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Blake Shelton and Luke Bryan have had an ongoing (playful) rivalry for years, often taking jabs at each other during interviews, on stage, and more. So when a fan showed up to Shelton’s Las Vegas concert wearing a shirt with Luke Bryan’s face on it, he couldn’t resist calling her out from the stage.
Never one to pass up an opportunity for playful trash talk, Shelton immediately called it out from the stage, putting his longtime friend and fellow country star squarely in the crosshairs.
“You come to my show wearing Luke Bryan shit! What’s the matter with you? That guy’s an idiot!” Shelton joked, drawing loud laughs from the crowd.
Not stopping there, the singer used the moment to his advantage: “Quick, get her some merch—on me!” he called to his crew.
Shelton continued roasting Bryan as the audience cheered him on.
“Luke Bryan…You’ve been obviously been to his shows, right,” he asked. “You ever notice that? [He goes] ‘‘Y’all sing along!’ Because he’s too drunk to remember the words to his own songs.”
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The show went on, and later, Shelton’s team delivered on his request, giving the fan wearing the Luke Bryan shirt a brand-new shirt from his own merch collection.
“Did you get one of my shirts finally? Please put the damn thing on,” he playfully told her. “Just put it on over your stuff. You don’t have to take it off. I mean, you can, but…I stand here looking at Luke Bryan’s face all night. It’s making me sick!”
Shelton and Bryan have spent years playfully poking fun at each other, from the time Blake tried to dance like Luke on stage, to the time Bryan was mistaken for Shelton at a gas station.
These off-the-cuff, hilarious moments are just a small part of what fans can expect when seeing Blake Shelton live. His shows combine music and comedy, making for an entertaining night out.
Fans will have even more chances to see Shelton later this year, as he returns to Las Vegas for eight additional shows at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, running May 6–24, 2026.
The country superstar announced his Las Vegas return in classic Blake Shelton fashion: while driving a tractor down Las Vegas Boulevard. After taking a cruise down the strip, he pulled up to the iconic Caesars Palace and tossed the keys to the valet, officially checking in for 2026.
Tickets for the eight shows are available at Ticketmaster.com/BlakeSheltonVegas. All shows start at 8 p.m.
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Cody Johnson has found himself deep in the newborn phase again, relearning the nonstop cycle of diapers, cries, and naps after his first son, Jaycee Daniel, arrived on October 21, 2025. With an eight-year gap between Jaycee and their youngest daughter, Cori, the country superstar admits it’s taken some time to get back into the rhythm of parenthood.
He and his wife Brandi, already parents to daughters Clara and Cori, quietly welcomed their son Jaycee last fall. Continuing to keep family matters largely out of the spotlight, they announced the news of their third pregnancy by simply attending the ACM Awards red carpet, where Brandi debuted her baby bump. Later, Johnson confirmed Jaycee’s arrival while co-hosting Country Countdown USA with Lon Helton.
Even though Johnson has years of parenting under his belt, he admitted to Audacy’s Kate Neal that he quickly realized that jumping back into newborn life wasn’t as easy as he expected.
“It was just crazy because when we had Clara in 2015, it was like, that’s your first child, so you’re all in. And then two years later we have Cori. It’s like, I just did all this,” he shared. “I was so out of practice. I told my wife, I was like, ‘look, nothing about me says comes equipped with instant maternal instincts.’”
Despite any challenges they may have faced inthe past three months, the Texas native is loving experiencing life as a dad to a son for the first time. He admits he has already started to notice a difference in raising a boy versus raising his two girls.
“He’s fun though, man. He smiles a lot. He giggles,” Johnson said with a smile on his face. “It is really different because with my girls it was always, they were very snugly with dad and oh, daddy’s beautiful little girl. Him, the rougher I am with him the more he laughs. I can grab him by the feet and scare him and he giggles and smiles. Then he gets with mom and he’s like a little sweet baby.”
Shortly after the baby boy’s arrival, Cody Johnson caught up with Country Now backstage at the CMA Awards and explained where the inspiration for his name, Jaycee Daniel, came from.
“So my ranch brand on all my cows and horses, it’s J Bar C brand for his cows and horses. And so when people mispronounce it, they say JC,” he explained. “So I thought, you know what, Kaycee, WY. [It’s] J-A-Y-C-E-E and we decided boy or girl was going to be Jaycee.”
Johnson has spent the last few months enjoying time at home with his family after being forced to cancel the end of his 2025 touring schedule as he recovered from a burst eardrum. Luckily, he says he confirmed his injury has “fully healed” and he has ready to get back to business.
The “Dirt Cheap” singer plans to return to the stage this week, starting with back-to-back shows in Birmingham, AL on February 6 and February 7. He currently has concerts scheduled though September.
Johnson also revealed he has been working hard in the studio recording vocals for his next album.
“It felt really great and honestly my voice sounds be better than it ever has because I got three months off,” he admitted.
For a complete list of Cody Johnson’s upcoming performances, including headline dates and fairs and festivals, visit his official website.
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Fourteen years ago, Luke Combs took the first step towards believing in himself and landed his first gig singing in college. Music had always been part of his life, but it wasn’t until he started chasing it more intentionally later in life that he realized it could become something bigger.
Growing up in a working-class family, the North Carolina native remembers that his parents always encouraged him to “chase your dreams.” While he believed their encouragement to be genuine, that idea didn’t feel like a realistic option to him.
“In my mind I’m going, like, ‘I mean, to an extent, right?’ Chase your dreams, but I’m not gonna be in the Olympics. I don’t have to tell you that that’s not gonna happen,” Combs told Willie Geist for a Sunday Sitdown interview on an episode of Sunday TODAY.
“Chase your dreams within reason, you know what I mean? Let’s not get crazy with it here,” he added.
Combs remembers watching Alan Jackson on TV and struggling to wrap his head around the idea that music was an actual job. To him, artists like Jackson didn’t feel like real people with real careers, which made the thought of following in his heroes’ footsteps seem impossible.
So when Geist asked, “Was there ever a thought in your mind growing up that you might be a performer?”
He confidently responded, “No. It’s as crazy as that sounds.”
“I’ve kicked myself all the time like, ‘How did I put this together sooner?’ Because all I did was sing all the time and never one time was I like, ‘Maybe I could sing for a living.’”
Little did he know at the time, Combs was already shaping his sound while singing in school and church choirs, experiences that he carried with him into his years at Appalachian State. Music remained a passion as he studied with hopes of becoming a homicide detective, until he took a leap of faith and moved to Nashville in 2014. It was there that he wrote and recorded his first hit, “Hurricane.”
Looking back now at the journey he’s had and the things he’s done, Combs has developed a very important piece of advice: “You can’t be afraid to bet on yourself.”
“When it came to my career, and I wish more so in my personal life, I was always a glass half full guy,” the “Back In The Saddle” singer explained. “So the no wasn’t no, it was not yet. And so it was always just striving to be better. And it can happen, man. I’m proof positive that it can happen.”
On top of massive success, which includes earning multiple No. 1 country hits, three GRAMMY nominations, and plenty of other nods from CMA Awards, CMT Music Awards and Academy of Country Music Awards, he has also learned to balance his dream of being a dad.
The country star and his wife, Nicole are currently parents to two boys with another baby on the way. With a growing family at home, Combs has found his own way to make both family and music a priority, refusing to believe he has to choose one over the other.
“There’s this idea that you can either spend time with your kids or you can work. And it’s like, no, it’s like selfishly I’m going to figure out how to do both. I would text my buddies and be like, ‘Hey, what are you doing next Wednesday? I have a day and I really like this song. I’d love you to come over and let’s work on it.’”
This balance has allowed him to build his brand-new album titled The Way I Am, dropping March 20 via Sony Music Nashville and Seven Ridges Records. The upcoming 22-track collection will arrive just one day before he launches his 2026 My Kinda Saturday Night Stadium Tour.
After years of betting on himself and learning how to show up both onstage and at home, Luke Combs has come to embrace the idea that success isn’t about any one moment, but instead it’s about everything that comes along the way.
“The goal is not the destination. It’s the journey. Dude, getting there is the fun part. So just enjoy it, man,” he shared.
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