Keith Urban’s icy response to Ryan Seacrest gushing over Nicole Kidman has resurfaced two months before news of shock split after 19 years of marriage.
The 57-year-old musician was awkward as he was asked about his relationship with the Oscar winner, 58, during a July appearance on On Air With Ryan Seacrest.
The host of the radio show Seacrest, 50, brought up Kidman’s successful career as he heaped praise on the actress as he said: ‘Do people tell you your wife is in everything? Like everything. Nicole Kidman is in everything.’
Urban awkwardly laughed and smiled at the comment before seemingly attempting to deflect by saying she was ‘almost as busy’ as Seacrest but ‘not quite.’
Seacrest persisted with asking personal questions as he queried: ‘Is that something with your life, her life and mapping it all out with production and touring — that’s a job, isn’t it?’
The country musician looked visibly uncomfortable by the line of questioning.
Keith Urban’s icy response to Ryan Seacrest gushing over Nicole Kidman has resurfaced
This came two months before news of shock split after 19 years of marriage
‘It’s a job. Yeah,’ Urban replied. ‘Life is in session.’
Meanwhile, regarding their split it has been said the former power couple had been kept apart of late amid their hectic filming and touring schedules – with an insider previously telling the Daily Mail Kidman was left ‘blindsided’ by the split.
Kidman filed to end the marriage on Tuesday – citing irreconcilable differences.
The Daily Mail has contacted representatives for Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban for comment and has yet to hear back.
The former couple share daughters Sunday Rose, 17, and Faith Margaret, 14.
Kidman was previously married to Tom Cruise, 63, for 11 years from 1990 to 2001. They adopted two children together: Isabella, 32, and Connor, 30.
At this time, Urban who is renting his own home in Music City, is allegedly showing no signs of wanting to reconcile.
Those in Kidman’s circle say that merely the suggestion of him with someone else after their separation has been difficult for her to process.
The 57-year-old musician was awkward as he was asked about his relationship with the Oscar winner, 58, during a July appearance on On Air With Ryan Seacrest
The host of the radio show Seacrest, 50, brought up Kidman’s successful career as he heaped praise on the actress as he said: ‘Do people tell you your wife is in everything? Like everything. Nicole Kidman is in everything’
Urban awkwardly laughed and smiled at the comment before seemingly attempting to deflect by saying she was ‘almost as busy’ as Seacrest but ‘not quite’
Seacrest persisted with asking personal questions as he queried: ‘Is that something with your life, her life and mapping it all out with production and touring — that’s a job, isn’t it?’
The country musician looked visibly uncomfortable by the line of questioning
The Australian actress and Urban were last seen together publicly in June this year, when they were pictured attending a FIFA World Cup match in Nashville, Tennessee.
The country star has been away for much of the year on his High and Alive World Tour. He is due to perform in Hershey, Pennsylvania on Thursday.
Kidman and the children, meanwhile, have remained in Nashville, where the couple own a $4million compound.
In July, Urban dropped a hint that all was not well between the pair when he dramatically hung up during a phone interview with a radio station after a crude question about Kidman’s raunchy recent scenes, such as in her movies Babygirl and A Family Affair.
For her part, and while promoting her Netflix series The Perfect Couple back in September last year, Kidman admitted there was no such thing as a ‘perfect’ marriage.
‘There’s no perfect anything,’ she said, ‘anything that’s presented as perfect… forget it.’
Earlier that year, Kidman said she was ‘so lucky’ to have met the singer.
‘I’m so lucky that I have Keith who’s just my love, my deep, deep love,’ she told People magazine.
‘I’m so lucky that I have Keith… that gives me the ability to go and do whatever I have to do because I know where I can come back,’ she added.
Meanwhile, regarding their split it has been said the former power couple had been kept apart of late amid their hectic filming and touring schedules – with an insider previously telling the Daily Mail Kidman was left ‘blindsided’ by the split (the former couple pictured May 2025)
Kidman filed to end the marriage on Tuesday citing irreconciliable differences – pictured January 2025
The former couple share daughters Sunday Rose, 17, and Faith Margaret, 14 – seen second and third left in 2024
The couple were last seen in June – Kidman filed to end the marriage on Tuesday
Kidman was previously married to Tom Cruise, 63, from 1990-2001 and the exes adopted two children during their union – pictured 2001
The news of their split comes just weeks after Kidman marked nearly two decades of marriage with Urban by sharing a heartfelt tribute to the country star on their 19th wedding anniversary.
To mark the special occasion, the Big Little Lies star posted a sweet black and white photo of them sharing a sweet moment backstage at one of his shows.
In the image, the Oscar winner can be seen with one arm draped lovingly over her husband’s shoulders as he held her hand.
The happy couple both closed their eyes as Kidman rested her forehead against Urban’s head.
‘Happy Anniversary Baby ❤️ @KeithUrban,’ she captioned the post, which received more than 25,023 likes in less than an hour.
Within minutes, the Somebody Like You hitmaker commented a single red heart emoji.
The pair wed back in 2006 during a traditional Catholic ceremony at the Cardinal Cerretti Chapel in her hometown of Sydney.
Kidman and Urban married five years after her split from actor Cruise.
She welcomed Sunday in July 2008 and Faith via surrogate two years later.
In 2022, the singer insisted that he and his wife are ‘as normal as you get’ on an episode of Jessica Rowe’s podcast series The Big Talk Show.
In July, Urban hinted all was not well between the pair when he sensationally hung up on a radio station after a crude question about Kidman’s raunchy film scenes in films such as Babygirl and A Family Affair – pictured with Zac Efron
The pair wed back in 2006 during a traditional Catholic ceremony at the Cardinal Cerretti Chapel in her hometown of Sydney
The couple are seen together in October 2024
The couple welcomed Sunday in July 2008 – Kidman is seen around four months pregnant in February 2008
He also spoke about the very first time they met at the G’Day LA event in 2005, saying he thought the stunning Hollywood star was ‘well out of his league.’
‘We’re just a couple who work things out, go through things together, life, and support each other the best way we can and try and raise our family,’ Urban explained.
‘Underneath it all, we’re as normal as you can get I reckon,’ he claimed, before reflecting he was ‘not in a great place’ when they first met.
‘[She] seemed well out of my league at that time in my life,’ he said.
‘I was not in a great place at my life, struggling with a lot of things, not in a million years would someone like that see anything in me… The fact that became what it is meant to be is astounding.’
He also sweetly described his wife as ‘ethereal, angelic, other worldly, very mystical and then completely down to earth at the same time and very funny.’
Last year, Urban reflected on how he nearly destroyed his marriage, not long after they walked down the aisle.
‘We got married in 2006, and barely four months into our marriage, the addictions that I had done really nothing about blew our marriage to smithereens,’ he said while presenting at the AFI Life Achievement Award Gala Tribute to Kidman last year.
Urban revealed that he was struggling with addiction when he first met Nicole and with her support he managed to eventually pull through.
‘Four months into a marriage, and I’m in rehab for three months with no idea what was going to happen to us.
Kidman is seen with the couple’s nepo baby daughter Sunday, 17, in January 2025
‘Nic pushed through every negative voice – I’m sure even some of her own – and she chose love.
‘And here we are tonight 18 years later. Her capacity to love is like no one I’ve ever met,’ he concluded.
The father-of-two, whose previously said he grew up watching his father’s heavy drinking, previously said it took him ‘a long time to get sober’ because he didn’t ‘recognize’ his alcoholism.
