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Has Gwen Stefani got a new man in her life?

Not quite. Although husband Gavin Rossdale is still the singer’s main squeeze, two of the couple’s sons think their mama has fallen for Pharrell, she joked on the red carpet at Sunday’s Grammy Awards.

“They were such a huge fan and I was like, ‘Actually, I know Pharrell,'” Stefani, 45, told E!‘s Ryan Seacrest. “I started showing them pictures on the Internet and they were like, ‘Wait a minute, is he your boyfriend?’ I’m like, ‘No.'”

But Zuma, 6, and Kingston, 8½, aren’t the only ones in awe of the Voice judges’ relationship. The music producer’s 6-year-old son Rocket has been spending his time catching up on Stefani’s classic tracks.

“It’s interesting because now Pharrell’s little boy has discovered my music and it’s flipped,” Stefani explains. “He’s all into going back and discovering [my songs].”

The No Doubt frontwoman — who played a solo show Saturday and has a number of tour dates with the band this summer — adds, “It’s interesting to have kids [that are] so into music. It’s just fun!”

– Anya Leon

Gwen Stefani shared an adorable photo of son Apollo Bowie Flynn, 15 months, during a recent vacation in Montana.

On Sunday, the singer, 45, shared a snap of herself wearing a straw cowboy hat and carrying little Apollo.

“Wow #Montana u r so beautiful #favoritevacaever #neverwanttogohome,” she wrote.

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The No Doubt singer shared several other looks from her rustic vacation, including a video of herself riding a horse through a forest.

Another shot showed Stefani standing in front of very tall evergreen trees.

The singer took her Montana vacation during a break from filming the upcoming season of The Voice. Earlier this month, she shared a shot of herself taking a behind-the-scenes break. She will be joined in the judges’ chairs by Adam Levine, Blake Shelton and Pharrell.

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If you’ve been counting down the days to Halloween, Gwen Stefani is standing in the pumpkin patch with you.

“I live for the holidays,” Stefani, 46, tells PEOPLE. “I had my Halloween costume and the decorations up before October. [The season] is so short — it’s only four weeks, so you want to see all of those things.”

For Stefani, dress up can’t come early enough: she has already slipped into her first costume at her niece’s birthday party.

“I was a ballerina,” she says. “It was literally 104 degrees out, and I was like, ‘I am putting the tights on and I am going to be a ballerina and there’s nothing anyone can do about it right now.'”

While stylish Stefani goes glam by default, her sons with ex Gavin Rossdale — Kingston, 9, Zuma, 7, and Apollo, 20 months — are big on the gory looks this year.

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“They’re at the scary phase,” she says. “They want to scare people. They’re like bloody zombie guys.”

She adds with a laugh, “They just do their own thing. I have no control if I try. I yell and scream and threaten — all those kinds of things. Not when it comes to costumes, but everything else.”

No matter what, though, the proud mom will take on trick or treating with her boys.

“We always go out,” she says.

Try as she might, Stefani can’t seem to shake the feeling that she’s overpaying for her family’s Halloween habit.

“Every year, I’m like, ‘You know what? We should do the sale after Halloween. Why do we go right before and buy stuff? That’s stupid,'” she tells PEOPLE while laughing. “And then this year we did it again. We went right before and bought all this new Halloween stuff. There never seems to be enough, though. We keep collecting it.”

It’s already been a big month for Stefani, who spoke with PEOPLE one day before her MasterCard Priceless Surprises concert at New York City’s Hammerstein Ballroom on Oct. 17. The event lived up its title when Stefani debuted an emotional ballad, “Used to Love You,” which was inspired by her split from Rossdale in August after nearly 13 years of marriage. The song quickly became a top-trending topic on Facebook and skyrocketed up iTunes’ most-downloaded songs chart.

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And then there was her 46th birthday on Oct. 3, for which her fellow Voice judges Blake Shelton, Adam Levine and Pharrell recorded a sweet video message.

“This birthday was weird. I got so emotional,” she reveals, going on to describe a big birthday card multiple people signed for her. “I literally felt so overwhelmed and loved that I was weeping in my kitchen, going, ‘Oh my God, I just feel so much love around me.'”

She wipes her face and says, “It’s making me get emotional, but I just feel that right now. And I feel very grateful for it.”

— Nick Maslow

Now this is a picture-perfect early start to spring!

One day after Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale‘s children supported her boyfriend Blake Shelton at Nickelodeon’s Kids’ Choice Awards, the boys bonded with their father during a festive day out.

