{"id":1947423,"date":"2025-08-07T19:32:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T19:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1947423"},"modified":"2025-08-07T19:32:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T19:32:15","slug":"brandon-blackstock-kelly-clarksons-ex-husband-and-former-manager-dies-at-48","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/brandon-blackstock-kelly-clarksons-ex-husband-and-former-manager-dies-at-48\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Blackstock, Kelly Clarkson\u2019s ex-husband and former manager, dies at 48"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"storyContent\">\n<p>Brandon Blackstock, Kelly Clarkson\u2019s ex-husband and talent manager, has died of cancer, his family said Thursday. He was 48.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBrandon bravely battled cancer for more than three years,\u201d a representative for the Blackstock family shared in a statement to The Associated Press. \u201cHe passed away peacefully and was surrounded by family. We thank you for your thoughts and prayers and ask everyone to respect the family\u2019s privacy during this very difficult time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The news was first reported by People magazine. On Wednesday, Clarkson announced that she was postponing her \u201cStudio Session\u201d concerts in Las Vegas, writing on Instagram, \u201cWhile I normally keep my personal life private, this past year, my children\u2019s father has been ill and at this moment, I need to be fully present for them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Blackstock was the father to four children, two from a previous marriage and two with Clarkson.<\/p>\n<p>Clarkson and Blackstock were married in October 2013. In 2020, she filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences.<\/p>\n<p>He was previously Clarkson\u2019s manager and also formerly represented Blake Shelton.<\/p>\n<p><!-- ccpa version--><br \/>\n<!-- Entertainment SmartMatch -->\n<\/div>\n<p><script nonce=\"yvt6nspK\">\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\nn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\ndocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '110232789685143');\nfbq('set','agent','tmgoogletagmanager', '110232789685143');\nfbq('track', \"PageView\");\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source triblive.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brandon Blackstock, Kelly Clarkson\u2019s ex-husband and talent manager, has died of cancer, his family said Thursday. He was 48. \u201cBrandon bravely battled cancer for more than three years,\u201d a representative for the Blackstock family shared in a statement to The Associated Press. \u201cHe passed away peacefully and was surrounded by family. We thank you for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1947424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1947423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Brandon-Blackstock-Kelly-Clarksons-ex-husband-and-former-manager-dies-at.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1947423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1947424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1947423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1947423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1947423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}