The Kelly Clarkson Present‘s Season 7 premiere on Monday, September 29 marked Kelly Clarkson‘s first time again on the small display screen because the demise of her ex-husband, Brandon Blackstock.
The present’s music director Jason Halbert shared particulars concerning the new season in an interview with USA Right this moment. Whereas talking with the outlet on the present’s premiere taping final week, Halbert famous that the sequence’ return was “emotional for all of us,” not simply Clarkson.
“I don’t know the way [Clarkson] compartmentalizes watching that phase, tremendous emotional, after which leaping into, like, making crafts with children, after which leaping into emoting a tune,” he shared. “Quite a bit occurred for us all within the final 12 months, on private and profession ranges. You’re going to see some songs mirror issues that perhaps she wouldn’t discuss verbally in a sitting on the sofa interview.”
For showrunner Alex Duda, Season 7 is all about exhibiting how “communities can come collectively and attempt to rebuild.” For instance, Monday’s prerecorded episode featured a sit-down interview between Clarkson and several other people who saved lives through the lethal Texas Hill Nation floods earlier this summer time.
“That’s what we’ve carried out because the starting. When the world is darkish or heavy, search for the sunshine,” Duda added. “We wished to reaffirm that in our premiere this 12 months.”
Along with talking with Texas flood heroes, Monday’s premiere additionally featured Clarkson chatting with Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell about their new film, A Massive Daring Stunning Journey. As for the primary “Kellyoke” cowl of the season, Clarkson embraced this season’s theme of “gentle” and wowed followers together with her rendition of “Blinding Lights” by The Weeknd.
Monday’s episode marked Clarkson’s first since Blackstock’s passing. Simply someday after information of Blackstock’s demise on the age of 45 broke, Clarkson introduced on August 6 that she was suspending a number of of her Las Vegas residency reveals to help Blackstock and their children amid his sickness. (The previous spouses share daughter River, 11, and son Remy, 9.)
“It’s with nice unhappiness that we share the information that Brandon Blackstock has handed away. Brandon bravely battled most cancers for greater than three years,” Blackstock’s household shared in an August 7 assertion to Individuals. “He handed away peacefully and was surrounded by household. We thanks on your ideas and prayers and ask everybody to respect the household’s privateness throughout this very troublesome time.”
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Clarkson has but to publicly handle Blackstock’s demise. Nevertheless, she returned to social media for the primary time since suspending her Las Vegas reveals to rejoice the anniversary of her 2002 American Idol win.
“To everybody that took time 23 years in the past to name in and vote for me, thanks 🙏,” she captioned her September 4 Instagram submit. “Successful American Idol modified my life and I will probably be eternally grateful for all of you which have supported me for thus a few years. It’s a reward to search out your goal and keenness, and to have the ability to make a dwelling doing it’s the cherry on high. Thanks, at all times.”
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