Keith Urban Interview Ends After Question About Nicole Kidman

An interview with country musician Keith Urban ended abruptly after a radio interviewer asked the four-time Grammy winner about Urban’s wife, actress Nicole Kidman, filming “love scenes” in her movies.

Urban did a Zoom interview with Australia’s Mix 102.3 radio show “Hayley & Max in the Morning” hosts Max Burford and Hayley Pearson on July 1. Audio from that interview was shared, and during a segment of the show the hosts called “Wall of Truth,” they told Urban that they had a “very tricky” question to ask him.

Burford said, “When I was coming up with something to ask you, Keith Urban, if you happen to play this game, the first thing I thought of, with your beautiful wife Nicole Kidman being in so many great movies, TV shows all the time, I watched a movie with her and Zac Efron recently, [2024’s] A Family Affair.”

Urban responded kindly, “Oh yeah, that’s a good one.” Burford then asked Urban, “And I thought, ‘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 and radio?”

At that point, the connection seems to go silent, with the host then questioning, “Oh, why has that happened?…what’s happened here?” Another, unspecified voice, then says, “He’s disconnected from Zoom.”

Pearson asks, “Did he just hang up on us?” The unidentified voice says, “I think his team [allegedly] hung up on us because they didn’t want us to ask that question.” Pearson then added that, “He doesn’t like the personal stuff. I knew that would happen.”

According to People, a source noted that it was not Urban who ended the call. “Keith did not hang up, period,” the source reportedly told People, adding, “He doesn’t host his Zoom interviews. This is a complete nothingburger.”

A rep for Urban declined to comment on the incident when reached by Billboard.

Urban is currently on tour, with upcoming shows in Denver (July 17), Salt Lake City (July 18) and Nampa, Idaho (July 19).