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Jewel is breaking her silence on her rumored romance with Yellowstone star Kevin Costner.
“He’s a excellent man or woman,” she instructed Elle in a new profile printed Thursday, April 11, incorporating that “the general public fascination is rigorous for confident.”
Costner, 69, and Jewel, 49, to start with sparked romance rumors just after they were spotted investing time jointly on Necker Island in the British Virgin Islands although attending a tennis fundraiser for Jewel’s Inspiring Youngsters Basis in December past 12 months.
In photographs posted by TMZ, Costner was observed with his arms wrapped about the “You Were being Intended for Me” singer’s midsection as she held a microphone even though seemingly addressing a crowd. The pair also posed with each other in a team photo, sporting matching all-white ensembles.
Soon just after the pics have been published, an insider completely advised Us Weekly that the pair had been quietly relationship for some time.
“Kevin and Jewel had an particularly significant view of just about every other and have always gotten alongside fantastic,” the supply explained. “They look at a whole lot of packing containers for each other.”
The insider added that the duo’s romance blossomed “organically” soon after connecting over their shared appreciate of music.
“He’s really into his [band, Modern West], and singing, and she’s pretty a great deal a element of that region-and-western earth,” the resource told Us, noting that the pair ran in the exact same social circles “for years” prior to they took their partnership to the next level. “Some of their mutual mates joke how it’s astonishing they didn’t get together years in the past.”
The supply ongoing, “There’s no tension of expectation right here. Kevin just wishes to go with the flow — and so does she. But the consensus is that he’s observed a genuine keeper in Jewel and that this has the makings of anything that could be extremely special.”
Costner and Jewel’s romance came months following he and ex-spouse Christine Baumgartner – whom he wed in 2004 – finalized their divorce in September 2023 following a messy four-month legal struggle. (The pair share a few young children collectively: Cayden, 16, Hayes, 15, and Grace, 13.)
Baumgartner at first submitted for divorce in May perhaps that year, which came as a shock to the exes’ internal circle.
“Everyone believed Kevin and his spouse were being super satisfied. … He’s been blindsided by this,” a separate supply completely told Us Weekly at the time.
Two months after the actor’s divorce was finalized and a couple weeks right before the images of them canoodling ended up printed, Jewel gave Costner a shoutout on social media for being associated in her Inspiring Children Foundation.
“A minor late submitting. Each individual year, my basis @inspiringchildren and I go to Necker Island to enable host a tennis event w @richardbranson to elevate cash for our little ones. Awesome gamers like @geniebouchard occur and aid us in participating in doubles with the individuals who come…” she wrote by means of Instagram.
She added, “It’s an amazing time, and 1 I use to rest, rest and play with my son! @kevincostnermodernwest was type sufficient to mentor our children this 12 months, and Sir Richard was his usual inspiring self who also performs a necessarily mean sport of doubles!”
