{"id":8811,"date":"2019-08-04T07:00:43","date_gmt":"2019-08-04T11:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=8811"},"modified":"2019-08-02T11:55:17","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T15:55:17","slug":"thomas-rhett-on-his-friendship-with-kelsea-ballerini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2019\/08\/thomas-rhett-on-his-friendship-with-kelsea-ballerini\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Rhett On His Friendship With Kelsea Ballerini"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-o8xzz1__x0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Thomas Rhett re-teams with Kelsea Ballerini for their third year of co-hosting duties on the CMA Fest prime time special airing on ABC on Sunday, August 4th.<\/p>\n<p>The two acts have built a close friendship between touring, co-hosting and recording a song together (for Thomas&#8217; Center Point Road album), which Thomas said definitely shines through in this year&#8217;s CMA Fest special.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;When you spend that much time with somebody, if you don&#8217;t become friends I think you&#8217;re miserable at that point, so me and Kelsea have known each other for about five years now and me and my wife hang out with her and Morgan quite a bit, and when you have this downtime you kind of just sit and talk about life and really get to know each other better and I think that the more friends you are and the better you know somebody it definitely should translate on the TV when you get to co-host with each other.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The three-hour CMA Fest TV special airs at 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Performers include Thomas, Kelsea, Carrie Underwood and rocker Joan Jett; Kelsea Ballerini and The Chainsmokers; Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus along with Keith Urban; Brothers Osborne and Brooks &amp; Dunn; Ashley McBryde with Brantley Gilbert and Lindsay Ell; Tim McGraw and Luke Combs; and Maren Morris and Brandi Carlile, Dierks Bentley, Kane Brown, Luke Bryan, Dan + Shay, Florida Georgia Line, Chris Janson, Miranda Lambert, Little Big Town, Midland, Old Dominion, Pistol Annies, Rascal Flatts, Blake Shelton and Brett Young.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thomas Rhett re-teams with Kelsea Ballerini for their third year of co-hosting duties on the CMA Fest prime time special airing on ABC on Sunday, August 4th.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":8836,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[696,68,30,54],"class_list":["post-8811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-cma-fest","tag-kelsea-ballerini","tag-nashville","tag-thomas-rhett"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 07:17:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2019\/08\/thomas-rhett-on-his-friendship-with-kelsea-ballerini\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8811","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=8811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8812,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8811\/revisions\/8812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}