We are praying for Alan Jackson

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Known for blending traditional honky-tonk and mainstream country pop sounds, Alan Jackson’s list of awards is so long that we stopped counting. Among the rest, he is a recipient of two Grammy Awards, 16 CMA Awards, 17 ACM Awards and nominee of multiple other awards.

In 2001, Jackson was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame, while in 2017 and 2018, he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame and Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame respectively. Jackson is also a member of the Grand Ole Opry.

Around two years ago, the singer revealed he had been diagnosed with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, a group of disorders that cause nerve damage, which has affected his ability to move and keep balance on stage. His diagnosis was confirmed back in 2011, but he managed to hide it from his fans until symptoms grew worse over the years.

CMT disease ‘causes degeneration of the peripheral nerves, leading to muscle weakness in the body’s extremities,’ according to the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA). There are roughly 126,000 people in the United States and more than 2.5 million people worldwide living with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease – nearly all CMT disease cases are inherited. 

Besides the condition, he still does what he loves most, making music. On his daughter Mattie Jackson’s podcast In Joy Life, Jackson said, “I’m always scribbling down ideas and thinking about melodies… I feel like there’ll be some more music to come, yes.” 

He was then asked by fans if he has plans on making a new album to what he answered, “Yes, I would hope so,” to the delight of many. Further, he added that besides not touring around, his ‘creative part jumps out every now and then.’

On the 56th annual CMA, Jackson was presented with the association’s Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award.

The country legend took the stage and had the crowd rise to their feet. Following the performance he said, “Country music’s been really good to me. I fell in love with it when I was a young man.”

But what he enjoys most about his career is writing songs. On his daughter’s podcast, he revealed that writing songs is ‘more fulfilling than anything’ and that he loves it way better than performing on stage.

“When you make an album, or especially when you write a lot of the songs for it, that’s creating something. It’s a challenge, so it keeps you interested a little more. If I didn’t write, I think I would’ve gotten bored just singing a long time ago,” he said.

Jackson started his career back in the day when he started performing at night clubs and local bars while he worked as a mechanic. Then, he signed with Arista Records in Nashville and released his first record, Here in the Real World, in 1985. Well, the rest is history.

The Georgia native has been married to wife Denise since 1979 and they have three children together.

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Teen returns lost wallet to veteran, only to get text from his mother shortly after

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How many times has it happened to you to lose your wallet, your keys, or even important documents? I know it happens to me very often. Luckily, I always find them in some of my drawers. 

But when you lose something out of your house, you only hope an honest person will stumble upon it and give it back to you before you lose hope of ever finding it again. 

Honestly, not many people will ever return a wallet full of cash, but luckily, for one veteran, his was found by a young man with a heart of gold. 

Tommy O’Connor, a student at Irvington High School was leaving a 7-Eleven in Fremont, California, when he spotted a wallet on the ground. Once he opened it to see who it belonged to, Tommy saw a wad of $100 bills inside. Overall, there were $2,300 in the wallet.

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The young man knew exactly what to do. He was determined to find the rightful owner, which didn’t seem like an easy task as there were no documents inside.

After thorough consideration, Tommy decided to ask his para-educator at the school, Andre Gomez, for help.  “He was so concerned about finding the wallet’s owner,” Andre recalled. “No other option even occurred to him. He immediately knew what he had to do.”

Once they checked the wallet again, the two were able to find a veteran card with a name and an address on it. Tommy and Andre were quick to track the man down who was over the moon when he heard his money wasn’t lost. He was desperate to find the wallet as he needed to pay rent, and Tommy doing the right thing restored this veteran’s faith in humanity. He gave Tommy $50 as a reward for the kind deed.

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Tommy could easily keep the money because his family was having a hard time make ends meet and lived paycheck-to-paycheck, but he held to his principles and made the right decision.

When his family learned what Tommy did they couldn’t hide the fact they were really proud of their son.  “With us living month-to-month, it is a big chunk of money and I’m so proud of him that he did that,” his dad told KPIX 5.

When Tommy’s mom sent him a message that read “Ms. Kalra called me. Wow your one in a million. Love you to the moon and back,” Tommy responded in the sweetest way. He replied: “You should be thanking yourself. You raised me.”

It’s a great thought to know that despite everything we hear in the news stories like this one inspire us all!

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Prince William recalls emotional Tina Turner memory involving Princess Diana

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The news of Tina Turner’s passing broke the hearts of millions of fans from every part of the earth.

“Tina Turner, the ‘Queen of Rock’n Roll’ has died peacefully today at the age of 83 after a long illness in her home in Kusnacht near Zurich, Switzerland,” the statement read. “With her, the world loses a music legend and a role model.”

