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| | Connie Britton & Hayden Panettiere to return to 'Nashville' when it moves to CMT | | Added 7 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Good news for you Nashville fans out there, when the show returns after being rescued from cancellation by ABC, stars Connie Britton and Hayden Panettiere will reprise their characters for the show?s fifth season. I, personally, am giddy with excitement.
The show got picked up by CMT (and will also be available on Hulu for my fellow ?cord cutters?) after a successful ?bring back this TV show? social media campaign. Side note: could we try this with The Muppets? According to TV Line, Connie is set to return as country music queen Rayna James and Hayden will be back as her sometime rival, sometime mentee Juliette Barnes. Highlight for a mild spoiler: This likely means that Juliette didn?t die in a plane crash, as was hinted during the show?s 4th season finale and now, she, Avery and baby Cadence can have a happy reunion.
Will Chase, who played Luke Wheeler, won?t be returning, which is sad, but his character wasn?t really doing much. I do think Luke got a raw deal as far as his relationship with Rayna, but now who is going to champion Will Lexington?s music career? It?s also been reported that Aubrey Peeples, who played Layla, is also not returning. No big loss there, her character was awful. Let?s just hope she doesn?t go on to make a sequel to that horrendous Jem movie.
My second favorite actor after Jon Hamm, Charles Esten (DEACON!), Sam Palladio (Gunnar), Jonathan Jackson (Avery), Clare Bowen (Scarlett), Lennon Stella (Maddie), Maisy Stella (a/k/a eternally sad Daphne), and Chris Carmack (Will Lexington, stone cold hottie) are also rumored to return. It?s not Nashville without Deacon. Rayna and Deacon were on slightly shaky ground when the last season ended, I hope they can use the new season to reconcile. Dayna 4-eva.
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| | Connie Britton in sparkly Georges Hobeika at the CMA Awards: gorgeous or prom? | | Added 10 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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The stars of one of my guilty pleasure shows, Nashville, were out at last night’s CMA Awards. (We’ll have more fashion for you shortly and here’s a link to the list of winners.) That’s probably because both the CMA Awards and Nashville air on ABC. Many of the lesser characters and hot guys from Nashville were there, which was a pleasure to see. (I didn’t spot Hayden Panettiere or Clare Bown though.) I’ll include some of the guys from Nashville further down and in the gallery as most of you won’t recognize them. If you’re not watching this show, give it a chance! I’m not even a country music fan and I love the music, it’s more pop and country fusion, and the storylines are soapy and fun.
First off we have presenter and Nashville star Connie Britton looking a little overdone. She’s in a fishtail Georges Hobeika gown with sequin cap sleeves. I find Connie’s dress and styling to be “off” somehow here, although I can’t quite put my finger on it. Maybe it’s just how cookie-cutter this looks, as pretty as it is. I love her though, she’s an excellent actress and she brings so much to her characters on the small screen.
Next we have Brad Paisley’s wife, actress Kimberly Williams Paisley, also from Nashville. I didn’t realize this actress was Brad Paisley’s wife until I saw these photos! She plays the clinging mistress to Connie’s character’s ex husband. There’s something you really despise about her conniving character, Peggy, which I guess means she’s a good actress.
Kimberly is in ML Monique Lhuillier, one of my favorite designers. I love this strapless gown with contemporary lines. This is a knockout dress.
Moving on we have Kellie Pickler in Georges Chakra Couture. Kellie is growing her hair out after shaving her head last year in solidarity with a friend battling breast cancer.
In terms of Kellie’s dress, the bustline with the one pointy boob is bizarre to me and makes her look like a Disney villain. It’s edgy and fun though. Her styling needs a lot of work. The bleached blonde hair needs a re-do and her makeup is too garish. With some softer touches she would have been gorgeous.
Presenter Lucy Hale of Pretty Little Liars was in a tiered mullet Julien Macdonald gown. I would like this dress if the back wasn’t so long, but then it might be too informal for the event. Overall it’s a miss for me.
