C&W’s Blake Shelton, Feeling the Heat

Posted on May 9th, 2011 3:25pm by Glenn Hunter
Filed under Celebrity, Local News, Music

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The irreverent, good-ol’-boy joking of country star Blake Shelton has landed the Ada, Okla., native on the hot seat, especially lately. The straight-shooting singer, who appeared at a fund-raiser for Dallas Summer Musicals over the weekend, has become the target of PETA and LGBT groups alike for his controversial tweets. The animal-rights outfit didn’t like Blake’s messages about bow-hunting, it seems. The gay groups have objected to a number of his comments.

After C&W singer Chely Wright came out of the closet, for example, Shelton said he was officially coming out as a lesbian, too. (He thinks she’s hot; get it?). He made a quip on TV about Jake Gyllenhaal’s role in Brokeback Mountain, and his most recent tweets parodying a Shania Twain song led to a major brouhaha last week that attracted the attention of the Huffington Post.

“Man, anything I say these days, they’ll pounce on me,” Shelton (pictured in photo by Jeanne Prejean) said with a laugh in Dallas Saturday, before an aide cut off any further comments. The hit-making singer’s an especially hot property these days because he’s a regular on NBC’s The Voice show. He’s also set to marry country queen Miranda Lambert in a hush-hush ceremony somewhere in Texas on May 14.

4 comments

  1. Check your facts. He rewrote the line from Shania’s song it was meant to be from a woman’s point of view. Once he figured how some were viewing comment, Blake tweeted it was from woman’s POV. Still GLAAD was already jumpong the gun and demanding an apology for something he didn’t do. Now Blake has had his name dragged in the mud w/ the title “violent anti-gay basher homophobe”. Just ridiculous.

    ps the Jake comment was written for Reba and Blake for the ACMs and again isn’t gay bashing..Jake is NOT gay.

    @ 6:23 pm on May 9, 2011

  2. Here is the comment he made….(”Any man that tries Touching my behind He’s gonna be a beaten, bleedin’, heaving kind of guy…”)

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    There is plenty of gay azz to go around so it seems more a fantasy of his than a reality. It reminds me of an old Bob Cat Golthwaite bit.

    @ 6:42 pm on May 9, 2011

  3. I will assume you were going for droll understatement and meant “irreverent, good-ol’-boy joking” to be read as “borderline illiterate, hostile and homophobic”.

    @ 9:31 pm on May 9, 2011

  4. Hick makes hick comments.

    @ 10:11 pm on May 9, 2011

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