FameCrawler : Tim McGraw

Tim McGraw- Is He Or Isn't He Going Into Politics

trix — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:27:00 GMT

Tim McGraw has expressed an interest in going into politics and sources say that it could be as soon as 2010.
The idea has been supported by Bill Clinton who says, “I think he’s got it. The Democrats need candidates whom people can relate to in a personal way, people who understand their lives and their concerns and share their values. And I think that’s something Tim can do without even pretending.”

However, Tim McGraw says that it's all fantasy. His rep said, "There's no truth to this, it's something he is interested in, but not for 2010. Later in life."

Tim said, "I grew up in Louisiana and politics is kind of a contact sport and you grow up knowing about it, I've always been fascinated by what can be done in the public arena. And if the time comes where there's something available and I think I can do some positive things, I'll be glad to do it. I wouldn't want to do it just to say I did it."

But, he added with a laugh, "I think I gotta get a lot smarter between now and then!"

I think he has to stop saying "gotta" as well.

Maybe he wants to wait until his kids are a little older to get involved in politics.

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Spying on the Neighbors: 12-13-08

Whit Honea — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 22:10:00 GMT

Let it snow!

Nicole and Hugh in Germany (Just Jared)

Chris Cornell in NYC (Celebrity Baby Blog)

Mary Lynn Rajskub and son Valentine (Celebrity Moms)

Meg Ryan has landed (Jezebel)

Plaxico comes out for good (TMZ)

Gov. Tim McGraw? (Hollyscoop)

Jacko is a freako (Perez Hilton)

Spying on the Neighbors: 11-27-08

Whit Honea — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 22:34:00 GMT

Gobble, gobble.

Becks is a nice guy (TMZ)

Britney's diet? (ExpoSay)

Kidman thinks teens are odd (CelebTots)

Katie and Posh back together (Binkywood)

Tim McGraw's Thanksgiving (Celebrity Baby Blog)

Spying on the Neighbors: 11-12-08

Whit Honea — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:03:00 GMT

Man, I'm pushing up lazies.

Rod Stewart takes a heel to the grill (Jezebel)

Dave Grohl is too nice (TMZ)

The Anthony Kiedis story (Perez Hilton)

Eminem delays (Gabsmash)

Country folk (Celebrity Girls)

First Granny (Celebrity Baby Blog)

Barack Obama is a cool dad (Celebrity Baby Scoop)

Tim McGraw Pens First Children's Book

Karl Erikson — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:47:00 GMT

Country singer Tim McGraw knows about being a father to little girls. He has 3 daughters: Grace Katherine, 11, Maggie Elizabeth, 10, and Audrey Careoline, 6. And with his daddy experiences, he has cowritten a new children's book called "My Little Girl," now available in stores. The story is about a girl named Katie and her father, spending a day of quality time together.

Tim said he wrote the book after struggling to find stuff to do with his girls. If it was up to them, he says, they'd all be at the mall. The 41-year-old father advises, "Do what you have to do in your regular routine and take them with you. It makes all the difference in the world." His girls like doing the simple things...going to the post office or the grocery store with their dad.

"It's something that as a father you kind of have to sacrifice what you want to do, because boys do what you want to do. If I want to go to the farm and shoot guns or ride four-wheelers in the mud when it's 40 degrees...the girls aren't really interested in doing that."

Tim's wife, Faith Hill - another country superstar - wrote the forward for the book, but says that the couple's daughters really don't care about the book. "If it doesn't have Chris Brown or the Jonas Brothers involved, they don't care."

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Smokin'! Faith Hill In A Bikini!

Sassy Smith — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:07:00 GMT

Who says being a 41-year-old mom is a bad thing? Faith Hill graces the cover of the December issue of Shape and I must say, the country singer looks amazing!

Faith tells the mag, "Wearing a bikini on a magazine cover is my 41st birthday present to myself. Hill has recently taken up Pilates again - three times a week - and it's certainly paying off!

"I could bend in ways I haven't been able to since I was a teenager. My husband (Tim McGraw) loves it!" Oh I just bet he does!

