Kind of.  He was on “Ellen” yesterday and she talked him into appearing in “As the Tide Turns,” a jokey soap opera she has created to sell Tide detergent.  This required a little acting, and I have to say that Luke needs a bit of work in that area!  At any rate, Ellen does get him to strip down a bit, ripping his shirt open in a very soap-y move.  He also sang, by the way…

Here’s Luke Bryan singing a Lady Gaga song in concert. Not something I thought I’d ever see in my lifetime, but there you go.

…on the charts, that is.  Kanye West, famous for ruining Taylor Swift’s big moment a few years back at the MTV Awards, has prevented Luke Bryan from having a CD that is #1 on both the country charts and the all-genre Billboard 200.  While Luke sold 145,000 copies of “Tailgates and Tanlines,”  Kanye and Jay-Z sold 436,000 copies of their new CD, and that’s pretty tough to beat.  Congrats to Luke, though, for his first-ever country-chart-topping CD.

Check out Luke’s new future scar:  right there on his forehead like Harry Potter’s lighning bolt scar.  How did this happen?  Luke’s in New York promoting his new album, “Tailgates and Tanlines,” and I guess he decided it would be  good idea to do some skateboarding in Central Park.  No helmet, of course.  So he ended up in the ER getting stitches on his pretty boy face.  He ought to be more careful with his cuteness.

I told you yesterday about Nicole McCoy, the Marine who asked Luke Bryan to her Ball, in the same spirit that other marines asked out Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis. The difference here? Luke is married. Well, it turns out that Nicole’s married, too! This could be considered a little skeezy, but in fact it’s all on the up and up. Nicole says her whole family loves Luke, and that’s why she decided to give it a shot. Luke says he’s pretty sure he’ll be working that night, but he also says he’s sure his wife would understand if he did go. “There’s no bigger supporter of the troops than her,” he says. “I’m gonna check it out and see what we can do…whatever we can do to make their jobs easier and offer support, that’s what we want to do.”

If you follow celeb news, you know that a new trend is Marines making videos asking celebrities like Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake to be their dates at their Marine Corps Balls.  Mila said yes, Justin said yes, so what will Luke Bryan say?  This cute Marine asked him to her soiree, and we’re not sure what he will say.  Not because he doesn’t support the troops, but because he’s on tour and he’s also MARRIED with two kids.  Of course she knows this, and even says that her party is close by where his family lives.  I hope he takes her up on it!

Another video of an overly excited fan getting taken off the stage…I can’t resist these!  Here’s what happens when Luke Bryan, in a very tight pair of jeans, asks the country girls to shake it for him, again and again.  Eventually someone takes him up on it.  And will not be denied. It happens at about 1:41