Keith Urban’s divorce drama with Nicole Kidman has shone an incredibly bright spotlight on his previously unknown guitarist Maggie Baugh, who was notably absent from his concert Thursday amid ongoing speculation about an affair with her boss.
Baugh became the center of the drama and negative commentary when she posted a video of Urban singing her name in a song he’d previously dedicated to Kidman. Days later, Kidman filed for a divorce, citing “irreconcilable differences,” and Kidman fans took aim at the 25-year-old multi-instrumentalist who’s been touring with Urban since 2024. The comment sections of most of her recent posts are filled with angry Kidman fans calling her “the other woman” and vowing not to support her burgeoning career.
Baugh has received a mountain of attention since she posted the now viral video that made her the center of the celebrity divorce drama. She captioned the footage of the flirtatious on-stage exchange, “Did he really just say that,” as Urban sang a tweaked lyric of “The Fighter” to say, “Maggie, I will be your fighter.”
She then mostly refrained from posting on social media as the rumor mill churned, and has declined to post any public defense or clarification. After keeping up a rapid of clip of daily posts on both Instagram and TikTok, she has now not shared any content since Wednesday.
Despite her silence, Baugh’s father weighed in, attempting to defend his daughter by telling the Daily Mail, “I don’t know anything about it, other than she’s a guitar player for him.” He added, “It’s more of a musician thing than a dating thing,” but ultimately admitted he “hadn’t heard one way or the other” whether their relationship had become more than platonic.
Urban, for his part, continued to embrace his separation from Kidman at his show Thursday. He once again appeared on stage without his wedding ring and dropped “The Fighter” from his setlist altogether. Before singing the song to Baugh last weekend, he’d previously told Billboard in 2017 that the song was about “protecting” Kidman during their 19-year marriage.
Urban’s High and Alive World Tour will conclude later this month in Baugh’s hometown of Nashville, Tennessee.
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