Kelly Clarkson<\/strong> is stepping back into the spotlight less than two weeks after her ex-husband Brandon Blackstock<\/strong> passed away.<\/p>\n The first episode of the 43-year-old singer-songwriter\u2019s NBC special Songs & Stories<\/em> will premiere at 10 p.m. on Tuesday, August 19.<\/p>\n As Star<\/em> previously reported<\/a>, the four-part pre-recorded special features the \u201cMiss Independent\u201d songstress having \u201cunfiltered\u201d conversations with a different musician\/musical group each week, starting with the Jonas Brothers<\/strong> on Tuesday, according to the NBC website<\/a>.<\/p>\n In the following weeks, the American Idol<\/em> alum will sit down with Gloria Estefan, Lizzo<\/strong>\u00a0and Teddy Swims<\/strong>. Per NBC, viewers will also get to see musical performances in an \u201cintimate, unplugged setting.\u201d<\/p>\n As for the Grammy Award winner\u2019s other TV commitments, Star<\/em> reported last week<\/a> that Clarkson is allegedly going to be missing filming dates for season 29 of The Voice.<\/p>\n \u201cKelly will not be at the tapings scheduled next week for Thursday and Friday,\u201d a source told The Sun<\/a><\/em> in an article published Thursday, August 14. \u201cProduction is working on a replacement coach for her now.\u201d<\/p>\n However, TMZ<\/a><\/em> confirmed earlier this month that The Kelly Clarkson Show<\/em> will be back for its seventh season this fall<\/a>, with new episodes debuting in September.<\/p>\n Clarkson\u2019s television appearance comes shortly after Blackstock died at 48 years old on Thursday, August 7. The former talent manager \u2014 who shares kids River<\/strong>, 11, and Remington<\/strong>, 9, with Clarkson \u2014 lost his three-year battle with melanoma.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source starmagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" MEGA Kelly Clarkson is stepping back into the spotlight less than two weeks after her ex-husband Brandon Blackstock passed away. The first episode of the 43-year-old singer-songwriter\u2019s NBC special Songs & Stories will premiere at 10 p.m. on Tuesday, August 19. As Star previously reported, the four-part pre-recorded special features the \u201cMiss Independent\u201d songstress having […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1969304,"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-1969303","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\/Kelly-Clarkson-Returns-to-Television-in-the-Wake-of-Ex-Husband.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969303","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=1969303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1969304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1969303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1969303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1969303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/staging.starmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/admphotostwo707991.jpg\")