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There is a new dating show headed to television, but it’s already ruffling feathers before it even begins! Chris Harrison’s new dating show, The Vow, is set to premiere Nov. 11 on Fox Nation.
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There is a new dating show headed to television, but it’s already ruffling feathers before it even begins! Chris Harrison’s new dating show, The Vow, is set to premiere Nov. 11 on Fox Nation.
However, according to the Hollywood Reporter, Warner Bros. Television… Continue reading…The Boot – Country Music News, Music Videos and Songs
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No matter how successful Ashley McBryde gets, she has remained committed to staying true to herself. That authenticity that fans have come to expect has been something that she’s fought to protect since the beginning of her career, even if it could have cost her.
At the start of 2026, the country star released a new song that uses “Arkansas Mud” as a metaphor for the parts of herself that can’t ever be scrubbed away. The track serves as a reflection of her deep roots and finds her reiterating the mindset that no matter how much others try to change her, the person she is underneath will always remain.
“It’s in my throat/ It’s in my bones It’s on my boots/ And in my blood/ That Ozark streak sure runs deep/ And it sticks to me/ Like that Arkansas Mud,” she sings.
McBryde tells Rolling Stone that the day she wrote that track with Chris Tompkins and Jessie Jo Dillon, she was in a particularly “spiteful” and “defiant” place after thinking back to how much the industry tried to change her appearance when she first came onto the Nashville music scene.
“They were like, ‘Curly hair, probably not. How do you feel about being blonde?’ And I was like, ‘Go sit by yourself.’ I’m not tall like the other options in country music or at the time I’m not blonde. I’m covered in tattoos, not as many then as there are now. And that’s how I met that advice when they were like, ‘Stop getting tattoos.’ And I was like, ‘You stop getting tattoos,” McBryde remembers.
She was also encouraged to change up her look to fit the typical country music image by adding fringe to her ensembles and putting her pants inside her boots.
“I was like, ‘Is it raining? Is there a reason?’ And I’ve tried it. I will do it. I don’t have to tell you it looks ridiculous. You can see that it looks ridiculous.”
Seeing this as “terrible advice” she refused to give in and instead shared her discomfort loud and clear in order to get her point across.
“I have a gift for if something makes me that uncomfortable, it’s now your problem. You will be as uncomfortable as I am. And that’s how I met that advice,” she added. “Why keep that to yourself? You’re giving me terrible advice. Why should you not feel the effects of this?”
Ashley McBryde takes pride in who she is and where she comes from. Growing up surrounded by bluegrass and roots music in Arkansas continues to influence her sound and storytelling to this day.
“I’m lucky because not only being raised in Arkansas, I was also taken to bluegrass festivals. By the time I was seven days old, I was at bluegrass festivals and that was a lot of my summer and a lot of my fall was spent in roots music, people playing their instruments into a microphone. There was nothing fancy about that.”
Those early experiences helped shape McBryde’s love for storytelling and stripped-down musicianship, both of which remain a part of her creative process with each album she releases.
“A lot of that music is based in storytelling. A lot of it is singing what are sad lyrics in a hopeful and happy way that makes you want to listen to it. So that has never left my creative process. And everything being built from an acoustic guitar up has never left my creative process.”
Ashley McBryde is currently bringing her authentic self and unique storytelling to fans across the country on her headlining Into the Wild Tour. The “What If We Don’t” singer says that this run has already fulfilled her mission of creating a space where everyone feels like they’re part of the show. Not only does she show up to perform for the fans, but the listeners also show up for her in different ways each night.
“The crowds are doing this cool new thing where the fan club, the tribe is meeting up outside of the show and doing things…One night they made picket fences with razor wire wrapped around them and held those up during a part of the show…I love that the feeling of ownership that our crowd has of our show. They are not there only to watch a band make music. They’re there to be a part of the night together. And I think that sense of togetherness is something we desperately need all the time, especially when things are dicey.”
She added, “You come to my show and you feel okay for 90 minutes, you give me that same benefit for 90 minutes.”
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Kylie Kelce is learning that when you invite a future queen onto your podcast, you might want to brush up on royal protocol first.
The wife of Jason Kelce issued an apology to Kate Middleton this week after realizing she made a pretty significant etiquette error when extending an invitation to the Princess of Wales.
During the September 24 episode of her “Not Gonna Lie” podcast, Kylie invited Kate to join her for a chat about motherhood and their shared love of field hockey.
“Princess Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, if you ever wanted to come on and chitchat about some field hockey and maybe kids,” Kylie said at the time. “I don’t know. We got a couple things in common.”
As it turns out, Kylie had some homework to do.
On Thursday’s episode, the 34-year-old acknowledged that she had since learned that referring to Catherine as “Princess Kate” isn’t the proper way to address her.
“I love learning, so I was unaware that calling Princess Catherine, Princess Kate was offensive,” Kylie explained. “I didn’t know that. Now I know that. Now I will proceed accordingly.”
And then came the official apology.
“Princess Catherine or the Princess of Wales, I apologize,” Kylie said. “I will get that sorted immediately starting now.”
For the record, Catherine has officially held the title Princess of Wales since 2022, when King Charles ascended to the throne, and Prince William became the Prince of Wales. She was previously the Duchess of Cambridge.
This is not the first time that the Kelces have run afoul of the royals. Back in 2024, Jason bashed the very idea of royalty … right before Travis met Prince William. But all was quickly forgiven.
Kylie also addressed another potential issue: her famously colorful vocabulary.
A listener suggested that Catherine is “too refined and beautiful” to be subjected to Kylie’s cursing and that the podcast host would need to “clean up” her act if the royal ever accepted her invitation.
Kylie conceded that the listener had a point.
“First of all, you’re correct. Agreed,” she said.
Kylie made it clear that despite her efforts to clean up her language, she has no expectations that the future queen will actually show up behind her podcast microphone.
“Do I think she has time to hop on this podcast? No, I do not,” Kylie admitted.
But she would certainly welcome her.
Kylie pointed to their shared experiences with motherhood, their shared interest in sports, and Kate’s cancer battle as some of the reasons she would love to have the conversation.
And considering William already appeared on Jason and Travis Kelce’s “New Heights” podcast in July, Kylie apparently figured it was worth taking her own shot at the royal family.
Now that she knows the proper title, she’ll apparently be waiting for Princess Catherine to make her grand podcast debut.
No pressure, Your Royal Highness. Wait…did we do that right?
Now maybe Kylie can apologize for that NFL Sunday Ticket ad that airs approximately every 8 seconds during games!
We kid. That’s not her fault — and she probably received quite the payday for it.
Kylie Kelce Apologizes to Kate Middleton For ‘Offensive’ Comment (But Still … was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.
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‘My kids right now, I think…there’s a lot behind that, but yeah, I think that would rock their boat a little bit,’ Clarkson says. Continue reading…Country Music News – Taste of Country