Bunnie Xo Shuts Down Chad Kroeger Romance Rumors After Jelly Roll Split

Timing, as they say, is everything—and Bunnie Xo just learned that lesson the hard way. The podcaster and media personality spent Thursday, June 18, addressing wild speculation that she’d jumped into a relationship with Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger, all stemming from a throwback photo she’d shared before her split from husband Jelly Roll even hit the news cycle.

On her“Dumb Blonde”podcast, the 46-year-old was direct about what actually happened: she’d posted a clip from a 2025 Jelly Roll concert in Las Vegas featuring Kroeger—content she’d filmed months earlier while in what she called her“healing era,”a period where she wasn’t actively creating new social media posts. The breakup announcement dropped, the photo was already live, and suddenly the internet had written an entire rom-com in its collective head.“The news drops, I have f**king Nickelback on my page,”she explained, noting the cruel coincidence of it all. She even joked that she’d nicknamed Kroeger“Daddy Chaddy”as a gag, something that clearly got lost in translation once the divorce rumors started flying.

Bunnie wasn’t subtle about shutting the narrative down.“I am not with Daddy Chaddy. There’s no f**king way in hell that that would even be a thing,”she said, adding that she didn’t cheat on her husband and leave him for the rock singer. She called the whole situation embarrassing—not just for her, but for Chad and Nickelback, too.“This is so wrong. I am not dating Chad Kroeger. I am so sorry to Chad and Nickelback for this happening.”She went on to express frustration with how quickly the internet runs with a narrative, turning innocent content into full-blown fiction.“There is no Chad and Bunnie Xo,”she concluded, making it as clear as humanly possible.

The context here matters: Jelly Roll, 41, quietly filed for divorce back in May, citing“irreconcilable differences”in court documents. The country star and Bunnie, who married in August 2016, had no children together, though Jelly Roll is a father of two from previous relationships. While the split itself was already a shock to fans who followed the couple’s journey, the Chad Kroeger rumor added an extra layer of chaos that Bunnie felt compelled to extinguish—and rightfully so. Sometimes a throwback post is just a throwback post.