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Kings of Leon frontman Caleb expecting first child

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 02:51 AM PST

Caleb Followill, in this file photo before performing on NBC's "Today" show in New York, July 31, 2009. — Reuters pic

LOS ANGELES, Dec 30 — Kings of Leon frontman Caleb Followill and his wife, Victoria's Secret model Lily Aldridge, said yesterday they were expecting their first child, ending a rollercoaster year for the rock band.

"We are thrilled to announce that we are expecting our first child together," Followill and Aldridge said in a statement. "We can't wait to meet the new addition to our family."

Followill, 29, and Aldridge, 26, married in May in California after dating for two years. This will be the first child for both.

Grammy-winning Kings of Leon, formed by Followill brothers Caleb, Jared and Nathan and their cousin Matthew in Nashville, Tennessee, broke through with their 2008 album "Only By the Night", featuring hit singles such as "Sex On Fire".

The band was forced to cancel the remainder of the US leg of their "Come Around Sundown" tour in August. Bass player Jared Followill tweeted at the time, "there are internal sicknesses & problems that have needed to be addressed". The band announced a hiatus shortly afterwards.

A documentary, "Talihina Sky: The Story of Kings of Leon", on their rise to fame, premiered at Tribeca Film Festival earlier this year. — Reuters

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Country singer Wynonna Judd goes for marriage No. 3

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 02:13 AM PST

Country singer Wynonna Judd goes for marriage No. 3

Wynonna (left) and mother Naomi as the Judds at the 46th annual Academy of Country Music Awards in Las Vegas, April 3, 2011. — Reuters file pic

LOS ANGELES, Dec 30 — Country music star Wynonna Judd received an early Christmas gift when her boyfriend, Cactus Moser, proposed on Christmas Eve, the singer's spokesman said yesterday.

Grammy-winning Judd is currently touring with Moser, the drummer of country music band Highway 101, as Wynonna and The Big Noise.

This will be the third trip down the aisle for the singer, who married first husband Arch Kelley III in 1996 and with whom she has two children. The couple divorced in 1998, and the singer married her former bodyguard D.R. Roach in 2003, and split in 2007 after Roach was arrested for sexual assault of a minor.

No wedding date has been set yet, but the singer said yesterday she would be tweeting on New Year's Eve with more details on her engagement.

Judd, 47, rose to fame in the 1980s performing with her mother Naomi in the duo band The Judds, with hit songs such as "Love Can Build a Bridge" and "Why Not Me" winning Grammy awards.

After the duo parted ways in 1991, Judd went on to pursue a successful solo career under the moniker Wynonna, garnering hits such as "She is His Only Need" and "No One Else On Earth".

Judd's personal life has been in the spotlight recently after she and her mother revealed they had both been sexually abused as children, and Judd's younger sister, actress Ashley Judd, published a memoir detailing her own painful childhood.

Judd and her mother took part in a six-part documentary series on Oprah Winfrey's OWN network earlier this year, allowing cameras to film their tempestuous relationship. — Reuters

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Jumaat, 30 Disember 2011