Kevin Costner Addresses Rumors He’s Dating Jewel Following Months of Speculation

Kevin Costner is sharing some rare comments about his dating life.

Back in November 2023, the 69-year-old Yellowstone actor and Jewel first sparked dating rumors when they were spotted getting cozy at a tennis fundraiser in the British Virgin Islands.

While Jewel, 50, has played coy when asked if they were romantically involved, Kevin has stayed quiet…until now.

During an interview on The Howard Stern Show on Tuesday (June 18), Kevin was asked if he’s dating Jewel.

“No, Jewel and I are friends. We’ve never gone out ever,” Kevin asserted. “She’s special, and I don’t want, I don’t want these rumors to ruin our friendship because that’s what we have. She’s special to me. She’s beautiful enough to go out with.”

“How does that s–t start? Kevin, how does that work?” Howard asked.

“We were down at Branson’s Island. She has a foundation, which I didn’t know, and she was part of the foundation,” Kevin explained. “And Richard Branson has been asking me for years to come down to Necker Island, and so I finally did.”

“I’m divorced all of a sudden. I’m a single father, and he’s asked me for, you know, 10 years to come down there. I said, ‘I guess I’ll go down,’” Kevin continued, adding that it was just him, Jewel, Emma Watson, and seven other people (who weren’t celebrities) there.

“I was on with nine people and, and I don’t want the press to ruin this for us, because…I’ve had conversations with her, text wise, and she’s so smart, and she’s been through a lot herself, and so we have a friendship,” Kevin explained. “We don’t have a romance, and we’ve not dated.”

He added, “She’s beautiful and smart enough for all those things. It just has never happened for us. She’s everything you might think, but it just hasn’t happened.”

Despite nothing romantically going on with Jewel, Kevin said that his teenage kids – sons Cayden, 17, Hayes, 15, and daughter Grace, 14 – all asked him about the rumors. Kevin shares the three teenagers with ex-wife Christine Baumgartner.

In another recent interview, Kevin opened up about his divorce from Christine.