“Keith Urban has continued his world tour after news of his split with Nicole Kidman broke (Pictures: Getty/ Backgrid) Keith Urban was spotted without his wedding ring as he returned to the stage following his shock divorce from Nicole Kidman. It was revealed last week that the 57-year-old country singer’s wife of 19 years, Kidman”, — write: metro.co.uk
Keith Urban has continued his world tour after news of his split with Nicole Kidman broke (Pictures: Getty/ Backgrid) Keith Urban was spotted without his wedding ring as he returned to the stage following his shock divorce from Nicole Kidman.
It was revealed last week that the 57-year-old country singer’s wife of 19 years, Kidman, 58, filed for divorce after the pair separated at the start of summer, citing ‘irreconcilable differences’.
The Fighter hitmaker has continued his High and Alive World Tour across the US.
As he returned to the stage for the first time since the news broke at the Giant Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania, he was pictured without his wedding ring.
He also dropped the 2016 hit The Fighter from his set, a track that is said to have been inspired by Kidman.
Despite this, it has been reported that during Thursday’s concert, while performing the 2024 song Heart Like, he did not remove a photo of Kidman and their daughters from a slideshow playing onstage.
The country music icon took to the stage without his wedding ring (Picture: Backgrid) 
The singer also dropped The Fighter, said to be about Kidman, from his set (Picture: Backgrid) 
The couple had been married for almost 20 years (Picture: Christopher Polk/GG2025/Penske Media via Getty Images) While performing last week, Urban changed the lyrics of The Fighter to shout out his guitarist, Maggie Baugh.
The clip, uploaded to Maggie’s Instagram, shows him singing ‘when they’re tryna get to you baby, I’ll be the fighter’ to ‘when they’re tryna get to you, Maggie I’ll be your guitar player.’
She captioned the post: ‘Did he just say that’ with the side-eye emoji.
When reports emerged of their impending divorce, a source told People: ‘Nicole’s sister [Antonia] has been a rock, and the entire Kidman family has come together to support one another.
‘[Nicole] didn’t want this. She has been fighting to save the marriage.’
After first breaking the news that the couple had been living apart since the start of the summer, TMZ reported that the Australian actress filed for divorce in Tennessee.
The couple tied the knot in 2006 after meeting a year prior (Picture: Getty Images for Concert For Car) Documents obtained by Daily Mail revealed the surprising custody arrangement hashed out between the pair, with The Perfect Couple actor having daughters Sunday Rose, 17, and Faith Margaret, 14, for 306 days of the year, and Keith just 59.
Special occasions have also been divided carefully between the pair, with Nicole getting Sunday and Faith on Mother’s Day and over Easter, while Keith will have them for Father’s Day and during Thanksgiving.
A date of separation for the papers, which were filed in Nashville, where the pair has a home, is listed as Tuesday, September 30.
Nicole and Keith first met in January 2005 at the G’Day USA gala in Los Angeles, an event celebrating Australians in Hollywood.
The following year, in May 2006, the couple announced their engagement.
Just a month later, on June 25, 2006, the couple married in a lavish yet intimate ceremony at St. Patrick’s Estate in Sydney, surrounded by family, friends, and fellow celebrities.
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