On Sunday, Rossdale treated his sons with Stefani — Kingston, 9, Zuma, 7, and Apollo, 2 — to an egg hunt presented by AKID Brand in Los Angeles.

An early arrival, the Bush frontman, 50, tried out all the fun activities with his boys. He rode down a slide with Apollo, herded all three boys through the hunt and made certain each of them was drawn up by the party’s caricature artist.

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Apollo never seemed to leave Rossdale’s arms, with the youngest of the bunch happily playing with his father’s ear throughout the afternoon. And Rossdale was also a good sport when it came to rounding everyone up, as the proud dad smiled wide while calmly chasing after Kingston and Zuma.

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However, he faced a challenge with a tiny wicker Easter basket that was brimming with eggs and chocolates. “Dad, you are dropping all of my eggs,” one of the boys told Rossdale as the squad headed back to the slide, making Rossdale chuckle.

The rocker also made time to chat with fellow attendees Selma Blair and Johnny Knoxville.

Rossdale — whose divorce from Stefani, 46, came up in her candid interview with The New York Times earlier this month — spoke with PEOPLE about the joys of fatherhood last November.

“The boys interact so well, and they truly love each other,” he shared. “They are so sweet and protective of each other, and they have little dance parties. I am always on the lookout to see what they are doing next and how they are working their naughty habits!”

— Reagan Alexander

Should one of Gwen Stefani‘s sons come out of the closet, the singer’s love for him would not change.

“I would be blessed with a gay son,” Stefani, 46, says in a candid interview with PrideSource.

“I just want my boys to be happy and healthy, and I just ask God to guide me every day to be a good mother because it is not an easy job.”

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The mother of three — she coparents Kingston, 9, Zuma, 7, and Apollo, 2, with Gavin Rossdale, 50 — says it’s a topic that often comes up in her circle.

“I always ask my gay friends, ‘OK, so what was it like when you were a little boy?'” she explains.

The glamorous and energetic parent treats her kids to everything from manicures to fun trips to her boyfriend Blake Shelton‘s farm in Oklahoma, proving she’s up for any activity that her kids enjoy.

She explained, “As long as my boys are protected and happy and I’m spending quality time with them, whether it’s doing sports or doing nails, it really doesn’t matter.”

— Nick Maslow

No Doubt about it — Gwen Stefani‘s youngest son has the makings of a musical superstar!

The pop-rock star, 46, took to Snapchat Thursday to share a few cute clips taken during rehearsals for the upcoming This Is What the Truth Feels Like tour.

Her special guest? Stefani’s 2-year-old son Apollo Bowie Flynn, who stole the show with his rendition of “Old MacDonald Had a Farm.”

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“Old MacDonald had a cow, E-I-E-I-O!” he sang while standing atop a colorful platform.

Little Apollo was dressed in a dark-blue outfit, complete with a matching nautical-print bandana around his neck and equally color-coordinated pacifier. His shoes sported neon shades of green and pink, with his adorable curls pulled back slightly.

“#toddlerstyleonpoint,” boasts one of the hashtags accompanying the cute compilation.

And aside from gracing the studio’s inhabitants with his singing, Apollo proved he might have a future in playing the drums. While his mom sang and the band played, he walked around banging drumsticks together, leaving viewers wondering whether No Doubt drummer Adrian Young has had any influence on him.

Apollo is the third son Stefani shares with ex-husband Gavin Rossdale. Stefani and Rossdale, who were married for 13 years and whose divorced was settled in April, are also parents to Kingston James McGregor, 10 on Thursday, and Zuma Nesta Rock, 7½.

Stefani will hit the road this summer with Eve, whom she worked with in the past on the 2001 hit “Let Me Blow Ya Mind” and Stefani’s “Rich Girl,” the second single from her debut solo album.

The This Is What the Truth Feels Like tour kicks off July 12 in Mansfield, Massachusetts.

— Jen Juneau

Gwen Stefani definitely just won a bunch of “cool mom” points.

The Voice coach celebrated eldest son Kingston‘s 10th birthday on Thursday with several days of exciting adventures, all of which she took care to document on Snapchat.

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On Friday, Stefani celebrated her little man’s major milestone with a trip into the great outdoors to go fishing and take a ride in a dune buggy.

Later that day, Stefani and Kingston were joined by Stefani’s boyfriend Blake Shelton for a helicopter ride. In Stefani’s selfies with Kingston, they both wear headsets and baseball caps and look excited for the ride.

