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As followers proceed to attempt to make sense of the Nicole Kidman-Keith City divorce, one persistent rumor continues to resurface:
It’s broadly believed that Keith already has a brand new girlfriend and has totally moved on from his 19-year marriage.
And a few on-line sleuths consider that the brand new flame in query is none apart from Keith’s touring guitarist, Maggie Baugh.
Anna Vaus, Keith City and Maggie Baugh carry out onstage in the course of the 2024 CMT Music Awards at Moody Middle on April 07, 2024 in Austin, Texas. (Photograph by Rick Kern/Getty Photos for CMT)
There’s quite a bit to help that declare, together with the truth that, again in January, Keith abruptly fired his band of 25 years and employed a bunch of newcomers — together with Maggie.
And he quickly developed the behavior of giving Maggie particular shoutouts on stage — which, yeah, that raised a number of eyebrows.
At first, Maggie was silent on the rumors, however she simply launched a brand new track titled “The Devil Win,” and lots of listeners suppose the lyrics mirror her emotions towards Keith.
Maggie Baugh sings about need to ‘heal [her] soul’ amid Keith City rumors
Musical Artist Maggie Baugh performs throughout Randi Rahm Fall Evolution introduced by the TJ Martel Basis at Empire Lodge on March 18, 2019 in New York Metropolis. (Photograph by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Photos for Randi Rahm)
“I don’t know what the hell I believe in / I don’t know how to heal my soul / Or how to fight this feeling and it’s a damn good place to go,” Baugh sings on the monitor.
“No matter how close I get to the burning edge / Tempting as it is, I won’t let the Devil win.”
Now, it’s doable that Keith was not on Maggie’s thoughts when she wrote the track, and the lyrics discuss with a unique scenario solely.
However she needed to know that by releasing that snippet on her Instagram web page at the moment, she was inviting hypothesis.
And she or he and Keith have a protracted historical past of speaking with each other by their lyrics.
Keith City and Nicole Kidman attend the twenty eighth Display screen Actors Guild Awards at Barker Hangar on February 27, 2022 in Santa Monica, California. (Photograph by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Photos for WarnerMedia)
Forward of his cut up from Kidman, City sang the lyrics, pointed at Maggie when he sang the road “I was born to love you.”
After reviews of his marital troubles started to flow into, Keith modified one from “When they’re tryna get to you, baby, I’ll be the fighter” to “When they’re tryna get to you, Maggie, I’ll be your guitar player.”
What’s subsequent for Nicole and Keith?
At this level, we suppose it doesn’t a lot matter to Nicole if Keith has moved on together with his a lot youthful guitarist (Maggie is 25, and Keith is 57).
Insiders say Kidman shocked City by submitting for divorce final month, and her attorneys laid out the phrases of the cut up in painstaking element.
One of the crucial stunning stipulations is that the couple’s teenage daughters will reside with Nicole for greater than ten months out of the 12 months.
Which may sound harsh, nevertheless it’s doable that Nicole is simply attempting to spare her ex some awkwardness. In spite of everything, his rumored new girlfriend isn’t a lot older than his daughters.