What’s Trending: Monday, April 19th, 2021
#ACMAwards
o Last night was the 56th Academy of Country Music Awards.
o Keith Urban and Mickey Guyton co-hosted the show live from Nashville.
o Congrats to Luke Bryan for winning Entertainer of the Year!
o Maren Morris won the award for Female Artist of the Year, along with Song of the Year for “The Bones.”
o Thomas Rhett won for Male Artist of the Year, Dan + Shay won for Duo of the Year and Old Dominion won for Group of the Year.
o Album of the Year went to Chris Stapleton.
o Gabby Barrett won the ACM for New Female Artist of the Year and Jimmie Allen won for New Male Artist of the Year.
#MatthewMcConaughey
o Poll: 45% of Texans would vote for Matthew McConaughey if he ran for Governor.
o 1,126 registered Texan voters were asked if they’d be more likely to support McConaughey over GOP incumbent Gov. Greg Abbott.
o Nearly half said they would, 33% said they’d back Abbott and 22% said they’d vote for someone else.
o Experts say that’s pretty impressive considering that Matthew has joked about the possibility and recently said “it would be up to the people” on whether he would run in the future.
o He hasn’t said if he would register as a Republican or Democrat but it’s been observed that he’s pretty centrist on issues.
#AlmaWahlberg
o The Wahlberg family is mourning the loss of their matriarch, Alma, who passed away at the age of 78.
o Mark Wahlberg shared the news on Instagram with a photo and the captions, “My angel. Rest in peace.”
o His brother, Donnie, shared a video tribute and wrote, “She was the epitome of the word grace.”
o She was the mother of nine children and was a frequent figure on the family’s reality show “Wahlburgers.”
o No cause or date of death was shared by the family but in July Donnie shared an update on her health saying, “During my visit, she didn’t remember much and was often confused, but somehow she was still Alma.”
#Reeses
o They are launching their own makeup line based on their famous peanut butter cups.
o The candy maker is teaming up with HipDot Cosmetics for a limited-edition of eye shadow palettes.
o There are six different shades including milk chocolate and white chocolate.
o It also comes with two lip balms, one chocolate and one peanut butter.
o The collection comes in a decorative set that looks like an orange box of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups.