Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Nominations for the 2023 CMT Music Awards are led by country’s woman of the moment, Lainey Wilson, with four, followed by three apiece for Cody Johnson, newcomer Jelly Roll and the show’s recurring co-host, Kane Brown. For the second year in a row, the three-hour telecast will be getting its premiere network airing on CMT’s big sister network, CBS — along with a livestream on Paramount+ — and for the first time, it will be based out of Austin. The show goes out live from the Moody Center April 2 at 8 p.m. ET on the broadcast network and airs tape-delayed in the same time slot on the west coast. Several days after the broadcast and streaming premiere, the show will appear on its titular network, CMT, as an “extended cut” with 30 minutes of additional material, bringing the running time there to three and a half hours. That expanded edition bows on CMT April 6 at 8 ET/PT.
Evangeline Lilly On Backlash To Anti-Vaxx Protest: ‘I Know The Beast That I’m Attacking’
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Back in 2020, shortly after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Evangeline Lilly became embroiled in controversy when she shared an Instagram post explaining why she wasn’t social distancing.
“Some people value their lives over freedom, some people value freedom over their lives,” she wrote, experiencing enough backlash that she subsequently deleted the post and issued a lengthy apology.
Nearly three years later, Lilly is looking back at the controversy.
“I didn’t expect anyone to pay attention to it, because no one ever pays attention to what I post,” she said in a recent interview with Esquire.
“I ended up having enough people say to me, ‘Well, there’s a lot of people who are dying right now, and it might have been really insensitive to what they’re going through,’ and that resonated for me,” she added, referring to her apology post.
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She stirred up further controversy in January 2022, when she went to Washington, D.C. to attend a rally opposing vaccine mandates.
This time, however, she was prepared for backlash to her post.
“I know the beast that I’m attacking,” she recalled thinking at the time. “I know that I have a little pebble and there’s this f**king Goliath giant. If I shoot this pebble, it’s going to wake the giant.”
According to Lilly, she asked herself “about six hundred times” whether she should post photos from the rally on Instagram, and ultimately decided to go ahead.
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“I just wanted people out there who were struggling because they were under severe pressure to do something they
2023 CMT Music Awards Nominees: Lainey Wilson, Kane Brown and More
CMT Music Awards will have plenty of familiar faces — and a whole lot of new ones. Lainey Wilson leads the charge with four noms, including Performance of the Year and Female Video of the Year. Tied with three nominees apiece are first-time nominee Jelly Roll, Cody Johnson, and CMT Music Awards co-host Kane Brown.Across all categories, CMT is recognizing 21 first-time nominees.Meanwhile, the first round of nominations for the highly coveted Video of the Year award has 16 acts, including another nod for Carrie Underwood, who reigns as the most awarded artist in CMT history with a total of 25 wins.
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is addressing Taylor Kinney's absence.On Wednesday's season 11 episode, titled «Damage Control,» while Kinney's character, Lieutenant Kelly Severide, was not seen, his absence was definitely felt by his wife, Stella. At the top of the episode, Stella is seen in their empty apartment, while Severide is off at an arson investigation program in Alabama.As OFI boss Van Meter explained to Boden, who was visibly upset that he lost one of his best firefighters with one day’s notice, the last-minute opportunity was just too good for Severide to pass up.
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Evangeline Lilly really put her foot in her mouth again!
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Fans ask why Letitia Wright was “dragged more” than Evangeline Lilly for “anti-vax” views
Rolling Stone, titled ‘Why Was Letitia Wright Dragged More than Ant-Man star Evangeline Lilly?’. The piece compares the media promotional cycle between last year’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, starring Wright, and the recently released Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania featuring Lilly.It highlights an article titled ‘How Personal Baggage Will Impact Oscar Chances’ in The Hollywood Reporter published in November. In the piece, Wright was mentioned for sharing an anti-vax propaganda video in December 2020, alongside those who had been accused of actual crimes like Roman Polanski and Brad Pitt.Wright criticised the article for her inclusion at the time, writing: “This is vile behaviour.
Evangeline Lilly says she cringes at her acting in early seasons of ‘Lost’
Lost hard to watch because she doesn’t think her acting was very good back then.Lilly played the role of Kate Austen on the J.J. Abrams series, which ran for six seasons from 2004 to 2010.Speaking on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Lilly said: “We would have Lost parties where the cast would get together to watch the show, and when it would be a Kate-centric episode, I would want to curl in a hole and die because I knew I was bad.
‘Ant-Man’ Star Evangeline Lilly Addresses Her Controversial Anti-Vax Posts: ‘I Know the Beast That I’m Attacking’
Esquire that the backlash she received after attending an anti-vax rally in Washington D.C. in January 2022 was something she fully expected.Back in 2022, Lilly revealed on Instagram that she was among the protesters at a rally in Washington opposing COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
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Zack Sharf Evangeline Lilly said in a new interview with Esquire magazine that she was well aware she’d ignite controversy by posting photos on social media from an anti-vaccine mandates rally in Washington D.C. The “Lost” and Marvel star faced backlash in January 2022 after participating in the rally, which she joined in support of “bodily sovereignty.” “I believe nobody should ever be forced to inject their body with anything, against their will, under threat of violent attack, arrest or detention without trial, loss of employment, homelessness, starvation, loss of education, alienation from loved ones, excommunication from society…under any threat whatsoever,” Lilly wrote on Instagram at the time. “This is not the way. This is not safe. This is not healthy. This is not love. I understand the world is in fear, but I don’t believe that answering fear with force will fix our problems. I was pro choice before COVID and I am still pro choice today.”
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‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’ Star Evangeline Lilly Wants a Hope and Cassie Spinoff: ‘I Loved That Relationship’ (Video)
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Evangeline Lilly Once Turned Down The Chance To Star In An ‘X-Men’ Film To Hugh Jackman’s Face
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