In Touch: Anderson East dumped Miranda Lambert, ‘she didn’t see it coming’

It feels like this just happened last year, but it was the summer of 2015. That summer was when Blake Shelton very suddenly served Miranda Lambert with divorce papers and they had the quickest divorce in the history of quickie divorces. By the time anyone found out about it, the marriage was already over legally. Both Blake and Miranda moved on very quickly and very publicly – Blake is still with Gwen Stefani (which shocks me, that they’re still happening) and Miranda seemed to settle for this guy, Anderson East. I realize Anderson is happening in country music, but back in 2015, it really just felt like Miranda’s image took a massive hit and she needed to look “settled down” and like she wasn’t a maneating cheater in the wake of the divorce, and she settled for Anderson. Well, now they’re over, according to In Touch.

It is over for Miranda Lambert, 34, and singer Anderson East, 29, In Touch magazine has learned. The pair, who dated for more than two years after Miranda’s divorce from Blake Shelton in 2015, “grew apart” while on separate tours, a source tells In Touch. But when Anderson decided to end things, the source says, Miranda was devastated: “She didn’t see it coming.”

While an insider insists it wasn’t Anderson who pulled the plug, it’s undeniable that the romance upped his cachet. “Dating Miranda took him to the top of the musical A-list,” says the source.

Now Miranda is throwing herself into her No. 1 love: work. “She’s been writing songs and she’ll join The Bandwagon Tour with Little Big Town in July,” the source tells In Touch. “She refuses to sit around feeling sorry for herself.”

[From In Touch Weekly]

To me, this doesn’t seem like a huge deal, but I was never convinced that Miranda and Anderson were some grand love affair, or that they did much besides attend events together and occasionally hang out. Maybe I’m wrong – maybe Anderson was a great guy who was good to her and she’ll really miss him. But everything about them just gave me a transactional vibe – he wanted to make a name for himself, she needed the image of stability.

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