Kelsea Ballerini & Chase Stokes Hold Hands As They Walk Around NYC Before Her ‘SNL’ Performance

Kelsea Ballerini and her caller beau Chase Stokes continued to heat up their romance successful New York conscionable hours earlier she performed connected Saturday Night Live. The state euphony singer, 29, held hands with the Outer Banks star, 30, arsenic they walked astir the Big Apple connected March 4, arsenic seen successful photos here. The saccharine stroll came a fewer days aft the brace had yet confirmed their emotion match.

Kelsea Ballerini and Chase Stokes were spotted holding hands successful New York successful March 2023. (Eric Kowalsky / MEGA)

Rocking a sherpa-lined overgarment and ripped jeans, Kelsea looked each inch the state popular princess arsenic she held onto Chase’s arm. The “Peter Pan” songstress kept her signature blonde locks successful a choky bun, allowing her earthy quality to instrumentality halfway stage, arsenic she paired the look with decorator sunglasses and chic Converse precocious tops. Her handsome beau balanced his blase look of a wool pea overgarment with the sensibility of a trucker hat.

Hours later, Kelsea would deterioration overmuch little onstage astatine Studio 8-H for her archetypal quality arsenic philharmonic impermanent connected ‘SNL.’ In a sheer bodysuit, the vocalist gave a jaw-dropping rendition of her divorcement anthem “Blindsided,” which is rumored to beryllium astir her 2022 split with her hubby of 5 years, Morgan Evans. Later, she took the signifier to loop retired a stirring piano-and-vocals rendition of “Penthouse.” Both songs are disconnected her caller medium Rolling Up the Welcome Mat, which debuted past month.

Meanwhile, the post-divorce narration betwixt Kelsea and Morgan has been less than amicable. Morgan precocious clapped backmost aft Kelsea gave a bombshell interview. “The infinitesimal I deliberation it was implicit over was erstwhile I was realizing I wasn’t acceptable for kids,” Kelsea told Alex Cooper during an quality connected the Call Her Daddy podcast connected Feb. 22. “That’s a cardinal difference. He was like, ‘I don’t privation to beryllium an aged dad.’ And I’m like…I’m conscionable not determination yet. I can’t bash this to prevention us. I can’t bash that to myself.”

Morgan deed backmost connected his Instagram, writing, “It’s truly bittersweet for maine to spot this person, who I spent truthful overmuch of my beingness with, and loved with each my heart, saying things that aren’t world and that permission retired what truly happened.” He added, “If this is what she needs to heal, I anticipation it helps.”

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