{"id":33822,"date":"2025-11-19T05:25:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T10:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/?p=33822"},"modified":"2025-11-18T11:10:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T16:10:51","slug":"lainey-wilson-will-be-the-first-solo-female-cma-host-in-34-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/11\/lainey-wilson-will-be-the-first-solo-female-cma-host-in-34-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Lainey Wilson Will Be The First Solo Female CMA Host In 34 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lainey Wilson is heading into one of the biggest weeks of her life.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She&#8217;s hosting the CMA Awards solo for the first time ever, and she&#8217;s also one of this year&#8217;s top nominees with six nods.\u00a0 No big deal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lainey said growing up that her family watched the CMAs the way some families watch the Super Bowl.\u00a0 It was a full family event.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So, she also knows how rare this solo female hosting gig is.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Only Dolly Parton and Reba McEntire have done it before her.\u00a0 The last one to do it was Reba in 1991.\u00a0 So, Lainey admitted that she texted Reba for advice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And she expected a quick tip, but instead, Reba sent a whole list.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lainey admitted that she&#8217;s got some big shoes to fill, but you can tell she&#8217;s not letting the moment get too big for her.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Country Music&#8217;s Biggest Night airs live from Nashville tonight on ABC.\u00a0 And if you miss it, you can stream it the next day on Hulu.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DRIfqt8DvrQ\/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":"CMA Awards","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":33806,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1044,3011,102,2991,361],"class_list":["post-33822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-cma-awards","tag-dolly","tag-dolly-parton","tag-lainey-wilson","tag-reba"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 11:58:51","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/11\/lainey-wilson-will-be-the-first-solo-female-cma-host-in-34-years\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33822"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33838,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33822\/revisions\/33838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}