MIRANDA Lambert has reconnected with her home state of Texas and her husband in an unexpected new Instagram post on Thursday.
Last month, the country star’s husband, Brendan McLoughlin, was seen grinding with multiple girls at Miranda’s Nashville, Tennessee, bar, Casa Rosa.
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Miranda’s new Instagram post saw her embrace her roots between stops on her monthslong tour by returning to Austin for a quick visit.
The three-selfie post featured three different, wholesome get-togethers.
In the first, she wore a Whataburger hat while posing with fellow country singer Gwen Bastian.
In the second, she hit the Guadalupe River for a daytime tubing outing with her mom, Bev Lambert.
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In the third, she beamed alongside her husband, Brendan, outside Austin’s Q2 stadium.
They posed while attending the men’s soccer club Austin FC’s game against Dallas.
Brendan donned a black and green Austin FC tee shirt and wore his hair gelled back.
Miranda nuzzled her cheek against his shoulder and looked at peace.
She donned a low-profile cap and purple sunglasses as she snapped the couple’s selfie.
“Tell me you’re from Texas without telling me you’re from Texas,” Miranda captioned the post.
‘HAPPY TO SEE BRENDAN!’
Fans flooded the comments, loving Miranda’s Texas-themed update, and were relieved to see her and Brendan together.
“This brings me back to Little Red Wagon, ur smile looks so young & carefree! Always gorgeous,” one fan gushed.
“A Dr Pepper and a Whataburger,” wrote another, answering the prompt in her caption.
“Oh, I’ve never been happier to see @brendanjmcloughlin with you!” wrote a third.
“Cuties!” wrote a fourth, seemingly referring to the couple.
The two tied the knot in 2019 after Miranda’s former marriage to country star Blake Shelton, 48.
‘SIGN TO SAY GOODBYE’
This comes after a cryptic TikTok video in mid-June where Miranda, 40, hinted she was moving on.
She shared a two-photo swipe post that first showed a selfie of her waving to the camera.
The Tin Man hitmaker had a genuine grin as she posed in a tye-dye T-shirt and blue baseball cap.
“This is you sign to…” text over the photo read.
The next snap showed the fenced-in, empty grass path in front of her.
The text over the photo continued, “… say goodbye to anything that isn’t serving you anymore.”
The clip was accompanied by her newly-released song, Dammit Randy.
“Must have saw the bar video,” one person wrote in the comments.
“Yep it’s time to say, ‘Bye Felicia,'” a second wrote.
“As you should [wave] keep it moving!” said a third, while another commented, “A new chapter is always a good thing!!”
DANCING WITH WOMEN ‘FOR HOURS’
At the end of June, Miranda’s husband was caught intimately dancing around a group of women at her Nashville bar.
Witnesses at the time said he had been dancing with them “for hours,” clarifying that it wasn’t just a quick exchange.
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Videos showed Brendan seemingly getting touchy-feeling with one woman who even had her hands on the former NYPD officer’s face.
Brendan wore a white tank-top shirt and was seen getting quite close to the parties he danced with.
SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT
Shortly after, however, one of the women he was seen with shared her story to In Touch.
“Earlier in the night, we noticed him in the roped-off section at the front of the bar. “We recognized him, and we all thought it was cool that he was there, and mentioned hoping for a Miranda appearance,” she said.
“Somehow, later, we were let into the roped-off section where he was. I’m not sure how that was initiated or happened.”
The woman said Brendan was “friendly and casual, but never inappropriate or suggestive in any way.”
“He was gracious and polite and kind,” she said, clarifying also that “he was not flirty.”
“He did a lot of laughing at us, because we are a silly bunch and were having a good time just dancing and being goofy together,” she continued.
The woman also noted that due to the loud music, everyone in the group had to get close in order to talk to one another.
Asked why she was touching Brendan’s face, she replied, “I’m not sure why I put my hands on his face—I just have a tendency to do that at times without even realizing.
“It’s a silly, unconscious habit that I have, and I am responsible for how that may have appeared to the outside world,” she continued.
“I never intended it suggestively, probably more ‘motherly,’ as that’s who I am, but that isn’t something that should reflect badly on him at all.”
The woman also noted that Brendan left the bar around an hour and a half before her group.
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