Kevin Costner is setting the file straight relating to his friendship with Jewel.
Throughout an interview with Howard Stern on Tuesday, June 18, the Yellowstone actor, 69, revealed that he and the singer, 50, are strictly platonic.
Stern requested the Oscar winner if he was in love for the time being, noting he’s “heard rumors” about him and the “Silly Video games” singer. Costner defined that he’s not in love or concerned with Jewel and that the hypothesis is nothing greater than rumors.
“No, Jewel and I are mates. We have by no means gone out ever,” he asserted. “She’s particular, and I do not need, I do not need these rumors to wreck our friendship as a result of that is what now we have. She’s particular to me. She’s lovely sufficient to exit with.”
“How does that s— begin? Kevin, how does that work,” Stern, 70, requested.
“We have been down at Branson’s Island. She has a basis, which I did not know, and she or he was a part of the muse. And Richard Branson has been asking me for years to come back all the way down to Necker Island, and so I lastly did,” he started.
“I am divorced impulsively. I am a single father, and he is requested me for, , 10 years to come back down there. I mentioned, ‘I suppose I will go down.’ ” He then defined that it was him, Jewel, Emma Watson and 7 different folks “who weren’t celebrities.”
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“She was someone I simply had some super conversations with together with Emma,” he mentioned, earlier than explaining that the “rumor was [he] went down on a non-public aircraft along with her” and “went again on a non-public aircraft [with her].”
“I used to be on with 9 folks and, and I do not need the press to wreck this for us, as a result of … I’ve had conversations along with her, textual content clever, and she or he’s so sensible, and she or he’s been via rather a lot herself, and so now we have a friendship. We do not have a romance, and we have not dated,” revealed Costner.
“She’s lovely and sensible sufficient for all these issues. It simply has by no means occurred for us,” he added. “She’s all the pieces you may assume, but it surely simply hasn’t occurred.”
He additionally revealed to Stern that even his teenage youngsters — sons Cayden, 17, Hayes, 15, and daughter Grace, 14 — have been asking in regards to the rumored romance. He shares his three youngsters with ex-wife Christine Baumgartner.
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The pair sparked hypothesis after they have been seen collectively on the aforementioned charity occasion within the British Virgin Islands in December 2023.
The pictures adopted Baumgartner’s divorce submitting in Could 2023. The pair have been married for 18 years and finalized their divorce in February 2024.
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Jewel was beforehand married to rodeo champion Ty Murray. The 2 eloped in 2008 earlier than they divorced in 2014. They share 12-year-old son Kase.
In April 2024, she performed coy with ELLE magazine when requested about their relationship. “He is an ideal individual,” she mentioned. “The general public fascination is intense for certain.”
