Kevin Costner Is Apparently Spending Time With Jewel After His Divorce, And I Did Not Have That On My Bingo Card This Week

Kevin Costner recently went through a divorce that, by using the Brad Pitt/Angelina Jolie scale, was dealt with fairly quickly, with him and his wife Christine Baumgartner agreeing on terms in just a few months. The actor was rumored to have moved on pretty quickly, with reports he was dating the also recently split Reese Witherspoon. Those rumors were reportedly just that, but now it appears that Costner has started something with Jewel, and I’m not sure anybody would have seen that coming. 

According to TMZ, the pair spent the week together on Richard Branson’s private island in the Caribbean, as part of a fundraiser for Jewel’s Inspiring Children Foundation. Costner was there as a guest, but according to reports the pair flew to the island together and flew home together as well. Unnamed sources claim Costner and Jewel clearly had something going on. Though they were not attempting to make it public, it sounds like they weren’t that great and keeping the relationship quiet.

Kevin Costner in Yellowstone/Jewel on The Masked SInger

(Image credit: Paramount/Fox)

On the one hand, it’s not exactly a shock to see any two celebrities pair up. You date the people you meet at work or other places you go, and so celebrities are more likely to end up pairing up with other celebrities. At the same time, this particular pairing is certainly not one most would have predicted.

I’ll be honest, Jewel is a name I honestly hadn’t heard much in the last few years. She was a massive star when she first came on the music scene, you knew who she was even if you didn’t listen to her music, but that hasn’t been the case more recently. . Jewel made her biggest recent headlines by winning Season 6 of The Masked Singer a couple of years ago, though I admit that’s a show I don’t watch. 

Jewel has been divorced since 2014, she had been previously married to professional bull riding champion Ty Murray. We know from his years on Yellowstone that Kevin Costner can certainly pull off the cowboy hat, so maybe that’s what brought this somewhat unusual pair together. Costner does make music of his own, so maybe that's where they found a connection.

Costner has been making his most recent headlines over the end of his time on Yellowstone, which clearly did not go well despite the show’s incredible success. The actor has said he may sue over how things went down on Yellowstone though it’s still not entirely clear how things went down.

However Kevin Costner and Jewel came together, and it sounds like the two are quite smitten with each other right now. At the end of the day, that’s what matters. Finding somebody that makes you happy isn’t easy, as long as they’re happy, hopefully people will be happy for them.

Dirk Libbey
Content Producer/Theme Park Beat

CinemaBlend’s resident theme park junkie and amateur Disney historian, Dirk began writing for CinemaBlend as a freelancer in 2015 before joining the site full-time in 2018. He has previously held positions as a Staff Writer and Games Editor, but has more recently transformed his true passion into his job as the head of the site's Theme Park section. He has previously done freelance work for various gaming and technology sites. Prior to starting his second career as a writer he worked for 12 years in sales for various companies within the consumer electronics industry. He has a degree in political science from the University of California, Davis.  Is an armchair Imagineer, Epcot Stan, Future Club 33 Member.