Laine Hardy and Jordan Gautreau
Courtesy of Laine Hardy/InstagramAmerican Idol winner Laine Hardy has a lot to sing, recently proposed to his pregnant girlfriend, Jordan Gautreau.
“The secret is out… I’m having his baby🤭”, Gautreau wrote on Instagram on Saturday, September 7, citing Taylor Swift“But dad, I love him.”
In Gautreau’s post, she and Hardy, 23, included photos of the moment he proposed, with the country singer kneeling outside on a farm, holding a bouquet of white wildflowers.
“We are so excited for this chapter of our lives. We are excited for God’s plan for us. The biggest surprise and the easiest YES!” Gautreau added in her caption. “I can’t wait to receive our new title as parents and plan a wedding.🏼🤍💍 #partywiththehardys.”
American Idol paved the way for reality competitions that help ordinary people achieve their dreams of music stardom. The series premiered on Fox in 2002 and featured a star-studded panel of judges including Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul and Randy Jackson. The first season of American Idol featured Kelly Clarkson, who would become the show’s first star. (…)
According to Gautreau, she will be born in 2025.
Hardy and Gautreau, an NFL cheerleader for the New Orleans Saints, have not made the origin of their love story public.
Hardy was introduced in 2019 in the 17th season of American IdolHe fought against Alejandro Aranda And Madison VanDenburg before taking home the grand prize. Katy Perry told We weekly Back then, any of the three could have won the competition.
“The interesting thing about that night is that there was a curveball, I thought,” Perry, 39, said exclusively Us in May 2019. “(It) threw us off track. So at the end we asked, ‘What’s going on?’ I’m not sure, I think you hear these voices like, ‘Oh, American Idol is this format, that format.’ It feels like change is in the air.”
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Judge colleague Lionel Richie agreed.
“The two or three people at the beginning were the people we thought, ‘OK, they’ll have a chance.’ That threw us off track,” Richie, 75, recalls to Us at the time. “We were shocked when they asked us for our vote. But I’ll tell you one thing: now they’ve all won. Don’t think about the winner.”
When Hardy won, he received a cash prize and a recording contract with Disney’s Hollywood Records. He has since left the label.
“I was just 17 years old when I first auditioned for American Idol, and back then I couldn’t have imagined where it would take me,” Hardy wrote on Instagram in October 2022. “Since then, I’ve been able to tour America, perform for our troops in Asia, and gain new fans in Europe. I’ve had to grow up quickly and I’m still learning more about myself every day.”
He added: “The teams at 19 Entertainment and Disney Music Group have been so supportive and guided me, and I will be forever grateful to them. Now it’s time for me to take my career in a new direction, and I’m in the process of figuring that out.”
