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Brooks & Dunn, Ray Stevens join Country Music Hall of Fame

The best-selling country duo of all time;brooks & Dunn, comedian and singer Ray Stevens; and record executive Jerry Bradley have been inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in a star-filled ceremony.

Reba Mcentire, Luke Bryan, Trisha Yearwood, Ricky Skaggs, Marty Stuart and Travis Tritt were on hand Sunday evening to pay tribute to the inductees during the event in Nashville, Tennessee.

Brooks & Dunn, with 20 No. 1 hits, have sold more than 28 million albums in the U.S. Stevens is known for his novelty songs like “The Streak,” but also the Grammy-winning “Everything Is Beautiful.”

Deschanel and Scott have scary good time

Is it even real if it’s not on Instagram? Zooey Deschanel and Jonathan Scott have taken the next big step in their relationsh­ip, making things Instagram official Sunday. The new couple shared photos from their date night at Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights to the social media platform.

Deschanel and Scott joined Scott’s twin brother, Drew, and his wife, Linda Phan, at the spooky themed amusement park.

The photos show the couples surrounded by costumed actors with skull masks and chain saws, while Scott holds the “New Girl” star in his arms as she has a terrified expression.

Deschanel and Scott began dating after they met in August while filming the series “Carpool Karaoke.”

Hostin’s true-crime show set for television debut

Sunny Hostin is turning her View to true crime.

The former federal prosecutor, who moved into television with appearance­s on Court TV and Fox News, as a legal analyst for CNN and as a co-host of ABC’S “The “View,” is getting her own show, “Truth About Murder With Sunny Hostin,” premiering Tuesday (10 p.m EDT/PDT) on Investigat­ion Discovery.

Hostin, 50, joined “The View” in 2016.

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