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The Independent
03-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Morgan Wallen reveals the parts of fame he doesn't like after abrupt SNL exit
Morgan Wallen doesn't always love being famous. Speaking on Theo Von's This Past Weekend podcast, the 31-year-old country artist, who shot to stardom as a contestant on season six of The Voice, said fame is 'still weird' to him nearly a week after his abrupt exit from Saturday Night Live sparked controversy. 'There's parts of that that I don't like,' Wallen said of fame. 'I think anybody who has to deal with that … it's not ideal. It's not ideal to go everywhere. 'And even if you don't get bothered, you were on edge the whole time because you thought you might [be bothered],' he continued. 'There's things that you just don't do. There's just things you don't do anymore.' The Grammy winner went on to explain how hunting always helps to relieve his anxieties. He said: 'I can go be with my buddies. I'm in the middle of nowhere. I can be at ease. I can not stress out. You just find ways to supplement it, I think, you know?' If it's not hunting, it's being in a bar. Yet, Wallen admitted, 'it might be the best thing' for him not to go out drinking so often. In fact, he hasn't stepped foot in a bar since he was arrested in Nashville in April 2024 after he threw a chair off the rooftop of Eric Church's bar. The 'Whiskey Glasses' singer ended up pleading guilty to two misdemeanor counts of reckless endangerment, resulting in a two-year probation sentence and one week in a DUI education center. Wallen's comments on fame come nearly a week after he faced criticism for abruptly exiting the SNL stage following his March 29 performance on the live, late-night comedy show. The artist ignored the tradition of staying on stage and celebrating with the cast as the credits roll at the end of the episode. Wallen gave a quick hug to host Mikey Madison (Anora) before exiting. Sources close to the 'Cowgirls' vocalist told Variety there was no ill intent behind Wallen's immediate departure or subsequent social media post, and he enjoyed himself on the SNL stage. His performance included two song debuts — 'I'm the Problem' and 'Just in Case' — from his new album, One Thing at a Time, which was released on March 3. After the episode aired, Wallen took to his Instagram Story to share a photo of his private jet on the runway with the caption, 'Get me to God's country.' The short phrase has since gone viral, and now, Wallen is capitalizing on the moment by selling T-shirts and hats with the same phrase emblazoned on them.
The Independent
31-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Morgan Wallen slammed after walking off SNL stage before the show ends: ‘Zero self control'
Morgan Wallen has made headlines for his quick exit from the Saturday Night Live set. The 31-year-old singer was a musical guest on Saturday's episode of the live program, which featured Mikey Madison as the host. As the show came to a close, the Anora star thanked Wallen, who hugged her before quickly walking off stage. However, his exit came before the broadcast was officially over, as the end credits were just starting to roll. Meanwhile, Madison stayed on the stage, as she was hugging and chatting with SNL cast members — as most hosts and musical guests do at the end of each episode. Following the episode, the 'Cowgirls' singer shared a picture on his Instagram Story of a private jet on a runway. 'Get me to God's country,' he simply wrote in the caption. On X, fans are criticizing Wallen for his behaviour. 'Morgan Wallen proving once again he has ZERO self off the stage before the credits even rolled. Hope the tantrum was worth it because you'll NEVER be on SNL again,' one person wrote. 'Morgan Wallen is the first musical guest or host on SNL that I can recall who just walked off stage during 'goodnights' before the credits even started to roll,' another added. A third wrote: 'That was the strangest SNL ending credits I've ever seen? Stage far behind them and Morgan Wallen just walking off before the credits even started rolling.' Some people on social media also slammed Wallen for posting the photo of his private jet on Instagram. 'Morgan Wallen with a little more of loser s*** he so proudly displayed running offstage down the center aisle & right past the camera at SNL curtain call,' one fan tweeted. 'This & the tone-deaf private jet flaunt couldn't be more lame & undercutting coming from a country star.' The Independent has contacted a representative for Wallen for comment. While on SNL last night, Wallen performed his song 'I'm the Problem,' from his soon-to-be-released album of the same name. He also sang the song 'Just in Case,' which is also from his new album. Before last night, Wallen last appeared on SNL in December 2020. He was originally scheduled to host an episode of the show in October 2020, but was dropped from it after footage showed him partying without social distancing amid the COVID-19 pandemic. In the videos, he was seen kissing girls and taking shots following a college football game. 'I got a call from the show letting me know that I will no longer be able to play, and that's because of Covid protocols, which I understand,' he said in an IGTV video at the time. 'I'm not positive for Covid but my actions this past weekend were pretty shortsighted and they have obviously affected my long-term goals and my dreams.' In December, Wallen pleaded guilty to misdemeanour charges after chucking a chair off the roof of a Nashville bar, which nearly hit two cops. The 'I Had Some Help' singer was held in a DUI education center for seven days. He will also be on supervised probation for two years.
