• In the "Credibility: Liftgate Needed" Dept:
Did anyone see this post on Just Jared in January?
That's Miranda Lambert, ex-merkin, I mean "wife" of fellow country singer Blake Shelton, who is one half of Narnia's OTP, Shevine. Looks like Brendan laughs in the face of hot grease splatters! Remember Mr. Lambert, #SafetyFirst
And Lambert continued to use her "husband" to promote her music.
This next shirtless pic was to promote her laundry song "It All Comes Out in the Wash".
And then this one, to promote the single "Way Too Pretty For Prison". Guess maybe a good Christmas gift idea for Brendan next holiday season might be a set of eyes for the back of his head! He seems to keep getting "caught" playing househusband without his clothes! Here's the former NYPD Blue with his weed whacker.
Oh, and then there was promo for Lambert's release of "Wildcard".
Hollywood "relationships" don't come any hinkier than Lambert and McLoughlin's. Announced after the fact (Lambert says she "made it a point to keep it as private as I could for as long as I could" ), the alleged ceremony took place on a farm along with some horses. No band mates, no close friends. Lambert said, "I didn't have nobody. That was mine and his moment."
If a wedding takes place in a horse corral, is there anyone to hand over the ring?
lol. Just wondering! And what about the story on how these two met? Of course, Lambert's team had to share the story via all of the proper channels, i.e eonline, Just Jared, People, US Weekly, et al.
Allegedly, in November 2018, Brendan was working security at a Good Morning, America episode that Lambert was appearing on. Her band, the Pistol Annies, "spotted" him and according to Lambert, "plucked" him for her. A security guard of hers named "Tom" had some input of his own. "He's here. And he's pretty."
And the rest, they say, is "history". By late January, the two were "hitched" in their horse corral wedding and now the tabloids are spilling the details as Lambert fills in the blanks. It seems as though Hollywood's couples these days don't have the patience or time to spend on coffee strolls and "dinner at Craig's" photo oped courtships, instead choosing to fly through Go, collect their $200 and jump straight to post-marital bliss and spending interviews talking about their secret "courtship" in the past tense.
Should be interesting to continue watching how this unlikely match maneuvers their way towards coming up with new shirtless ways to promote Lambert's next album release. ;-)
• Six Degrees Moment, aka Where Have I Been All This Time?
Back in November, I was doing some early morning perusing through the ad and tracking-laden gossip site known as Just Jared, when a post about John Mayer caught my eye. It was about him having something "reminiscent" to say about ol' Tay Swift. The post then goes on to shoehorn in a throwback to Mayer and Swift's "dating" in 2009 and her song "Dear John", which is supposed to be about him. While this was an eyeroll of sizable proporations, it was the tweet about he and Shawn Mendes which caught my attention and proceeded to lead me on one of the most extended Six Degrees trips upon recollection.
📹 | @JohnMayer discusses the Christmas light lyric in #Lover on his recent Instagram live with @ShawnMendes (via @inallmydreams13)— Taylor Swift News (@TSwiftNZ) November 18, 2019
“Love the song, I really like the song (...) I go, you’re insane! Everybody keeps their Christmas lights up til January.” pic.twitter.com/YbwXOgqhCF
Is this author the only one who didn't know the 42-year old John Mayer and Shawn Mendes had a history which dated so far back? I knew there were DataLounge threads on them, but never paid attention. Well, now thanks to this Just Jared post, I had to do a bit of nosing around and...
Did you know that John Mayer's dating history includes?
• one of his earliest gf's is supposed to have been singer Vanessa Carlton, who has a musician named Stephen Jenkins in her history. Jenkins has a short history, but one of his past relationships is supposed to have been with Charlize Theron, whose history is a who's who: George Clooney, Keanu Reeves, Brad Pitt, Jeremy Renner, Alexander Skarsgaard, Ryan Reynolds and Sean Penn. ;-)
• Jennifer Love-Hewitt - I'm not sure about Love-Hewitt, but I eye spy Alec Baldwin, Wilmer Valderrama, Enrique Iglesias, and John Cusack....
