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Charles Esten was on Kelsea Ballerini and Chase Stokes’ first date
Charles Esten had a front row seat from the start Kelsea Ballerini And Chase Stokes‘ love story.
Esten, 58, who stars alongside Stokes, 31 Outdoor benches and is friends with Ballerini, 30, revealed to We weekly that he was present on their first date. “He came to town and we ended up going to some of our favorite bars, including, if I’m not mistaken, Robert’s on Broadway,” the actor shared while attending CMA Fest on Friday, June 7, in Nashville. “I was just there to see it bloom.” Esten noted that his wife, Patty Hanson, was also dating them, and they were “all just hanging out.”
He added: “They’re just both such great people. Such good hearts, such kind souls, so creatively gifted that it was just pretty cool to be there. I love them both.”
The country singer and Stokes were first linked in January 2023 after they were spotted together at the College Football Playoff National Championship in Los Angeles.
Ballerini confirmed the romance a month later during an appearance on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast, revealing that she had ended up in Chase’s DMs. “His handle is ‘hichasestokes’ and I just said, ‘Hello Chase Stokes,’” she said.
Esten, who met Ballerini when she guest-starred Nashville in 2016 he had special memories of the singer, including a meeting with Taylor Swift. “When Taylor Swift came to town, this was years ago, when they were in middle school and high school, I believe, and my dear friend Kelsey Ballerini, we went backstage and got to hang out backstage at the big concert and stuff “, he says. remembered.
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These days, Esten is hitting the road for his new tour, which will take him across the country, from Connecticut to Wisconsin. The actor wrote his starring role as country singer Deacon Claybourne Nashville for propelling his music career.
“I could never have imagined such a show Nashville brought me to Nashville and reopened this musical career,” he said. “I started as a musician, as a singer-songwriter at university. It’s been a long, circuitous route, but in the end I always feel like I’m where I need to be. And that is a good feeling.”
Reporting by Jeremy Parsons
