Gwen Stefani shares how Blake Shelton won her family over

The Voice judges Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton are one of the most popular couples today. In a recent interview, the former No Doubt vocalist shares how Shelton impressed her family.

Stefani and Shelton, along with fellow The Voice judge John Legend and host Carson Daly made an appearance on fellow judge Kelly Clarkson on The Kelly Clarkson Show. Stefani shared that it was during a road trip that she knew Shelton won her three sons over. She enthusiastically recalled the story of their first visit to Shelton’s ranch in Oklahoma.

“...We’re driving, and Blake’s in his truck, and there’s a tree that had been like, blown down in the road,” shared the singer, even getting up to demonstrate how her beau dealt with their minor roadblock. “...He gets in the back of the truck. He has this big chain and pulls it out. He wraps it around the tree. And my whole family is like ‘Oh my god, he’s a man!’”

The story was met with laughs from Clarkson and Legend, while Daly gave Shelton a pat on the back.

But it is not just Shelton’s know-how in the wild that has impressed Stefani’s three sons with ex-husband Gavin Rossdale: Kingston, Zuma, and Apollo. Previously in June, Us Weekly also revealed that the country singer has become very close with the boys, bonding with them over basketball and the outdoors.

The couple first met on the show’s ninth season back in 2015 and eventually started dating after their respective divorces in November. Shelton’s divorce from fellow country singer Miranda Lambert was finalized in July, a month before Stefani and Rossdale filed for divorce after 13 years of marriage in August. Today, the singers divide their time together between Stefani’s home in Los Angeles and Shelton’s ranch in Oklahoma.

According to a source from Us Weekly, one of the reasons why Shelton loves the singer is because she’s just like “one of the guys,” and that “She stays away from the Hollywood scene and is a total homebody…”

The source even went on to say that despite Stefani’s celebrity status, she actually “shares the same traditional Midwestern values as Blake.”