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Keith Urban skillfully sidestepped an awkward moment during his tour when a fan inadvertently brought up his recent separation from Nicole Kidman.
During his High and Alive tour stop at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena, a fan interaction was captured on video and shared on TikTok on October 17. In the clip, Urban, 57, appears puzzled as he converses with the audience member.
“I’m not going to like your name?” Urban asked, sounding slightly bewildered.
The fan replied, “It’s Nicole,” which prompted gasps and laughter from the crowd around them.
Despite the personal upheaval, Keith Urban is demonstrating that the show must go on. The country music icon made his first public appearance following Nicole Kidman’s divorce filing on September 30. In images acquired by TMZ on October 2, Urban was photographed arriving in Hershey, Pennsylvania, after traveling on a private jet.
Urban took the comment in good humor, briefly bowing his head and then collapsing backwards on stage in an exaggerated manner. After lying down on stage momentarily and waving his arm, Urban sat back up.
He then deflected the implied reference to his estranged wife Kidman, by jokingly asking the fan, “Did you say Nicole Richie?”
“How are you Nicole Richie?” Urban continued, “It’s A Simple Life. Is that the name of the show? What’s Nicole Richie in? The Simple Life.”
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Putting the jokes behind him, Urban then went on to help the fan tell her family that she was pregnant by showing a onesie on the big screen in a sweet moment. The baby outfit had the words “Smallest Keith Urban fan” written across the front.
On September 30, Kidman, 58, filed for divorce from Urban after 19 years of marriage.
According to court documents obtained by Us Weekly, the Big Little Lies actress cited “irreconcilable differences” as the reason for the split and listed their date of separation as the same date of the divorce filing.
Kidman requested to be named the “primary residential parent” of her and Urban’s minor children, Sunday, 17, and Faith, 14.
Nicole Kidman was spotted for the first time since filing for divorce from longtime husband Keith Urban. Kidman, 58, was seen hiking in Nashville on Wednesday, October 1, according to photos obtained by The Daily Mail. The Oscar winner sported black leggings, a gray jacket, matching hat and oversized sunglasses as she enjoyed some exercise […]
“This wasn’t Nicole’s decision, and she is devastated,” an insider told Us at the time. “Her trust was lost, and it was too far gone. Nicole had been trying to get them to work on their marriage and did not want this to get out to the public. She didn’t tell many friends what was really going on with them and was holding this in for months.”
News of their split came months after Kidman attended the Met Gala solo in May. Kidman and Urban were last spotted out in public at the FIFA Club World Cup 2025 game in Nashville on June 20. The Music City outing came just five days before their 19th wedding anniversary.
The former couple met in 2005 at the G’Day USA gala event in Los Angeles. Just one year later, they tied the knot in the Sydney suburb of Manly.
“I swear to you, she glided across the room, like floated. I don’t know how she did it,” Urban said of first crossing paths with Kidman when he reflected on their meeting during a November 2010 interview. “It was out of this world and there was a split moment where she wasn’t with anybody, there was nobody around, and I thought, ‘I’ll just go up and say hi.’”