Dutton Ranch‘s Morgan Wade isn’t the only country singer to make the transition to scripted TV roles.
Jelly Roll played a scene-stealing character on season 3 of Fire Country, marking his acting debut. Fire Country star — and executive producer — Max Thieriot later told Us Weekly that he “reached out first” to Jelly Roll after crossing paths at the CMT Music Awards.
“He was finishing drying his hands with a towel in the bathroom at the CMTs [in April 2024]. I ran into him in the bathroom straight up at the CMT Music Awards,” he recalled in 2025. “I said, ‘Thank you for letting us have some of...
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