And finally Kacey Musgraves in Blumarine. This is one of those see-through short/long gowns that looks weird on just about everyone. The part underneath looks like an underwire corset. I was hoping that trend would die out over a year ago. Maybe it did. Kacey won best new artist last night. I guess she didn’t look thrilled to be there though. Perez Hilton has a close up of her looking sad and bored.
Oh here are some of the other Nashville people that I promised! I’m just going to include the hot guys as the main stars were largely absent except for Connie Britton. Here we have Chris Carmack (blonde guy with buzz cut, plays Will), Sam Palladio (glasses, he’s Gunnar) and Charles Eston (tall older guy, Deacon). We’re missing my favorite hot guy on the show, Jonathan Jackson, he plays Avery. I’ve enjoyed his character’s evolution on the show.
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| | Connie Britton, 45: 'The older you are, the easier it is to date younger men' | | Added 11 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Connie Britton has a new profile in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, which makes me really happy. I love Connie’s show “Nashville,” it’s really picking up lately too as the season comes to an end, and I also admired Connie on last season’s “American Horror Story.” (Although it got so damn weird toward the end I almost gave up. I haven’t watched more than the second episode this season. That show baffles me.) In the piece, Connie talks about losing out on a role that could have redefined her career over 16 years ago, 1996?s Jerry Maguire. She admits she was “heartbroken” to lose the role to Renee Zellweger, and it sounds like she thinks about it a lot. The rest of the piece focuses on Connie’s current career resurgence, and how she’s a sex symbol at 45. There are also some good anecdotes about how Connie stood up for her Nashville character, Rayna James, and made Rayna more sure of herself and less worried about “aging,” much like Connie herself.
Also, we barely hear anything about Connie’s personal life. She’s single and recently adopted a baby boy from Ethiopia, but the article says she “dates” men, and she heavily hints that they’re younger guys although she’s not naming names.
On losing out on a starring role in Jerry Maguire
Britton was at this point not far removed from her days teaching aerobics and going on open-call auditions in New York. Now she started hearing that she was poised for stardom. She did a table read with the rest of the cast [of Jerry Maguire], and it was looking like a lock. The day she finally did a screen test with Cruise, Britton said, she heard that ?they just want to screen-test one other actress.? Britton laughed, this time a little more darkly. Of course it was Rene Zellweger, an actress so tiny and tousled that she looked newly hatched, who walked away with the part.
?It was heartbreak,? Britton said. A decade came and went, a crucial decade in the life of an actress. Britton played some secondary roles on television, including an ensemble part on the sitcom ?Spin City? and smaller recurring ones on ?The West Wing? and ?24.? And then, 10 years after ?Jerry Maguire? had its premiere without her, she was offered a part on a new network series, ?Friday Night Lights…”
?Maybe I was too tall,? Britton said, offering one theory of why she didn?t land the part opposite Cruise.
On dating younger men
Britton, who was briefly married right out of college, is single now, but she is usually dating someone. ?In my experience of watching Connie Britton?s dating life, it has not been Connie getting beaten out by 25-year-old girls, let?s leave it at that,? says the producer Sarah Aubrey, a friend. If Britton bristles at characterizations of a 40-year-old woman as losing her appeal, it?s because she thinks those assumptions are off-base. ?Because frankly I?ve had a different experience, as a single woman,? she said. ?Younger men and all that.? It?s not that she has a particular pattern of dating younger men, she clarified. ?Let?s put it this way: The older you get, the easier it is to date younger men.? She laughed. ?There are more of them.?
