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Lainey Wilson spoke about her fiancé, Devlin “Duck” Hodges, and the couple’s plans for the future — including starting a family — during a recent conversation on No Filter.
The Grammy-winning country star caught up with Kate Langbroek on the Australia-based interview podcast. Wilson said Hodges, “makes me want to be a better person, and I hope he’d say the same about me. …Even if I’m not at Nashville, at my house, he is home. You know what I’m saying? Like, we’ve been gone a month now [on international ‘Whirlwind Tour’ dates], and I can FaceTime him and just for a minute I feel like (I’m) at home. He helps me come back down to my center and he’s my biggest cheerleader really.”
Wilson said the couple’s life at home includes their two dogs, a black Labrador named Willow and a French bulldog named Hippie. They often spend their time loading up the 4x4, riding around and “all the simple things in life.” Langbroek asked, “if you had a plan for yourselves what does that look like?”
“We definitely want to have a family,” Wilson replied. “I think him and I both would be good parents and I’d love to see him be a dad. We’re gonna get married [first]. We’re gonna do the whole thing, and kids will be, you know, kids will be later. But we’re definitely gonna do it.”
The “4x4xU” artist reminisced on her engagement story. Hodges proposed last year t late legend George Jones’ estate in Franklin, Tennessee, outside of Nashville. Wilson later shared that she possibly manifested her engagement ring with a joke. She’d been “wanting to see the George Jones estate for quite some time, and his buddy had it listed for sale.” Wilson quickly realized Hodges had other plans when they arrived, and “could not have been more perfect.”
“He makes it real easy to write love songs. I can’t believe I’m saying that,” Wilson said at a press event shortly after her engagement. “He’s a good person.”
Throughout her conversation on No Filter, Wilson also spoke about the advice she received from Keith Urban, “faith, exhaustion, ambition, meeting Miley Cyrus after years of portraying her on stage,” and more. Find the full episode on iHeartRadio here.
Wilson is among the country artists nominated at the 2026 iHeartRadio Music Awards, returning this spring to Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California. See the list of country artists nominated here.
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