Lainey Wilson shares why she kept boyfriend under wraps for two years and why they're still not engaged

Lainey Wilson is spilling details about her once secret relationship and why, after dating for several years, she and her boyfriend are still not engaged.

Appearing on the "Taste of Country Nights, On Demand" radio show, Wilson, 32, spoke about how she'd been enjoying being able to share more of her personal life with her fans.

"It's really cool to be able to start sharing that side of my life," she said of her relationship with former NFL quarterback Devlin "Duck" Hodges, 28. "Cause for a long time, I kept him on the [down low]. I wanted to see if he was actually gonna be around to stay. You know what I'm saying?"

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"But he ain't going nowhere. I ain't got rid of him yet," she joked.

Wilson, who is currently on tour, only took her relationship public last May, bringing Hodges as her date to the ACM Awards. The country star revealed soon after on the "Bobby Bones Show" that she and Hodges had been dating in secret for 2.5 years.

"I play all my songs for him before I play ‘em for anybody," she continued on the radio show. "So he’s heard a little bit of everything. And he's heard a lot of love songs that I've written him that nobody else will hear."

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The "Yellowstone" actress also touched upon her future plans with Hodges, clarifying that she wasn't hiding anything.

"We're not secretly engaged. No! But I guess I'm gonna have to propose to his a-- cause he ain't proposed to me," she joked. "I think [an engagement] needs to be during a season of our life where we really have the time to like, enjoy it," the "Heart Like a Truck" singer continued.

"Right now… It'd be like ‘Oh shoot, I'm engaged. Alright, onto the next thing.' And I just wanna be able to really soak it in."

Since making their red carpet debut at the ACM Awards, Wilson and Hodges have attended several award shows together.

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At the CMT Music Awards this past April, Wilson told Fox News Digital that her boyfriend was "a looker," and shared how elated she was to have him beside her. "He's one of my biggest cheerleaders. I always say that he's the kind of dude that will high-five you on the way in the door and high-five you on the way out."

"Especially with the kind of job that I have, it's important to have those kind[s] of people in your life. So I'm very thankful that he's here with me."

Trump team calls out Walz for ‘weird flex’ after veiled Vance reference at DNC


Former President Donald Trump's campaign called out a veiled dig at running mate, Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, made by Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz at the Democratic National Convention. 

Walz, who formally accepted the Democratic vice presidential nomination Wednesday night, addressed the United Center in Chicago by speaking of his upbringing in the Midwest. 

"Now, I grew up in Butte, Nebraska, a town of 400 people. I had 24 kids in my high school class, and none of them went to Yale," Walz said, prompting laughter from the audience. "But I'll tell you what. Growing up in a small town like that, you'll learn how to take care of each other. That that family down the road, they may not think like you do. They may not pray like you do. They may not love like you do. But they're your neighbors. And you look out for them, and they look out for you."

The Trump War Room X account posted a clip of Walz's remark about Yale, where Vance attended law school.

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"Walz: ‘I had 24 kids in my high school class and none of them went to Yale,’" Trump War Room noted, adding, "Weird flex!" 

Vance is the author of "Hillbilly Elegy," a memoir about his time as a Yale Law School student reflecting on growing up in Appalachia that was adapted into a Netflix film. In his debut as Trump's running mate at the Republican National Convention, Vance was open about being raised by his grandmother, whom he described as tough and keeping him away from drugs, and who would barter with the Meals on Wheels volunteers to help feed him growing up. Vance, credited for appealing to working-class Midwesterners in the Rust Belt, also spoke of his mother's long battle with addiction. She is now nearly 10 years sober. 

Vance enlisted in the Marine Corps right after graduating from high school in Middletown, Ohio. He attended Ohio State University and later Yale Law School. 

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Fox News host Martha MacCallum asked Vance to respond to Walz's reference to Yale, suggesting he was deeming Vance "Mr. Fancypants Ivy League." 

"I grew up in a very poor family. I was raised by my grandmother who didn't graduate from high school, much less from college," Vance responded. "And I am proud of the fact that she really worked her tail off – she went to her grave fighting to give me opportunities. I’m not ashamed of the fact that my grandmother sacrificed for me, and I was able to live the American Dream. I’m proud of what I accomplished, and, more importantly, I’m proud of all the people who sacrificed in order to give me a better life."

"I would think Tim Walz would want to praise people who sacrificed to give their children and grandchildren a better life, not put me down, but I guess this is the political order of the day," Vance added. "He’s going to attack me. That’s fine. But I’m proud of my family. I’m proud of what they sacrificed to make my life possible." 

Walz, by comparison, enlisted in the Army National Guard at age 17 and served for 24 years. 

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He has faced recent "stolen valor" attacks from fellow veterans for reportedly opting to retire to run for Congress, while his unit went to Afghanistan months later. 

According to his congressional biography, Walz earned a Bachelor of Science from Chadron State College in Nebraska. The former Minnesota high school teacher is not without Ivy League ties himself. He spent 1989-1990 teaching high school in China as part of a group of government-sanctioned American educators sent to the communist country through a program at Harvard University.