{"id":217540,"date":"2023-12-11T21:21:50","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T21:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bestwnews.com\/?p=217540"},"modified":"2023-12-11T21:21:50","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T21:21:50","slug":"kevin-costners-ex-christine-baumgartner-is-not-surprised-hes-dating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bestwnews.com\/celebrities\/kevin-costners-ex-christine-baumgartner-is-not-surprised-hes-dating\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Costner&apos;s ex Christine Baumgartner is not surprised he&apos;s dating"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span>EXCLUSIVE<\/span> Kevin Costner&#8217;s ex-wife Christine Baumgartner says she&#8217;s not surprised he&#8217;s moved on &#8211; but is glad it&#8217;s with Jewel and not some &#8216;fame-seeking bimbo&#8217; to come along and play mom to their three children<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Christine Baumgartner\u00a0 is &#8216;not surprised&#8217; ex Kevin Costner is dating again, telling a friend seeing him with Jewel is &#8216;bittersweet&#8217;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>&#8216;He didn&#8217;t need to make it so obvious by wrapping his arms around her,&#8217; Christine told a friend after photos emerged of Costner and Jewel getting very close\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>The Yellowstone actor and Baumgartner finalized their contentious divorce in September after 19 years of marriage\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Kevin Costner&#8217;s ex-wife says it&#8217;s &#8216;bittersweet&#8217; to see her Yellowstone actor ex dating just three months after their contentious divorce was finalized.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But Christine Baumgartner thinks it could have been worse, telling a friend the last thing she would want is some fame-seeking bimbo to come along and play mom to their children.<\/p>\n<p>It was revealed last week that Costner, 68, and Jewel, 49, are dating after TMZ obtained a photo showing the pair getting very close on Richard Branson&#8217;s Necker Island in the British Virgin Islands.<\/p>\n<p> &#8216;Christine said she&#8217;s not surprised that Kevin has moved on so quickly, but he didn&#8217;t need to make it so obvious by wrapping his arms around her.&#8217; a close friend tells DailyMail.com,<\/p>\n<p>The source added that Christine is relieved that Costner isn&#8217;t dating a &#8216;fame seeker&#8217; and that Jewel seems like a &#8216;down to earth person.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;She said she&#8217;s happy for him, but it still isn&#8217;t a great feeling seeing your ex with someone new,&#8217; the friend said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/11\/17\/78754645-12850605-A_close_friend_of_Christine_Baumgartner_tells_DailyMail_com_that-a-1_1702317247035.jpg\" height=\"774\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>A close friend of Christine Baumgartner tells DailyMail.com that she is &#8216;not surprised&#8217; that ex Kevin Costner has moved on so quickly. Costner was pictured with his hands wrapped around Jewel&#8217;s waist during their recent trip to the Caribbean<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/11\/20\/77001567-12850605-As_Christine_Baumgartner_faces_the_holidays_without_Kevin_Costne-a-1_1702326883761.jpg\" height=\"897\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Kevin Costner and Christine Baumgartner finalized their contentious divorce in September after 19 years of marriage\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/11\/20\/78752543-12850605-Kevin_Costner_68_and_Jewel_49_pictured_over_Thanksgiving_weekend-a-2_1702326883765.jpg\" height=\"1172\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Kevin Costner, 68, and Jewel, 49 (pictured over Thanksgiving weekend) are dating and have mutual pal Richard Branson, 73, to thank for their blossoming romance<\/p>\n<p>The 68-year-old actor and his 49-year-old wife of 19 years had been embroiled in a months-long legal war which met a surprise end in September.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin was blindsided when Christine filed for divorce in May.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now that Costner has moved on, Christine told friends she &#8216;never could have imagined he and Jewel dating, but in retrospect it makes sense.