The Independent
30-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
‘Zero self control': Morgan Wallen slammed after walking off SNL stage before the show ends
Morgan Wallen has made headlines for his quick exit from the Saturday Night Live set. The 31-year-old singer was a musical guest on Saturday's episode of the live program, which featured Mikey Madison as the host. , As the show came to a close, the Anora star thanked Wallen, who hugged her before quickly walking off stage. However, his exit came before the broadcast was officially over, as the end credits were just starting to roll. Meanwhile, Madison stayed on the stage, as she was hugging and chatting with SNL cast members — as most hosts and musical guests do at the end of each episode. Following the episode, the 'Cowgirls' singer shared a picture on his Instagram Story of a private jet on a runway. 'Get me to God's country,' he simply wrote in the caption. On X, fans are criticizing Wallen for his behaviour. 'Morgan Wallen proving once again he has ZERO self off the stage before the credits even rolled. Hope the tantrum was worth it because you'll NEVER be on SNL again,' one person wrote. 'Morgan Wallen is the first musical guest or host on SNL that I can recall who just walked off stage during 'goodnights' before the credits even started to roll,' another added. A third wrote: 'That was the strangest SNL ending credits I've ever seen? Stage far behind them and Morgan Wallen just walking off before the credits even started rolling.' Some people on social media also slammed Wallen for posting the photo of his private jet on Instagram. 'Morgan Wallen with a little more of loser s*** he so proudly displayed running offstage down the center aisle & right past the camera at SNL curtain call,' one fan tweeted. 'This & the tone-deaf private jet flaunt couldn't be more lame & undercutting coming from a country star.' The Independent has contacted a representative for Wallen for comment. While on SNL last night, Wallen performed his song 'I'm the Problem,' from his soon-to-be-released album of the same name. He also sang the song 'Just in Case,' which is also from his new album. Before last night, Wallen last appeared on SNL in December 2020. He was originally scheduled to host an episode of the show in October 2020, but was dropped from it after footage showed him partying without social distancing amid the COVID-19 pandemic. In the videos, he was seen kissing girls and taking shots following a college football game. 'I got a call from the show letting me know that I will no longer be able to play, and that's because of Covid protocols, which I understand,' he said in an IGTV video at the time. 'I'm not positive for Covid but my actions this past weekend were pretty shortsighted and they have obviously affected my long-term goals and my dreams.' In December, Wallen pleaded guilty to misdemeanour charges after chucking a chair off the roof of a Nashville bar, which nearly hit two cops. The 'I Had Some Help' singer was held in a DUI education center for seven days. He will also be on supervised probation for two years.