With a career spanning over five decades, Tina Turner remains one of the best-selling recording artists. She was born Anna Mae Bullock and her parents divorced when she was very young leaving her and her sister with their grandmother. When she turned 19, Tina moved in with her mother and that’s when her talent got noticed.

Tina rose to fame when she started performing with her then-husband Ike Turner before she started a solo career.

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Her energetic stage presence and her powerful vocal kept her on the top for many years. Tina’s songs “Private Dancer,” “What’s Love Got To Do,” “Proud Mary,” and many more are still huge hits and part of many generations’ lives.

She retired from singing some years ago, and sadly, she faced health issues during the final years of her life.

Many fellow colleagues paid tribute to the woman who changed the world of music forever. Among them was Mick Jagger who tweeted, “I’m so saddened by the passing of my wonderful friend Tina Turner. She was truly an enormously talented performer and singer. She was inspiring, warm, funny and generous, she helped me so much when I was young and I will never forget her.”

Lionel Richie shared: “What a life! What a show! What a talent! Your resilience was a lesson for us all. I will miss you, my dear friend! Thanks for the memories…”

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Another person who shared fond memories involving Tina Turner and her everlasting music is Prince William.

Back in 2021, William revealed he has a soft spot for Tina Turner, especially her song The Beast which brought him back to his childhood and the carefree days when he and Harry listened to the song while at the backseat of their mom’s car who adored Turner and her music.

“When I was younger, Harry and I, we were at boarding school. My mother used to play all sorts of songs to kind of while away the anxiety of going back to school,” Prince William said.

“And one of the songs I massively remember and has stuck with me all this time, and I still, to this day, still quite enjoy secretly, is Tina Turner’s ‘The Best’ because sitting in the backseat, singing away, it felt like a real family moment.”

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“My mother, she’d be driving along, singing at the top of her voice. And we’d even get the policeman in the car; he’d be occasionally singing along as well.”

The future king added: “You’d be singing and listening to the music right the way out into the gates of school when they dropped you off. When I listen to it now, it takes me back to those car rides and brings back lots of memories of my mother.”

This was just one of the many times William shared fond memories from the time his mom was still alive.

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Late Princess Diana was the perfect mother to her boys and often took them places. Once, she tired to sneak them out and take them to a fast food restaurant, canceling the lunch at the Palace.

“I remember the princess came into the kitchen one day and said, ‘Cancel lunch for the boys, I’m taking them out, we’re going to McDonald’s,” Diana’s former personal chef Darren McGrady told Marie Claire.

“And I said, ‘Oh my God – your Royal Highness, I can do that, I can do burgers.’ And she said, ‘No, it’s the toy they want.’”

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Kate Middleton ‘furious’ with Queen Camilla – she refused to curtsy at coronation, royal expert says

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At first glance, the coronation of King Charles and Queen Camilla seemed a picture perfect one, but now that experts have analyzed the footage of the historical day, one thing caught their attention and it involves Camilla and Kate Middleton.

For the Britons, it’s all about tradition, and Camilla’s grandchildren being given such significant roles, that of Pages of Honor, just like Prince George, wasn’t received nicely by part of the fans and it seems that Kate Middleton was one of them.

Namely, a number of people from Camilla’s family were in attendance, and that included her former husband, Andrew Parker Bowles, as well as her son, Tom Parker Bowles and her daughter Laura Lopes, along with several of her grandchildren. Camilla’s sister, Annabel Elliot, was there with a friend, the Marchioness of Lansdowne. Overall, there were twenty people from Camilla’s side of the family at the Westminster Abby, which according to ABC royal reporter Victoria Murphy marked a new step for them.

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“Camilla’s family are very much front and centre at this event, and that is interesting as this is a state occasion, and they are usually totally private,” she said. “Camilla’s family being so involved and visible does send, I think, a message about just how important she is to Charles’ reign and very much reminds us that this is their Coronation, not just his.”

On the other hand, Kate had four family members supporting her in Westminster Abbey; sister Pippa Middleton, brother James Middleton, and parents Carole and Michael Middleton.

This allegedly angered the Princess of Wales and she wasn’t afraid to show her dissatisfaction by ‘not moving a limb’ when Camilla left the Abbey and the rest of the guests took a bow.

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“Camilla bought twenty Parker Bowles’ to the coronation, and there were four Middleton’s,” royal expert Tom Bower TV told host Dan Wooton.

“And what was even more noticeable was at the Windsor concert the following day, William makes no reference to Queen Camilla. So there is a tension there.”

