He wasn’t intended for her.
Kevin Costner shot indisposed the rumors that he’s relationship singer Jewel all the way through his interview on “The Howard Stern Show” on June 18.
“Jewel and I are friends — we’ve never gone out. Ever,” stated Costner, 69.
He persisted: “She’s special, and I don’t want these rumors to ruin our friendship because that’s what we have. She’s special. I mean, she’s beautiful enough to go out with.”
The “Yellowstone” superstar defined that he and the “Foolish Games” singer, 50, had been romantically related upcoming they each was at a capitaltreasury tournament on British trade mogul Richard Branson’s non-public island within the Caribbean in December 2023.
“I’m divorced. All of a sudden I’m a single father,” Costner stated to Howard Stern, relating to his crack from ex-wife Christine Baumgartner that took place months prior to his run-in with Jewel.
“I got on a plane with nine people — Jewel was one of them,” he defined. “Emma Watson was on there, and seven other people who weren’t celebrities. We were the only three celebrities on an island for three days down there. And then we fly back. She was somebody I just had some tremendous conversations with.”
Costner reiterated that the theory about him and Jewel was once totally unfaithful.
“The rumor was I went down on a private plane with her. I went back on a private plane [with her]. I was on with nine people, and I don’t want the press to ruin this for us,” he stated. “I’ve had conversations with her text-wise, and she’s so smart and she’s been through a lot herself.”
“We have a friendship. We don’t have a romance. We’ve not dated,” Costner added. “She’s beautiful and smart enough for all those things, it just has never happened for us.”
The daddy of 7 additionally discoverable that he needed to inform his youngsters that he wasn’t relationship Jewel when the rumors had been available in the market.
Jewel prior to now denied that she was once relationship the Oscar winner in April.
“He’s a great person,” she stated in an interview with Elle. “The public fascination is intense for sure.”
Hypothesis concerning the pair’s courting to start with surfaced after they had been obvious in combination within the British Virgin Islands past due ultimate 12 months. In a single photograph on the past, Jewel may also be obvious sitting on Costner’s lap as he wrapped his palms round her waist.
A supply for the Day by day Mail claimed that Branson, 73, helped prepared them up.
“Richard is 100% responsible for Kevin and Jewel hooking up. She has been a friend of Branson’s for years, and he has been a close friend of Kevin’s since the 1990s,” the insider stated on the past. “Richard invited Jewel to hold her charity fund-raiser on Necker and, honestly, the hookup happened organically. They hit it off well, and Jewel seems to be happy about it.”
Costner was once married to Baumgartner, 50, from 2004 till she filed for official separation in Would possibly 2023 and cited “irreconcilable differences.”
The pair went directly to have a contentious courtroom fight over kid backup and their prenuptial word, with Baumgartner accusing her ex of misrepresenting his budget. They’ve 3 kids in combination, occasion Costner has 4 extra youngsters from week relationships.
The previous couple finalized their official separation in February 2024.
Jewel, in the meantime, was once married to rodeo cowboy Ty Murray, with whom she stocks her 12-year-old son, Kase, for 6 years till their crack in 2014.
She was once additionally in short related to Sean Penn in 1995.
