Darius Rucker has got himself a new love.
The former Hootie and the Blowfish frontman (to be clear, he’s not Hootie) took to social media yesterday and shared some rather interesting news. He went to see the Wizard of Oz at the Sphere in Las Vegas! How cool is that? So happy for Darius Rucker that he got to see that classic film reimagined on the really big, $1 billion screen.
Obviously that’s not the news I’m actually talking about… though he did go to the Sphere to see that movie.
The more intriguing part of his post is the “love” that the 59-year-old has his arm around in the selfie that the couple took in front of the Las Vegas venue. Her name is Emily Deahl, content creator and singer that also hails from the great state of South Carolina (Darius lived in Charleston before moving to London earlier this year). It age is unclear but she appears to be in her late 20s-early 30s.
Though she’s attempted to get into singing and songwriting, she’s more prominent as a social media personality, and has around 500,000 followers on her TikTok (to go with millions of likes). It’s unclear how the two met, but speculation about their potential relationship has been running rampant online, and there’s obviously that South Carolina connection between them.
But speculate no more… Darius Rucker made things official with this post yesterday:
“Wizard of Oz at The Sphere with my love and my boys.”
Looks like a happy couple if you ask me.
It’s important to note that Darius Rucker was formerly married to someone named Beth Leonard. They were together for 20 years before they decided to go separate ways back in 2020. In Rucker’s book, Life’s Too Short, the country music singer revealed that his ex-wife was not at all at fault in the divorce.
In fact, he looked in the mirror and owned up to his shortcomings, as he explained in an interview:
“To realize how awful I was as a husband was hard to write. To realize she did everything she could. She’s so wonderful, she’s still an amazing human, amazing person. I love her so much. But I was just, a rockstar, and I lived that life. I wanted to tell the truth, but sometimes the truth sucks. It sucks for me and in writing about her, I just wanted the world to know that it was all me. She was awesome. It was all me.”
Apparently Darius Rucker has done some soul-searching since then, and that’s led him to be with the much younger Emily Deahl some five years after his split. And though they’re both South Carolina natives, one could assume that Rucker and Deahl have had their relationship blossom in London or Nashville, however they’ve shared posts that indicate that they’ve been together for at least a year.
Regardless of where the couple is spending most of their time, I guess you could say that Darius Rucker… only wants to be with Deahl. That was a bad joke, right? I’ll see myself out. Of course, Deahl, is probably too young to know that song. Ok, seriously, I’m done…
“Only Wanna Be With You”