The couple have been married for 10 years and have three daughters together - Gracie, 11, Maggie, 10, and Audrey 6 1/2.

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Hugh Laurie's Brand New House is Robbed

Karl Erikson — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:09:00 GMT

We told you about Hugh Laurie's family finally moving to the United States after staying in England for the first four years of "House." Hugh just bought a $4 million mansion earlier this month and someone already broke into the house and robbed it.

Laurie had his laptop and some other personal things stolen. Everyone is okay - Hugh and wife Jo were sound asleep when the burglars broke in. It's believed that the same group of thieves broke into other stars' homes, like Faith Hill and Tim McGraw, and studio boss Sherry Lansing, all who live near Laurie.

Police said, "The raid on Hugh Laurie was very similar to ones we have been investigating in that area. It is lucky that he did not disturb the burglars or we could have been looking at something much more serious."

Thank God everyone is okay. Hopefully, those punks will be caught soon.

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McGraw and Hill Look Like Real People

Whit Honea — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:13:00 GMT

Celebrities always look so perfect and pretty and all that. It's refreshing to see a slice of normalcy now and again. Take for example, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill and their children.

Doesn't get any more normal than that.

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Best of FameCrawler: Week of June 27th

Whit Honea — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:00:00 GMT

Billie Piper's Topless Role

The Sexualization of Miley Cyrus

Ben And Jen Together For Better Or Worse

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Tim McGraw and the Wife Beaters

Scott Kalitta Killed In Drag Racing Crash

Robert Downey, Jr., and Son: What's Wrong with This Picture?

Matthew McConaughey Is Ready To Rumble

Guess Who's Moving Across The Pond?

Jamie Lynn's Delivery Room Drama!

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Tim McGraw and the Wife Beaters

Whit Honea — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:02:00 GMT

Dear Josh Homme, this is how you kick someone out of a concert.

Tim McGraw was performing on stage last night when he noticed some big, probably drunk, cowboy harassing a lady in the audience and had him pulled onstage before being kicked out. Actually, McGraw pulled him on stage and came pretty close to punching the idiot before returning to the microphone and going on with business as usual. That's professional, Holmes, er, Homme.

Just goes to show you that Tim McGraw is a classy guy, and while he won't stand still for a wife beater, he sure can wear the hell out of one.

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Faith Hill Pregnant?

Sassy Smith — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:03:00 GMT

Is country singer Faith Hill pregnant? She and Tim McGraw have three daughters - a boy would be nice to add to the mix!

Hill wore a baggy, loose-fitting satin top to the CMT awards in Nashville on Monday evening and of course it sparked "she's with child" rumors. Everyone was a twitter with 'oh she's pregnant,' 'Tim and Faith expecting,' 'Faith Hill bun in the oven.' That's all par for the course when you're a celebrity who wears a baby doll top or anything remotely loose. Loose clothing = PREGNANT.

However, according to Faith's rep, who tells Usmagazine.com, that she "is not pregnant." Not much of a denial in my opinion, so I'm going to keep watching for that "baby bump." Wink.

Source,Photo:Celeutopia.net

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Yeehaw, Canadian Country Singer, Paul Brandt & Wife Expecting A Baby

Sassy Smith — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 13:05:00 GMT

Canadian country singer, Paul Brandt, 35, and his wife Elizabeth Peterson are expecting their first child together. Paul said: "We just announced today that we're expecting. It's rockin' my world, and my friends say it's going to change everything." Oh yes Paul, life will never be the same! It will be better than you could ever imagine though!

Brandt loves kids but knew he wasn't ready to be a dad until now. "Back when I was working at the hospital, I would take care of up to five babies at a time. And I remember I loved that experience, but I knew I wasn't ready. Now I feel like I'm more ready. In fact, I know I'm ready to jump off that cliff." No need for cliff jumpin' dude, it'll be okay!

Their baby is due next May.

