Nicole Beals

Nicole’s News- May 28

When Brothers Osborne first started out, they called themselves Captain Kid, after a liquor store in their hometown. Then, they noticed on Facebook that there was a band in Paris already using the name so they decided to change it. John Osborne says there was already an Osborne Brothers so out of laziness, they gave up and just switched the order.

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Jimmie Allen is a married man. The country singer married fiance, Alexis Gale, yesterday (May 27).  The guest list included Darius Rucker, Tyler Rich and Chuck Wicks. The couple shares a daughter, Naomi Bettie, born in 2020 and are also parents to Aadyn, Jimmie’s son from a previous relationship.

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