The biographer then claimed the tension was a “dangerous position for Charles to be in,” especially after an “exhausted” Queen Camilla “disappeared” from the public eye as Kate was “behaving like the Queen.”

“If you look at the Coronation footage, as the King and Queen leave the thrones and head for the exit of Westminster Abbey, you’ll see that everyone bows and curtsies to the King and no one moves a limb, a muscle when Camilla passes,” the royal expert said.

“And that’s because they were angry with her. No-one moves. Kate and William were angry too. That anger went right through that small part of the congregation by the throne at the centre of Westminster Abbey. And in that moment it was absolutely noticeable to those people who had been excluded that nobody – let alone Kate – curtsied to Queen Camilla.”

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Everyone who has seen the coronation has to agree that Camilla’s grandchildren did greatly as Pages of Honor, but many are convinced that the Queen’s daughter’s twin sons being given that significant roles broke the tradition British people swear by.

Kinsey Schofield, another royal expert, is among those who believe that the Queen took a step too far away from royal tradition.

“The Royal Family’s value is in their traditions. Traditions and ceremonies that the world envies. When they sway too far from those customs, you will anger and disappoint a significant amount of people that feel like those actions strip away at the mystique.” Further, Schofield believes that although they were under the spotlight during the coronation, Camilla’s family isn’t interesting to the royal fans. “Camilla’s popularity may have increased, but that doesn’t necessarily mean there will be any interest in her grandchildren,” the royal expert said.

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The Queen loves spending time with her grandchildren, and according to her, so does King Charles who reads them Harry Potter when they are in Scotland.

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Ty Pennington’s brilliant response after being slammed for not having the same body he did decades ago

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Ever since he appeared on the popular BBC program Trading Spaces where he worked as a carpenter, Ty Pennington, the host of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, stole many people’s hearts. Extremely skillful and smoking hot, it didn’t come as a surprise that Ty was soon offered to host one of the best shows designed to help people in need.

Hosting the show put Ty in the spotlight, but being on the set took its toll. He could barely find the time for his private life.

“I didn’t see family or a girlfriend for 10 years. I would come home to do laundry and go out again,” he told The Atlanta Constitution in 2019.

“When I saw people from the old TV show, they said ’My God! You look amazing!’ I got some sleep! I would imagine I look a lot better than when I was on the show.”

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In fact, Ty didn’t always want to be in the business of building things. On the contrary, he planned on being a graphic designer and worked in construction to pay the bills while he was in art school, but a near-fatal car accident he was involved in stopped on the way of his modeling career and he turned to carpentry.

“Overnight my career seemed to explode… but alas, fate had other plans. Only one week later I would be in a horrible car accident,” he wrote in an Instagram post. “I hung up my one decent head shot, picked up my trusty tool bag and went back to construction and carpentry. 9 years later I would get a call to audition for Trading Spaces… and the rest is history.”

He was first introduced to Hollywood as a set designer for the 1995 film Leaving Las Vegas, starring Nicholas Cage, but he only rose to fame with his role as a builder on Trading Spaces, the show that disrupted conventional concepts of home renovations.

After Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, which brought him two Prime Time Emmy Awards, was canceled back in 2011, Ty turned to other projects. He joined ABC’s talk show The Revolution and later on became a part of two cooking shows, On The Menu and American Diner Revival. He also opened a Los Angeles based design store. In 2018, Ty was part of the third season of the Deluxe Corporation’s series Small Business Revolution: Main Street, and he also did some renovations for Trading Spaces. Most recently, he was seen hosting Battle on the Beach.

When Extreme Makeover: Home Edition aired again recently, he wasn’t offered to get back on the show, but he said there are no hard feelings or any bad blood.

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Currently, Ty appears as a mentor and design expert on HGTV’s Battle on the Beach, and as a host on the show Rock the Block.

Ty married 33-year-old social media manager Kellee Merrell in November 2021. He proposed to her with a beautiful tea-drop-shaped diamond ring and shared the great news on Instagram by posting a photo with the caption “It’s the ‘yes’ for me…”

They have known in each other for a long time but only started dating last year after they stumbled upon each other.

“I have admired Kellee from afar for years. She’s a beautiful person inside and out,” Ty told People.

“Luckily our paths finally crossed at the right time. It’s one of those things where you just feel happy being around a person. I never thought I would get married, but she changed that. Glad I waited for the one.”

Last year, the host posted a fun video of him from the beach with his shorts spiked up to his stomach and added that ‘he was pushing his stomach out’ after some fans noted tha he no longer has six-pack.