• Minka Kelly - see "Jake Gyllenhaal"
• Jennifer Aniston - come on. And, see "Jake Gyllenhaal"
• Tay Swift - see "Jake Gyllenhaal"
• Katy Perry (see Orlando Bloom)
• and then there was Jessica Simpson. And so that led me onto a search about the former partner of Nick Lachey. And I guess I had just never realized the extent of her "dating" history. Are you ready for this one? Jared Leto. Adam Levine. And then there's Tony Romo. Did you know that Tony Romo was dating Carrie Underwood for awhile? They were even engaged? There's another interesting name in Carrie Underwood's "dating" history --> Chace Crawford.
Anywayyy...back to Jessica Simpson. Guess who Jessica Simpson has in her dating history? This triangle is a real doozy.
Jessica Simpson? And Jensen?????
Why yes, I'd say that's a heckuva smoking gun, Jensen.
And then, and then...LeAnn Rimes?! Here's Jensen and LeAnn Rimes at the American Music Awards in 1998:
Interesting, interesting... And LeAnn Rimes has who in her dating history? Tiger Woods. (Raising an eyebrow at Andrew Keegan in her history as well.) Married to Eddie Cibrien since 2011 when both became embroiled in a quite famous and scandalous affair while each were in another marriage. Lots of musical chairs going on here, isn't there?
And so we circle back to Mr. Mayer and Mr. Mendes, who it seems date back a few years (which is saying something, considering that Shawn Mendes barely turned 21 yrs old last August)
Here's Post Malone hanging with Mayer and Mendes from 2018.
We need a Shawn Mendes, John Mayer, and Post Malone collab please and thank you pic.twitter.com/c5sRHaTEBH— Shawn Mendes 🇨🇦 (@SMmendesnews) August 21, 2018
Hanging together in May of the same year:
— bella ♡ (@lukehemmingsj_) May 20, 2018
John talking about Mendes' shoulders and physique....
And not to go without returning the same sentiments, Mendes had this to
“John Mayer is like, to me, the God of music. He’s the best. I just love him cause he has the funniest look on life, really great perspective, doesn’t take it/himself too seriously.” Get you someone who will talk about you the way Shawn Mendes talks about John Mayer pic.twitter.com/jLqs53Ohdr— Shawn Mendes Updates (@MendesCrewInfo) April 5, 2018
Aaah yes, the ol' "old man" line... *wink*
Shawn Mendes called John Mayer an "old man" on Instagram & we're LOLing https://t.co/fM0DjkpsZu pic.twitter.com/iFCTrTATeT— HollywoodLife (@HollywoodLife) February 23, 2018
2017...
shawn mendes + john mayer on stage together. this has to be the coolest thing that's ever happened pic.twitter.com/7S32WwiGBT— brianne (@losinpatience) April 5, 2017
2016...
That is quite a friendship history.
It also shows what a small, "incestuous" world the entertainment and sports industries are with their intertwining and intersecting "dating" histories. Because some savvy fans and observers are catching onto this Bearding 101 Method of Operation, many publicist/marketing teams are hooking their clients up with lesser known models, business types (see Michelle Williams and Karli Kloss), blue collar professionals (see Miranda Lambert with her cop merkin), artists and chefs (see: Jake with 5-minute beard Katja Tausig).
By pairing their clients up with relative unknowns or those with little or no prior, publicized dating history, publicists likely know that makes it harder for suspicion of bearding/merkin'ing. Welllll...for a few anyway. Narnia sees what y'all are doin'. ;-)
• Tidbits with Travis Kelce
"I'm an early bird, so I'm usually up at 6 a.m. the latest every day."
"I'm big on French toast. Always eat that at the teams' pregame meal."
- Chiefs Tight End on How He Trains, Fueling with French Toast, and Catching Patrick Mahomes' No-Look Passes", Men's Journal, November 2019
I knew I had a good reason for liking French toast!!
Now stay tuned because tomorrow, we've got some catching up to do with Narnia faves, Jake and Austin. ;-)
pic sources: gfycat, tenor, allhisgirlfriends, ohnotheydidnt, chiefs.
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our playlist: We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off - Jermaine
Stewart
Undress Me Now - Morcheeba
White Liar - Miranda Lambert
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