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She also posted a pic with Shelton, writing “Showtime” across the sweet selfie.

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Stefani, 46, is also mom to sons Zuma, 7 1/2, and Apollo, 2, with ex-husband Gavin Rossdale. Stefani and Rossdale’s divorce was officially settled on April 8.

— Andrea Park

After celebrating her parents’ 50th anniversary with a sweet party and some cake, Gwen Stefani treated her boys to a fun day at Knott’s Berry Farm over the weekend.

The former Voice coach shared photos and videos Saturday of her adorable sons — Kingston, 10, Zuma, 7½, and Apollo, 2 — on her Snapchat account from various rides at the amusement park.

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PEOPLE also has exclusive photos of the rocker and her kids — along with her niece Stella — riding the new Ghostrider ride.

“They rode Ghostrider four times and were also seen picking out candy and taffy in Camp Snoopy,” an onlooker tells PEOPLE.

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The singer, 46, heads out on tour next month, but has another milestone to celebrate first — her boyfriend Blake Shelton celebrates his 40th birthday on Saturday.

“I just want my boys to be happy and healthy, and I just ask God to guide me every day to be a good mother because it is not an easy job,” she said recently about motherhood.

— Melody Chiu

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Kingston Rossdale is a social media star in the making.

The eldest son of Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale took over his mom’s Snapchat on Saturday night, having fun with different filters.

After taking videos as a yelping dog and a mustachioed cowboy, the 10-year-old tried out the popular Faceswap option featuring his mom’s boyfriend, Blake Shelton.

Kingston belts out Shelton’s 2011 country hit “God Gave Me You” while taking on his likeness in the Snapchat video.

Shelton, 40, was on hand to celebrate Kingston’s last birthday in May, taking the preteen on a helicopter ride following a fishing trip.

While the country crooner has no children, Stefani, 46, is also mom to sons Zuma, 7, and Apollo, 2, with her ex-husband. Stefani and Rossdale’s divorce was officially settled on April 8.

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The country star recently sat down with Chelsea Handler for the new episode of her Netflix series Chelsea to dish about his new romance following his divorce from Miranda Lambert.

When Handler asked, “Do you feel like you’re happier than you’ve ever been in your entire life?” Shelton responded, “There’s no question about that. Absolutely no question about that.”

— Stephanie Petit

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How does it feel to be serenaded for your birthday by thousands of people? Just ask Gwen Stefani‘s son, Zuma Nesta Rock.

“Would you guys sing ‘Happy Birthday’ with us?” the singer, 46, asked the audience at her Austin, Texas, concert Tuesday as she put her arms around her middle child, who turns 8 on Sunday.

The crowd cheers as Stefani’s oldest son Kingston James McGregor, 10, presents his brother with a cake, candles lit and all. About halfway through the tune, Stefani takes her youngest son Apollo Bowie Flynn from someone on stage, and he finishes the song into the mic.

“Happy birthday to you,” the 2-year-old, who is Stefani’s third child with ex-husband Gavin Rossdale, can be heard singing.

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“Don’t leave! Please, just stay for one second — there’s a very special thing about to happen right here,” the singer begged her audience at the end of her Austin show before bringing Zuma out on stage. “Zuma Nesta Rock Rossdale is turning 8 years old.

RELATED VIDEO: Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton’s Relationship Has Taken a Serious Turn

“He’s been working the tour — he’s been doing quick-change in the back,” the mom of three continues, raising his arm high in the air with pride.

In a video Stefani posted to Snapchat shortly following the latest show on her This Is What The Truth Feels Like tour, her sons can be seen clamoring around the basketball-themed cake.

“What’d you get, Zumes?” a voice can be heard saying in the background as the soon-to-be 8-year-old smiles and looks down excitedly.

— Jen Juneau

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Just in case singer, fashion designer, mom, reality show judge and timeless style icon aren’t enough, Gwen Stefani can now add kids’ television show creator to her résumé!

The musician has collaborated with Nickelodeon to create Kuu Kuu Harajuku, an animated series focusing on a group of girls — named, of course, Love, Angel, Music and Baby — as well as their leader G, and their adventures in the Harajuku world.

“Partnering with Nickelodeon on Kuu Kuu Harajuku is a dream come true!” Stefani, 46, says. “It’s been incredible to see the Harajuku Girls and the world they live in come to life.”

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The premise of the new show, created by the No Doubt frontwoman in conjunction with Moody Street Kids and Vision Animation, has the girls starting a band called HJ5. They run into challenges in every episode that keep them from ever getting to actually play a concert, but they keep working tirelessly to realize their dreams.

