LOS ANGELES (AP) – Usher must be looking down at members of Team Blake. Last night on “The Voice” Usher commented on the fancy, sparkling cowboy boots worn by two of Blake Shelton’s team members. Usher told Danielle Bradbery her red boots were performing on their own. Usher did some accessorizing of his own. He put on a dark-rimmed pair of glasses in support of his team member, Michelle Chamuel. Host Carson Daly started calling Usher — Urkel. Tonight, two acts will be eliminated, leaving the top six. Half could be members of Team Blake, which has three remaining acts.

NEW YORK (AP) – The star of “The Bachelorette?” in 2004 nearly drank herself to death. Meredith Phillips tells People magazine says she used to drink more than 20 bottles of wine a week and would black out every day. She says she finally realized she was killing herself. So she got help and says she’s been sober more than 150 days now.

WASHINGTON (AP) – “American Idol” winner Candice Glover likes her audiences big. Glover says if there are a couple of hundred people in the audience, she can see faces and that makes her nervous. Glover says with a crowd of 300,000, she can’t pick out anybody. She didn’t show any nerves when she sang the national anthem at the national Memorial Day concert in Washington over the weekend, because it was a big crowd. Glover also had no problem singing the anthem, even though it’s a notoriously hard song to sing. Glover used to sing it every week for two years for U.S. Marine graduates at a restaurant in her hometown.