Blake Shelton May Have Irked Friends Kelly Clarkson & Reba McEntire With This Surprising Move

Blake Shelton latest gig moonlighting as a wedding officiant might not go over well with his fellow The Voice judges, Kelly Clarkson and Reba McEntire.

According to photos obtained by The Sun, Shelton, 47, acted as the officiant as his manager, Narvel Blackstock, tied the knot to Laura Stroud in Nashville, Tennesse over the weekend. If Blackstock’s name sounds familiar, that is because he was once married to McEntire and is currently locked in a legal battle with former daughter-in-law, Clarkson.

Blackstock is the father of Clarkson’s ex-husband, Brandon Blackstock, and was married to McEntire from 1989 to 2015. To add insult to injury, some reports allege that his new bride, Stroud, was formerly friends with his country singer ex-wife.

Just this week, Blackstock’s son submitted court documents firing back at a lawsuit taken by Clarkson. After ending their seven-year marriage in 2020, Clarkson alleged that Narvel and Brandon Blackstock’s Starstruck Management owe her over $2 million after unlawfully procuring deals for her, violating state labor laws. In the Blackstocks’ latest response, Starstruck Management denied “each and every allegation” made by the popstar, who shares two children with Brandon.

McEntire and Blackstock’s lengthy marriage was called off in 2015 with the singer’s ex, who also acted as her manager, walking away with $47.5 million. The couple share one son, Shelby, who was in attendance at his father’s wedding.

Shelton and Clarkson’s friendship was evident during the time acting as judges on The Voice but McEntire and Shelton’s relationship goes back even further. The country music stars have been friends for over 20 years, which is presumably connected to Shelton’s professional relationship with Blackstock.

McEntire even joined Shelton as a mentor on several seasons of The Voice before eventually taking his chair in the judges section when he left the show in 2023. “It’s been a friendship from the very beginning,” McEntire said of Shelton during an interview with NBC in 2023. “We’re both from Oklahoma like an hour apart from where we grew up. We work together. We have fun together and gone on vacations together, so it’s just too much fun.”

However, Shelton has also retained a friendship with Blackstock in the years since the couple’s divorce and most recently praised him during a speech at his 2023 Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony. “If there’s one person that I probably need to thank more than anybody from a career standpoint, Narvel Blackstock literally changed my life,” he said.

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