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Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani Won’t Attend CMA Awards 2025
Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani are staying in their sweet escape.
The couple will not be attending the 2025 Country Music Association Awards on Nov. 19, with a source telling E! News “Blake and Gwen will be watching the CMAs on their TV this year.”
Indeed, Gwen and Blake—who have been married since 2021—will enjoy performances from the likes of Keith Urban, Little Big Town, Kelsea Ballerini, Brandi Carlisle and Luke Combs from the comfort of their couch.
At the Lainey Wilson-hosted event, Blake is nominated for one award for the Musical Event of the Year category for his feature on Post Malone’s “Pour Me a Drink.”
But while Gwen and Blake have opted to keep a low public profile in recent months, it doesn’t mean they haven’t been busy.
Not only have the pair signed on to be the headliners for New Orleans’ Endymion Extravaganza in February, but Gwen recently released some new Christmas songs, called “Hot Cocoa” and “Shake the Snow Globe,” ahead of the holiday season.
Inspiration for “Hot Cocoa,” Gwen revealed in a Nov. 14 Instagram video, came from “the idea that things go together, that are so right together—just like hot chocolate and marshmallows, or just like Rudolph and his nose.”
In the song, the No Doubt lead sings, “We’re evergreen we’re just the thing and everybody knows / You and me we’re just like hot cocoa, hot cocoa and marshmallows,” later adding, “I love you and you love me and everybody knows.”
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And while Gwen—who shares sons Kingston, 19, Zuma, 16, and Apollo, 11, with ex Gavin Rossdale—is singing about all things Christmas in the track, she’s never shied away from describing how well she and Blake have gone together since they met on The Voice in 2015.
As she told The Guardian in November 2024, “Meeting my husband felt like a second chance at life. Because when my family fell apart, it felt like a catastrophe. How do you pick yourself up from that? But God put this other person there to love me.”
Meanwhile, Blake—who as previously married to Miranda Lambert and Kaynette Williams—has also been candid about he and Gwen entering each other’s lives at the perfect moment.
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“We found each other at a very low point,” he said on The Good Dish in 2022. “She kept me from going to the absolute bottom, you know? It was like literally falling off a cliff and a hand reached out and caught me is what it feels like.”
He added, “I’ve never had that with somebody where it just felt like, no matter what, she has my back. It’s the greatest feeling ever.”
For more of Gwen and Blake’s bubble pop electric romance, read on.
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Let the Rumors Begin
“I think he’s hot, don’t you? But to be super honest, it is kind of crazy we both went through the same thing at the same time. There’s been so many people that I’ve gotten so much comfort from. Just people coming to me and telling me their story. Not confiding, but sharing, which has just helped me see things from a different perspective and move forward.” —Gwen to Ryan Seacrest in November 2015
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Look of Love
“How can I not be [in love]? She is the greatest. She is the greatest.” —Blake on Today in March 2018.
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“Saved My Life”
“When you have a broken heart—at least, when I do—you got to get it out of your system. You want people to sympathize with you. I was at rock bottom, in the middle of hell…Gwen saved my life. Who else on earth could understand going through a high-profile divorce from another musician?” —Blake to Billboard in July 2016
Country Livin’
“I grew up in Orange County, so I don’t know if you’ve been down there, but it’s nothing like the middle of America and our nature was the beach. So to be able to be in Oklahoma and be able to experience a ranch kind of vibe is just something I never ever had, so it’s just been really, it’s been great, amazing.” —Gwen on Jimmy Kimmel Live in August 2020
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Wedding Bells
“You know, what? I love weddings. The kids love him. We love him. Everybody loves him. He is lovable! I think about it all the time.” —Gwen to Ellen DeGeneres when discussing marrying Blake
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Fierce Fashion
“[My style is] more feminine than ever before. It’s probably because I’m super in love and have a really manly man. I enjoy letting that part of me come out now because when I was in No Doubt, I never thought of myself as sexy. Even in my 30s, I was a tomboy. I hardly ever carried a purse.” —Gwen to InStyle in July 2018
Sexiest Man Alive
“He doesn’t even like to do a photo shoot. You can never convince him to do it. So he just called me like, ‘They want me to do this.’ And I was like, ‘You should totally do it! You’re so sexy!'” —Gwen’s reaction to Blake being named People‘s Sexiest Man Alive
Hot Commodity
“He’s so good at the show, I mean, he’s just so magical. Blake is literally a unicorn. Like anywhere he goes, people are just attracted to him, and he’s such an incredible talent.” —Gwen on SiriusXM’s Andy Cohen Live in September 2019
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Biggest Fans
“Setting here watching @gwenstefani rehearsals it continues to shock me the amount of GIANT hits this girl has written… I highly recommend y’all catch her Vegas show if you can get tickets!!!” —Blake on Twitter in June 2018
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A Hand to Hold
“I think she’s kept me from going to the absolute bottom. It was like literally falling off a cliff and a hand reached out and caught me, is what it feels like. I’ve never had that with somebody where it just felt like no matter what, she has my back. It’s the greatest feeling.” — Blake on Good Dish in March 2022
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Unexpected Miracles
“Something that I wanted since I was a little girl is to be married and have this love that I saw my parents have and have babies. That dream was completely ruined; it was crushed, and I had to figure out how I was going to move forward and make a new dream. And God putting Blake in my life was just that miracle.” — Gwen to People in November 2024
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“A Second Chance at Life”
“Meeting my husband felt like a second chance at life. Because when my family fell apart, it felt like a catastrophe. How do you pick yourself up from that? But God put this other person there to love me.” — Gwen to The Guardian in November 2024
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