. >> 'cause of blake shelton. >> jay: oh, blake shelton. >> big country fan. >> jay: her name's chelseaience. she likes country, but is she a a good caroler or a bad caroler? [ sleigh bells ] [ audience yells ] ♪ rocking around the christmas tree have a happy holiday ♪ [ light laughter ] ♪ everyone's dancing merrily in a new old-fashioned way ♪ >> not my best performance. >> jay: hi, what's your name? >> jeff. >> jay: jeff, what do you do? >> i engineer. >> jay: engineer. like at amtrak or what? >> no, i work for nestle. >> jay: you ever been to a a karaoke bar? >> i have. >> jay: just the way you say it makes it sound like it didn't go well. >> well, usually i have a a couple drinks in me before i go. >> jay: you have a couple -- you always have a few drinks before you go to the karaoke bar. do you have any hobbies? >> i like to ski. >> jay: and where are you from originally? >> colorado. >> jay: oh, colorado. okay. from colorado, likes winter sports, has done karaoke, but only after a few drinks. >> a few. >> jay: and what are you drinking? >> i'd say rum and a coke. >> jay: rum and a

. >> reporter: the performance line-up includes blake shelton, the band perry and alabama who will alsohonored with the aca greatest hit award. >> we'll do a little medley of songs and it is kind of -- we count it a really unique honor to be able to perform for all of these people. they gave us the opportunity to do a medley. we'll do our number one songs including our first number one single. >> reporter: it gives fans the opportunity to vote for their favorites in several different categories including touring, videos are artists and albums. >> this countdown is something that no one else has done. >> reporter: while the artists are hard after the work rehearsing, the gifting continues. >> everything from blinged out shirts and shoes to great dog tags for the men. >> reporter: going into the show, jason aldean and zach brown band lead with eight nominations each. see who wins, who gives the best speech and who rocks the house at this jam session planned for the second animal american country awards. >> can you catch the show tonight at 8:00 right here on fox 5. >>> fox 5 morning news

leann rimes and blake shelton and miranda lambert and sir paul mccartney. not all stars are enjoying happily ever after. scarlet johansson and ryan reynolds called it quits and jennifer lopez moving on from marc anthony. after a public cheating scandal, demi moore filed for divorce from ashton kutcher. a little too real for kardashian followers. kim kardashian caused the pandemonium filing for divorce 72 days after marrying kris humphries. >> i think a lot of fans are outraged by the split. a lot of people put in a lot of time watching the show, so invested in her journey to find love then she gets divorced 72 days after this multimillion dollar wedding. a lot of people were upset about this. >> reporter: what is hollywood without high profile scandals. arnold schwarzenegger's wife maria shriver saying good-bye. he admitted to fearing a child with the long term housekeeper. >> it's insane. >> reporter: styling the headlines of the week, actor charlie sheen's public mel down. he -- meltdown. he drank way too much tiger blood. he got fired from "two and a hal

. >> blake shelton is amazing. i love him, too. brad paisley is great.bellum. >> ellen: love them. >> you name them, i love them. they're all great. >> ellen: all right. >> i'm freaking out. >> ellen: i think it's going to be exciting for you, ashley, because you're going to get to meet them on wednesday, because we're giving you tickets and backstage passes and party passes and all kinds of -- [cheers and applause] you're going to the cmas. have fun, ashley. you can catch the cma awards tomorrow night at 8:00 on abc. we'll be right back. have fun, ashley. [cheers and applause] >> ellen: did you like my costume? >> i couldn't believe it. i was like that's ellen on the "ellen" show. >> ellen: yep. man: i propose 3 cheers for those we leave behind. hip hip hooray! [cheering] father: congratulations. it's in paper now. [laughs] great job. congratulations. i'm proud of you. all right. oh, fine. ensign elliot. who's gonna salute him? guys, who gets to salute him first? closed captioning and other considerations for "the ellen degeneres show" provided by -- >>

today, country superstar miranda lambert, her life with blake shelton. what is married life like?" all new on cbs. >>> that's right. central park makes y >>> that's right, central park makes you want to just jump right in. 32 degrees today in new york. great day to go swimming. welcome back to the "early show," i'm chris wragge along with erica hill. this has been a great year for viral videos. remember the talking dog? >> who could forget? >> come on talk. come on, baby come on. this has gotten over 70 million hits on youtube, 70 million. coming up we're going to show you some of the hottest internet videos of the year. >> that dog is very clean, too, by the way. >>> also ahead, a look at the local legend that's being called america's loch ness monster for centuries. centuries! people have said they see him in the deep waters of lake champlain. we'll hear from a couple locals who say they have seen this mysterious monster, first sìc& reported siting 1609. >> i believe you're right. >>> plus we all know the fruitcake is the most notorious christmas gift of all, but if you give fr