Despite being vaccinated, Reba McEntire came down with coronavirus along with boyfriend Rex Linn. 

In a recent TikTok livestream, McEntire said, “I just want to say one thing: this has been a hard year and it’s getting rougher again. You guys, please stay safe. Wear your mask. Do what you have to do. Stay home. It’s not fun to get this. I did get it. Rex and I got it and it’s not fun. You don’t feel good. We were both vaccinated and we still got it, so stay safe, stay home, and be protected the best you can.”

The surge in COVID-19 cases across America is making her double think her plans for upcoming live shows. “I have no idea what plans for next year are. You know, the COVID thing has really hit hard and spikes are going everywhere right now … and it’s all over the country — this new variant. We have plans right now to go back on tour in January, February and March. We have plans with being with Brooks & Dunn at Caesars in December — the first two weeks, almost three weeks of December — but we don’t know if that’s going to go.”

This all comes just days after McEntire announced a postponement of her late mom’s memorial services due to the surge in COVID-19 cases.

Source: Reba McEntire 

The most listened to country song by a female artist? Trisha Yearwood’s “She’s In Love With The Boy. This is in the 31 years that MRC Data has been measuring radio audience (so, pretty great data). The song was rose from No. 4 to No. 1 on “Billboard’s Hot Country Songs” on August 3, 1991, where it spend its first two weeks on top.

Exactly 30 years from this date on August 3, 2021, Yearwood is at the Grand Ole Opry (where she was inducted in 1999) to perform and welcome its newest member, Carly Pearce. After this, Yearwood was surprised with a special award to celebrate her song being the most listened to country song by a female artist. The award was given to her by Pearce and Billboard senior vice president of charts and data development Silvio Piertoluongo. 

Yearwood opened up saying that she was surprised by this and that she doesn’t “even like surprises. But I was caught completely off-guard by this sweet bombshell. I headed there with the intention of inducting Carly Pearce, which was a first; I have never inducted anyone in the past, so I was focused on that. It was a great honor and then performing with both Carly and Jeannie Seely [an Opry member since 1967]. We did “Making Believe,” the old Kitty Wells’ classic [from 1955]. It was really cool, because the three of us had never performed together and it just seemed very natural.”

Source: Billboard 

Faith Hill and Tim McGraw are taking their talents to “Paramount+” where they will be starring in The “Yellowstone” prequel series “1883” created by Taylor Sheridan. The couple will play Margaret and James Dutton, the heads of the Dutton family. The series will follow the Dutton family as they journey west through the Great Plains to seek a better life in America’s promised land of Montana.

McGraw described this opportunity as a “dream job” going on to say how “Taylor has found a way of storytelling that brilliantly creates these epic dramas and family sagas with so much depth and creativity. The Duttons are tremendous characters and it’s so thrilling to be able to bring them to life. As a kid growing up riding horses, you think about dream jobs like this and I am just so excited to work with this amazing cast and crew.”

Hill echoed her husband, in calling this the “opportunity of a lifetime. The Duttons are a formidable family and it is an absolute dream to bring such a strong female character like Margaret Dutton to life. I am humbled and honored to work with Taylor and his entire team.”

Source: ET

LeAnn Rimes is opening up about her mental health, revealing that she had  “some pretty heavy depression” during the pandemic.

“[I had] some pretty heavy depression, but I’ve now come out of it,” she shared on the “Verywell Mind Podcast with Editor-in-Chief Amy Morin, LCSW.” “And the upside of that, which has been good. [It helps to get] a different perspective, because sometimes we can be in our own world and not be able to step out of it. So, I’ve always found that therapy definitely helps with that.”

She adds, “It’s not about an end game. It’s like, this is the human journey.”

• LeAnn has since returned to the stage but admits she was “triggered” during her first post-pandemic show. “I don’t think I’ve ever been off the road for 16 months like this at one point for a solid period of time,” Rimes noted. “I went back out to do my first show recently in front of thousands of people. I was so triggered.”

• She says the experience was “quite shocking,” and she felt like “nothing happened” over the past 16 months, but now realizes that was a bit “unhealthy.” She adds, “I’m like, this is not the normal experience that I’m supposed to be having,” noting, “And I’ve been having this heightened, energetic experience for my whole life.”

Source: People