Kelly Clarkson Appears to Shade Ex Brandon Blackstock With Easter Egg

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In a visualizer for Kelly Clarkson’s new When Christmas Comes Around…Again album, she appeared to subtly throw shade at her ex husband Brandon Blackstock.

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Turns out, Kelly Clarkson doesn’t need anyone underneath the tree.

In a new visualizer video for the talk show host’s new When Christmas Comes Around…Again album, she appeared to subtly shade her ex Brandon Blackstock, whom she divorced in 2020 after seven years of marriage.

The video, shared to YouTube Dec. 18, includes a classic yule log burning animation, featuring some personal touches around the fireplace—including stockings depicting her and her ex’s kids names, River, 10, and Remy, 8, as well as one for herself emblazoned with “Mom.” As for her ex? A fourth stocking was hung up on the chimney with care, but simply read, “Nope.”

And while the light jab may raise eyebrows for some of Kelly’s fans, she’s been very clear that her past relationship was “limiting” for her—especially when it came to blending romance with business.

“I don't feel like that’s necessarily the truth for all marriages, I just think that was for in my case,” Kelly explained on the We Can Do Hard Things podcast in 2023. “If you're on the same path at the same time—and you're actually working together, and every day communicating together and doing the work—I think that it could be beautiful.”

She added, “But for me, it wasn't that and it was very limiting.”

Indeed, Kelly admitted that the only thing that kept her in her marriage for so long was her “ego.”

“I'm like, ‘I can do this,’” she recalled thinking on the podcast. “‘I can handle so much. I can reach this person and I can get through.’”

Although her divorce only made her stronger, Kelly’s Easter egg may not have been solely directed at her ex. After all, the Kelly Clarkson Show host recently detailed why her bed is feeling much warmer while sleeping alone at the moment.

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“I’ve got a lot on my plate,” she hedged about any potential mistletoe meet-ups during an appearance on KOST 103.5 last month. “I’m a magnet for people who are really all-in right off the bat. It’s not that I’m the type to go and kiss a bunch of people, I just don’t—I’m very noncommittal at the moment.”

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