Country music star Lainey Wilson has been in a relationship with her fiancé, former NFL football player Devlin “Duck” Hodges, for five years. The couple met through mutual friends in 2021 just as Wilson’s career was taking off in Nashville, Tennessee.
“I was so broke when we met,” the 33-year-old singer said in a sneak peek of her new Netflix documentary Lainey Wilson: Keepin’ Country Cool. “And he thought I was doing a little bit better than I was. But a few weeks after we met, my sister had to Venmo me a couple hundred bucks.”
Soon after, Wilson and Hodges began dating, keeping their relationship private for more than two years before going public with their romance. Their first appearance together was at the Academy of Country Music Awards in May 2023. Wilson later told People she wanted to see if the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback was “in it for the right reasons.”
Hodges, 30, retired from football in 2022 and currently works as a real estate agent. “He knows what it’s like chasing a dream because he’s done that for himself,” Wilson said on the radio show The Bobby Bones Show. “But I’ll tell you, he is good as gold. Supports me, would never come in between anything that I’m trying to do. He’s like, ‘Go get it, girl.’”
After four years of dating, Wilson and Hodges got engaged in February 2025. Hodges got down on one knee on the steps of singer George Jones’s mansion, which the couple had long talked about visiting. “As we pull up, I realized that there were different plans,” Wilson recalled to NewsChannel 5 Nashville. “So he had it all set up. He had the candles and the picture frames, and it was, it could not have been more perfect.” Hodges even designed her a custom engagement ring, combining aspects of other rings Wilson told him she liked.
Today, Wilson and Hodges are still in the planning stages of their wedding. “I’ve got a lot to do, I will tell you that,” she said at an event in January. “It’s gonna happen, but we don’t have all the details yet.”
Wilson is set to share more details about her relationship and personal life, as well as her 14-year journey toward country music stardom, in the upcoming documentary Keepin’ Country Cool.
How to watch Keepin’ Country Cool on Netflix
Directed by Amy Scott, Lainey Wilson: Keepin’ Country Cool follows the Grammy winner’s rise to country music success.
“I couldn’t be more excited that this documentary is going to be on Netflix,” Wilson said. “This was such a special project to make, and I hope that folks who watch it see that no dream is too big and that staying true to who you are will always lead you exactly where you’re meant to be.” The documentary begins streaming April 22 on Netflix.
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