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MAY1, 2017

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Adios, Cowboy! “Gwen is telling friends that it wasn’t one massive blowout that made things go south, but a series of smaller things,” says a source. “She is heartbroken about the end of the relationship.” Gwen & Blake:

IT’Swatch the PDA much OVER lon- ing it’s over,” the insider re- kitchen, grabbed some- The end of her ger. That episode was taped veals. “Gwen and Blake had thing from the fridge and fast and furious weeks earlier, and the re- been on the fast track to left the room, without even lationship has deteriorat- marriage and babies, but all acknowledging she was romance with ed since. Gwen has already talk of getting married or there. “When they first got co-star made the decision that’s it’s having a baby has stopped. together, if she’d been in the over; she’s dumped Blake. They just live two com- kitchen making tea and he The hard part is extricating pletely different lifestyles, wandered in, they would causes new herself from his life without and now it’s humiliating for have been all over each oth- hurting him. Unsure they Gwen to admit that the rela- er, or at the very least he heartbreak for can ever come to agreement tionship is done.” would’ve smiled and said on big issues like kids and hello,” notes a source. “Now where to live, Gwen, 47, de- ON A DIFFERENT PAGE she keeps referring to that wen Stefani was cided to pull the plug on her The breaking point for moment when she felt her grossing Adam relationship with Blake, 40, Gwen was a painfully or- heart sink and realized GLevine out. The Life & Style has exclusively dinary moment. Blake something had broken.” “” had just lea ntly came into the There had been other mentioned her “make-out playlist” on the April 3 epi- sode of The Voice, while her make-out partner of the He’s So Good last year and a half, Blake Shelton, grinned a few With the Kids seats over. Adam let out a Blake hasn’t just been a part of Gwen’s groan. Their romance has life. He’s also been a companion for her kids, Kingston, Zuma and Apollo, been a major focus of Sea- for months. The country crooner’s son 12, and he wasn’t the Oklahoma estate has become a favorite only one who’d grown tired t way for the trio when they’re not of it. “Producers would be ng on excursions to the movies thrilled if Gwen and Blake r Disneyland with Blake back in broke up,” admits an insid- California. “It’s hard because he er. “Blake has been so over- treats her sons like he would if the-top in love with Gwen they were his own,” says a source. and has acted like a love- “Gwen is petrifi ed at the thought sick puppy on the show, it’s of having to tell them Blake may just been painful to watch.” not be around anymore.”

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LIFEANDSTYLEMAG.COM 27 COVER STORY Awkward Alert! THEY’RE ON LIVE TV EVERY WEEK “Gwen doesn’t want to see their breakup play out on national television,” says an insider. She doesn’t really have a choice. As The Voice dives into live playof s and live performances, raw feelings may spill out on camera — and there are no re-shoots at this stage of the game. “Gwen is afraid things will sour and be awful on set,” says a source. “They met there and have friends and people they both consider to be like family who work there. She doesn’t want to be the one who ruins the fun set environment for everyone and makes their friends pick sides.”

red flags, though. While ing to conceive, Gwen felt are at school and just telling she converted Blake.” Not Gwen enjoyed visits to their relationship suf- him how she really feels,” so! Blake is still eating fast Blake’s beloved home state fer. “So much of the begin- the source says. “But the food, she recently found of Oklahoma at first, “As ning of their relationship thought of having to be the out. “It’s a little thing, but the months wore on and was spent getting excit- one to end it terrifies her.” Gwen tells friends it’s an the trips became more fre- ed about a baby, but things Still, she doesn’t see a example of how they can’t quent, she realized she didn’t work out the way ei- way to save the relation- get past their differenc- could never live there,” ther of them wanted,” says ship. The pair jumped from es in lifestyle. She doesn’t says the insider. “It’s just so the source. “She had really friends to lovers in record want to spend her life try- remote, and there isn’t a lot banked on giving Blake the time after their divorc- ing to change Blake from of diversity. It’s a very sim- family he always wanted.” es in 2015. Gushy quotes the country boy he is.” ple way of life there.” and cuddly photo ops fol- Still, Gwen hates the idea Gwen, a Cali girl through FROM ALL-IN TO ALL-OUT lowed. But now “the spark of being on her own. She and through, wants to Now she’s considering is gone,” notes the source. barely ever has been: Af- stay in LA (a city the insid- moving forward on an Lately, even minor differ- ter dating band- er says Blake loathes) full- adoption without Blake, ences have been getting mate , 46, for time with sons Kingston, says the source. First, she to Gwen. “I mean, even seven years, she fell for 10, Zuma, 8, and Apollo, 3. needs to officially let Blake their eating habits are at while tour- And she’d hoped to add a know they’re done. “Gwen odds these days,” says the ing with his band Bush. baby girl to the brood. But has talked about sitting source. “She’s always been The rockers were togeth- after unsuccessfully try- Blake down once the kids a health nut and thought er for 20 years before their

28 May 1, 2017 August 2015 separation amid reports of his infidel- ity. And within weeks, she was dating Blake. “Gwen Their Exes Have Both Moved On has been telling friends Miranda & that her heart hurts when Anderson: she thinks about ending things with Blake,” says the Happier source. “She has some very Than Ever &KEJC old-school values and be- Five months after being OPNKJC liefs when it comes to re- blindsided by her split from Blake, Miranda lationships. Gwen was Lambert, 33, got an even =BPAN raised being told that cou- bigger shock: She met Mr. Right! Since she and IKJPDO blues singer Anderson East, 28, became an “I feel like item in December 2015, they’ve kept a I always low profile. But their afection was on display at the April 2 Academy wondered: Why of Country Music Awards. After Miranda did I get so performed, she was caught blowing a kiss to unlucky in love?” her beau in the audience and when she returned — Gwen in 2016 to her seat, he wrapped his arm around her and began stroking ples stay together no mat- her hair. “Couldn’t be ter what. That is one of more proud of this little the reasons she stuck with lady,” Anderson later Gavin so long.” raved of his girlfriend’s two ACM wins. And it’s not just say- ing goodbye to Blake that Gavin’s Trading is stressing her out. “She Kisses With a is fearful of the backlash Young Model she will receive for jump- After Gwen ended ing into the relationship things in August 2015, right out of her marriage Gavin Rossdale, 51, and then it not working admitted that a pal out,” notes the source. tried to set him up with Tiger Woods’ ex Elin “Gwen has said to friends Nordegren, 37. They in confidence that she exchanged texts, but he wasn’t prepared for how wasn’t able to connect glaring the spotlight was with the blond beauty, going to be on their rela- who lives in Florida. But he did establish a tionship. It has made her connection with someone veryself-conscious.” else: On March 27, the Staying in a relation- rocker was seen locking ship just to save face isn’t lips with 27-year-old healthy either, though. German model Sophia Thomalla (inset) in Gwen knows that, and . While a rep knows she has to pull for Gavin insists the the plug. “She says Blake pair are just friends, didn’t do anything wrong,” an insider says they’re notes the source. “The love getting serious.

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