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"&lt;img style=\"float: left;\" src=\"http://ll-media.tmz.com/2010/05/02/0501-chely-wright-ex-credit.jpg\" /&gt;TMZ has learned the big \"coming out\" announcement planned for this week will be ... country star&lt;strong&gt; Chely Wright&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There's been a big buzz over the last week as to which celeb was announcing he/she was gay ... we knew it was going to be unveiled in PEOPLE mag next week.&amp;nbsp; But now TMZ knows for sure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wright has a book coming out this week as well -- it's called, \"Like Me.\"&amp;nbsp; And she has a CD coming out too -- called \"Lifted Off the Ground.\"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The 39-year-old singer scored a #1 country song back in 1999 with \"Single White Female,\" when she was named Academy of Country Music new artist of the year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wright is the first major country artist ever to come out.&amp;nbsp; She has been romantically linked to a number of celebs, including &lt;strong&gt;Brad Paisley&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;\n&lt;div style=\"float: right;\"&gt;&lt;!-- relatedpoll --&gt;&lt;/div&gt;\nThis is a big deal in the country world.&amp;nbsp; Chely is rolling the dice on her career ... it's unclear how traditionally-conservative country fans will react.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Interesting ... she lists Howard Bragman as her publicist, who was the mastermind behind the Chaz Bono story.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mystery solved.&lt;br /&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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