On standing up for her character’s confidence
The actors on a show like ?Nashville? ? even one with a producer?s credit, like Britton ? have only so much leeway for push-back, but Britton consistently dug in during the early episodes. No, she told the director of the pilot, she would rather not stare at her face in the mirror and pull it back aggressively to see what she would look like with a face-lift. She was uncomfortable with what that bit of direction implied about the character?s self-doubt. In the final take, which follows bad news from Rayna?s managers about her most recent record release, Britton does stare at herself in the mirror, and she does massage her face; but the scene registers emotions ? fatigue, confusion ? as opposed to the simulation of plastic surgery, a more interesting moment, as well as one she found less insulting. (Even still, Jaymes?s husband, noticing her looking at her face, tells her, ?If you get plastic surgery, I?ll divorce you.?)…
In a scene in an early episode, in which Jaymes takes a long walk with an old flame, Britton deliberately resisted some lines in which her character expressed fears about being old. ?Just drawing on my own experience, I never ? I never ? personally reference myself as old. I don?t think of myself as old, but I certainly would not say that to a man,? Britton said. It starts to become obvious, as Britton talks, how much of her own Southern upbringing (she was raised in a close-knit family in small-town Virginia) feeds into the characters she creates. ?I might have a conversation with some girlfriends ? what are we doing about the lines around our eyes ? but to a man? There are certain things ? it would just be demystifying and disempowering,? she said…
?All it took to get on track, [with Nashville]? Britton told me, ?was a lot of time and fight.?
[From The NY Times via US Weekly]
Britton is of course hinting that Tom Cruise cost her the Jerry Maguire role with that “too tall” line. If the role was a lock until she read with Cruise, that’s probably what happened. (Tom is 5’7? while Connie is 5’8?. Renee is 5’4?.) That argument might not hold water considering that Tom’s then-wife, Nicole Kidman, was 5’11?, but this is Cruise we’re talking about. If he doesn’t like someone or thinks they’re too tall they’re out of there.
I’m glad to know more about Connie and see her getting more press. She’s so great on Nashville and this article helps me understand why. She plays it cool and understated, and she’s very confident. It’s not about “aging” to her, it’s about being herself, and she rocks. Check out Nashville if you get a chance – the music is great too, and I don’t even like country music.
One complaint about Connie – she rarely gets her makeup right when she’s on a red carpet and not on the show. She needs to hire better makeup people. She’s so gorgeous, but makeup makes a big difference.
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| | Connie Britton on adopting as a single mom: 'I assumed I?d be doing it with a man' | | Added 11 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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The lovely Connie Britton covers the November issue of Redbook, and People Magazine has some advance quotes for us. I know Connie, 45, from American Horror Story, where we saw her character go through hell before finally achieving a macabre sort of peace. (I won’t give away any spoilers in case you have ambitions of watching the DVDs. I give it a B, it’s a fun, scary show that pulls you in, but it often seems ridiculous. I’m totally watching it this season!) Anyway we’ve seen Connie looking amazing on screen (I want her hair!) and having some hit and miss moments on the red carpet. It’s nice to see her styled so well in this photoshoot. Is that sweater photo an homage to Ann Margaret in Bye Bye Birdie? That’s what I’m reminded of when I see a gorgeous redhead in just a sweater, but I guess Ann’s was much different than this one.
In Redbook, Connie talks about her decision to adopt as a single mom, and says she realized that she didn’t need a man to have a child. Connie adopted a baby boy from Ethiopia last November. She also acknowledges that she’s just as horny as usual. That’s pretty much what I read into it, but of course she phrased it more delicately. Here’s more:
Connie Britton’s TV resum is nothing if not well-rounded.
The actress, 45, has played working mom Tami Taylor on Friday Night Lights, the haunted and troubled Vivien on American Horror Story, and now, she’ll portray fading country star Rayna James on the upcoming Nashville.
But for all her characters’ differences, Britton is keen on bringing one unifying characteristic to each of the roles.
“It’s important in whatever character I play that I show as many different levels of what it is to be a woman as I can. That includes being sexy!” Britton tells Redbook in its November issue.
“I want to get rid of the whole idea that women who are wives and mothers and working in the world no longer have any interest in their sexuality, because that?s not my experience.”
As for her experience with adoption (she brought home her son from Ethiopia in 2011) and sharing advice with other Hollywood moms who adopt, “me and Angelina and Sandra Bullock and Mary-Louise Parker just get together every weekend, drink ros and talk about kids! No, that is not the case,” jokes Britton.
“Not that I wouldn?t love to get together with all of them and discuss their experiences,” she adds. “But there is a community of people who have adopted children from Ethiopia, and that’s something I want to be a part of for sure. To me it’s really important for my son to have a strong sense of that background.”
Britton says she’s also got a strong sense of herself as a single mother ? even if that’s not the way she’d planned it.
