Former American Idol winner Kelly Clarkson surely thought that she’d found her happily-ever-after when she married Brandon Blackstock in 2013. Frankly, the singer was enamored with him from the start, even “experienc[ing] love at first sight,” according to The Oprah Magazine. The star told Ryan Seacrest on his KIIS-FM show in 2012 (via E! News), “We were just in a room together, and then he came up and said he was from the same hometown as me and I was like, ‘Oh, we’re so getting married.’ I was so that girl.”
Unfortunately for Clarkson, Blackstock was married to another woman at the time, but that didn’t stop the singer from thinking about him. “I’d go on dates and be like, ‘Man, I didn’t get that feeling I got that one time [with Brandon],” she admitted to People in 2013. Eventually, the pair found love together and welcomed two children, River Rose and Remington Alexander, who made them a family of six along with Blackstock’s children from his first marriage, Savannah and Seth.
However, on June 11, 2020, Us Weekly confirmed that the star and Blackstock were getting a divorce after almost seven years of marriage. So who is the man that first captured Clarkson’s heart before their relationship eventually fell apart?
Brandon Blackstock is Reba McEntire's former step-son
Kelly Clarkson and Brandon Blackstock run in the same entertainment industry circle thanks to the fact that she’s a singer and he’s a talent manager. Coincidentally, one of Blackstock’s “longtime client[s]” is Blake Shelton, Clarkson’s fellow judge on The Voice, according to The Oprah Magazine. While they’re in the same industry, Clarkson and Blackstock may not have found love together if it wasn’t for Brandon’s father, Narvel Blackstock.
While the “Because of You” performer and the man who was to become her husband (and then ex-husband) first met at the ACM Awards in 2006, Oprah Mag explains that Narvel, who is also a talent agent and the founder of Starstruck Entertainment, “re-introduced Clarkson and his son in 2012 when she was gearing up to perform the National Anthem at the Super Bowl.” At that point, Brandon was reportedly divorced from his first wife. Way to play matchmaker, dad!
While that’s certainly a sweet detail, what’s even cooler is the fact that Narvel was married to Reba McEntire for 26 years, which means that she was Brandon’s step-mom and Kelly’s stepmother-in-law. Sadly, Reba and Narvel’s marriage ended in divorce, just like Kelly and Brandon’s did.
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