Jon Stewart and Pete Davidson are hosting a comedy benefit in New York to mark the 25th anniversary of 9/11.  It’ll include sets from Aziz Ansari, Bill Burr, Dave Chappelle, and Nikki Glaser, with more to be announced. Proceeds will go towards various 9/11 charities.  Presale tickets go on sale tomorrow. It’s called “NYC Still Rising After 25 Years: A 9/11 Comedy Benefit”. It’ll be held Thursday, September 10th at Madison Square Garden.

Ella Langley’s song “Choosin’ Texas” keeps breaking records.  It’s #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the 15th week, which passes Mariah Carey’s “We Belong Together” and Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You”.  Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” is the only song by a solo female artist to spend more time at #1.  It’s also one of only eight tracks ever to spend 15 weeks on top of the Hot 100. And that’s not the only chart she’s dominating . . . “Choosin’ Texas” is #1 on Streaming Songs for a 16th week and Hot Country Songs for a 33rd week.

Bret Michaels had to postpone tour dates to recover from his complicated kidney stone surgery.

Here are a few fun facts about Megan Moroney.  She’d rather date a hockey player than a cowboy . . . she’d love to raid Dolly Parton’s wardrobe . . . and she’s able to sign the entire American Sign Language alphabet (You can watch that clip here.  Or go deep on her entire Q&A session here.)

Carly Simon revealed she has Parkinson’s disease and is cancer-free after having skin cancer on her face. The cancer was removed from her face, but the surgery affected her appearance and made her self-conscious (check out the irony of having written ‘You’re So Vain’). She said she hasn’t stopped living or working and is releasing a new album on August 14th. (Read all about Carly’s health struggles in her post here.)

The National Examiner says Dolly Parton is allegedly helping plan Reba McEntire’s wedding.  Reba wants a low key ceremony with lots of friends and family.  A source tells the magazine, “When Dolly is involved it’s hard to keep anything low-key. She’s encouraging  Reba to make this a big wedding — Dolly loves the idea of throwing a huge party!  Dolly is thrilled to have something to take her mind off her troubles. Being stuck at home while she’s recuperating has been very hard because she’s just not used to sitting still for this long.”

WWLP says former Cowboys quarterback, and current NFL broadcaster, Tony Romo was recently charged with a DUI. He was driving in Milwaukee when officers stopped him. He performed poorly during a field sobriety test and was charged with operating a vehicle while under the influence. Romo is from Burlington, Wisconsin. He has a September 21st court date.

People magazine says Kelly Ripa has finally been silenced. She is recovering from gum graft surgery and has been told she cannot talk because it would impede her healing. She had the surgery because she has a receding gum line. Kevin Jonas filled in for her yesterday.

If there’s one thing country artists know, it’s that the show must go on.  Ella Langley recently made headlines for handling a wardrobe issue in style by tossing on a Baltimore Ravens jersey.  And now Megan Moroney just shared that the same thing happened to her once too. Megan was performing at the Bourbon & Beyond festival in Kentucky and that’s when disaster nearly struck.  Just three songs into her set, the back of her dress suddenly popped open. Megan said she immediately felt a breeze and realized she had a problem on her hands.  And she remembered thinking, quote, “There’s nothing on under this dress.”  But fortunately, she remembered her agent was wearing a jersey backstage. So, during a guitar-change break, she went and asked her agent for the jersey.  It went right over the dress, and Megan finished the rest of the performance without missing a beat. So, based on Megan and Ella’s recent wardrobe experiences, maybe every country star should keep an emergency jersey nearby . . . just in case.

Page Six says Robert Downey Jr will make $100 million for two more Avengers films. The two films kick off in December with ‘’Avengers: Doomsday’’. Robert may also make a cameo in another Marvel project.

Nikki Bella tells Ringside News that she plans to retire from the WWE again in 2027. “I really just want to finish this out exactly how I want it. I want, you know, if I got to break rules, I’m going to break rules. But I want to end it how I see it, so I don’t look back and go, What if? Creatively, if I feel a certain way, I want to do it. I don’t want to sit there and go, ‘Oh, but follow the rules and be a good girl.’ Like, I want to challenge myself. I want to fight for myself. I want to stick up for what I believe in.”

