Keith Urban very understandably cut a radio interview in Australia short after the hosts asked him a question about the intimate scenes Nicole Kidman films for work.
Morning hosts Hayley Pearson and Max Buford of Mix 102.3 in Adelaide, Australia, presented the question during their “Wall of Truth,” where they ask guests to “answer a very tricky question, deeply personal question,” as Peterson put it to Urban (via Radio Today). Despite the nature of the segment and Urban’s participation in it, the hosts seemed to know the question they were about to ask was a bad, dumb, and/or unnecessary one.
Peterson admitted to feeling “uncomfortable” and shoved off the job to Buford, who asked, “What does Keith Urban think when he sees his beautiful wife with beautiful younger men like Zac Efron having these beautiful love scenes on TV?” (This was a reference to Kidman and Efron’s 2024 Netflix rom-com A Family Affair.)
Peterson and Buford did not get an answer, with their producer saying the musician and his team had “disconnected from Zoom” because “they didn’t want us to ask that question.” Peterson said she believed that was “100 percent what happened,” and chastised Buford for asking the question.
“I have never experienced someone hanging up in an interview with me before,” she said. “Max, I can’t believe that Keith Urban hung up on us!” Buford replied: “If you knew this was going to happen, Hayley, why didn’t you stop me asking the question?”
A representative for Urban did not immediately return Rolling Stone’s request for comment.
Urban released his most recent album, High, last September. He has a handful of North American tour dates scheduled for July, before he returns to his home country of Australia for a string of shows in August. Another North American run will kick off in September and continue through mid-October.
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