Love you want a love tune. Kellie Pickler and husband Kyle Jacobs bonded over their musical backgrounds — however they selected to take their time earlier than getting hitched.
The American Idol alum met her future husband within the mid-2000s by means of a mutual a pal. Whereas taking part in Us Weekly’s “Newlywed Sport” in December 2015, the couple each recalled Jacobs’ pickup line as, “Hello, I’m Kyle. I’m a songwriter.”
The “Crimson Excessive Heels” songstress joked about her response, telling Us, “I used to be like, ‘Nice,’” with an eyeroll. “No, we began writing the subsequent day,” she added.
The pair, nevertheless, weren’t in a rush to stroll down the aisle. “I’m not prepared — I’m 22, I simply began out — I’m not able to put my husband first,” Pickler confessed throughout the 2009 radio present GAC Nights: Dwell From Nashville. “[I’ll wait until] I’m to some extent into my profession the place I can say, ‘This may are available second and I’m able to have a household.’”
The nation singer famous on the time that she was “loopy about” Jacobs and he was “loopy about me … and I couldn’t think about being with anybody else.”
Us confirmed in June 2010 that the “Extra Than a Reminiscence” cowriter bought down on one knee after relationship for greater than two years. “It’s true!” Pickler’s rep advised Us of the proposal. “She’s tremendous excited!”
The “Don’t You Know You’re Lovely” singer, for her half, mirrored on the romantic second seven years later, revealing that Jacobs popped the query on June 15 — which occurs to be her grandmother’s birthday.
“Probably the most particular days in my life will at all times be June 15,” Pickler wrote by way of Instagram in March 2017. “On that date in 2010, Kyle and I have been in Rosemary Seaside, [Florida], on what he advised me was only a ‘trip’ …That night, after a romantic dinner, we took a sundown stroll on the seashore … Little did I do know, he had secretly planted a small wood field within the sand.”
The field held a journal that Jacobs “had written for me, a seashell with my grandmother’s identify ‘Faye’ written on it and a fantastic engagement ring,” the musician remembered. “What was so unimaginable is that Kyle didn’t notice that THAT day, was additionally my grandmother’s birthday. It was like my stunning angel, the one I name mother, was giving us her blessing,” she defined. “So, Kyle and I prefer to rejoice June fifteenth as a pair … Nonetheless and without end loopy in love.”
Two years later, Pickler solely advised Us whether or not she had plans to broaden her household along with her husband.
“Now we have two little small puppies,” the Christmas at Graceland actress mentioned in Could 2019. “We’re canine mother and father for now.”
Almost 4 years later, the couple have been hit by tragedy when Jacobs died by obvious suicide in February 2023.
“Officers and Nashville Hearth Division personnel responded and situated resident Kyle Jacobs, 49, deceased from an obvious self-inflicted gunshot wound in an upstairs bed room/workplace,” the Metropolitan Nashville Police mentioned in an announcement to Selection on the time. Pickler was reportedly house when the incident happened.
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