Are Nicole Kidman & Simon Baker Courting After Keith City Divorce?

Nicole Kidman and Keith City’s divorce has already been finalized, and the 2 have been residing separate lives for some time. However although proper when the divorce was introduced, there have been studies that City had already moved on, there hasn’t actually been a lot chatter about Kidman probably doing the identical. A minimum of, nothing credible. Till now?

Reviews throughout the previous couple of days have pointed to Kidman’s shut friendship together with her Scarpetta co-star, Simon Baker. Baker is a longtime buddy of Kidman, with Kidman the godmother to Baker’s son together with his ex-wife, Rebecca Rigg. Rumors began flying after the 2 had been noticed holding palms on the premiere of the present in New York Metropolis.

The Solar reported that the duo’s “closeness is unquestionably the discuss of the city proper now,” with a supply saying they’re “unimaginable collectively on display and while you see them collectively in actual life, that chemistry clearly wasn’t faked.”

Reportedly, the 2 additionally caught shut collectively in the course of the after-party. “On the after-party, they stayed shut all night time and had been deep in dialog,” the outlet additionally reported. They’d beforehand starred collectively as a pair on the sequence Roar. And again then, when Kidman was nonetheless married, she talked about how she didn’t discover having to kiss Baker on display all that unusual, including that they’d “kissed on the cheek earlier than. We’ve hugged lots. We’ve lived in the identical home.”

“And you understand, the lady I grew up with, he was married to for a considerable a part of his life . . . 29 years, so we’re simply the identical particular person,” she added. Baker and Rigg cut up in 2020.

However in line with Rob Shuter the duo isn’t courting. “They’ve been well-known means too lengthy to not know precisely what that may do,” one insider mentioned. “You don’t maintain palms on a pink carpet until you need individuals speaking.”

“If this had been actual, they’d be hiding it — not placing it on show,” the supply added.
“This was deliberate.” It’s, in spite of everything, good publicity for his or her present. “They’re having fun with it,” the insider revealed. “It’s innocent, it’s enjoyable, and it retains them within the headlines.”

In keeping with the journalist, even her youngsters know. “Her youngsters are in on the joke,” the supply mentioned. “Everybody round her is aware of this isn’t some huge love story.”

“That is two professionals taking part in the publicity sport,” the insider added. “And taking part in it very nicely.”

All of this comes after a supply informed RadarOnline in March that Keith City, who shares daughters Sunday Rose and Religion Margaret with Kidman, was “determined” to win again his household.

“Keith’s tour has stored him aside from the ladies much more than he would love. As it’s, he needed to concede the vast majority of custody time to Nicole,” the insider mentioned. “In keeping with their divorce settlement, he solely has Sunday Rose and Religion each different weekend, however when he’s touring, even that doesn’t work.”

The supply added, “They’re used to lengthy stretches away from Keith, who’s all the time been a working musician, but it surely’s powerful. Keith is anxious to line up this journey with a break within the ladies’ college schedule, to allow them to spend correct, relaxed time collectively.”

For now, the ladies are with their mother and apparently having quite a lot of enjoyable.