“I always knew I wanted a child, and I always assumed I’d be doing it with a man ? Then my parents passed away within three years of each other,” says the actress.
“Right after that, a light bulb went off in my head and I thought, ‘What am I waiting for?’ I wasn?t in a relationship at the time, but I thought, ‘This is something I want to do. I can do it.’ “
[From People]
This reminds me that “Nashville” premieres tomorrow night! I’m going to tape it. Also a lot of good shows are coming back now and it feels a little like Christmas. (Although I am really angered that NBC has pushed back what is likely to be the last season of Community. Screw NBC!) Anyway I like Connie and think she gives a fun interview. She’s not saying anything revelatory here, but she cracked a cute joke about hanging out with other celebrity adoptive moms and drinking wine. Isn’t Rose crap wine though? I don’t know, I don’t drink it.
Good for Connie for adopting a child when she had love to give. It sounds like she’s doing her best to make sure he stays connected to Ethiopia too.
Here are some photos of Connie and her son, Yoby, at LAX in September and July. He’s adorable!
Connie and her son, Yoby, are shown at LAX on 9-13-12 and 7-16-12. So cute! Credit: FameFlynet.
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| | Connie Britton of American Horror Story adopts a baby boy | | Added 12 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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I don’t know much about Connie Britton from “American Horror Story,” but I love watching her every week. (She was also in “Friday Night Lights,” which I’ve heard is awesome but haven’t seen.) She’s a great actress, and I enjoy the fact that she’s a little older and that she hasn’t messed with her face from what we can see. Plus she’s beautiful and I covet her hair. I have long reddish blonde hair too, and I’ve been curling mine more after seeing how great Britton’s hair looks on that show. Anyway Britton just adopted a baby boy from Ethiopia. She’s 44 and is divorced, having split with her first and only husband to date when she was just 29. I found a Redbook interview she did in 2009 where she said she was dating a comedy writer named Jason Mantzoukas. (Mantzoukas co-starred with her in a movie that premiered at film festivals earlier this year called Conception and I guess he’s also been a guest star on “Parks and Recreation.”) I can’t confirm whether she’s still with him, though. Here’s more on her new baby:
For years, Connie Britton has been hard at work on her acclaimed show Friday Night Lights and most recently on the new hit American Horror Story.
But the actress, 44, has just been cast in her most rewarding role yet: Mom. She’s adopted a 9-month-old baby boy from Ethiopia, Britton tells PEOPLE exclusively.
After a three-year-long adoption process, the actress’s dream of motherhood came true about a week ago, after she returned from the African country with her son Yoby ? a nickname for Eyob, his given name.
“I am thanking my lucky stars every day,” Britton, 44, tells PEOPLE.
The day she first held her son in her arms was something the new mom will never forget.
“It was such a wonderful moment of completion,” she says. “I thought I was going to collapse into a puddle of tears. I was just grinning from ear to ear.”
[From People]
That’s awesome, congratulations to her! Britton told Redbook in 2009 that she was looking forward to maybe remarrying at some point and having children. She said “I do feel like I would get married again, and I still want to have kids.” She also said that hitting her 40s has helped her slow down and appreciate life. “There isn’t this mania to get everything so right. Now what I really want to do is just enjoy my life and fill the moments with living, with people I love, things I enjoy, and work that inspires me.”
Britton’s character on “American Horror Story” may have a child soon too. Her character Vivian Harmon is currently pregnant, and it’s being foreshadowed on the show that it’s some kind of demon spawn. I’m kind of fascinated by that show but it’s gradually losing it’s appeal for me. They use every horror movie cliche in the book, and just when I think they’re ready to dial it back a notch they throw in some more complicated plot points. They’re walking a very fine line between being campy and scary.
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| | Connie Britton Makes A Nice Comeback | | Added 12 years ago | Source: HollywoodTuna |
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In case you don’t know who this Connie Britton chick is, she was best known for her role as the hot redhead on Spin City like fifteen years ago. Anyhow, I haven’t seen her in a long time and I’ve got to say she’s looking really damn good. Here she is outside the Letterman studios
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