He then decided to further address the criticism and wrote a lengthy Instagram post titled Thoughts on Aging in which he wrote: “What was an honest moment of just trying to make my wife laugh, was then picked apart by strangers- with a lot of views, comes a lot of hate! Comments like “disgusting,” “gross,” “omg he’s so old now,” “grandpa,” “he got fat…And I wondered, if I was still young and fit, would I be getting the same comments?” He continued, “There has been such a force behind accepting all shapes and sizes and aging in the female community which is AWESOME (keep it coming) but maybe let’s give that same grace to men?”

Of course, when he first appeared on television, he was decades younger than he’s today.

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“On a daily basis Im inundated with comments like ‘NOOOo what happened to him???!!!’ Someone even commented the other day, ‘lack of exercise’ which I wish was the truth! I have NEVER worked out harder in my life-7 days a week (this over 50 sh*t is no joke ). “What happened” is, it’s been 22 YEARS since I made my television debut! “ he wrote. “No, I don’t have a six pack anymore or a luscious head of hair (with frosted tips ) but what I do have is wisdom, empathy, life lessons and at 57 years old, I’ve TRULY never been happier! Anyways, all this to say: I’m human and I have feelings. Yes, I am older but I think it’s pretty cool.”

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Cher details last visit to Tina Turner amid the singer’s ‘long illness’ – reveals what ‘Queen of Rock and Roll’ confided in her before death

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(EXCLUSIVE, Premium Rates Apply) LOS ANGELES, CA - FEBRUARY 10: Singer Tina Turner and SInger Cher at the 50th Annual GRAMMY Awards at the Staples Center on February 10, 2008 in Los Angeles, California. **EXCLUSIVE** (Photo by Kevin Mazur/WireImage)

The friendship between Cher and late Tina Turner had been a strong one. The two divas, each in her own right, shared much more that their celebrity status and their love for music.

Following the passing of the ‘Queen of Rock and Roll,’ Cher paid tribute to her friend of many years and recalled the last time she visited Turner who was battling an illness.

“I started going to visit her because I thought, ‘I need to put this time into our friendship, so she knows we haven’t forgotten her,” Cher explained in an interview, explaining how she decided to prioritize her friendship with Turner. “So we all took turns going and spending time with her and it made her happy.”

Although the exact cause of death hasn’t been confirmed yet, Cher revealed that Turned had her dialysis machine in her home. Back in 2017, Turner experienced kidney failure and was forced to undergo a kidney transplant after her husband Erwin Bach gave her his kidney.

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“She fought this sickness for such a long time and she was so strong as you think she would be, but I know towards the end, she told me once, she said, ‘I’m really ready. I just don’t want to put up with this anymore,’” Cher said of her friend.

She also noted that Turner “was really happy” nonetheless.

“She said, ‘I can’t spend too much time,’ and then five hours later we were laughing like crazy and she wanted to get up and show everything she bought in the house,” the singer said of the first time visiting Turner in Switzerland. “… She was having a good time in spite of the fact that she was really sick and not wanting people to know about it.”

During the last visit, Turner gifted Cher shoes. “She gave me a pair of shoes the last time I saw her. What kind of shoes? Tina Turner shoes!” Cher added. “The big high heels that she just [walked] around in like they were nothing.”

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Two two singers first met and became friends while Turner was still married to her abusive husband Ike Turner.

“When I first knew her, she was still with Ike,” Cher recalled. “It was very strange to see her with Ike and afterward. I was so thrilled, because afterward, she was so free. You could just see her being able to take a big breath. Her new life was like a big, fresh breath.”

In fact, it was following Turner’s divorce from Ike when she and Cher started spending even more time together.

The memories of Turner are a beautiful reminder of a special bond the singers shared. “She was such a force. Honestly, I think she just hit everything head-on… She wasn’t about to stop. She might not have won every battle, but she fought every war. She was there fighting for all the things she believed in,” Cher told E Online. “… She’s one of the great artists in our generation, in rock and roll. There was no other person like her. There’s no other person who could come close to who she was.”

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Losing such a great friend and a person as special as Turner left a deep mark at Cher who is left heartbroken. “She gave me lots of strength sometimes, and I gave her lots of strength too.”

The devastating news of Tina Turner’s passing was shared by her representative.

“It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Tina Turner. With her music and her boundless passion for life, she enchanted millions of fans around the world and inspired the stars of tomorrow,” the statement read. “Today we say goodbye to a dear friend who leaves us all her greatest work: her music. All our heartfelt compassion goes out to her family. Tina, we will miss you dearly.”

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She died in her home in Switzerland where she resided during the last years of her life.

With a career spanning over five decades, Tina Turner, the greatest diva in the history of mankind, remains one of the best-selling recording artists.

