ALAN JACKSON ate 10 Butterfingers on Halloween, and then LIED to his wife about it.
RONNIE DUNN has signed with Nash Icon Music . . . the new record label that also snagged REBA MCENTIRE. Ronnie posted a pic on Facebook of him wearing a ballcap with a "Nash-Chetta" logo on it. He wrote, "Got my new company cap yesterday." "Nash-Chetta" is a reference to Nash Icon big shot Scott Borchetta.
Five Random Facts For Tuesday
1. The Bloomin' Onion at Outback Steakhouse has the most fat of any dish at any chain restaurant in the U.S. It has 176.5 grams of fat . . . along with 2,097 calories.
2. 95% of the libraries in the U.S. now allow you to check out ebooks.
3. Wolves howl together in harmony to make it sound like there are more of them together than there actually are.
4. Viagra was initially developed to help relieve pain from spasms in the coronary arteries. It didn't work, but in the tests, the researchers discovered its sexual side effect . . . and quickly made that its MAIN purpose.
5. Washington D.C. has a higher population than two states. Based on the most recent population estimates, D.C. has about 20,000 more residents than Vermont and about 60,000 more than Wyoming.
If You Use Twitter, a New Website Can Tell If You've Been Naughty or Nice
In the endless quest to make sure technology can replace EVERYTHING, here's the latest . . . Santa Claus can now outsource when it's time for him to JUDGE people.
There's a new website called SocialSanta.co that can tell you if you've been naughty or nice this year.
The system is pretty simple . . . you sign in with Twitter and it analyzes your tweets for "naughty" words. The more you swear, the more likely you are to wind up on the naughty list.
The website is also keeping a running tally of the 100 nicest and naughtiest people this year.
If You Want to Change, Better Do It Before You Turn 30
We're coming up on New Year's resolutions, which means millions of people will swear that in 2015, they'll FINALLY start working out every day, complain less, or volunteer more.
And there's a chance you WILL . . . as long as you were born after 1985.
Brian Little is a psychologist at the University of Cambridge in England. And he just published a new book called "Me, Myself, and Us" which proposes that you are who you are by age 30 . . . and you're NOT going to change.
He uses a metaphor that your personality is made out of plaster . . . and by 30, that plaster has set, and won't ever be soft enough to mold again.
His theory is based on research from a psychologist who studied identical twins back in the late 1800s and found that the mix of genetic personality traits and your choices stop evolving by age 30.
There is a bright side, though . . . all hope for change isn't TOTALLY lost, it's just MOSTLY lost.
Even though your personality is pretty much set in stone, you CAN act against your nature . . . but it's going to take a lot of energy and perseverance to develop those new habits.
