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Gwen Stefani couldn’t be prouder of her 17-year-old son, Kingston.
“This child is such an excellent songwriter and out of nowhere,” Stefani, 54, gushed throughout an look on Jimmy Kimmel Dwell! on Wednesday, February 14. “We have been like, ‘You’re mendacity. You didn’t write that.’”
The singer advised host Jimmy Kimmel that she was “freaked out” by Kingston’s expertise.
“It was actually thrilling and it’s bizarre, ’trigger even final night time he was enjoying for us and I used to be like, ‘Wow.’ It’s mind-blowing,” she continued. “You don’t know what your youngsters are going to do after which rapidly they discover themselves, and also you’re like ‘Wow.’”
Stefani shares Kingston and sons Zuma, 15, and Apollo, 9, with ex-husband Gavin Rossdale. The previous couple break up in 2015 after practically 13 years of marriage and finalized their divorce the next yr.

(L-R) Kingston Rossdale, Gwen Stefani, Apollo Rossdale, Blake Shelton and Zuma Rossdale attend the Hollywood Stroll of Fame Star Ceremony Honoring Gwen Stefani on October 19, 2023 in Hollywood, California. Emma McIntyre/Getty Pictures
Rossdale, 58, opened up concerning the duo’s coparenting dynamic throughout a June 2023 look on the “Not So Hollywood” podcast.
“I feel you’ll be able to go one in every of two methods: You both do every thing collectively and actually coparent, and see how that goes, or you’ll be able to simply guardian. And I feel we simply guardian,” the Bush frontman mentioned. “We’re actually completely different folks, so I don’t suppose there’s a lot similarity in the best way we convey them up, however I feel that offers them an unimaginable perspective to then select which items of these two lives they’d wish to inherit and transfer on with.”
Rossdale, who additionally shares daughter Daisy Lowe, 35, with ex Pearl Lowe, added that he and Stefani “have some notably opposing views,” which he sees as useful to their sons’ development.
“I feel it’d be actually useful for them to make [up] their very own minds — as they need to — as people,” he mentioned. “I feel that they’re now of the age the place they’re beginning to admire which components of both home they could tackle into their maturity [or] possibly none of it? Perhaps they’ll type of, like, change into one thing completely different.”
Whereas the exes do their very own factor in terms of parenting their sons, Stefani now has assist from husband Blake Shelton, whom she wed in 2021.
Shelton, 47, talked about his position as a stepparent throughout a November 2023 interview with Right this moment.
“I feel it’s, in some methods, tougher, tougher. I attempt to watch out about when to step again and be good about when to step again and simply speak, however it doesn’t matter what, I’m at all times there if I’m wanted,” he mentioned.
The nation singer beforehand famous that his personal stepdad supplied an ideal blueprint for him to comply with with Stefani’s boys.
“I’ve a stepfather in my life who’s one in every of my heroes,” Shelton mentioned throughout a February 2021 look on Ok-FROG. “I really like my stepfather and I look as much as him and he’s like a father to me, so I’ve an excellent inspiration in my life for the way to do that and the sort of stepdad I wish to be.”