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Kelly Clarkson has returned to television after a difficult break.

After ex-husband Brandon Blackstock passed away, the television host took time off — from TV and from her planned Vegas residency.

However, we reported that she would return despite some doubts.

The day has come. And Clarkson’s colleagues are marveling at how she smiles and sings for the audience after everything.

‘The Kelly Clarkson Show’ is back

Following the death of ex-husband Brandon Blackstock, Kelly Clarkson took a break from The Kelly Clarkson Show in order to spend time with their children.

She already made an “emotional” return and participated in a live taping, USA Today reports.

We do not know when exactly this episode filmed, save that it was a “Tuesday morning.”

The Monday, September 29 episode did not include any mention of Blackstock during the taping.

However, the Kellyoke segments — which, as you might infer from the name, involve singing — might feel a little on the nose.

Per the report, these will “reflect things that maybe she wouldn’t talk about verbally in a sitting on the couch interview.”

The season premiere is keeping it ‘light’

“A lot happened for us all in the last year, on personal and career levels,” music director Jason Halbert acknowledged.

Meanwhile, showrunner Alex Duda said that the season premiere is using “light” as a motif.

“When the world is dark or heavy, [we] look for the light,” Duda explained.

“That’s what we’ve done since the beginning. We wanted to reaffirm that.”

For Kelly Clarkson returning, the show features Colin Farrell and Margot Robbie in a lighthearted A Big Bold Beautiful Journey promotional interview.

For contrast, there is also an interview with people who rescued children during the floods in Texas this past July.

“I don’t know how [Clarkson] compartmentalizes watching that segment, super emotional, and then jumping into, like, making crafts with kids and then jumping into emoting a song,” Halbert expressed.

She’s been back to work for weeks

As we said, we do not know when this particular episode filmed.

But we know what Season 7 production began during the second week of September.

(There is more to production than filming!)

Grief, in all of its causes, is not a linear process. There are ups and downs.

A dream, a poignant moment in a film, even a commercial can hit you when you least expect it.

This will be a process for Kelly Clarkson, just as it is for anyone else.

Kelly Clarkson Makes Emotional Return to Television After Ex-Husband’s Death was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.

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We’ve got a sad shocker out of Hollywood:

Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban have broken up after two decades as a couple and 19 years as husband and wife.

Neither the actress nor the musician has commented on the split just yet, but multiple insiders have confirmed the unfortunate news… with E! News stating that the parents of Sunday Rose and Faith Margaret have been living apart “since the beginning of summer.”

A source tells People Magazine, meanwhile, that “really hasn’t been a secret” how the Oscar-winner and the country artist have “been living separately for a while now.”

“People close to Keith felt like the split was kind of inevitable,” this source relayed to the aforementioned outlet.

Kidman and Urban started dating in 2005 and exchanged vows in 2006.

Two months before their split was revealed the the public, E! discovered that Kidman had put in an application to become a resident of Portugal.

It seems worth noting at this point that Urban was not listed on the form. However, someone with knowledge of the situation claimed back then that his absence was simply due to scheduling conflicts.

Although both Kidman and Urban have been wildly successful in their respective industries, the two have not talked much about their marriage in the press.

Kidman, though, opened up about their partnership in an interview for the September 2021 issue of Harper’s Bazaar, telling the magazine:

“We’re always working through stuff, but it’s very much love-based, so there’s an enormous amount of give and take. I want him to have the best life he can have, and he responds the same way.”

The celebrities were last photographed together in June at a FIFA Club World Cup 2025 game in Nashville.

That same month, Kidman celebrated the couple’s 19th wedding anniversary with a lovely Instagram photo.

Prior to dating and then marrying Urban, Kidman was the wife of Tom Cruise; the two divorced in 2001.

“I was young. I think I offered it up?” she also told Harper Bazaar four years ago.

“Maybe I’ve gotten a bit more trepidatious, but I’m always trying to be as open as possible. I just prefer to live in the world that way. I’m wary at times, and I’ve been hurt, but at the same time I much prefer a warm approach rather than a prickly shutdown approach. My husband, Keith, says that when he met me, he said, ‘How’s your heart?’ And I apparently responded, ‘Open.’”

We hope this remains the case going forward.

The actress and the singer are coming off busy summers… with Kidman recently wrapped filming Practical Magic 2 in London…. and Urban off on his High and Alive World Tour. He is next scheduled to play on October 2 in Hershey, Pennsylvania.

Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban: Wow! It’s Over After 20 Years! was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.

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