My Publicist Note Book

Last Christmas,  Gwen Stefani  knew just what to get the man who pretty much has everything, including hundreds of acres worth of property, more than enough millions to keep him in jeans and plaid button-downs for life and, apparently, a pack of wildebeests that roam his Oklahoma ranch.  With boyfriend  Blake Shelton  unable to fit his 6-foot-5 frame into any of the furniture in her Hollywood Hills home, she purchased him his own couch to lie on. "I'm putting it outside," she noted during a November appearance on  The Tonight Show  so that Shelton would be able to situate himself across from a bonfire and make believe he was deep in the woods. "I try to make him feel comfortable in L.A." Quite the lofty goal for someone who equates logging weeks in California to being locked up. While the 42-year-old native of Ada, O.K. (with a population of 17,000, it's home to nearly four million fewer people than L.A.) can h...

The 2012 Country Music Association Awards   Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert capped an emotional evening with Shelton's first entertainer of the year award, the last of The Voice coach's three CMA Awards wins.  And the Country's biggest night goes too............................. Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton By Free Britney Blake also won male vocalist of the year award, while wife Miranda won female vocalist of the year, and the couple shared song of the year for their collaboration "Over You." Lambert openly wept on stage as her husband recounted how his late father Dick spurred the couple to write the heart-rending song the loss of his brother Richie. "My dad told me, 'Son, you should write a song about your brother,"' he said. "I lost my dad in January, and it's so amazing to me that tonight, after he's gone, he's still right." "I just needed the right person to write this song...