Blake & Gwen: LOVE ON THE LINE

FROM LIFE ON HIS OKLAHOMA RANCH TO THE BRIGHT LIGHTS OF LAS VEGAS, GROWING DISTANCE AND PRESSURE ARE TESTING BLAKE SHELTON AND GWEN STEFANI'S DECADE-LONG BOND.

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MAKE IT WORK

“Well, I just try not to screw up,” Blake told Today last year of his strategy for staying married. “I mean, she’s Gwen Stefani. If I mess that up, that’s the screw-up of a lifetime, right?”

BLAKE SHELTON and Gwen Stefani haven't walked a red carpet together since March 2025 — two months before he released “Hangin’ On,” their duet about “breaking up but still trying to stay together,” as the country music star put it. Though he insisted at the time that the song wasn’t autobiographical (“I hope,” he quipped) in the months that followed, fans noticed the couple was far more muted than usual on social media after years of big gestures and overt gushing.

In January, Blake, 49, publicly pushed back on speculation he and Gwen, 56, could be headed for divorce, insisting he can’t “believe anything anymore that I see on the internet.” The same month, however, an insider confirmed to Star that privately, the music stars had acknowledged that “they really drifted and became disconnected” and had implemented a five-point plan to repair their relationship that included spending more time in the same zip code, prioritizing date nights and being more intentional about work commitments so they weren't pulled in opposite directions. It was “a very deliberate reset,” explained the insider, meant to “get them back on track.”

RED CARPET BREAK Blake and Gwen haven't hit the red carpet together since March 19, 2025, when he hosted NBC's Grand Ole Opry 100th anniversary celebration.