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JOE DON ROONEY - WILL BE A DAD AGAIN

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The wife of Joe Don Rooney of Rascal Flatts soon will lose her Playmate figure. It couldn't be for a better reason. Rooney's wife, former Playboy Playmate, Tiffany Fallon, is pregnant with their second child. That means, of course, another Rascal will enter the world. The baby is due in September. Rooney says they "are so excited to bring another child" into their lives. He says their first child, son "Jagger has been the biggest blessing." He was born in May of 2008. Joe Don Rooney and Tiffany Fallon have been married since April of 2006.

BLAKE SHELTON - CAN SEE MARRIAGE WITH MIRANDA, MAYBE

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - After nearly five years together, Blake Shelton finally is warming to the idea of marrying Miranda Lambert. He says they've had their good years, their bad years and their really bad years. But, Shelton says right now the two of them "have a stronger relationship" than they've ever had. In fact, he says it's even stronger and better than "in the early times when it was new and exciting." He says their relationship now is "exciting" to him. So, he says probably for the first time he can realistically say, he can see them being together forever and can see them "getting married one day, maybe."

JIMMY WAYNE - CHUGGING ALONG

UNDATED (AP) - Jimmy Wayne is making some progress on his walk from Nashville to Phoenix. Checking in by Twitter, he says he says that yesterday he walked 25.4 miles. After that, he was "beat." Wayne is now in the middle of Oklahoma. He's walking to raise awareness of kids who age out of the foster care system. Those kids can be at risk for being homeless.

JULIANNE HOUGH - RECORDING; POLICE INCIDENT

UNDATED (AP) - Julianne Hough's day started out great. She says she was at Blackbird Studio in Nashville listening to two mixes for her new record. In the evening, Hough got pulled over for speeding. But, she lucked out because she got "off with a warning." To that she says: "Phew!" Hough says it would have "been a $200 speeding fine and $160" for not changing her drivers license from Utah to Tennessee 30 days after her move. Hough adds "eek" because she moved from Utah to Tennessee two years ago.

OSCARS - JEFF BRIDGES

LOS ANGELES (AP) - It's the music. That's what new Oscar-winner Jeff Bridges says he and his character in "Crazy Heart," Bad Blake, have in common. Bridges says he's been making music for most of his life. That's where the similarity ends because Bridges says he has always had a stable home life and has been married for 33 years. Bridges says he hopes his Oscar draws attention to "Crazy Heart." "Crazy Heart" is still in theaters. It's in ninth place at the box office this past weekend.

RAZZIE - BILLY RAY CYRUS

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Billy Ray Cyrus got the opposite of an Oscar over the weekend. He got a Razzie. It's for playing a role in "Hannah Montana: The Movie" that has to be pretty close to his real life: the dad to Miley Cyrus' character, Miley Stewart. When naming Billy Ray Cyrus worst supporting actor of the year, the Razzie people say he's "riding his daughter's coat-tails."

BRAD PAISLEY - PLEASE HELP ME, I'M FALLING

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - Brad Paisley is offering a meet-and-greet to whoever posts video on YouTube of him falling on stage Saturday night in Charleston, South Carolina because he wants to see it. The fall happened at the end of the last song,  Alcohol," during the final show of his "American Saturday Night" tour. Paisley tweets that he "was running fast on stage" and tripped and fell "freaking hard." He says he really did think he "broke a rib or something." He got back up, said "thanks" and "good night," and left the stage. Then, an ambulance took him from Charleston Coliseum to a hospital. A CT scan shows he didn't break anything. He's just "very, very bruised." Paisley has posted photos of him on a hospital bed surrounded by medical staff in the ER.

DARIUS RUCKER - SINGING FOR HOSPITALIZED VETERANS

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - "An amazing experience" is how Darius Rucker describes his recent visit to a veterans hospital in Nashville. He went room to room performing for one or two patients at a time. Rucker says "you get in there and you just play a song for them and just watch their faces, people smiling." He says "making people happy for those two-and-a-half, three minutes that you're playing. That was awesome."

 

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