Double dose of affection! The 2022 Academy of Country Music Awards served as the final date night time for a few of music’s largest {couples}.
While host Dolly Parton walked the Monday, March 7, pink carpet solo, her cohosts, Jimmie Allen and Gabby Barrett, posed with their important others. (The 76-year-old “Jolene” singer has been married to Carl Thomas Dean since 1966, however she retains him out of the public eye as a lot as attainable.)
The “Freedom Was a Highway” crooner, 36, and his spouse, Alexis Gale, took a break from their two daughters, Naomi, 2, and Zara, 4 months, to attend the Las Vegas occasion. Allen can be the father of 7-year-old son Aadyn, from a earlier relationship.
Barrett, for her half, is a mother herself, having welcomed daughter Baylah in January 2021. The “I Hope” singer, 22, took off her parenting hat for the night time and celebrated the awards present together with her husband, Cade Foehner, whom she wed in October 2019 after falling in love on season 16 of American Idol.
Maren Morris and Ryan Hurd additionally left their 23-month-old son Hayes at dwelling whereas attending one among nation music’s largest nights.
The “Circles Around This Town” songstress, 31, and the “To a T” crooner, 35, are the first married couple to be nominated in the similar year at the ACMs since Tim McGraw and Faith Hill in 2017.
Morris is nominated for Female Artist of the Year alongside Barrett, Miranda Lambert, Ashley McBryde and Carly Pearce. Hurd, for his half, earned a nod for New Male Artist of the Year. However, Parker McCollum was introduced as the New Male Artist winner on Friday, March 4, forward of the stay occasion.
Kelsea Ballerini — who is ready to carry out “Big Dreams and Faded Jeans” with Parton throughout the present — turned heads as she stepped out with husband Morgan Evans on Monday night time.
The “Hole in the Bottle” songstress, 28, rocked an attractive, black Saint Laurent robe whereas her husband, 36, wore a glossy black swimsuit.
Scroll all the way down to see which of nation music’s hottest {couples} attended the ACM Awards: