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Posted on Thu, Nov. 05, 2009 10:15 PM
Stargazing | George Jones: Don't call it country
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George Jones: It’s not country music
So, we take it that George Jones isn’t a big fan of the Carrie Underwoods and Taylor Swifts of the country music world?
In a recent interview, the 78-year-old Country Music Hall of Famer said that while today’s top country stars are good, “they’ve stolen our identity.”
“So what they need to do really, I think, is find their own title, because they’re definitely not traditional country music,” said Jones.
“It’s good to know that we still do traditional country music. Alan Jackson still does it, so does George Strait. We still have it, and there’s quite a few of us that are going to hope that it comes back one of these days.”
Colbert Nation on thin ice
“The Colbert Report” is going to the Winter Olympics next year in Vancouver.
Stephen Colbert announced this week that his show has become the primary sponsor of the U.S. Speedskating team.
Colbert stepped up to replace the team’s largest annual cash sponsor, DSB Bank NV, which declared bankruptcy last month. Colbert is asking his fan base, the “Colbert Nation,” to donate to the team through colbertnation.com and usspeedskating.org.
The skaters will wear the name of their sponsor on their uniforms. “On their enormous, billboard thighs, it will say, ‘Colbert Nation,’ ” said Colbert.
“Be looking for that logo as it comes around the final turn. It will be easy to see because it will be in first place.”
Baby spared for ‘some reason’
There’s an unbelievable video on YouTube of a young mom watching helplessly as her 6-month-old son, in his stroller, rolls off a train platform and drops onto the tracks in front of a train.
The incident happened in Melbourne, Australia, on Oct. 15, but the mom, Shweta Verma, talked about it for the first time with Matt Lauer this week.
The train engineer saw the stroller fall in front of the locomotive and he put the brakes on, but the train still rolled 100 feet before stopping.
The baby, Saurish, survived with just scratches.
“You have to think that there’s a reason that it ended this way, that there must be some reason that Saurish was saved,” Lauer told her.
“Yes, I believe, I believe,” Verma, 29, said. “He is destined to do something, something good, something great in his life. That is why God is there, and I’m thanks to him again and again.”
Whitney ditching the family home
Whitney Houston is selling the luxury, five-bedroom New Jersey home where she got married to Bobby Brown in 1992.
With a four-car garage, three fireplaces, a bar, skylights and floor-to-ceiling windows, the property is quite the steal — just $2.5 million, less than half its estimated worth of $5.6 million.
Carrie Prejean and pageant settle up
The war is over between former Miss California USA Carrie Prejean and pageant organizers.
In a joint statement this week, the two sides revealed that they’d reached a confidential settlement on lawsuits they had filed against each other.
Prejean sued Miss California organizers in August for libel, slander and religious discrimination. The pageant countersued her last month, even requesting that Prejean return the money the pageant gave her for breast augmentation.
The statement says Prejean and the pageant “wish each other the best in their future endeavors.”
We think that’s pageant talk for “we still want our breasts back.”
Kirstie Alley will star in a new A&E reality “docu-series” about her life as the single mom of teenage children and her new weight-loss program. Ten, half-hour episodes of the untitled series are lined up. They’ll air next year.
When Lisa Gutierrez isn’t wishing that the Colbert Nation would sponsor this column, she’s Stargazing among hopefully accurate reports of celebrity happenings.
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