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Former “Bachelor” contestant Jade Roper Tolbert delivered a baby in her master bedroom’s closet. She has been married to Tanner Tolbert, who she met on Bachelor in Paradise for a…

Carrie Underwood's 'Big Awesome Mess'
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Former “Bachelor” contestant Jade Roper Tolbert delivered a baby in her master bedroom’s closet. She has been married to Tanner Tolbert, who she met on Bachelor in Paradise for a while now and this is their second child. But when she went into labor they quickly realized they wouldn’t make it to the hospital, so paramedics set her up in the closet and delivered the baby right there. Fortunately the delivery went well and they have a healthy 7 pounds 9 ounces baby boy.

Granger Smith’s wife shared some of the things which are helping her cope after the tragic death of their son. She posted a quote from a Sherrie Burgess’s book “Bronner: A Journey to Understand”

Luke Bryan and his wife Caroline when on vacation without their kids and posted some videos to Instagram.

Thomas Rhett and Kelsea Ballerini are returning at the host of the CMA Fest TV special for the third time. They say they’ve reviewed their first two times hosting and feel they were way to casual in year one and way two “Extra” in year two so they’ve going to try and just be themselves this year. The show will air on August 4th on ABC.

Carrie Underwood surprised an elementary school choir which was rehearsing for a performance on the CMA Fest and performing her song “The Champion”. Mid song, she walked out on stage to tell them what a great job they were doing

Maren Morris has the #1 song on Country radio right now with “Girl”, the first song by a woman to top the chart since Kelsea Ballerini’s “Miss Me More”

Carly Pearce credits her fiancé Michael Ray with helping her “love her body” more. She posted pictures from before they were together and now and says she used to be super conscious of everything she ate before

The Bachelorette finale aired last night. Hannah B rejected a proposal from Tyler and chose to get engaged to Jed, but then discovered he had been dating someone else already and dumped him to go back to Tyler

Kane Brown and his wife Caitlyn are pregnant with their first child and doing all of the first baby things. The strangest thing they say they’ve done is that the baby seat is already in the back seat of the car even though she won’t be giving birth for a while yet

Jim Clerkin has been the producer for the morning show on Country 102.5 for the past five years. He has been on the radio in Boston for 25 years. He is also an accomplished club DJ, a referee for several local sports leagues and terminally single. Jim writes about the Country 102.5 audience, relationships and parenting.