{"id":25633,"date":"2019-06-18T18:26:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T00:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1050541"},"modified":"2019-06-18T18:26:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T00:26:00","slug":"blake-shelton-gets-a-special-kiss-on-his-birthday-and-gwen-stefani-approves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/music-news\/blake-shelton-gets-a-special-kiss-on-his-birthday-and-gwen-stefani-approves\/","title":{"rendered":"Blake Shelton Gets a Special Kiss on His Birthday and Gwen Stefani Approves"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"41.970527404343\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/20181011\/rs_634x1024-181111182625-634-gwen-stefani-blake-shelton.cm.111118.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Gwen Stefani, Blake Shelton, 2018 Peoples Choice Awards, PCAs, Candids, Backstage\" alt=\"Gwen Stefani, Blake Shelton, 2018 Peoples Choice Awards, PCAs, Candids, Backstage\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Todd Williamson\/E! Entertainment<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"24.089935760171\">\n<p>It appears <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/blake_shelton\">Blake Shelton<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s birthday has been nothing but a piece of cake!<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday,&nbsp;<em>The Voice<\/em> judge and &#8220;God&#8217;s Country&#8221; singer celebrated his 43rd birthday with his longtime lady love, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/gwen_stefani\">Gwen Stefani<\/a><\/strong>. From the &#8220;Make Me Like You&#8221; star&#8217;s Instagram post, the pair&nbsp;seemed to&nbsp;enjoy a fun-filled day at Chicago&#8217;s Shedd Aquarium. In fact, the country star&nbsp;got a special kiss during his tour around the building.&nbsp;But fret not, the 49-year-old singer totally approved of it, and even said &#8220;aw&#8221;&nbsp;when&nbsp;her boo&nbsp;got his big &#8216;ole&nbsp;smooch.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Happy b day to my favorite human,&#8221; Gwen shared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/By3kFrwBZEH\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a>, alongside several snaps and a video of her boyfriend&nbsp;(two pics were glamour shots from Blake&#8217;s early country singing days, while others were recent images). &#8220;Can&#8217;t believe your [sic] mine.&nbsp;#soooooolucky!!!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So who puckered up and kissed Blake on his 43rd birthday? According to a source, that would be the aquarium&#8217;s famous sea lion, Ty.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"58\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"6\">\n<p>Bending over to Ty&#8217;s height,&nbsp;the&nbsp;TV personality was all smiles after the mammal planted a big kiss on his cheek. &#8220;thank u shedd aquarium Chicago for an amazing unexpected b day tour,&#8221; the blonde beauty shared.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"63.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"17\">\n<p>Of the couple&#8217;s visit today, a source told E! News &#8220;they were just lovely&#8221; at the Shedd Aquarium.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They were there with their family wanting to visit the aquarium. They had some great, private family time and were able to see the animals behind-the-scenes,&#8221; the insider revealed, adding, &#8220;They were lovely and in a great mood; they were great.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite having&nbsp;a seemingly&nbsp;flawless and unforgettable birthday, the source explained it was&nbsp;pretty much spontaneous and low-key. &#8220;There wasn&#8217;t any type of special birthday celebration for Blake, but everybody knew it was his birthday.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-5\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"54.817721518987\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"7.4329113924051\">\n<p>Making his 43rd celebration even sweeter? The country singer is performing his new duet with&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/garth_brooks\">Garth Brooks<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;for the first time&nbsp;in front of an audience tomorrow. The singing duo&nbsp;will perform their single&nbsp;&#8220;Dive Bar&#8221; in Idaho.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thank you to everyone for the happy birthday wishes today,&#8221; the Oklahoma native <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/blakeshelton\/status\/1141031815731470336\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote on Twitter<\/a>. &#8220;And thank you <s>@<\/s>garthbrooks for the gift of a dream collaboration!!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-6\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"56\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"2\">\n<p>\u2014Additional reporting by Ali Rosenbloom.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1050541\/blake-shelton-gets-a-special-kiss-on-his-birthday-and-gwen-stefani-approves?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Todd Williamson\/E! Entertainment It appears Blake Shelton&#8216;s birthday has been nothing but a piece of cake! On Tuesday,&nbsp;The Voice judge and &#8220;God&#8217;s Country&#8221; singer celebrated his 43rd birthday with his longtime lady love, Gwen Stefani. From the &#8220;Make Me Like You&#8221; star&#8217;s Instagram post, the pair&nbsp;seemed to&nbsp;enjoy a fun-filled day at Chicago&#8217;s Shedd Aquarium. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25633","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 07:21:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}