Thania Garcia Mark L. Perthel, vice president of Ambassador Theatre Group’s North American music division, died on June 24 at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, the company has confirmed to Variety.
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America’s littlest sweethearts! Thomas Rhett, Carrie Underwood and more of country music’s biggest stars have expanded their famous families over the years.
Rhett married Lauren Akins in Nashville in October 2012, but the pair had been in each other’s lives since childhood. Five years after their wedding, they announced their plans to adopt a baby girl from Uganda — and revealed Akins was also pregnant. Daughter Ada James was born in August 2017 and shares a close bond with big sister Willa.
In April 2022, the “Look What God Gave Her” crooner said on the “Making Space With Hoda Kotb” podcast that his eldest child “has questions all the time” about her adoption journey. “I think when you become a parent, you’re like, ‘Well, I’m a dad, I have all the answers.’ Or, ‘I’m a mom, I have all the answers,'” he continued. “And adoption is one of the most beautiful things in the world, and I don’t think at the beginning of it you go, ‘Oh, in six years I’m gonna have to start answering some really intense questions.'”
Rhett told Kotb, who has two adopted daughters of her own, “You go, ‘Well, what age is the right age?’ … She talks to Lauren, like, ‘When can we go see my friends in Uganda?’ And then Ada James will be like, ‘Well, when can I go see our friends in Uganda?’ And Willa Gray will be like, ‘Well, they’re not your friends, they’re my friends.’ I love the innocence that they have. They haven’t been jaded by the world.”
The couple welcomed daughters Lennon and Lillie in February 2020 and November 2021, respectively. Shortly before their fourth child arrived, Rhett teased via Instagram Stories that he and Akins were “probably” going to have more babies in the future.
Underwood, for her part, shares sons Isaiah and Jacob with
Thania Garcia Mark L. Perthel, vice president of Ambassador Theatre Group’s North American music division, died on June 24 at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, the company has confirmed to Variety.
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Murray Bartlett has been acting for 35 years, but it wasn’t until his turn as smiling and spiraling hotel manager Armond in HBO’s “The White Lotus” that Hollywood started buzzing about its new “breakout star.”“In the last year since ‘White Lotus,’ I’ve had more choice and more work than I’ve ever had,” the Australian actor tells Variety.The role earned him an Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts prize and Critics’ Choice Award, but Bartlett’s career hasn’t always been a smooth journey. “There have been times where I haven’t worked much — sometimes long periods,” he says.
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A country cutie. Sam Hunt confirmed he and Hannah Lee Fowler are the proud parents of a newborn daughter.
Sam Hunt has welcomed his first child, a baby girl, with wife Hannah Lee Fowler.