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mahatmakanejeeves

(67,090 posts)
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 08:50 AM Oct 6

Meet the country music singer who is dating FBI Director Kash Patel

I didn’t see a celebrity gossip forum.

Meet the country music singer who is dating FBI Director Kash Patel

Published: Oct. 04, 2025, 8:00 a.m.


Alexis Wilkins attends GRB Entertainment's "Bad Night" premiere on Tuesday, July 21, 2015, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Matt Sayles/Invision for GRB Entertainment/AP Images)Matt Sayles/Invision/AP

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By Brian Linder | blinder@pennlive.com
Alexis Wilkins made headlines recently when she opened up in a Fox News interview about her claim that music execs told her to remove the American Flag from her social media.

“I was told to take an American Flag out of my Instagram bio, or that I had to support certain things or do certain things in order to get booked on tours, in order to get signed to a label,” Wilkins told Fox News Digital. “There are things that you ultimately have to give up, and I wasn’t willing to bend the knee to that.”

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Yeah, that’s enough. They were made for each other.
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LakeVermilion

(1,427 posts)
1. Wow! You have to go to the link and read this...
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 08:56 AM
Oct 6

How about:

I was told to take an American Flag out of my Instagram bio, or that I had to support certain things or do certain things in order to get booked on tours, in order to get signed to a label,” Wilkins told Fox News Digital. “There are things that you ultimately have to give up, and I wasn’t willing to bend the knee to that."

Really? She certainly doesn't need a PR department.

Mike Nelson

(10,797 posts)
4. The American flag story...
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 09:09 AM
Oct 6

... makes no sense. Even more suspicious is that a "country music singer" is asked to take a US flag off their Instagram page. I could see music executives telling clients that a Russian flag might not be helpful... but an American flag... for a COUNTRY MUSIC SINGER? I think most "country music" singers would be advised to ADD a US flag to their profiles! Something is dishonest.

Bettie

(18,971 posts)
8. She's dating Cash Patel
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 09:25 AM
Oct 6

so, of course she's making things up.

But, as someone else said, she's kind of long in the tooth for that crowd.

Bernardo de La Paz

(59,632 posts)
9. I sampled a list of top country singers #11 thru 15 & four of 5 had American flag themes or merch incl Dolly Parton
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 09:41 AM
Oct 6

Not bold front and center, but around the site, a couple only in merchandise

Coldwater

(406 posts)
6. Actually I believe
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 09:18 AM
Oct 6

he was living in a home owned by a guy in Las Vegas looking for political favors

LakeVermilion

(1,427 posts)
10. This reminds me of Maria Butina, the Russian, who was dating a Republican operative in the first Krasnov administration.
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 09:45 AM
Oct 6

She was guilty of being a foreign agent who didn't register with the United States government. Her plea deal sent her back to Russia.

Ursus Rex

(446 posts)
18. She actually looks like Butina
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 02:04 PM
Oct 6

... maybe they've gotten so good they can pick a specific look and type for the job.

taxi

(2,580 posts)
11. Here's a big surprise - she's suing a podcaster for $5 million.
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 09:51 AM
Oct 6

She states there are things she isn't willing to bend a knee for, being a grifter and a Republican aren't on the list.

she has also filed a $5 million defamation case against podcaster

from the link

Jilly_in_VA

(13,297 posts)
14. I thought he was married already
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 11:31 AM
Oct 6

Learn something new every day. (And why isn't he? Any respectable Indian or Indian-American man of his age is married with several children already!)

Ars Longa

(314 posts)
15. It looks to me to be very tranparent attempt at Attention and MAGA Grifting.
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 11:45 AM
Oct 6

She probably has a line of patriotic American Flag Merch ready to go .

Totally Tunsie

(11,351 posts)
17. Why, in an article dated October 4, 2025, are they using a photo of her
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 11:55 AM
Oct 6

taken 10 years earlier on July 21, 2015, when she was just 16? Had to Google her to see a current photo. Brian Linder, author of the article couldn't find a more recent photo?

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