Blake Shelton knows next
week’s Country Music Association Awards are going to sting a bit following his
split from Miranda Lambert.
The “Voice”
coach and country superstar told Seth Meyers
he’s bracing himself for being the butt of a few jokes.
“This year is going
to be awkward at the CMAs, speaking of jokes,” Blake said during a visit
to “Late Night with Seth Meyers” on
Tuesday. “[Country music] is such a family. Everybody there is friends,
you know? There’s gotta be a joke about me and Miranda.”
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Blake seems ready to take
the stings in stride – he admitted he thinks co-host Brad Paisley should
take jabs at his recent divorce.
“Brad Paisley is not doing
his job if he doesn’t look down there and go, ‘Haha!’ I mean, he’s gotta do
it,” Blake said.
“Then you are ready for it?” Seth asked.
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“You have to address
the elephant in the room,” Blake answered. “He has to. We’ve had the
conversations, like, ‘Okay, dude, I will go sit there and let you kick me in
the face a few times.’ I know it’s coming, you
know.”
No matter what goes on
during the show, the country superstar said the afterparties never let him
down.
“Oh my God – there
have been some times that, I remember the beginnings… the beginnings of those
parties were so much fun, I remember… everybody’s friends,” he said.
“If you’re in the country industry, it really is a family – a big inbred
family.”
It’s a good thing Blake is
prepared to be the butt of CMAs jokes, as Brad
previously told Access Hollywood the country music divorce
“outbreak” was giving him and co-host Carrie Underwood plenty of CMAs
fodder.
(Blake, 39, and Miranda,
31, divorced in July after four years of marriage; Reba McEntire split from her
husband days later. “Real Life” singer Jake Owen also split from his
wife this summer.)
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“[It’s] good for
country music – better songwriting, you know?” Brad joked to Access in a
September interview. “There’s nothing worse than, ‘Oh I love you,
everything’s great.’ It’s better like, ‘You cheating liar,
no good.'”
Adding, “Those are
the songs that you want to hear in our format. So that’s all good. It’s a good
year to be the host.”
The 49th Country Music
Association Awards will air live on Wednesday, Nov. 4 at 8/7c on ABC.
— Erin O’Sullivan
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