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Candace Cameron Bure under fire for ‘lying’ – actress snaps and calls claims ‘ridiculous’

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Candace Cameron Bure, whose career started during her teenage years, has spoken openly of her eating habits and disorders, as well as how her relationship with food has affected her life.

Most recently, she shared with her fans that she hasn’t eaten fast food in the last 20 years, apart from In-N-Out. The Instagram story she shared read: “I haven’t eaten fast food except for In-N-Out in 20 years. Some days I wonder what a burger and fries is like from McDonald’s or Burger King or Wendy’s or any of those other places I’ve never eaten at. Today is that day. Am I going to find out? No.

“And no, I’ve never had Taco Bell or anything similar,” the actress added. “I don’t regret it. You can’t convince me otherwise.”

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Following the post, fans were quick to ‘do their homework’ and check if the actress was telling the truth, and based on an old photo of her, she wasn’t. Namely, they unearthed a photo of Bure showing her holding a Chick-Fil-A cup with one of her sons. The photo, which was taken back in 2012 was captioned: “We love chikin!”

This made Bure take a stand and confront those who attacked her, and she did that through her spokesperson. “Candace told me that she drove her son to get food at Chick-fil-A and she only ordered an iced tea for herself,” the spokesperson said, adding that the accusations of Bure lying about not having eaten fast food in the last two decades were ‘ridiculous.’ “Candace is only holding a cup,” her spokesperson further added.

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In her book Reshaping It All, from 2010, Bure opened up about her eating disorder. In a 2016 interview, Bure shared with ET: “I knew I had a problem but again, it’s like being on a runaway train and you wanna get off but you don’t know how to get off.” Further, the Full House star noted, “I kind of lost my identity in a sense and what happened was I turned to food for comfort when my husband was traveling and when I was alone. I had a very unhealthy relationship with food that turned into bulimia. I dealt with it for several years but it wasn’t about body image and trying to feel good — It was about trying to find comfort or fill voids within myself.”

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Bure, who is a mother of three, wants her children to be aware of the importance of healthy eating and fitness.

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Jeff Bridges provides an update on his health – he almost died two years ago

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Jeff Bridges, The Big Lebowski star, was honored with Lifetime Achievement at the 2023 Critics Choice Awards in Los Angeles.

The award was presented to him by his long-time friend John Goodman.

Watching Bridges stepping on stage and receiving an award made his fans extremely happy, especially because the actor has experienced very hard two years when it came to his health.

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Back in 2020, Bridges was diagnosed with cancer and was forced to undergo chemo treatments. Unfortunately, while battling the disease, both he and his wife contracted COVID-19. As his body was already weak from the cancer treatments he received and his immune system was compromised, he had a hard time fighting the virus, which unfortunately left him unable to stand on his feet.

“I had no defenses. That’s what chemo does — it strips you of all your immune system. I had nothing to fight it,” said Bridges in an interview with PEOPLE earlier this year. “I was pretty close to dying. I was in surrender mode. I was ready to go. I was dancing with my mortality,” the actor recalled.

Luckily, he overcame both COVID-19 and cancer and he’s now in remission. “Although it is a serious disease, I feel fortunate that I have a great team of doctors and the prognosis is good,” he wrote.

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During his acceptance speech at the 2023 Critics Choice Awards, Bridges said he dedicates the award to his late father, Lloyd Bridges. As he was overwhelmed, he forgot to share all of the remarks he had prepared beforehand, but he still got the chance to do so while in the press room.

“I was sick for two years — with cancer and COVID — and when I talked about my family … I wanted to, you know, talk about their support during that time,” He then added, “I didn’t think I was going to make it at all, let alone get going back to work.”

“When you get close to losing something like that, your gratitude and your thankfulness for what you have, the people that you love, and the love that you feel for your loved ones, grows,” he said. “It just magnifies it, and that was something positive that came out of it.”

And yes, not only Bridges feels way better, but he’s back on set. “But because they supported me so beautifully, I was able to go back and finish The Old Man. We were stopped in the middle of the season and it was very surreal. It was like we had a two year long weekend ya know?”

He then said how the last two years felt like a dream to him. “I’d say to Amy Brennamen and [John] Lithgow, and say, ‘I had the weirdest dream guys. I was in the hospital. I couldn’t believe it. But their support during those times  — and also The Old Man. Doing that show was terrific and I’m so happy we’re going to do another season starting in March.”

He shared how blessed he feels, saying, “I’m so blessed to have this cast. To get back to what invigorates you, it feels great, man.”

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We are glad Jeff Bridges was able to overcome the obstacles that stood on his way and he’s now filming again.

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