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Country crooners Faith Hill and husband Tim McGraw organize a little family fun in the sun while out and about with their look-a-like kids in L.A. on July 22. We hope this fair-skinned family wore sunscreen!
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When two huge stars join forces in marriage, the result is a force to be reckoned with. This year Jay-Z and wife Beyonce topped Forbes.com’s list of Hollywood’s Top-Earning Couple, with $162 million between them in a one-year period.
Not only are they rich, but the talented twosome have influence across the board, in movies, music, fashion and high-profile endorsement deals.
"Naturally, powerful people tend to gravitate toward other powerful people," clinical psychologist and celebrity researcher Jim Houran tells Forbes.com.
Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith were #2 on the list, pulling in $85 million in a year, mostly from Will’s movies like I Am Legend, The Pursuit of Happyness and Hancock.
Other big names in the top five were: David and Victoria Beckham ($58 million), Tim McGraw and Faith Hill ($35 million) and Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie ($34 million).
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman and Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner were also on the list.
Generally jovial country singer Tim McGraw has a beef with his record label, Curb Records.
McGraw, who’s married to Faith Hill, says the label released a greatest hits package of his songs without his approval and involvment.
In a statement Tuesday, Tim, 41, said he’s been working on a new studio album for more than a year, playing some of the new songs on tour and planned to release the CD this fall.
Instead, he say Curb Records released the greatest hits collection–his third overall and second since 2006–last week to extend his recording contract term.
"I’m saddened and disappointed that my label chose to put out another hits album instead of new music," McGraw said. "I’ve only had one studio album since my lst hits package. It has to be just as confusing to the fans as it is to me."
The singer said he had no involvement in the creation or presentation of the record, Greatest Hits 3. The 12-track disc includes McGraw hits going back to 1995 and up to his current single, "Let It Go".
It also includes two tracks not previously released on any of McGraw’s albums: "Find Out Who Your Friends Are" with Tracy Lawrence and Kenny Chesney, and "Nine Lives" with the rock group Def Leppard.
”Sure I love the songs and I don’t want to take anything away from all the creative people who were part of making those records. But the whole concept is an embarrassment to me as an artist," McGraw said, adding, ”In the spirit of the election year, I would simply say to my fans ‘I’m Tim McGraw and I don’t approve their message.’"
McGraw has been with Curb, an independent label, since his 1993 debut.
Faith Hill looks as festive as a tree ornament on the cover of her Christmas album, Joy To The World, which is in stores now.
The mom of three, who is wearing a flowing red dress with gold accents and matching jewels, certainly has practice decking the halls.
“I’m a huge Christmas fan and consumer,” Tim McGraw’s wife, 41, says. “You walk in my house, and it’s like someone has vomited Christmas. I have the napkins in the bathroom with Santa Claus on them, and all that stuff.”
She continues, “I waited a long time to do a Christmas record because I wanted to take the time to do it right. I really wanted to create an album like I’d listen to.”
She’s proudest of her new song, Baby Changes Everything. “I’m very excited.”
Despite her passion for the holidays, don’t expect Faith to pull the Christmas card again.
“I only want to do one. I’m happy, I closed it up, that’s it. I won’t do anymore Christmas. I’m very thrilled.”
Wonder if her girls Gracie, 11, Maggie, 10, and Audrey, 7, have their stockings up yet?
Cameron Diaz at the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer in L.A.
New dad David Spade at Apple in L.A.
Rob Lowe at the Audi Best Buddies Challenge at Hearst Castle.
Faith Hill and Tim McGraw having lunch at Gibson’s Steakhouse in Chicago.
Jamie Foxx buying lots of ladies drinks at Tao in Vegas.
Emmy Rossum downloading the Style.com fashion application on her iPhone at the Style.com iPhone trailer in NYC.
Sharon Stone at Shine on Sierra Leone’s Casino Royale Fundraising event in LA.
Katy Perry and Perez Hilton rocked out all night together at the sneak preview of new Las Vegas hot spot LAVO. DJ Reach played a best of Madonna set at their request. Katy jumped up and danced on top of the DJ booth when Reach threw on her hit song "I Kissed A Girl," mouthing the words and pumping her fist in front of the packed crowd.
