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Gavin Rossdale opened up about spending time with Britney Spears when they used to be neighbors.The lead singer of the grunge band Brush reacted to the pop star...
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The lead singer of the grunge band Brush reacted to the pop star's past comments about going swimming with him when they used to live next to each other.
While making an appearance on SiriusXM's Page Six Radio, he shed light on their past interactions in the mid-2000s.
Radio show co-host Evan Real asked him: 'There is an interview that Britney Spears did forever ago, where she just randomly said, "One time I went swimming with Gavin Rossdale." Do you remember swimming with Britney Spears?'
'Of course,' Rossdale, 60, responded. 'How could you forget that?'
He continued: 'We were neighbors and so she came around when the kids were small and she was a real character and I got on really well with her.
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Gavin Rossdale opened up about going swimming with 'lovely' Britney Spears when they used to be neighbors; pictured in July 2019
The lead singer of the grunge band Brush reacted to the pop star's past comments about living next door to each other and said Spears was a 'real character'
'She was lovely. She was amazing. She's a great swimmer,' he added.
Spears previously spoke about being neighbors in Rossdale and his then-wife Gwen Stefani back in 2015.
'I would love to work with Gwen Stefani,' she said during an interview with Australia's The Project at the time. 'I think she's really cool.'
He called Spears 'lovely,' 'amazing' and a 'great swimmer' as he recalled their past interactions
Rossdale was also asked if his three kids ever played with Spears's sons, Sean Preston, 20, and Jayden James, 19, and joked that they were 'too busy chatting with Britney'
During the same interview, Rossdale was also asked if his three kids ever played with Spears's sons, Sean Preston, 20, and Jayden James, 19.
Rossdale shares three kids with Gwen Stefani, with whom he was previously married for 13 years before their divorce in 2016
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The former couple share three sons: sons Kingston, 19, Zuma, 17, and 12-year-old Apollo
In 2023, he again shared another post about Spears enjoying the same song.
'I had the pleasure of waking up to @britneyspears dancing to glycerine,' he wrote in a lengthy message as he showed support for her during a difficult time she described on her Instagram.
Rossdale continued: 'I looked at her page and amongst the fun I read her Acknowledgment of how good she is at hiding her pain and that instagram is not A true temperature of what was happening in her life and her sadness had to be muted.'
He also added that 'everyone walks around wounded to some degree.'
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'It's so liberating and essential when someone with Britney's Reach addresses true and hidden feelings,' he wrote. 'That way people can be inspired in the purest way to ask for help – to admit to their struggle – and to feel better.'
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