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;They&#8217;re both into music, into that cowboy thing. What&#8217;s not to like about her. At least Jewel is a down to earth person and has her own thing going on,&#8217; our source said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/11\/20\/78752535-12850605-Jewel_fits_Costner_s_type_blonde_and_young-a-3_1702326883769.jpg\" height=\"382\" width=\"306\"><\/p>\n<p>Jewel fits Costner&#8217;s type: blonde and young<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Christine said the last thing she wanted was for some fame seeker to come along and play mom to their three children. But Jewel has a son of her own, she has her own life and isn&#8217;t a gold digger. So that&#8217;s a relief.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Christine and Kevin share three children, Cayden, 16, Hayes, 14, and Grace, 13.<\/p>\n<p>Jewel&#8217;s son Kase, 12, who she shares with her professional cowboy ex-husband Ty Murray, seemed to be on the trip to Branson&#8217;s luxurious island as well.<\/p>\n<p>TMZ shared images showing Kevin&#8217;s arms around Jewel&#8217;s waist as she spoke into a microphone.<\/p>\n<p>They appeared very flirty and smiled from ear to ear while on the island for a tennis fundraiser for Jewel&#8217;s Inspiring Children Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>A source told TMZ, &#8216;There was definitely something going on. They were flirty, and when they were together, it was like they both just lit up.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;You could tell they were trying to be discreet, but anybody who saw them could tell something was going on.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>It was also reported that Jewel has been &#8216;picky about who to date&#8217; but feels Kevin &#8216;fits the bill&#8217; after her split with Murray in 2014.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/11\/20\/75079491-12850605-The_former_couple_are_seen_with_their_sons_Cayden_15_Hayes_14_an-a-6_1702326883855.jpg\" height=\"716\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The former couple are seen with their sons Cayden, 15; Hayes, 14; and daughter Grace, 13, in 2019.\u00a0&#8216;Christine said the last thing she wanted was for some fame seeker to come along and play mom to their three children. Jewel has a son of her own, she has her own life and isn&#8217;t a gold digger. So that&#8217;s a relief,&#8217; a source said<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/11\/20\/78823981-12850605-image-a-4_1702326883772.jpg\" height=\"500\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Kevin and Christine, a model and handbag designer, began dating in 1998 and married at his Aspen ranch in 2004<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/11\/20\/78742995-12850605-It_was_also_reported_that_Jewel_has_been_picky_about_who_to_date-a-5_1702326883776.jpg\" height=\"1010\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>It was also reported that Jewel has been &#8216;picky about who to date&#8217; but feels Kevin &#8216;fits the bill&#8217; after her split with her cowboy ex-husband Ty Murray in 2014<\/p>\n<p>Jewel fits Kevin&#8217;s type: blonde and young. He has also romanced blondes Elle Macpherson, Joan Lunden and Cheryl Teigs, and, of course, his ex wife\u00a0Christine.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In July, Christine was kicked out of the couple&#8217;s $145million mansion and moving vans were seen outside.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In her testimony on day one, Christine said she needed more cash to provide a suitable home for their three children.<\/p>\n<p>She said her $40,000-a-month Montecito rental did not compare to the family mansion and complained her sons would have to share a bathroom.<\/p>\n<p>During his testimony, Kevin\u00a0<span>apologized to his estranged wife, saying: &#8216;I want to help but the thought of having things inflated to the point I can&#8217;t do what I want to do\u2026 Somehow in this unusual world, we didn&#8217;t make it and for that, I&#8217;m sorry.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The court also heard details of the family&#8217;s lavish spending \u2013 which totaled $240,000-a-month in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Expenses included $40,000 spent each month on flowers and gifts alone, although Kevin&#8217;s forensic accountant Tracy Katz pointed out the figure is for the entire family, including Christine.<\/p>\n<p>The pair settled and it is likely to be similar to the one previously offered by Kevin in a letter sent on June 30 which would have paid her $75,000-a-month in child support.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-12850605\/Kevin-Costner-ex-wife-Christine-Baumgarten-not-surprised-dating-Jewel.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXCLUSIVE Kevin Costner&#8217;s ex-wife Christine Baumgartner says she&#8217;s not surprised he&#8217;s moved on &#8211; 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