{"id":45608,"date":"2025-10-01T05:45:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T09:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=45608"},"modified":"2025-10-01T05:12:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T09:12:40","slug":"lainey-wilson-returns-as-host-of-the-cma-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/10\/lainey-wilson-returns-as-host-of-the-cma-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Lainey Wilson Returns As Host Of The CMA Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lainey Wilson is officially back as the host of the 59th Annual CMA Awards.<\/p>\n<p>This is Lainey&#8217;s second straight year as host, but her first time doing it solo. Last year, she shared the job with Luke Bryan and Peyton Manning.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I grew up watching the CMA Awards like it was the Super Bowl, so to be hosting for a second year is a true honor. I&#8217;m humbled that CMA has trusted me with this role, and I can&#8217;t wait to love on this genre that has given me so much.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In addition to hosting, she&#8217;s also tied with Ella Langley and Megan Moroney for the most CMA nominations this year with six, and that includes Entertainer of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>So, she could be telling jokes as the host and giving an acceptance speech back-to-back.<\/p>\n<p>The show airs live from Nashville&#8217;s Bridgestone Arena on Wednesday, November 19th, on ABC.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DPOgv4CDX5x\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lainey Wilson is officially back as the host of the 59th Annual CMA Awards.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":45610,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[305,2965],"class_list":["post-45608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-cma-awards","tag-lainey-wilson"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 15:51:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/10\/lainey-wilson-returns-as-host-of-the-cma-awards\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45609,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45608\/revisions\/45609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}