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Keith Urban And Nicole Kidman’s Rule With Daughters In Public

Keith Urban and his wife Nicole Kidman are quite famous all over the world. But the couple and their daughters Sunday and Faith, who are 14 and 11, don’t let…

Keith Urban And Nicole Kidman Make The Most Of Time With Daughters
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Keith Urban and his wife Nicole Kidman are quite famous all over the world. But the couple and their daughters Sunday and Faith, who are 14 and 11, don't let that stop them from living a reasonably normal life and experiencing outings in public. Keith recently said he brought his daughters along for his tour this summer, and in between shows, they took in an aquarium or two. And no, they didn't get mobbed.

Urban told us his trick to hanging out in public, "I stick a ball cap on and just blend in, blend right in most places, you know. Yeah, my experience generally is that people are pretty good, they may want to get a picture or something, and you give that, and people move on. People are cool. I don't really have much trouble with all of that."

Keith did say that he and Nicole have a rule of thumb when fans approach the couple, and they are with their two daughters. He shared, "We just really from the beginning if we are with our kids, we don't really take a photo with anybody."

He explains, "It's really more to do with, you know, we are parents first and foremost at that moment, and we hope that people understand that too. Especially when you've got tiny little kids, you turn your back for one moment to take a picture with someone and then who's taking care of your kids. You just have to prioritize them. I always say to people, 'I'm with our kids today. I'm sorry, any other time, yeah, but I can't today.'"

Keith adds, "I've never had anybody get upset with that, ever."

Now that the girls are back in school, Urban admits that he doesn't actually make the girl's school lunches or fix their hair in the morning. Still, he and Nicole are normal parents. "We are regular in the sense that we are all up and about, we have breakfast in the morning as a family, we get the kids out to school, we take them to school. One of us usually picks them up in the afternoon; it's all pretty normal stuff. Even if I'm touring, I'm able to get 'em, take 'em home, and then head off to the gig. That happens a lot which is great, and be there the next morning because I come home after the night."

He concludes, "I am making the most of this time because it goes by so quick."

Country music was represented at the Oscars on Sunday night (3/27). Reba performed an Oscar-nominated song, "Somehow You Do," written by Diane Warren.

Keith Urban accompanied his Oscar-nominated wife Nicole Kidman on the Red Carpet and sat in the front row. He even lent his tux jacket to Nicole as they watched the three-hour show together at times hand in hand.

While Nicole didn't win her Oscar for Best Actress in a leading role for playing Lucille Ball in Being The Ricardos (the honor went to Jessica Chastain for her role in The Eyes Of Tammy Faye), she and Keith did shine on the red carpet before the show.

We look at our favorite country stars making their way through Hollywood's biggest night.

Reba

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HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA - MARCH 27: Reba McEntire attends the 94th Annual Academy Awards at Hollywood and Highland on March 27, 2022 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images)


Reba and Rex

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HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA - MARCH 27: (L-R) Rex Linn and Reba McEntire attends the 94th Annual Academy Awards at Hollywood and Highland on March 27, 2022 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images)


Reba and Diane Warren

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HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA - MARCH 27: (L-R) Reba McEntire and Diane Warren attend the 94th Annual Academy Awards at Hollywood and Highland on March 27, 2022 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images)


Reba

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HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA - MARCH 27: Reba McEntire performs onstage during the 94th Annual Academy Awards at Dolby Theatre on March 27, 2022 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Neilson Barnard/Getty Images)


Reba

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HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA - MARCH 27: Reba McEntire performs onstage during the 94th Annual Academy Awards at Dolby Theatre on March 27, 2022 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Neilson Barnard/Getty Images)


Reba and Rex

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HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA - MARCH 27: (L-R) Rex Linn and Reba McEntire attend the 94th Annual Academy Awards at Hollywood and Highland on March 27, 2022 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Emma McIntyre/Getty Images)


Keith and Nicole

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HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA - MARCH 27: (L-R) Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman attend the 94th Annual Academy Awards at Hollywood and Highland on March 27, 2022 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by David Livingston/Getty Images)


Keith and Nicole

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HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA - MARCH 27: (L-R) Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman attend the 94th Annual Academy Awards at Hollywood and Highland on March 27, 2022 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Emma McIntyre/Getty Images)


Keith and Nicole

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HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA - MARCH 27: (L-R) Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman attend the 94th Annual Academy Awards at Hollywood and Highland on March 27, 2022 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by David Livingston/Getty Images)


Keith and Nicole

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HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA - MARCH 27: (L-R) Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman attend the 94th Annual Academy Awards at Hollywood and Highland on March 27, 2022 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images)


Keith and Nicole

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HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA - MARCH 27: (L-R) Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman attend the 94th Annual Academy Awards at Hollywood and Highland on March 27, 2022 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images)


Keith and Nicole

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HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA - MARCH 27: (L-R) Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman attend the 94th Annual Academy Awards at Hollywood and Highland on March 27, 2022 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images)

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.