Jelly Roll Showcases New Look, Reveals Who He Wants to Win Entertainer of the Year at the 2025 ACM Awards (Exclusive)

Jelly Roll is manifesting who he wants to spot triumph astatine the 2025 ACM Awards.

Speaking pinch PEOPLE connected nan event's reddish carpet, nan "Save Me" creator — calved Jason Bradley DeFord – says he's rooting for 1 peculiar adjacent to triumph nan Entertainer of nan Year award.

Jelly, 40, reveals that he has "a batch of acquaintances" successful nan euphony manufacture and "very fewer friends," but notes that Lainey Wilson and Cody Johnson are 2 of his champion friends.

In fact, he's rooting for nan "Dirt Cheap" musician, 37, to return location nan coveted grant astatine this year's ceremony.

"I emotion Cody Johnson truthful much," says Jelly. "Since Lainey won it past year, I'm cheering for Cody to triumph Entertainer [of nan Year] this year."

The "Need a Favor" creator besides showcased his slimmer physique connected nan reddish carpet, conscionable 1 period aft he shared a milestone regarding his ongoing weight nonaccomplishment travel while appearing connected Pat McAfee’s Big Night AHT live show.

“It looks for illustration you’ve mislaid a person,” McAfee, 38, told his impermanent successful beforehand of nan unrecorded assemblage arsenic Jelly stepped backmost to show disconnected his caller look.

"I started astatine 540 lbs.,” he said. “I’m 357 lbs. [as of] this morning, baby!”

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Jelly past revealed that planned to suffer different 100 lbs. "to spell skydiving pinch my woman successful Sweden, baby!”

In December 2024, he joined his wife, Bunnie Xo, connected her Dumb Blonde podcast wherever he opened up astir his weight and his extremity to suffer much of it.

“I wanna beryllium connected nan screen of Men's Health by March of 2026,” said Jelly, which made his wife, 45, "giddy."

He added, “That's my caller goal. I wanna person 1 of nan biggest transformations"

The state prima is nominated for 3 awards astatine this year's ceremony, including entertainer of nan year, antheral creator of nan twelvemonth and medium of nan twelvemonth for his 2024 LP Beautifully Broken.

The 60th Academy of Country Music Awards, hosted by Reba McEntire, are streaming unrecorded connected Prime Video from Ford Center astatine The Star successful Frisco, Texas.