Washington Post
10-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
Tom Robbins, literary prankster-philosopher, dies at 92
NEW YORK — Tom Robbins, the novelist and prankster-philosopher who charmed and addled millions of readers with such screwball adventures as 'Even Cowgirls Get the Blues' and 'Jitterbug Perfume,' has died. He was 92. Robbins' death was confirmed by his friend, the publishing executive Craig Popelars, who said the author died Sunday morning. Pronouncing himself blessed with 'crazy wisdom,' Robbins published eight novels and the memoir 'Tibetan Peach Pie' and looked fondly upon his world of deadpan absurdity, authorial commentary and zig zag story lines. No one had a wilder imagination, whether giving us a wayward heroine with elongated thumbs in 'Cowgirls' or landing the corpse of Jesus in a makeshift zoo in 'Another Roadside Attraction.' And no one told odder jokes on himself: Robbins once described his light, scratchy drawl as sounding 'as if it's been strained through Davy Crockett's underwear.' He could fathom almost anything except growing up. People magazine would label Robbins 'the perennial flower child and wild blooming Peter Pan of American letters,' who 'dips history's pigtails in weird ink and splatters his graffiti over the face of modern fiction.' A native of Blowing Rock, North Carolina who moved to Virginia and was named 'Most Mischievous Boy' by his high school, Robbins could match any narrative in his books with one about his life. There was the time he had to see a proctologist and showed up wearing a duck mask. (The doctor and Robbins became friends). He liked to recall the food server in Texas who unbuttoned her top and revealed a faded autograph, his autograph. Or that odd moment in the 1990s when the FBI sought clues to the Unabomber's identity by reading Robbins' novel 'Still Life with Woodpecker.' Robbins would allege that two federal agents, both attractive women, were sent to interview him. 'The FBI is not stupid!' he liked to say. 'They knew my weakness!' He also managed to meet a few celebrities, thanks in part to the film adaptation of 'Even Cowgirls,' which starred Uma Thurman and Keanu Reeves, and to appearances in such movies as 'Breakfast of Champions' and 'Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle.' He wrote of being Debra Winger's date to the 1991 Academy Awards ceremony and nearly killing himself at an Oscars after-party when — hoping to impress Al Pacino — he swallowed a glass of cologne. He had happier memories of checking into a hotel and being recognized by a young, pretty clerk, who raved about his work and ignored the man standing next to him, Neil Young. In Robbins' novels, the quest was all and he helped capture the wide open spirit of the 1960s in part because he knew the life so well. He dropped acid, hitchhiked coast to coast, traveled from Tanzania to the Himalayas and carried on with friends and strangers in ways he had no right to survive. He didn't rely on topical references to mark time, but on understanding the era from the inside. 'Faulkner had his inbred Southern gothic freak show, Hemingway his European battlefields and cafes, Melville his New England with its tall ships,' he wrote in his memoir, published in 2014. 'I had, it finally dawned on me, a cultural phenomenon such as the world had not quite seen before, has not seen since; a psychic upheaval, a paradigm shift, a widespread if ultimately unsustainable egalitarian leap in consciousness. And it was all very up close and personal.' His path to fiction writing had its own rambling, hallucinatory quality. He was a dropout from Washington and Lee University (Tom Wolfe was a classmate) who joined the Air Force because he didn't know what else to do. He moved to the Pacific Northwest in the early '60s and somehow was assigned to review an opera for the Seattle Times, becoming the first classical music critic to liken Rossini to Robert Mitchum. Robbins would soon find himself in a farcical meeting with conductor Milton Katims, making conversation by pretending he was working on his own libretto, 'The Gypsy of Issaquah,' named for a Seattle suburb. 'You must admit it had an operatic ring,' Robbins insisted. By the late 1960s, publishers were hearing about his antics and thought he might have a book in him. A Doubleday editor met with Robbins and agreed to pay $2,500 for what became 'Another Roadside Attraction.' Published in 1971, Robbins' debut novel sold little in hardcover despite praise from Graham Greene and Lawrence Ferlinghetti among others, but became a hit in paperback. 'Even Cowgirls Get the Blues' came out in 1976 and eventually sold more than 1 million copies. 'Read solemnly, with expectations of conventional coherence, 'Even Cowgirls Get the Blues' will disappoint,' Thomas LeClair wrote in The New York Times. 'Entered like a garage sale, poked through and picked over, 'Cowgirls' is entertaining and, like the rippled mirror over there by the lawn mower, often instructive. Tom Robbins is one of our best practitioners of high foolishness.' Domestic stability was another prolonged adventure; one ex-girlfriend complained 'The trouble with you, Tom, is that you have too much fun.' He was married and divorced twice, and had three children, before settling down with his third wife, Alexa d'Avalon, who appeared in the film version of 'Even Cowgirls Get the Blues.' Robbins' other books included 'Half Asleep in Frogs Pajamas,' 'Fierce Invalids Home from Home Climates,' 'Villa Incognito.' His honors included the Bumbershoot Golden Umbrella Award for Lifetime Achievement and being named by Writer's Digest as among the 100 best authors of the 20th century. But he cherished no praise more than a letter received from an unnamed woman. 'Your books make me laugh, they make think, they make me horny,' his fan informed him, 'and they make me aware of all the wonder in the world.'
