It’ll be unlike any other Sunday in the South! Three months after Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert‘s divorce, the CMAs announced on Monday, Oct. 19, that the exes are among the scheduled performers at the 2015 Country Music Association Awards, where they will reunite in public for the first time since their split.
The roster will include additional names like Luke Bryan and Jason Aldean, all of whom will filter into the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville. Shelton is nominated for Musical Event of the Year alongside Lambert’s best friend and Pistol Annies bandmate, Ashley Monroe. The show, hosted by Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley, will also include performances by Eric Church, Keith Urban, Hank Williams Jr., and Kacey Musgraves.
This is the first time the pair will be at the same red carpet event since their shocking and sudden split this past summer. On July 20, the country stars announced their separation to Us Weekly; hours later, Us confirmed that their divorce was finalized.
Lambert, 31, and Shelton’s speedy split was secured by a prenup in Oklahoma, allowing the spouses to divide their assets accordingly. Shelton, 39, kept their home in Oklahoma, and Lambert got their property in Nashville. Since then, both have spoken out about the divorce.
At an event earlier this month, Lambert explained how her life has changed since she moved to the country music capital. “I’ve been spending a lot of time here the last three or four months. I moved back here. I’ve never felt more at home,” Lambert said at the Music City Walk of Fame Induction Ceremony in her town. “I’ve never felt more inspired.”
Shelton, meanwhile, reflected on the speediness of his summertime split. “In Oklahoma, it happens so fast,” Shelton told the Bobby Bones Show in September. “Like, Miranda and I didn’t have any kids, and we had a prenuptial agreement, whatever we had. Once we filed for divorce, it was over in, like, I think it was like a nine or 10-day waiting period until it’s over.”
Despite the sudden split, the two have stayed on friendly terms — via social media. “Our whole thing was, we are going to be cool about this, it is what it is,” Shelton said of the divorce on the same radio program. “We’re buddies.”
The 2015 CMAs will air on Nov. 4, on ABC.
