Kelly Clarkson scores herself a man

**Laurent** · March 14th, 2012, 04:04 PM

Exclusive: Kelly Clarkson Dating Reba McEntire's Stepson!
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March 14, 2012 AT 4:06PM
By Zach Johnson

Credit: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic; Rick Diamond/Getty Images for BMI

Kelly Clarkson's dry spell is over!

Single since 2006, the first-ever American Idol winner, 29, revealed to a Toronto radio station March 6 that she's been off the market since late last year. "I have a new boyfriend!" Clarkson gushed.

Sources tell the new issue of Us Weekly (on stands Friday) the lucky guy is 35-year-old Nashville-based talent manager Brandon Blackstock, the son of Clarkson's own manager, Narvel Blackstock (and stepson of Reba McEntire).

"Before Brandon, Kelly had a really tough time with love," an insider says of the Grammy winner, who split from singer Graham Colton six years ago. "[Brandon] is just what she needed."

Read more: Kelly Clarkson Dating Reba McEntire's Stepson! - UsMagazine.com

I know she got the gay rumor a lot because she didn't perpetually have a boyfriend, but I never got the gay vibe off her. Maybe this will work out for her.

**Sarzy** · March 14th, 2012, 06:04 PM

Dating her manager's son. That could get awkward!

**fgg** · March 14th, 2012, 06:07 PM

he looks kind of like the pregnant man. i get the lesbian vibe but if she's happy, i'm happy.

**McJag** · March 14th, 2012, 06:54 PM

I hope this works out for her!

**caramel** · March 14th, 2012, 07:36 PM

all she scores really is a beard so she gets to sit on some poor girls face with that fat fanny

**faithanne** · March 15th, 2012, 04:46 AM

**Chilly Willy** · March 15th, 2012, 08:41 AM

Good for her.

**sluce** · March 15th, 2012, 08:42 AM

She has scored herself the #1 song this week for Top 40. I really like her so this all makes me happy for her.

**qwerty** · March 15th, 2012, 09:02 AM

Can't believe she's only 29. She's been around forever and has accomplished so much. I was thinking she was 33-34.

I like her.

**Chalet** · March 18th, 2012, 12:02 AM

I had to come here to say that I'm watching SNL and I've never seen anyone packed into a stretch dress like Kelly is. Her dress and Spanx make Kim K. look like Gisele.

It's magenta leopard sleeveless. I just don't know why.

**NVash** · March 18th, 2012, 01:28 AM

She was on SNL this week?

***8*** · March 18th, 2012, 06:51 AM

Yes, she was. I saw her performance of, Mr. know it all. It looks like a difficult song to sing.
I like the song though and I'm happy if her music is doing well on the charts.

**msdeb** · March 18th, 2012, 11:37 AM

i believe SNL was a rerun

**fgg** · May 24th, 2012, 03:10 PM

Kelly Clarkson: My Boyfriend is Ruining My Creativity

Kelly Clarkson is known for empowering breakup songs like "Since U Been Gone," but now that she's happily in a relationship, the pop star is struggling to find her edge.

"It is killing me," Clarkson told PEOPLE while doing press for ABC's upcoming singing competition show Duets. "I'm trying to write a tough song and it is coming out like butterflies and rainbows."

Clarkson, 30, says she has been dating Nashville-based talent manager Brandon Blackstock, 35, since late 2011.

"It is ruining my creativity," she joked of the relationship that she publicly announced in early March. "I'm writing all this happy [stuff]."

Blackstock is the son of Narvel Blackstock, Clarkson's manager of five years, and the stepson of Clarkson's "Because of You" duet partner Reba McEntire.

"People used to ask, 'Why are you single?' and I'd say, 'It is not in my schedule,' " Clarkson told reporters. "I'm in a relationship right now and I have time for it. I never used to."

Clarkson's next single off her fifth album, Stronger, will be "Darkside" but her happy love life is making it difficult to tap in to her own darkness.

"People are going to be, like, 'What the hell happened to you,' " she said of her recent writing sessions. "It has been really difficult. I love it. It's an awesome problem to have."