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"Taylor Swift has been named &amp;#039;Entertainer of the Year&amp;#039; at the Academy of Country Music Awards for the second year in a row. The Speak Now musician, who first won the award last year, accepted her trophy from Lionel Richie at Sunday night&amp;#039;s (April 1) ceremony at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.      &amp;quot;Thank you so much to the fans who voted for this, I&amp;#039;m so happy about this,&amp;quot; Swift said. &amp;quot;I want to say to my fellow nominees in this category - I respect you so much and I love you.&amp;quot; She also mentioned her intended ACMs date Kevin McGuire, a terminally-ill fan who was not well enough to attend the awards, adding: &amp;quot;We work hard and we try to give back, and recently I&amp;#039;ve become aware of a different struggle that&amp;#039;s going on.  &amp;quot;My date tonight was supposed to be a high school footballer player named Kevin McGuire, and he&amp;#039;s not here but I promised I&amp;#039;d give him a shoutout, so Kevin, and all your family and friends, thank you for wanting to take me to the ACMs.&amp;quot; Swift also thanked her family, her touring band, &amp;quot;everyone who helps me make music&amp;quot;, and expressed gratitude towards her fans once again before leaving the stage.  &amp;gt; ACM Awards 2012: Winners and nominees in full Miranda Lambert took home two awards following her triple awards win at last year&amp;#039;s ceremony, saying that she was &amp;quot;so humbled&amp;quot; by her victory in the &amp;#039;Female Vocalist of the Year&amp;#039; category. Lambert&amp;#039;s husband Blake Shelton, who won the &amp;#039;Male Vocalist of the Year&amp;#039; award, struggled to put together an acceptance speech, saying that he &amp;quot;didn&amp;#039;t see [it] coming at all&amp;quot;. After losing to Swift in the &amp;#039;Entertainer of the Year&amp;#039; category, Shelton, who hosted the awards telecast with Reba McEntire, joked: &amp;quot;Is there at least a silver medal or second place or something?&amp;quot; Jason Aldean and Kelly Clarkson triumphed in the &amp;#039;Single of the Year&amp;#039; and &amp;#039;Vocal Event Of The Year&amp;#039; awards for their duet &amp;#039;Don&amp;#039;t You Wanna Stay&amp;#039;. &amp;quot;She came in and made a great song and took it to a great place,&amp;quot; Aldean said while accepting the &amp;#039;Single of the Year&amp;#039; trophy, while Clarkson thanked the country music community &amp;quot;for welcoming me from the pop world&amp;quot;.  &amp;gt; Academy of Country Music Awards to stay on CBS until 2021 Scotty McCreery won the fan-voted &amp;#039;New Artist of the Year&amp;#039; award, shaking hands with his fellow nominees as he made his way to the stage. The American Idol season 10 winner accepted his award from last year&amp;#039;s winners The Band Perry, thanking God and his record label during a swift acceptance speech.       McCreery also saluted country music radio stations for the support they had given him before concluding: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve got to thank the fans, you guys are incredible.&amp;quot; The audience paid tribute to former ACM winner Earl Scruggs, who died earlier this week, with a round of applause and a standing ovation. Tim McGraw and Kenny Chesney duetted together on &amp;#039;Feel Like a Rock Star&amp;#039; as a preview of their forthcoming &amp;#039;Brothers of the Sun&amp;#039; tour, while The Voice coach Shelton closed the broadcast by singing with Richie. Actor, comedian and Grammy award winner Steve Martin also joined Rascall Flatts for a rendition of &amp;#039;Banjo&amp;#039;, while Martina McBride and Train&amp;#039;s Pat Monahan serenaded newlyweds Frank Tucci and Christina Davidson as they got married during the ceremony. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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