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Keith Urban shared how he hilariously pranked his wife, award-winning actress Nicole Kidman, when they attended the Met Gala in New York City.
Urban joined Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show on Tuesday night (September 24), and the two caught up over a story that Fallon said he’d “never told” on TV before. The comedian and late night talk show host brought up a time he ran into Urban and Kidman at the annual gala, and Urban filled in the audience on the impromptu prank they pulled.
“I was sitting next to Nic, and she had her hand on mine, and she was talking to somebody,” Urban recalled. “And Jimmy came over and talked to me, and I say, ‘jump in the seat, Jimmy, and just, like, slide your hand in under mine, so she’s holding your hand (and) she won’t know.’ She’s chatting to somebody looking the other way, so Jimmy slides in, so Nic’s got his hand like this. This is Nic and him,” he said as he and Fallon reenacted that moment. “And then I went around the other side of the table.”
“And she was like, ‘what’s going on?!’” Fallon exclaimed. “She’s like, ‘what? Jimmy, don’t do that!’ I just love what you did. That was super fun.”
The duo went on to discuss Urban’s newly-debuted record, HIGH, which released on September 20. Urban celebrated its release with an exclusive iHeartCountry Album Release Party in L.A., a free pop-up show in Downtown Nashville, Tennessee, and more. He took the stage at the 2024 iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas. Urban spoke about his excitement about the project when he caught up with iHeartCountry on the red carpet — set up inside Robert’s Western World, one of the historic honky tonks on Lower Broadway in Nashville — at the 17th ACM Honors.
“Life is about contrasts - highs, lows, confidence, insecurity, love found, love lost, clarity, blurry, disciplined, and then the next minute, couldn’t care less. Sexy, warm summers and lonely, cold winters. This album flows with all of these in various ways,” Urban said in a statement, in part, when HIGH made its debut. “Out of all of the things that have changed in my life, one has been a constant. I love making music. The feeling of writing a song that has real magic in it, bringing that song to life in the studio, and then playing it on stage and watching complete strangers sing every word. It’s like walking on the moon (not that I’ve done that YET, but an astronaut hasn’t stood on stage and shredded either so....) My desire is for the ‘flow state,’ and that’s what happened when we started this album HIGH. It just FLOWED and I feel the spirit of the whole album really reflects that. I hope you feel that too.”