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Fab Five Talking About Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani - Ask Us Something, One of Us Will Answer

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A few months ago this blog experienced a tragedy. Who you knew as M, our rock, our sister, our most cherished and beloved friend, unexpectedly passed away. It knocked us down completely. It leveled us. M has school age kids and a husband and family, and the enormity of this left everyone reeling. The effect on us was only a tiny part of the tragedy. Respecting those involved, we kept it quiet until everyone was ready.

M loved us but she loved all of you, also. She loved this blog, even when it annoyed her to no end. She always said it was one of her favorite things. Even though we (B and L) had stepped back, like A and J before us, we still talked to M in our chat throughout the day, every single day. We decided to try to keep the blog going for her. When things were normal, there were only a few things that M confided in us that would make her step back from running this blog, and now, some of those things are coming to pass. We feel it is the right time to end the PWC blog. We started it for love and we end it with love.

We thought about just fading out, but we believed you all had a right to know about M. You loved her too, and the feeling was mutual. And she loved Blake and Gwen’s love story so much. They charmed her, frustrated her, made her laugh, and stressed her out, but she adored them both.

Thanks for going on this journey with us. May all good things find you all, and our couple, and may a trashcan fall on the exes heads :) M would be laughing that we wrote that. Nothing that bad. Just a trashcan.

This is PWC, signing off.

Love, A, B, J, L, and the lovely, loyal, stalwart, wickedly funny, mischievous, kind, and always caring and understanding, M.

At least February and March the LV venue is already booked for other shows and that is when he typically tours. I guess it is possible he does more dates there later in the year.

I feel some of you are overthinking this. Their Coachella set would do fine at the Sphere, though they would obviously add/rearrange songs and update graphics/visuals. Just because it's the Sphere doesn't mean they have to change who they are and how they perform or re-brand themselves into a "Vegas show". The venue and experience is more for the fans who want to experience it rather than musicians, who will be performing on a stage, which they've done hundreds of times. As far as the concern about them being able to sell tickets, what they charge, etc., this is the time where we will see if all the annoying "fans" who have been begging and have blamed Gwen for over a decade put their money where their mouth is and show up.

I agree with you about what is needed at the Sphere but I also cannot see a world where Gwen did not need it to be a Vegas style show. That’s a fun part for her. Even for a short set at Coachella she designed costumes for everyone and the stage. Her artistic touch was everywhere and she enjoys that part almost more than anything imo.

✈️ As expected, the same charter they used Friday is scheduled to fly from LA to Fresno Saturday early evening, arriving in Fresno around 6:30pm

Do you think, given Blake and Amanda's comments about Vegas being B's only headlining shows this year that he is going to have an extended residency? I can't see him doing three shows per week continuously like Gwen did, but maybe Friday and Saturdays during the winter and spring before the festivals start?

I could see that!

Amanda confirmed no Blake tour next year

You can tell by her nails that they filmed these videos within the past week or so. So this was definitely filmed within this time period but she just started posting it now. This is actually very common for her.

So Amanda just said on her IG stories in response to someone asking about a tour next year, that Vegas is the only place we will be seeing B next year...i assume she means his own full headlining concerts...not one off shows like festivals and stuff...

For corporate gigs all expenses are paid for by the corporation. The graphics she used in those shows are probably much less elaborate than she would use in her own show or a ND show.

I wonder if gr will ever try to marry his current gf and/or have a child with her. Not because he believes in marriage or truly loves her or children, but because it will provide him the media attention he so desperately craves. To him, any attention is good attention and he would definitely receive some. And with how consumed he is with Gwen, in his warped mind, it will provide himself a narrative of "Look at me, I'm a worthy man and good husband and someone is willing to marry me." I say this because I just remembered a post he made after attending Grant Achatz wedding where he posted that he and his wife "are the example for us" or something of that nature. From the gf perspective, it gets her one step closer to her sisters status of marrying a musician and it could lock some future cash up for her, but most importantly to her, it would provide the opportunity to post pics of the children while referring to herself as a step-mom, which we all know she would 100% do.

I could see it.

She may have still filmed multiple days and was just showing us the video from day 1 today

Good point.

It’s ironic that Gwen just posted online and said their flower project was in day one and more to come because they literally just left today so I don’t think we’ll be getting a day 2

Gwen just posted videos of she and Blake planting! And since this looks like it’s a big project, we might have more coming! 🥰

Blake and Gwen back to LA today. Blake has a show in California tomorrow

Hi. This is the anon who posted about my sister’s friend who hired ML. In response to the comments that “she should have known what she was getting,” I should clarify that this was an extremely wealthy person who is not a big country music fan. She has lots of money and lots of party planners. I can’t remember the specifics but think it was more of a theme event and the planner just hired available big name country music artists. And it was a few years ago when ML was in her bought-for award period.

Speaking of kids looking like GR, I see almost none of him in Daisy. She looks just like her mom.

“Zac is fronting between $6 million – $8 million to perform there—the Sphere doesn’t chip in a lot except for certain bands, but this is ridiculous. This is Zac Brown Band. The Sphere paid U2 $15 million for their show and are in negotiations with No Doubt, where (front woman) Gwen Stefani is asking for $1 million per show guarantee. No Doubt! Please. It’s not 2002.”

This is the quote from the article where they act like it’s ridiculous Gwen/ND could command that kind of $. Zac Brown is coughing up $6-8 million of their own $ to do the Sphere. It’s an ego/biographical project but he also seems to think he will recoup that & still make $.

It seems like a big part of the artists’ costs (other than the usual stuff) is producing the graphics for that particular venue. Which makes me wonder if the cost of that was included in the payout for the corporate show Gwen did earlier this year or whether she fronted that cost?