“American Idol” winner
Kris Allen and his wife
and French bulldog were
involved in a serious New
Year’s Day collision, according
to hollywoodreporter.com.
Allen, who won the reality
TV singing competition
in 2009, broke his right
wrist and his pregnant wife,
Katy, sustained unspecified
injuries in the head-on
collision.
Zorro, the dog, is fine, according
to the website.
“Kristopher and Katy
are both pretty beat up but
ALIVE! Thank you Jesus!”
tweeted Allen’s mother,
Kimberly, last night.
“They are setting his arm
now and will have surgery
tomorrow. Zorro is fine,
too! Very shook up, but not
injured.”
The 27-year-old singer is
set to begin his “Out Alive”
tour this month and tweeted
his fans an update on the
wreck last night, revealing
the couple is expecting.
“Thank you @ford for
equipping me with a car
that kept my whole family
@katyallen @ZorroPup and
the little one we have on
the way safe,” he tweeted
Tuesday.
“Yes I got in a really bad
wreck tonight and yes I’m
having a lil baby,” he clarified
as #gonnabeadaddy.
Following the wreck, well
wishers including E Street
Band guitarist Steve Van
Zandt and his wife, tweeted
their concern, according to
the website.
“Stevie and I are sending
love and prayers out to Kris
and all of you. So thankful
it wasn’t worse & that he’s
doing well,” Maureen Van
Zandt tweeted.
But Allen is insisting via
tweet that the tour will
launch as planned.
“Don’t worry everyone I
may have broken my wrist
but the #OutAliveTour is
still on.”
Underwood sells first home bought after ‘Idol’
Carrie Underwood is
moving on up, according to
TMZ.com.
The entertainment
website is reporting that
Underwood, a native of Checotah,
has sold the house
in Franklin, Tenn., that she
bought after winning Fox’s
“American Idol” crown in
2005.
The 2,956-square-foot
home with three bedrooms
and three and a half
baths, which was listed for
$395,000, sold for $372,500,
reports the website. She
purchased the property
for $384,000 in November
2005, according to the
report.
Underwood has since
sold more than 15 million
albums, won multiple music
awards and married a professional
hockey player.
Grammy winner Underwood
and her husband,
Mike Fisher, who plays for
the Nashville Predators, also
bought 400 rural acres in
the foothills south of Nashville
for an estimated $3.2
million in 2011, according to
the webbite.
They also own a 5,000
square feet plus Brentwood,
Tenn., home in a gated golf
community, according to
realestalker.com.
Shelton, Lambert are most desired neighbors
A lot of people want to be
treated like celebrities, but
would they want to live next
door to one?
Most say no to living
next door to any celebrity.
But 10 percent say yes if it
could be Oklahoma country
music stars Blake Shelton
and Miranda Lambert. Even
more said no if it was reality
star Honey Boo Boo and her
family.
In its sixth annual Zillow
Celebrity neighbor Survey,
10 percent of Americans
said they would most like to
be neighbors with Shelton,
who is also a musician
coach on “The Voice” and
his lovely but not expecting
recording artist wife, Lambert.
Of course that would
mean moving to Oklahoma
because the uber-talented
couple lives on a ranch near
Tishomingo. The couple was
named “The Most Desirable
Neighbor for 2013,” according
to Zillow, with their
popularity ranking higher
(13 percent) among females
compared to 7 percent for
males.
Second choice of those
surveyed would be either
Reese Witherspoon or
Taylor Swift. Both garnered
9 percent of the vote. Those
voters ages 18-34 preferred
Swift (12 percent) over
Witherspoon (7 percent).
Married voters responding
to the survey preferred
actress Witherspoon (10
percent) over pop music star
Swift (8 percent).
Voted third-most most
desirable neighbor was
Comedy Central’s Jon
Stewart with 8 percent of
the vote. He was the choice
of more male voters (10
percent) than female voters
(6 percent).
Cable reality show star
Alana “Honey Boo Boo”
Thompson and her family
were voted the least desirable
neighbors.
At least 21 percent of
voters surveyed said no to
living next door to the Georgia
child beauty pageant
contestant and her family.
The second-most undesirable
celebrity couple
to share a fence line with,
according to voters, was
the newly-pregnant Kim
Kardashian and boyfriend
Kanye West with 18 percent
of the vote.
Next on the not-celebrityneighbor
material list was
Donald Trump with 12 percent.
“Kimye” and Trump
ranked higher on the worst
celebrity neighbor list compared
to Lance Armstrong (2
percent) and Clint Eastwood
(2 percent).
“This year we noticed a
trend on the worst-neighbor
side; for three years in a
row now, the casts of reality
television shows have dominated
the top of our worst
celebrity neighbor list.
“Not surprisingly, celebrities
with full-time camera
crews, in addition to
paparazzi, aren’t America’s
top choices to live next
door,” said Amy Bohutinsky,
chief marketing officer for
the real estate information
marketplace, in a press
release.
“But it isn’t just reality
television stars that are
getting the neighbor boot.
Most people don’t want
to live next to any celebrity,
regardless of why they
are famous. In fact, more
people voiced their desire
not to have a celebrity
neighbor in 2013 than in
any of the past years we’ve
run this poll.”
Also on the list of “Most
Desirable” neighbors was:
Beyonce and Jay-Z (4 percent),
Jessica Biel and new
hubby Justin Timberlake (4
percent), Kristen Stewart
(and possibly Robert Pattinson)
(4 percent), Justin
Bieber (2 percent) and
other (8 percent). Fortyfive
percent said no to any
celebrity included on the
survey’s list.
The “Most Undesirable
Celebrity” neighbors
included: Taylor Swift (1
percent), Kristen Stewart
(and maybe Robert Pattinson)
(1 percent) and other (2
percent). None of the above
got 20 percent of the vote.
