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Bunnie XO is in proud wife mode after Jelly Roll scored his first-ever No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 with Beautifully Broken this week.
Shortly after it was announced Monday (Oct. 21) that the country star had topped the U.S. ranking — beating out other competitive new releases from Rod Wave and Charli XCX — the Dumb Blonde podcaster reshared Billboard‘s post about her husband’s feat on her Instagram Story. “You guys!” Bunnie wrote, adding a sobbing emoji. “We did it!!!!!!” the influencer added triumphantly.
Following its Oct. 10 release, Beautifully Broken opened its first week with 161,000 equivalent album units, 114,000 of which were album sales — marking Jelly’s largest sales week yet. The triumph follows his previous peak on the Billboard 200 in 2023 with Whitsitt Chapel, which bowed at No. 3 on the chart.
Bunnie has long been her husband’s most vocal supporter. Just a couple of weeks before Jelly topped the Billboard 200, the Internet personality shared a TikTok showing how she cuddles up to her husband even while he’s warming up his vocals before a show — “I’m just there for moral & emotional support,” she wrote at the time.
As Jelly’s career continues to take off, the couple is also in the midst of their IVF journey. The “Son of a Sinner” singer first revealed in June that they were pursuing fertility treatments on an episode of Bussin’ With the Boys, after which Bunnie confirmed on her own show that she’s in her “baby mama gardening era.”
“We had planned on doing this privately, but decided our IVF journey needed to be shared because we’ve always been so open,” she later added on Instagram. “And w/ all odds stacked against us, it’s already been hard and we have only just begun. We have been meeting with IVF doctors & exploring all our options to add to our family.”
10cc drummer Paul Burgess has announced that he is leaving the band because the demands of touring have become too much for him.
The 75-year-old musician, who also spent time performing with Jethro Tull, Camel, Magna Carta, and The Icicle Works, has chosen to walk away from the legendary rock group after more than five decades.
He shared: “After so many wonderful years with 10cc, I must admit that the rigours of touring are no longer manageable for me as I get older, and I feel it’s time to let go of the long hours in airports and endless travel on buses.
“I’m not planning to stop playing altogether. I will still perform but at a pace that feels right, working alongside old friends and a new group of fellow musicians called The Guilty Men.”
Frontman Graham Gouldman confessed that it will feel unusual to perform without his “longest-running musical associate.”
He explained: “When Paul and I first joined forces in 10cc, we never could have imagined that we’d still be at it after 30 years, let alone 52.
“Paul has been my longest musical partner and it will feel different to turn around and see another drummer, but I completely understand why he no longer wants to sit on a plane for 14 hours or wake up in a new hotel every day for weeks at a time.”
Ben Stone, who has previously played with Mike and The Mechanics and Bonnie Tyler, will be taking over on drums.
Paul, who had several runs with 10cc after joining in 1973, performed his final show with the I’m Not In Love band in Alexandria, Virginia this past September.
The group is set to continue their And Another Bloody Greatest Hits Tour in the UK next year.
