{"id":2174635,"date":"2025-11-24T10:45:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T10:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2174635"},"modified":"2025-11-24T10:45:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T10:45:26","slug":"keith-urban-helps-improve-the-road-contestants-song-about-marriage-ahead-of-nicole-kidman-divorce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/keith-urban-helps-improve-the-road-contestants-song-about-marriage-ahead-of-nicole-kidman-divorce\/","title":{"rendered":"Keith Urban Helps Improve \u2018The Road\u2019 Contestant\u2019s Song About Marriage Ahead of Nicole Kidman Divorce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/keith-urban\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Keith Urban;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><strong>Keith Urban<\/strong><\/a> offered insight on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/keith-urban-praises-the-roads-cassidy-daniels-as-she-sings-about-real-love\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Road about a marriage song;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><em>The Road<\/em> about a marriage song<\/a> before his high profile divorce from <strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/nicole-kidman\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Nicole Kidman;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Nicole Kidman<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">During the Sunday, November 23, episode of the CBS series, Urban, 58, provided guidance to the contestants ahead of a concert at the iconic Cain&#8217;s Ballroom in Tulsa, Oklahoma. <strong>Jenny Tolman<\/strong> was practicing her song &#8220;Married in a Honky Tonk&#8221; when Urban <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/music\/articles\/keith-urban-performs-song-road-024548293.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:suggested she switch;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">suggested she switch<\/a> to a higher note.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tolman was grateful for the advice, though <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/tv\/articles\/taylor-sheridan-cbs-show-road-032909323.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:she was ultimately sent home;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">she was ultimately sent home<\/a> at the end of the episode despite the help.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><em>The Road<\/em> follows 12 emerging musicians as they compete to become an opening act for Urban while he tours across America. The contestants advance to the next city based on the reaction from the crowds at their respective shows. By the end of the season, only one act is left standing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/music\/articles\/big-changes-keith-urban-made-191534208.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:All the Big Changes Keith Urban Made On and Off Stage Amid Nicole Kidman Divorce;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">All the Big Changes Keith Urban Made On and Off Stage Amid Nicole Kidman Divorce<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In addition to Urban and <strong>Blake Shelton, Gretchen Wilson<\/strong> appears in the role of tour manager, and executive producer <strong>Taylor Sheridan<\/strong> appeared this season to offer advice to the remaining group. Urban filmed <em>The Road<\/em> before <em>Us Weekly<\/em> confirmed in September that the country artist and wife Kidman, 58, had split after 19 years of marriage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">They former couple met in 2005 following the actress\u2019 divorce from <strong>Tom Cruise<\/strong>. After one year of dating, Kidman and Urban got married in Australia and expanded their family in 2008 with the arrival of their daughter, Sunday Rose. Two years later, Kidman and Urban welcomed daughter Faith via surrogate. (Kidman is also the mother of daughter Isabella and son Connor, whom she adopted with Cruise, 63.)<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-3 right-3 size-10 md:size-[50px] lg:inset-0 lg:size-full lg:bg-transparent\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path d=\"M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed inset-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-white hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p><span class=\"caption\">Keith Urban<\/span> <span class=\"credit\">Lauren &#8220;Lo&#8221; Smith\/CBS<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Earlier this season, Urban opened up about the highs and lows of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/music\/articles\/road-mentors-keith-urban-gretchen-133507035.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:life on tour while filming The Road.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">life on tour while filming <em>The Road<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWhere do we start? It&#8217;s a calling, and you&#8217;re going to do it or you&#8217;re not going to make it,\u201d he explained. \u201cWhen you wake up on a tour bus at 3:30 in the morning and you&#8217;re sick as a dog, you&#8217;re in the middle of nowhere and you&#8217;ve got to play your fifth show later that night, and you haven&#8217;t slept, and you miss your friends, and you&#8217;re missing your family, and you&#8217;re completely lonely and miserable and sick \u2014 and you say to yourself, &#8216;Why am I doing this?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/music\/articles\/meet-musicians-competing-opening-acts-190020661.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Meet the Musicians Competing as Opening Acts for Keith Urban in Taylor Sheridan\u2019s \u2018The Road\u2019;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">Meet the Musicians Competing as Opening Acts for Keith Urban in Taylor Sheridan\u2019s \u2018The Road\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He added: \u201cThe only answer can be: because this is what I&#8217;m born to do. We&#8217;re going to find out who&#8217;s made for that stuff [on this show].\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Urban previously spoke exclusively with <em>Us<\/em>\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/music\/articles\/keith-urban-blake-shelton-gear-160019425.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:about the \u201cdiscipline\u201d required;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">about the \u201cdiscipline\u201d required<\/a> to succeed as a musician.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI just played a show in Vegas last night and I had another one tomorrow night, and [taping] this finale fell in between. So I came home after the show last night, got in at 5 a.m., here we are, and then take off tomorrow, go to Vegas,\u201d he shared before the show&#8217;s premiere. \u201cI think that never changes, as far as the discipline required to do what we do. And it&#8217;s been great watching Gretchen handle them as well and give really good advice. [She\u2019s] like Mama Bear, in the best way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><em>The Road<\/em> airs on CBS Sundays at 9:30 p.m. ET before streaming on Paramount+.<\/p>\n<\/div>\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 www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keith Urban offered insight on The Road about a marriage song before his high profile divorce from Nicole Kidman. 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