After years of tabloid gossip, country music’s top couple Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert announced their divorce after four years of marriage. The news was confirmed in a statement by the couple to The Associated Press, issued by their representatives Monday. Grammy-winning native Texan Lambert is one of country’s music most lauded female singers who regularly dominated the Academy of Country Music’s and Country Music Association’s awards shows. Shelton became a ubiquitous star as he juggled his musical and television career, as a judge on “The Voice” and a co-host of the ACMs.
They married in 2011 in Texas and were seen together as recently as April at the ACMs in Texas.
