The chart-topping pop star, 46, appeared furious and frustrated last month as she denounced “fake news” reports she had split from former pro-motocross racer Carey Hart, her husband of 20 years.
“So I was just alerted to the fact that I’m separated from my husband. I didn’t know,” she sniffed in an Instagram video. “Thank you for letting me know. Would you also like to tell our children? My 14-year-old and my 9-year-old are also unaware.”
But her husband — who regularly posts to his 1.3 million Instagram followers — didn’t say a word in support of his wife’s comments.
A source in the know told us the couple is now working on what their future looks like, and have indeed, been discussing going their separate ways. Pink was “blindsided” by the reports, they said,
“They haven’t worked out the technicalities of how it will work with the kids and where they’ll each be based full time,” the source said. But ultimately, “they weren’t ready to have it out there just yet… Pink just wants to protect the kids, which is entirely fair.”
As Page Six previously revealed, the couple have both moved to NYC, leaving their 200-acre vineyard estate in Santa Ynez Valley, California — at least for the time being — so that daughter Willow can pursue her Broadway dreams.
“In a lot of ways they’re going to appear closer than ever right now, but it’s because they’re finalizing plans for how they’ll successfully co-parent and uncouple,” said the source. “They want to be a united front for their kids, and so they are staying very close to each other right now — but it’s literally because they are laying the groundwork for what comes next.”
Case in point: Over the weekend, they appeared the picture-perfect family as they went to see the Broadway musical “& Juliet” with Willow and son Jameson.
Pink posted a photo on her Instagram Stories Saturday and, a source told Page Six, the family stayed to greet the cast after the show.
We have reached out to reps for Pink and Hart, 50.
After meeting at the 2001 Summer X Games in Philadelphia, the two dated on and off before marrying in 2006.
Two years later, they announced that they had separated.
But Pink, real name Alecia Moore, and Hart stayed amicable — he even appeared in the music video for hit single “So What,” which was inspired by their separation — and, in the spring of 2009, revealed that they had reconciled.
“We’re rebuilding,” Hart told People that April. “Sometimes you have to take a couple of steps backwards to move forward.”
The singer later revealed they had been to individual therapy as well as couples counseling.
But, in 2023, Pink admitted of her marriage: “He and I are independent to a fault. That’s probably why we’ve stayed together so long, because we can live completely separately and then be together.
“We don’t need each other. We choose each other,” she told People.
The singer is also apparently choosing to reinvent herself, hosting “The Kelly Clarkson Show” on NBC this week — and prompting rumors she could take over the daytime chat show.
“We actually moved here because I am an amazing mom — and also so Willow could study theater and experience more Broadway,” Pink said on Monday.
As Page Six previously revealed, Clarkson is leaving her eponymous talk show at the end of the current season to be with her children River Rose, 11, and son Remy, 9, in the wake of her ex-husband Brandon Blackstock’s death last August.
During her week guest-hosting, Pink joined Willow for a phenomenal duet of “Hopeless War” from the Broadway musical “The Outsiders,” while Jameson led a cooking segment.
But it’s not as simple as parachuting Pink into the role — and the show may not even return once Clarkson leaves.
There could well be a battle ahead at NBC between creative and financial bosses, industry sources say.
The “Kelly Clarkson Show,” which debuted in September 2019, is produced by NBCUniversal television and distributed by NBCUniversal Syndication Studios, reaching over 200 stations.
“The show is syndicated and expensive to produce,” said a NBC insider, who admitted the network may not be looking for a Clarkson replacement at all.
“You have to pay for talent, music rights and production … and these show aren’t as lucrative as they used to be in this current broadcast TV environment,” the insider added.
The show’s slot could be handed back to news, used to air gameshows or boost current NBC brands — meaning there could even be something like a fifth hour of the “Today” show.
“It’s a cushy job [for a host], but there’s no job as of now,” said the insider.
Back in 2021, as part of her divorce filing, Clarkson revealed her monthly salary was $1.9 million, including her chat show fee and salary from “The Voice.”
“Developing talent is really important for a network and brand, and it’s really important to have a platform to promote their shows and content, but it has to make sense on paper,” another industry source said. “I have heard that Pink is interested in that role and I think she would be wonderful, but I just don’t know how the economics are for NBC.”
We’re also told that NBCUniversal has soaked up a lot of budget on sports. The company paid an estimated $2.5 billion for an 11-year deal with the NBA, starting with the 2025–26 season. Last May, it also shelled out $3 billion on an extension for exclusive US rights to the Olympics to run from 2033–2036.
Then there is also the subject of former “Today” co-anchor Hoda Kotb, who left that show in January 2025.
Despite originally denying rumors that she was replacing Clarkson, Kotb — who has been standing in for her friend Savannah Guthrie at “Today” — changed her answer while appearing on “Watch What Happens Live” with Andy Cohen last June.
“I’m a never-say-never person,” Kotb, 61, said.
“I think Hoda would be brilliant but you’ve got to be able to afford her,” said the industry figure. “None of these [TV- companies are flush with cash.
“Pink is also fabulous. There are advocates for the creative side, who may want to pursue Pink, and then there is the financial side. There is probably going to be a battle inside NBC, that’s for sure.”