John Cena tells SocialNews.XYZ that his two hair transplants have totally changed his life. “The objective is to get more hair, and this was the best way to do it, talking with Ken Anderson, my doctor over there. I love the guy. He’s totally changed my life. I went back to  him like, ‘Man, you did great. I have this one small, small, small spot. Can you do it?’ He’s like, ‘I can. My best results are — if you’re bold enough to shave your head, I can keep the follicles.’ My first operation was 13 and a half hours. The second one was eight hours. And I’m rocking this hair thing with the promise that he’s working. I have full trust and faith in him with this process.”

Attack of the Fanboy says a  Loxahatchee, Florida man recently caused $2,000 in damages during a screening of ‘’The Odyssey.’’ Nickolas Vanderplate was heavily intoxicated and knocked over a customer’s drink inside the Regal Royal Palm Beach Theater.  He then ran through the lobby where he slipped and fell on tile. Vanderplate got up and ran into a  theatre where he interrupted The Odyssey and started screaming. He ran out an  emergency exit door. The $2,000 emergency exit door was torn from its hinges. Vanderplate fled before deputies caught him. He was charged with criminal mischief. Vanderplate told cops he was looking for his missing Vape.

Page Six says Tom Cruise’s daughter Suri Cruise has severed ties with him. She changed her last name to Noelle. Public records show she is registered to vote in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania under the name Suri Noelle.   The rising star is studying musical theater at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

Will Ferrell tells The Wrap that he stood up for himself after a fan told him he was no Larry David.  “I was at a restaurant. I was walking to the bathroom and I just happened to be in lockstep with this woman who looks up and is like, ‘Oh, hi. How are you?’” ’You’re very funny … but you’re no Larry David.’ And, I go, ‘Oh, well, yeah.’ I kind of chuckled. I’m like, ‘Are you kidding me? He’s one of the best. He’s a king.’ he’s like, ‘I’m serious. You’re no Larry David. You’re not even close to him’. And then I’m like, ‘Okay. Oh, we’re going there, right?’ So I was like, ‘You know what? I get it. You like Larry David. Why don’t you go back to your table and shut up?’”

Morgan Wallen tells Billboard magazine that his fans make him tear up in concert. “I like looking them in the eyes. There’s usually a few people every night where I’m just like, ‘God, that is like the happiest person in the world right now,’ and I always pick those. I’m almost tearing up thinking about it. It’s just like, man, I mean a lot to this person, I can tell. I try to tell them, ‘Hey, I saw you up there. I saw you tonight.’”

Whiskey Riff says Morgan Wallen may be good luck for race car drivers.  Corey Heim drove a Brickyard 400 car with Wallen’s name on it. Felix Rosenqvist won the Indy 500 in a car sponsored by Morgan

Ella Langley says her grandmother is the one who discovered she could sing.  The NY Post quotes her as saying, “I was, like, the first girl in the family, and I started to match pitch with [my grandma] as a baby, and so she figured out I could sing, and singing was her thing, and  my grandpa could, like I said, play any instrument by ear, and so at their house, that’s all we did. I sang at church a lot. I learned how to read from singing hymnals “ really, just the whole time, like, my whole family, we all just were like, ‘This is what she’s gonna do.’”

WATE says Dolly Parton’s brother, Coy Parton, has died at the age of 82. He worked as a crane operator in Tennessee for years. He was also a hunter and a farmer

Jason Aldean thinks too many new artists are headlining too soon. CountryChord quotes him as saying,  “You’ve got two songs that people really care about, what are you gonna do for the other 80 minutes? Everybody wants to be a headliner.”

Global Legal Post says Carrie Underwood is launching a wellness brand and fitness app. The move will blend branding with health tech and personal wellness products.

Complex magazine says the New York Yankees are hosting another George Costanza bobblehead night. The first 18,000 fans get a George Costanza Calzone Bobblehead on August 27th when the Yankees host the Houston Astros. The bobblehead draws from Seinfeld Season 7’s “The Calzone” episode. Collector demand is high, with pre-sale listings on eBay at $149.95 and up.

Naughty But Nice says Katie Holmes’ daughter Suri Cruise, allegedly approves of her new boyfriend. Katie has introduced Suri to artist Jason Bard Yarmosky.   Suri liked him immediately.  A source says,  “She’s incredibly protective of her mom, but more than anything, she wants to see Katie happy. That meant the world to Katie. Let’s be honest—if Suri didn’t like him, he’d already be history. Katie trusts her daughter’s instincts completely. No relationship will ever come before Suri.”