Headlines: Cam & Fifth Harmony Team Up for CMT Awards

CMT Music Awards Reveal Hosts, “Work From Home” Mash-Up – CMT has announced that sportscaster/TV personality Erin Andrews and football star J.J. Watt will host the 2016 CMT Music Awards, live on Wednesday, June 8 at 8 pm ET/PT from the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville. In addition, Cam and pop group Fifth Harmony will perform a pop-country mash-up of the group’s hit single, “Work From Home.” Newly-added presenters include Dan+Shay, Charles Kelley, Kellie Pickler and Cole Swindell, as well as actors Rob Riggle and Vince Vaughn, and NASCAR driver Danica Patrick. Joey Lauren Adams and Madison Iseman of CMT’s upcoming series Still the King will also present. The series will debut on CMT on June 12. More performers and presenters will soon be announced. – Read more at Music Row

Phillip Phillips to join Tim McGraw for the American Kickoff Concert at Falcon Stadium Sept. 17 – Basis Entertainment, in partnership with IMG, has announced American Idol Season 11 winner and multi-platinum seller Phillip Phillips to join previously announced three-time Grammy award winner Tim McGraw, multi-platinum rock band Train and country newcomer David Ray for the American Kickoff concert being held on Sept. 17 at Falcon Stadium. The U.S. Air Force Academy’s Falcon Stadium is one of the premier college football stadiums in America and serves as the perfect backdrop for the inaugural concert. With the capacity of 46,692, it stands in the base of the Rampart Range of the Rocky Mountains. – Read more at GOAirForceFalcons

Wetumpka Depot Players to Host Jessica Meuse Benefit Concert, 6/17 – The Wetumpka Depot Players are pleased to announce a season extra to benefit the community theatre’s children’s theatre program. Jessica Meuse, singer, songwriter and American Idol finalist, will be in concert on June 17 on the Depot stage at 7pm. “The Depot Players are all about embracing and nurturing young talent,” said Kristy Meanor, Depot Executive Director. “Jessica serves as a role model to our young artists not only with her talent but also her work ethic and dedication to her craft. Local children will have the opportunity to have a private “jam session” with Jessica prior to the concert and will perform a song or two with her a the end of her performance on June 17.” – Read more at Broadway World

Carrie Underwood Gives Us the Secret to Her Killer Legs in the Best Bodies Issue – To sculpt her famous lean legs, the Calia by Carrie Underwood fitness apparel founder, 33, sticks to the basics. “I like squats, lunges,” she tells Us. “If I go for a jog and I meet up with a good hill, I will lunge up the hill and that will burn them out.” The mom of 14-month old Isaiah (with her husband, NHL center Mike Fisher) commits to 90-minute workouts up to six times a week in her touring gym, then refuels with vegan eats. And she’s proud of the results. She says, “I feel much better now at 33 than I did when I was 20 because I take better care of myself.”

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Q&A with Simon Cowell, joining ‘America’s Got Talent’ judges panel May 31 – Me: Speaking of stars, not all reality shows have produced them. [hint, hint, and he took it] Simon: Without being rude [uh, oh, you know what that means], ‘The Voice’ actually hasn’t produced many stars. I’m competitive in terms of wanting the best people to come on our show. We give them a better shot. Me: Now that you have some distance from Idol, have your feelings toward the show changed? Simon: It was like having a friend. You used to be friendly but over the years, not so friendly. But you think back and there are a lot of good memories. It’s a very different show than it was when we did it with Randy and Paula. It was so much more naive. When we started, it was just a very funny show to watch. – Read more at AJC

How Alisan Porter’s win on ‘The Voice’ symbolizes the best and worst aspects of the show – While Porter deserves the trophy (and you may have called her win the moment the celebrity coaches lost their minds during her stellar first audition) interestingly, her victory highlights one of the best aspects of NBC’s hit singing competition show — as well as one of the worst. – Read more at the Washington Post

Was It a Flub or Not? Dancing with the Stars’ Val Chmerkovskiy and Ginger Zee Reveal the Truth About Their Final Dance – “I just wanted to keep that moment loose and just make it an ad-lib moment to let her improv and let her say thank you to the crowd,” Chmerkovskiy, 30, told PEOPLE of the moment judge Len Goodman said they “lost the dance.” The moment came in the middle of their final dance for season 22 just before their fate in the competition was revealed. “But they mis-saw the moment,” added the pro dancer. “I thought the dance was awesome. I don’t know that it deserved three 9s, but that’s irrelevant. The point is that we got to dance it. Every performance is a performance that we do with gratitude.” – Read more at People

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