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His Nashville character is a regular at the CMT Music Awards.

And now actor Charles Esten will be taking a page out of Deacon Claybourne's book to host the popular awards show.

Charles Esten has attended the CMT Music Awards in the past (even his Nashville character has gone), and now the actor is hosting the fan-voted awards show!

Madame Tussauds could not open a Nashville attraction without including the wax figures of CMT Nashville‘s most dramatic romantic lovebirds, Rayna James and Deacon Claybourne.

A sixth season of the musical drama has been also announced for 2018

When Season 5 of Nashville wraps in June of 2017, it won’t be the last time you see the show’s stars on stage. For the second year in a row, stars Charles Esten, Clare Bowen, Chris Carmack, Jonathan Jackson and Sam Palladio are all heading across the pond for the international 2017 Nashville Tour.

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Nashville star Charles Esten was a huge hit at the festival yesterday.

"We love our Australian fans; God bless you," he told the crowd.

After his evening set the actor and musician spent two hours greeting fans who had queued in the rain to meet him.

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The CMC Music Awards, hosted by Morgan Evans will broadcast live on Foxtel’s CMC next Thursday, 23 March from The Star Gold Coast and precedes the sold out three day CMC Rocks festival, headlined by the Dixie Chicks.

The characters on CMT’s “Nashville” are poring through old home movies, journals and recording sessions on Thursday night’s episode, as they try to come to grips with the death of “Rayna Jaymes” – country star, wife and mother.

They’re not alone.

‘Those were the hardest scenes I’ve ever shot,’ Esten tells EW

Nashville may have lost a very bright star, but as they say: the show must go on. Below showrunner Marshall Herskovitz details to EW the moment Connie Britton told him she wanted to leave the CMT series, how he and the writers constructed Rayna’s heartbreaking exit, and explains what comes next for Nashville now that Britton is exiting the show.

CMT’s “Nashville” star Charles Esten is the latest addition to pay homage to Randy Travis Wednesday night (Feb. 8) at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena. Esten joins a roster of over 40 artists to pay tribute to the Country Music Hall of Famer.

 More with 'Nashville' star Charles Esten on the 'After the Show Show'

Across three airings — two on CMT and an encore on sibling nick@nite, the fifth season opner averaged nearly two million viewers and a .77 rating in adults 18-49. That was off by 20% from the show’s Live+same day average for its fourth season on ABC and by a tenth from the drama’s Season 4 finale.

The changes must be ascribed to new showrunners Marshall Herskovitz and Ed Zwick, the fellows who brought you thirtysomething, My So-Called Life, and Once and Again. The two have been working primarily in the movie industry of late, but a return to television to revive the dead-and-canceled Nashville is their current spiritual mission.

Actor Charles Esten is known for his role as singer-songwriter Deacon Claybourne on the musical drama “Nashville,” but it’s not just an act: He’s a real-life musician who plans to release many songs this year. 

“‘Nashville’ was always so special to me, and Deacon is the role of a lifetime,” Esten tells Variety. “It’s probably even more special now knowing how close we came to it being completely over.”

Charles Esten has been even more pumped for the Season 5 return of “Nashville” than the fan base who rallied forces to ensure that the Music City drama found a new home on CMT. The leading man who lays out the ongoing struggles of his character, Deacon Claybourne, week by week never faded in his feeling that “there were more stories to be told,” and now those stories continue tonight with a two-hour “Nashville” premiere. To raise the stakes even higher, Charles Esten made a resolution for his 2017 that he would release a new song every week. Thus far, the singer, songwriter, and actor is staying right on track, and in honor of the “Nashville” new season, and the connection he already feels for the ladies of “Today,” especially country music aficionado, Hoda Kotb, he offered his latest song a little early for the Jan. 5 morning show.

“Those fans of ours, they’re called Nashies; they’re not just bystanders to this event,” Esten tells The Boot. “They were integral to the pickup of Nashville; CMT itself has said it. When ABC did not pick us up, I was very grateful — still am — for the four years we had there. But what I was really grateful for was that outcry of those fans.