Photo source: Nashville org

Faith Hill Explains Groping Etiquette to Thousands

Whit Honea — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 07:12:00 GMT

Pretty Faith Hill, in all of her unairbrushed glory, was not happy when a fan grabbed her husband's baby making equipment. Apparently a person in the audience handled Tim McGraw's stuff, and Faith addressed him/her over the microphone:

“Somebody needs to teach you some class, my friend. You don’t go grabbin’ somebody else’s, somebody’s husband’s balls, you understand me? That’s very disrespectful.”

Of course this opens up all kinds of questions concerning just whose balls you can grab.

Just Jared has a video of Faith setting the fan straight.

BTW, while watching the video I couldn't help but notice the noise that the band was making. Is that what their music sounds like? I want my money back and I wasn't even there.

The Faith Hill Photo Lie

BadKitty — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:37:00 GMT

Jezebel brought down a sh*t storm last week when they posted these Faith Hill before and after shots from her recent Redbook cover. The interwebs were aflame as everyone scrambled to board the Outraged Express: How dare the media propagate this kind of lie? The real Faith looked better! When will the truth become our common currency? (Answers: because it makes them rich, yes sort of, and check back on the 10th of Never.)

Everyone is right. The retouching is offensive. But why is everyone so surprised? We've seen dramatic examples of this before.

Remember the Dove Evolution commercial where they showed how to make a perfectly beautiful model even more beautiful, from lighting to hair, makeup and retouching? Here is another video from YouTube that shows "extreme retouching" in which everyone gets a new eye color. Search Google for "retouching examples" and you'll find links like this. Stacy Morrison, editor-in-chief of Redbook, responded to the Jezebel induced frenzy by saying what they did was industry standard retouching. Sadly, that's true.

The thing that fries my bacon is the more intricate lie that goes along with the cover photo that every "knows" is retouched. Read the words that go with the picture and tell your brain how to interpret that openly fake photo. In marketing we call it positioning, but you can just think of it as The Story They Want You to Buy. And I do mean buy.

Stacy Morrison blogged about the photo shoot that resulted in The Cover Seen Round the Internet. She calls Faith "genuine" and refers to how photographers make subjects look good with "lighting and whatnot." In two simple sentences, she positions what you see as the real deal because Faith = genuine, and anything done to make the photo look better as a combination of good light (OMG those pink light bulbs work wonders!) and some technical adjustments too minor to actually name.

Inside the issue is a Q&A with Faith and Tim. The first paragraph sets the readers' perceptions and experience by calling the pair "unfiltered," i.e. believe that what you see is what you get, without artifice or manipulation. This is right under another obviously Photoshopped image of Faith.

In the Q&A the two talk about their kids, balancing family with work, and a lot about food. Southern comfort food, yummy, delicious carb-filled goodness. Subtext: Faith is a Mom with like you, she has the same concerns that you do, she eats the kind of food you like, and she looks like that picture. The stars are just like us! If you try hard enough you can eat that way and have that amazing body. Without wrinkles! But of course you need help, everyone does, and you can figure out how to buy the right diet book, botox or skinny pill by reading the magazine.

Redbook picked Faith to be on their cover to leverage her personal brand of accessible, authentic Mom and turn readers who identiy with her into consumers through Faith's tacit endorsement of everything in the publication. Redbook reinforces Faith's brand through positioning (she's so down to earth!) and provides visual cues of what we're conditioned to desire (skinny and good hair.) Then the magazine is packed with ads for things that by association will make you just like the picture of Faith on the cover. The fact that it's fake and perpetually unattainable means we're all doomed to be repeat buyers. Genius!

I wonder what Faith thinks about all this. If she's selling her image this way on purpose, or if she's being manipulated like the rest of us. And I wonder how she explains things like this to her three daughters.

Mostly I wonder how much longer we're all going to be willing dupes to the photos and the words and the marketing. I think it's time to cancel a couple of magazine subscriptions and see if that gets anyone's attention.

Photo credit: Jezebel

Daddy's Pregnant: Tim McGraw

Whit Honea — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:44:00 GMT

Tim McGraw could teach Christina Aguilera a thing or two about embracing one's pregnancy. Xtina, take note, this is how you flaunt it.