Diddy flying from the Etalk/Moodswing 360 party in Toronto to Shrine at MGM Grand at Foxwoods for his Black and White party which he attended with Cassie and her family.
Benicio del Toro requesting Cuban music be played at the 360 Vodka after party for Che at Greenhouse in Toronto.
Faith Hill is in awe of her perfect life. The mom of three, who is married to Tim McGraw, enjoys it all. But is it ever difficult being married to someone who is considered to be a hunk?
“No, girl, it’s good,” she tells me backstage at the CMA Music Festival in Nashville. “No, it’s really good.”
Her girls, Gracie, 11, Maggie, 9, and Audrey, 6, aren’t impressed with her success. They couldn’t be bothered watching her perform at LP Field as part of the gig.
“I actually brought the girls with me today,” the superstar, 40, says. “I made a big deal, like ‘come hang out with mom, we can go and you can watch me rehearse. You can run around the stadium…’ And I took them to this thing, this little listening thing they had, and I told them that they could serve everybody ice cream and cookies and stuff. And Gracie said ‘well, how much are we going to make?’ I was like ‘well, how much are you going to make? Well, OK, how about ten dollars?’ She goes ‘can’t do it for that.’ I was like ‘OK, how about twenty dollars?’ And she said ‘I’ll do it for twenty dollars.’ So they did really well. And they were going to come back tonight, but they decided it was way too boring and they were not interested. So they’re at home. They stayed at home. They’re not interested.”
Typically, her daughters are with her everywhere she goes.
“We travel the world together, all of us, and it just works. I’m a mom first. I really am. And that’s really where I’m at. I take care of my kids, and this is kind of… I was telling the girls on the way down here, I kind of feel like I’m off tonight. Ha ha ha. For real! I’m going to really party hard on that stage because I don’t have my kids with me. I’m ready to rock because usually it’s all about them. I feel like I have an off night!”
Nicole Kidman towers over hubby Keith Urban as they swan into the CMT Awards, which take place at Belmont University in Nashville. Her baby bump is minimal, and she waves as fans shriek. Carrie Underwood makes her way in at 6:41, but hostess-with-the-mostess Miley Cyrus causes the biggest stir when she walks the purple carpet in a print dress at 6:24.
Aside from Paula Abdul, whose teeth are chattering, celebs donning minimal gowns refrain from making their shivers known on this unseasonably cold evening. “Your hands are warm,” the American Idol judge tells me after a handshake.
Whoa! Naomi Judd actually stands in line to talk to me when I am in the midst of speaking with AI’s Bucky Covington. Insanity! I do adore the Judds – and Naomi is brilliant. I smile on the inside when I see Alan Jackson and his wife about to do the same. I mean, it’s Alan Jackson! (“Way down yonder on the Chattahoochee…”)
OMG, Crystal Gayle is here, too. I loved her when I was a little, little, little kid. She had that amazing floor-length-long hair, and still does. “I love OK!” she says. Who is her favorite young artist? “I think LeAnn Rimes is a great vocalist,” she tells me.
Sara Evans struts up with fiancé Jay Baker. She’s a favorite, too. (Remember Born To Fly? Good stuff!) Little Big Town’s Kimberly Roads confesses she’s a lil’ nervous about performing. Jewel adores her “sweet, feminine” dress.
Now Brad Paisley and his wife, and then Faith Hill and Tim McGraw slide through. Here’s LeAnn with hubby Dean Sheremet in tow.
Taylor Swift greets me with “Hey! How are you?” and reveals the inspiration for her song Teardrops on My Guitar. “It’s about a guy named Drew who I went to school with. I wrote it in ninth grade. It was a guy I really liked and he had no idea. But I think he knows now.” Well, probably.
Miranda Lambert tells me boyfriend Blake Shelton helped her pick out her dress, but he didn’t take great care in finding his duds. “Want me to be honest with you?” he says. “I’ve had these jeans on now – I wore them in Toronto, Canada on Friday, I wore them in Michigan on Saturday, I wore them to Bass Pro Shops on Sunday, and I decided I’m on such a roll that they were ready for this CMT Awards show. These are my good old Wrangler blue jeans. They fit better the longer you wear them.”
Meanwhile, Kristian Kane fractured his ankle in three places while filming a movie in Lake Tahoe. “It was hard getting these jeans over this boot, but I sacrificed comfort for style,” he tells me.
