Headlines: Jimmy Kimmel to Host Emmys, FOX Country Countdown Awards to Air May 1

Tonight, the blind auditions continue on The Voice at 8/7c pm. Check out song spoilers HERE. On The Bachelor, it’s the Women Tell All special ahead of next week’s finale. 8/7c PM on ABC.

SECOND ANNUAL “AMERICAN COUNTRY COUNTDOWN AWARDS” TO AIR LIVE SUNDAY, MAY 1, ON FOX – FOX, Cumulus Media and dick clark productions are reteaming for the second annual AMERICAN COUNTRY COUNTDOWN AWARDS, bringing country music’s longest-running radio countdown show to FOX on Sunday, May 1 (8:00-10:00 PM ET live/PT tape-delayed). The two-hour live event will honor the year’s best country music with thrilling performances, special moments and surprises and awards. This year’s host and performers will be announced in the coming weeks. – dc productions press release

Jimmy Kimmel to return as host of 2016 Emmy Awards

Blake Shelton Introduces New Brand of Vodka: ‘I’m Excited for Everyone to Finally Taste’ – On Tuesday, Blake Shelton announced the launch of his new boozy brand, Smithworks. The vodka, which Shelton likes to drink with ginger ale (respect), is made with corn from Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma and is finished and bottled in Fort Smith, Arkansas. – Read more at People

Carrie Underwood and Lauren Alaina on Tour

Lauren will open for Carrie on her entire C2C European tour.

Adam Lambert and Sam Smith Party

This is the original photo that Adam posted cropped with the caption “@samsmithworld camera shy” It’s much less incriminating. Heh. (Adam loves to tease…)

Chris Daughtry Says New Best-Of Disc Is a “Nice Intermission” Before Next Album – “[A] greatest hits was never part of my equation,” he tells ABC Radio. “I never factored, like, ‘Maybe one day we’ll do one of those.'” He laughs, “I guess I was kinda thinking that that comes when you’re deciding you’re gonna retire, and you’re like, ‘Aggh, I got nothing else, let’s put ’em out again!'” “It was really encouraging to see that Lee and Dalton knew who they were, and they weren’t unsure about anything,” Chris tells ABC Radio about the aspiring Idols. “They went out there and they knew exactly what they were going to do. That made it easier on me. I mean, yeah, I have a lot to share with them, but it was also nice to see that they knew what they were doing anyway.” – Read more at ABC News Radio

First Person: My ‘American Idol’ Experience, by Danny Noriega – It’s so funny to think about it now, but I kind of toned everything down about myself for Idol. When it came down to song choices, or hair choices, or stuff like that, producers had the final say. I never got to sing, for instance, a female artist’s song. I wanted to put extensions in my hair, and I wanted to perform the Joan Jett version of “I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll,” and they didn’t let me do that. My most negative experience was when we were sitting in the round circle onstage, in that Coca-Cola area with the big couch, and I remember Asia’h Epperson and I were about to get a lemonade and Nigel was sitting with us. He said something to Asia’h, sort of insinuating that she was going to be OK on that night’s results show: “Don’t even worry about it!” And she literally got eliminated as soon as the cameras turned on after he said that. I was so, so mad at Nigel for doing that. Asia’h was so shocked and so scared, and I know he did that for TV – to get a fresh reaction on camera from her. Everyone was upset that he did that; there were very negative vibes all around. I was like, “F— this!” – Read more at Yahoo.com

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