And as much as I want to make gagging motions with my finger down my throat, I just can’t bring myself to do it.
Sure, she’s beautiful. Sure, she’s had 12 No. 1 hits, has a killer voice and sang “The Star Spangled Banner” at the Super Bowl. Sure, she has a ginormous engagement ring from her hot hockey player fiance. Sure, she’s the Academy of Country Music’s reigning Entertainer of the Year. But I can’t help it, she’s just so gosh darn ... nice!
The season 4 winner of “American Idol” has officially entrenched herself as a country music sweetheart. She’s come a long way from her humble beginnings in Oklahoma, to the whirlwind pace of “Idol” to country music superstar.
Grammy Awards, CMA/ACM Awards, People’s Choice Awards, TV appearances, her first new movie, “Soul Surfer,” being made into Muppet “Carrie Wormwood,” dating (and dumping) Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo, to finally finding true love with Ottawa Senators hockey player Mike Fisher, you would think Carrie would have a “been there, done that” attitude.
Yet, while the tabloids and entertainment shows are full of break-ups and make-ups, who cheated on who and who’s got the most plastic parts, the only thing you read or hear about Carrie is how happy she is. Even Taylor Swift has had some drama in her short life (Kanye anyone?), but not Carrie. She’s just so ... nice.
Her headline-making news lately? Well, yeah, “Temporary Home” is now her 12th chart-topping single, but more important? Her upcoming wedding.
The details out there on Underwood: No wedding cake for the couple, they want cupcakes. No demure hairstyle for her, she wants “big hair and lots of eyeliner.” The ring bearer? Her dog Ace. And the dress? “It’s in the works,” she told reporters at the Pedigree Adoption Drive on Thursday at the Bideawee animal shelter in New York City, according to this week’s People Magazine.
“It’s really pretty. It’s very in the beginning stages and it’s very me. It’s just girly and pretty, and it’s simple and glamorous at the same time.” The couple hasn’t decided where and exactly when the date will be, but even though her hair will be big, the wedding won’t, “It’s going to be a good size wedding with plenty of good food and an open bar, but nothing too overblown.”
Carrie and Mike plan to have two homes, in Ottawa, Canada, and Nashville, and she recently told the CBS “The Early Show” that she will go to as many hockey games as possible, “The more I go to games, the more people are used to seeing me around, and hopefully I’ll just be one of the wives.”
The fact that she’s up for five ACM Awards on April 18 seems kind of insignificant in comparison, huh? Now if I could just get a wedding invitation!
Contact Nancy Wilson, a morning-radio personality at WHKO-FM (K99.1), by e-mail through the Web site at k99online.com.
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