AI’s Diana DeGarmo waves hello, and the boys and girl of Lady Antebellum give me a wave and “hey, how you doing?” Maureen “Marcia Brady” McCormick also says “hi.”
Wow, country music has a lot of cute guys. I count Chuck Wicks, Jason Aldean, Jake Owen and Lady Antebellum’s Charles Kelley – Josh’s brother — among them. (There are more, too, but off the top of my head.)
Laura Bell Bundy, who starred in Broadway’s Legally Blonde, has gone country with her album Longing For A Place Already Gone. “I call it y’all-ternative,” she laughs. “I’m very influenced by Loretta Lynn’s albums from long ago and her recent album she did with Jack White. She’s a beautiful songwriter, she’s very honest and real. It’s actually her birthday today.”
I bet she’s excited to meet [her sister] Crystal Gayle, too.
Check out the OK! on stands this week for more coverage of the CMT Awards. “Katie Fights Back: Don’t Mess With My Family” is the cover line.
Gone Country’s Maureen McCormick and Diana DeGarmo are dancing in the front row of the Lady Antebellum performance during the CMT Awards Welcome Party held at Avenue in Nashville.
As partygoers nosh on salad, beef tenderloin, garlic mashed potatoes, chicken roulade and butternut squash risotto, they enjoy the sounds of country’s hottest new trio, comprised of Hillary Scott, Charles Kelley and Dave Haywood.
The band has a lot to celebrate. Their single, Love Don’t Live Here Anymore, is currently #11 on the country charts, and their album is hot off the presses.
But who is Lady Antebellum, and why is there such buzz?
Turns out, Hillary is the daughter of country singer Linda Davis, who recorded a duet with Reba McEntire called Does He Love You. Charles, of course, is the younger brother of Katherine Heigl’s Amazing hubby Josh Kelley.
Backstage at the venue, Charles is quick to add that most of the songs on their self-titled album were recorded at Josh’s house. Are the brothers competitive?
“With sports maybe, but with music we’ve always been really supportive,” Charles tells me. “He’s actually the reason I got back into music. He had moved to Nashville three years ago and talked me into moving down and giving music a second chance. He’s been great.”
The tall blond admits he and girlfriend Cassie McConnell double-date with Josh and his Grey’s Anatomy star wife. What do they do? “Listen to Lady Antebellum records the whole time,” he chuckles.
Ah, fate has its way of working itself out. In fact, Cassie almost didn’t get the chance to land Charles because he had his eye on the band’s brunette bombshell Hillary. Hillary made the first move on Charles when they met at Nashville club Twelfth and Porter in 2006. She approached him as a fan – and singer-songwriter.
“Some people think that she and I are an item, but we’re not,” Charles admits. “Initially when I had her come over and write songs, I did try to get a date out of it. That was my fault. But we never did. I’m waiting for my time to strike.”
Hillary laughs, “Charles and I are not dating, Dave and I are not dating and Charles and Dave are not dating.”
While Hillary is single and mingling, Dave has set his sights on tourmate Carrie Underwood. (The band has also toured with Martina McBride, Taylor Swift, Tim McGraw and Kenny Chesney.)
“She’s great,” he blushes. “We played the Opry with her a couple weeks ago and she actually got invited to be a member of the Opry that night. She’s a beautiful woman – I’d be lying if I said she wasn’t. She’s my celebrity crush. When I watched her on American Idol, I thought she was a really genuine person and really real, but I think she’s gorgeous and a real doll. A real down-home person.”
Speaking of homes, the group’s name is inspired by the Gone With The Wind-style residences used during a photo shoot.
“We were in front of those old antebellum homes with the big, wide columns and we were looking back through the photos,” Charles says.
Dave adds, “At the time we were looking for a name, that word came out and it sounded really cool and confusing. We threw Lady in front of it and it stuck after that.”
For now, their home is on the stage. Tonight’s performance gets a major boost from Woman Scorned, which is a Before He Cheats-style bonus track on their album.
“I’d just gotten wronged by a boy and I just had to get revenge,” Hillary says. “I can pull from personal experience to get the anger up.”
Cut! It’s a wrap – until tomorrow.
