Country music has a brand new energy couple, y’all. It’s Lainey Wilson and Devlin Hodges, her new fiancé. The Grammy-winner and NFL quarterback turned realtor stored their relationship quiet for 2 full years earlier than lastly going public on the purple carpet in 2023, however clearly their hiding period is now over.
Since taking their love mainstream, Wilson has opened up in regards to the couple’s first date, how Hodges matches into her songwriting course of, desirous to cool down, and now, their engagement. Wilson and Hodges nonetheless aren’t the most public superstar couple ever seen (fairly positive Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton nonetheless have that title), however there’s nonetheless loads to debate and gush over.
Here’s a full timeline of Lainey Wilson and Devlin “Duck” Hodges’s relationship, with most up-to-date occasions first.
February 12, 2025: After 4(ish) years of courting, Hodges lastly pops the query! The couple introduced their massive information with a shared Instagram publish, captioned with the title of one among Wilson’s new singles, “4x4xU perpetually.”
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October 2024: Wilson posts two Instagram reels together with her beau, exhibiting the 2 of them driving by way of some kind of wilderness, set to “4x4xU.” One publish she captioned, “ain’t nowhere I’d rather be.” The opposite, she captioned with only a duck emoji, a wink at her man’s nickname, Duck.
August 2024: Whereas selling her newest album, Whirlwinds, Wilson tells Billboard that Hodges performs an element in her songwriting course of, although she’ll by no means be a “mushy gushy” songwriter. “All the things I ever write, he hears as a result of he really is my greatest buddy and he’s obtained an important ear,” she advised the magazine. “He can’t sing a lick—he tries to—and he’s obtained nice style. I do know if I ship him a demo or work tape, and he retains going again and listening to it again and again, there have to be one thing about this. He’s not within the enterprise, he don’t have something to do with this, and it’s good to have the ability to see what different folks’s opinions are as a result of that’s the listener proper there.”
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