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‘Morgan Waylon’? Jeff Bridges Mispronounces Morgan Wallen’s Name While Revealing Biggest CMA Award of the Night
Jeff Bridges mispronounces Morgan Wallen's name while revealing the CMA entertainer of the year award.
Not only did Bridges bring The Dude to life in 1998’s The Big Lebowski, creating one of the most beloved (and imitated) cinematic characters of the last 30 years, but he beautifully portrayed an alcoholic country singer in 2009’s Crazy Heart and won the best actor Oscar for it. Shortly after Crazy Heart, Bridges – who used to play around on the guitar with Kris Kristofferson when the two worked together on 1980’s Heaven’s Gate – began taking music more seriously in a professional sense. “Let’s hear it for Morgan!” he continued as 2024 CMAs co-hosts Luke Bryan, Peyton Manning and Lainey Wilson rushed the stage to relieve him at that moment with some closing comments and jokes about their bespoke CMA host t-shirts.
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