Is Jana Domesticating Brantley?
Brantley Gilbert presents a pretty tough exterior, dressed in black with tattoos and chains. But has his relationship with Jana Kramer changed him? As he co-hosted Country Countdown USA with Lon Helton, it sounded like he’s a little concerned. He said, “If I get any more domesticated, I’m going to have to beat some random person up just to make sure I still got it! I’m just kidding, I know I still got it. (laughs)”
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Brantley & Jana had been living in her East Nashville bungalow. But he told Lon that he & Jana just closed on a new house. So his life is changing in some ways. “We just moved in this house, closed on it yesterday, we’re in the, or SHE’S in the decorating process, I should say, her and the interior designer.”
The latest addition to their lives is a dog they named Junior. Brantley told Lon how they came to own Junior: “I live in the estrogen ocean. My fiance’s mom lives with us too, and they both have girl dogs. Jana had wanted a boxer since she was a baby. So I finally broke and said, ‘OK we can get a boxer.’ She was like, ‘Can we get a female?’ And she had that face like, ‘we’re getting a female,’ and for once I put my foot down and said, ‘No, I need some masculinity in this house, we’re getting a boy dog.’ So it turns out he was born on Valentine’s Day, and had a heart on his nose. But we got ready to walk him, and she got the leash, and it was pink! I took a Sharpie to it, and said ‘You ain’t putting pink on that dog. He ain’t a girl dog, he don’t want to be, just leave him alone!”
Junior is not the only dog in the house. As we said, Jana has a female dog, but that’s only part of the story, according to Brantley: “She has a puggle. It’s a beagle and pug mixed. When I met her, she said, ‘If you love me, you gotta love my dog.’ I saw that dog, and I though ‘I’m in trouble!’ I don’t know if I will ever love that dog. But actually as it turned out, she’s the cutest thing ever, and I actually love the dog, she’s my little girl.”
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So they got past the dog phase. The hard part is making the relationship work between two artists. Brantley explained it this way: “You know what’s cool? She’s my best friend in the world. She lets me be me, she loves me for who I am. She don’t try to change me. She understands who I am, she knows my faults and the good parts, that’s what makes it awesome, I got the freedom to screw up if it happens, my whole life has been a learning process. So a little of that is changing. She hasn’t settled me down. Your boy ain’t goin’ nowhere, I ain’t sellin’ out, I ain’t sold not one motorcycle, I ain’t bought no Polo shirts with the collar on ’em, I ain’t bought no visors, you still got your boy, no tattoos have been removed!”
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