Country duo Muscadine Bloodline is made up of self-proclaimed “normal dudes” who cut their own grass and pick their own weeds and last year, found themselves losing their way trying to make it in Nashville. So the duo, made up of Charlie Muncaster and Gary Stanton, stopped and reassessed everything in their lives as they realized an underlying problem. “We realized we were playing it too safe…and we are not going to play it safe anymore,” Muncaster, 29, tells PEOPLE....

Billy and Peggy Griffin.Photo:The Templeton of Cary The Templeton of Cary Peggy Griffin, 88, still remembers the very first time she saw her husband. She was just 10 years old and on the playground of the North Carolina orphanage where she grew up. “I remember that day very well. I thought he was the cutest thing I had ever seen,” she tells PEOPLE. It was Sept. 2, 1946 and Billy Griffin, 89, had just arrived at what was then called the Methodist Orphanage....

Photo: PEIFFER WOLF CARR KANE CONWAY & WISE Attorneys for Kara Seldin-Howell and Kolton Howell submitted acomplainton Wednesday, claiming CNY Fertility Colorado was “grossly negligent and reckless” in events leading to the destruction of the couple’s embryos last year. According to court documents, the spouses traveled to Colorado in May 2021 to have Kara’s eggs retrieved for in vitro fertilization at CNY Fertility. To Kara and Kolton’s delight, embryologists at the facility produced seven embryos from their visit, leading them to believe children might soon be in their future....

Courteney CoxandLisa Kudroware friends ’til the end! The two actresses andformerFriendsstarswerethere for each otheron Thursday night, dining together at The Palm Restaurant in Beverly Hills, California. The stars, who were previously spotted together at the American Film Institute’s 46th Life Achievement Award Gala in June, were all smiles as they left the famed eatery. Cox, 54, wore a long-sleeve patterned black button-down shirt, which she tucked into a pair of simple blue jeans....

Photo: courtesy Kathleen McAllister New motherhood is challenging, even before Dad leaves to fight an unknown virus. Parenting a newborn during a pandemic lockdown meant no mommy-and-me yoga or playgroups — all the socialization that help keep new moms sane.“The pandemic was really hard for parents,” McAllister recalls. When the family moved to Atlanta in the summer of 2021, her husband Stephen Russell overheard a parent at the playground talking about the Pfizer trial for children’s vaccines....

Pebbles Rodriguez and Amy Eddyoften turned to each other for comfort and support because no one else could imagine the horror they were going through.Pebbles and Amy, then ages 12 and 14, were “married” to Tony Alamo, then 62 years old and a spiritual leader of theTony Alamo Christian Ministries, an apocalyptic group with a compound in Fouke, Arkansas.For about a decade beginning in the mid-1990s, the girls were raped, beaten and starved at the whim of Alamo, whose behavior grew more sadistic as the years went on....

Cynthia Bailey’s future onThe Real Housewives of Atlantais still up in the air, she says. The supermodel, 54, told PEOPLE’sReality Checkin a segment that aired Wednesday that she still hasn’t heard if she’s coming back to the long-running Bravo show. “I don’t even know if I’m gonna be returning next season,” she admitted, when asked about the possible fates of two of her cast mates,Porsha Williamsand Drew Sidora. The reality star also clarified to PEOPLE that she hasn’t been formally let go from the show, but “I don’t have a contract in my hand” just yet....

Photo: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagicCynthia Erivois ready to get “greenified” for the upcomingWickedfilm!The Tony Award-winning actress — who was cast as Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, in the big screen adaptation of the Broadway musical — said that she’s looking forward to transforming into the green girl now that pre-production has begun.“I haven’t seen myself as Elphaba yet,” Erivo, 35, toldEntertainment Tonight. “We’re sort of trying to decide, like, how green we’re gonna go and, like, what the stages are and whether or not it changes as she changes....

Photo: celine dion/instagram Céline Dionshared a sweet message on her son René-Charles' birthday. The legendary singer wished her eldest son a happy 21st birthday onInstagramTuesday. In the throwback photo, Dion held a newborn René-Charles in a hospital bed, while her late husbandRené Angélillooked on with love. “René-Charles, 21 years of dreams have already passed. We gave you life… Thank you very much for giving us the wonderful gift of becoming your parents,” she wrote in the caption....

Photo: Gaston County Sheriff’s Office North Carolina authorities have yet to discuss a motive but confirm that a prominent local businessman faces two counts of first-degree murder after allegedly crashing his Jeep into a restaurant where his family was eating together, killing his sheriff’s deputy daughter and his daughter-in-law, an accomplished nurse. PEOPLE learns that Roger Self, 62, was a regular at the Surf and Turf Lodge in Bessemer City and had asked several relatives to meet him there for lunch on Sunday afternoon....

Dairy Queenis already looking ahead to summer. Theice cream chainrecently announced a slew of new and returning Blizzard favorites in honor of the upcoming sunny season. The lineup of flavors, which are now available for a limited time, starts with the new peanut butter puppy chow blizzard. The frozen treat is made of vanilla soft serve and blended with puppy chow bites (cereal mixture), peanut butter and chocolate chunks. Also making its DQ debut is the Oreo brookie blizzard....

Photo: Artur Widak/NurPhoto via GettyA Dairy Queen in Phoenix remains perplexed after their giant spoon statue was stolen last week.The 15-foot statue, modeled after the plastic red spoonsDairy Queengives with their Blizzards, was secured against the side of the building. According to owners Puja Kalra and Raman Kalra, it was a popular spot for customers to snap a photo.The Kalras expressed their concern for the missing spoon, which was stolen between late Friday night and early Saturday morning....

Dakota Johnson.Photo: Dia Dipasupil/GettyDakota Johnsonis breaking into the world of film production with a bang.The 32-year-actress both stars in and produces not one but two movies at this year’sSundance Film Festival, which kicked off Thursday and runs through Jan. 30:Am I OK?andCha Cha Real Smooth, both in association with her production companyTeaTime Pictures.In a new interview with theLos Angeles Times, published Thursday, Dakota says she “just want(s) to make a difference,” after a lifetime of “growing up on-set and experiencing so many conversations around this job and this industry and the people in it and then having my own career for the last 14 years....