Carrie Underwood opened her acceptance speech for the Academy of Country Music’s 2020 entertainer of the year prize with a pleased sigh of a statement: “2020, man.”
Her slightly quizzical exultation had to do with the fact that she had tied with Thomas Rhett for the Acm Awards’ top prize, proving that, for her at least, not all the weirdnesses of this year are bad weirdnesses.
“I am more than happy to share this with Thomas Rhett,” she said in her speech, after exchanging an elbow-bump with telecast host Keith Urban (pictured above).
Rhett returned the compliment backstage, doing a virtual press conference over Zoom with members of the media. “It’s been such a weird year. I mean, obviously I’m talking to all of y’all on a conference call,” Rhett said, “When (Urban) said there was a tie, I was like, oh my gosh this is amazing — first...
Her slightly quizzical exultation had to do with the fact that she had tied with Thomas Rhett for the Acm Awards’ top prize, proving that, for her at least, not all the weirdnesses of this year are bad weirdnesses.
“I am more than happy to share this with Thomas Rhett,” she said in her speech, after exchanging an elbow-bump with telecast host Keith Urban (pictured above).
Rhett returned the compliment backstage, doing a virtual press conference over Zoom with members of the media. “It’s been such a weird year. I mean, obviously I’m talking to all of y’all on a conference call,” Rhett said, “When (Urban) said there was a tie, I was like, oh my gosh this is amazing — first...
- 9/17/2020
- by Chris Willman
- Variety Film + TV
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