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cmp NOVEMBER 2018 Volume 49 Number 11 Issue 585 News Walt Trott in Nashville Duncan Warwick in London Strictly Hazzard Editor Duncan Warwick Contributors David Allan, Janet Aspley, Donnie Ayers, Craig Baguley, Larry Delaney, Don Cusic, Julie Flaskett, Kelly Gregory, Michael Hingston, Tony Ives, Spencer Leigh, John Lomax III, , Roland Purdy, Adrian Peel, Paul Riley, Alex Rossi, Wayne Smart, Chris Smith, Tom Travis, Walt Trott, Dave Watkins, Jack Watkins New release consultant: Steve Tidbury Assistant editor / Special projects coordinator Kelly Gregory Photographers Patricia Presley, Barry Dixon, Billie McAleer Printed by Zenith Media www.zenith-media.co.uk Distributor Seymour International Press Distributors Ltd. 2 East Poultry Avenue London EC1A 9PT Telephone [phone] Fax [phone] Country Music People is published the last Thursday of each month by KICKIN’ CUTS LIMITED 24 Darley Close, Wittering, Peterborough PE8 6EQ, UK Telephone [phone] - 783689 [email protected] www.cmpcountry.com ©2018 Kickin’ Cuts Ltd. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted by any means without the prior written permission of the Publisher. The Publisher accepts no responsibility for statement of fact or opinion expressed by contributors. The views of the contributors are not necessarily those of Country Music People or its editor. 4 cmp - NOVEMBER 2018 Singer-actor John Schneider, known for #1 country hits like I’ve Been Around Enough To Know, What’s A Memory Like You (Doin’ In A Love Like This) and You’re the Last Thing I Needed Tonight, has been tripping the light fantastic recently on ABC’s popular dance competition Dancing With The Stars. He’s paired thus far with professional dancer Emma Slater. No stranger to TV viewers, Schneider, now 58, co-starred with Tom Wopat on The Dukes Of Hazzard, (CBS, 1979-1985), before turning country star. Last summer, however, he found himself sentenced to three days in Los Angeles County Jail for failing to pay alimony to estranged wife Elly Castle Schneider. In 2014, Elly ended their marriage, citing irreconcilable differences, and he was ordered to pay her $18,911 a month, money he insisted he doesn’t have: “Do I look like a guy who’s got an extra $19,000 a month?” John claims he lost his money in a March 2016 flooding of his movie studio in Louisiana, and poor investments. He was first wed to one-time Miss America Tawny Little (1983-’86), but that too ended in divorce. In 1993, he married Elly, and became dad to her two children from an earlier marriage - Leah and Chasen - and their daughter Karis, all now grown. He currently lives with film producer Alicia Allain of Maven Entertainment. A native of Mt. Kisco, N.Y., John became a child actor at age 8, appearing in plays in New York and Atlanta, including “Oklahoma” and “Chicago.” He debuted briefly in Burt Reynolds’ 1977 film “Smokey & The Bandit.” Apart from singing and acting, he and Marie Osmond co-founded the Children’s Miracle Network in 1983, to help raise funding for U.S. children’s hospitals. Schneider also had recurring roles in the TV series Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993-’98) and Smallville (2006-2011). Film credits include a remake of “Stagecoach,” “Night of the Twisters” and “Come Dance At My Wedding.” He is currently filming “Roe v. Wade” as Justice White and has a new album out, a 52-song release titled Odyssey, featuring a music video of “the best songs never recorded,” by such notables as Keith Stegall, Mac Davis and Bill Anderson. Featured, too, are guest artists like Bobby Bare, T. G. Sheppard, Kelly Lang, Doug Supernaw, Steve Wariner and Tanya Tucker. Still, Schneider says he doesn’t understand why the judge is still holding him accountable for huge alimony payments he cannot make: “I was treated like absolute trash in court... I was treated far better in L.A. County Jail than I was ever treated in the courthouse.”