“I love that this is an animated series for young girls that celebrates creativity, imagination and individuality,” says Stefani, who has three children of her own: sons Kingston, 10, Zuma, 8, and Apollo, 2½. “I can’t wait for everyone to see it!”

The show comprises 26 episodes, and aside from a co-creating credit, Stefani also serves as an executive producer.

“The artwork is so beautiful and the whole series turned out better than I could have ever imagined,” adds Stefani, who also sings the show’s theme song.

Kuu Kuu Harajuku premieres on Nickelodeon Monday, Oct. 3, at 4 p.m. ET/PT. It will run every day at the same time through Friday, Oct. 7 before continuing every Saturday at 8:30 a.m. ET/PT.

A full episode is available now on Nick.com and the Nick App.

— Jen Juneau with reporting by Melody Chiu

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Gwen Stefani says touring with her kids was “magical” — but “exhausting.”

In a Friday appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, the mom of three discussed life on the road with her sons Kingston, 10, Zuma, 8, and 2½-year-old Apollo as she toured over the summer in support of her album This Is What the Truth Feels Like.

“They had the best time,” she tells host Ellen DeGeneres. “Can you imagine three little boys on a [tour] bus after you do a show like, ‘Get to bed!’ … It’s exhausting. But it was fun.”

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The singer, 46, says her middle son especially took to tour life, becoming his mom’s own personal roadie.

“Zuma was so into it … I have a quick change where I was changing costumes and stuff — he was working it,” Stefani explains. “He had his flashlight, headphones; he walked me on and off the stage every single night. For two hours he worked back there — he was so into it.”

And her boys aren’t the only kids tugging at the singer’s heart these days. Stefani tells DeGeneres that she and boyfriend Blake Shelton have been FaceTiming with fellow Voice coach Adam Levine, who welcomed his first child with wife Behati Prinsloo on Wednesday.

“She’s so cute!” Stefani revealed of newborn Dusty Rose.

— Char Adams

Adam Levine may have the moves like Jagger but can he swing it as a dad? His Voice costar Gwen Stefani sure thinks so.

The star, who is producing Nickelodeon’s new animated series Kuu Kuu Harajuku, tells PEOPLE of Levine and wife model Behati Prinsloo‘s newborn daughter Dusty Rose, “I’m just happy for them.”

“I love Adam Levine,” Stefani, a mom of three, says. “I feel like he’s not going to believe what it’s like to have a baby and a child.”

Stefani says she’s “so happy” for anyone who gets to “experience pregnancy and giving birth and the trials of raising a child.”

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The singer shares sons Kingston, 10, Zuma, 8, and Apollo, 2½, with ex Gavin Rossdale. Dusty Rose, born Wednesday, is the first child for both Levine and Prinsloo.

When it comes to advice for the new parents, Stefani says she recommends they “just keep smelling that baby in the hospital!”

“That’s the greatest smell in the world, that new baby smell,” Stefani, 46, says. “To me, that’s the greatest being in the hospital afterwards. So, they’re doing that right now and I’m so happy for them.”

She insists she didn’t have any insight on Dusty’s unique name ahead of time, but reveals that Kingston had a hand in coming up with potential monikers for Levine and Prinsloo’s little bundle.

“Kingston comes up with really good names,” she says. “So we’re always trying to text each other with what names it could be, and so then just the other day [Adam] wrote me ‘Dusty Rose is on her way!’ We were like, ‘Oh my God, it’s Dusty Rose!’ ”

Stefani adds, “I can’t wait to hold the little tiny thing.”

Kuu Kuu Harajuku, which is based on Stefani’s Harajuku Girls, premieres on Nickelodeon on Oct. 3 at 4 p.m. EST/PST.

The series – which is about the adventures of animated band HJ5 – will air Monday-Friday at 4 p.m., and beginning Saturday, Oct. 8, will air in its regular time slot on Saturday mornings at 8:30 a.m.

— Lindsay Kimble with reporting by Melody Chiu

Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani weren’t always so sure their romance was built to stand the test of time.

During a preview of the singer’s upcoming Sunday TODAY with Willie Geist interview, Shelton, 42, admitted that both he and Stefani, 48, initially thought their relationship was strictly a “rebound.”

“When I was going through my divorce, I hit rock bottom, just like anybody does when they go through something that devastating,” Shelton told Geist. “It’s a miracle that I met somebody that was going through the same exact thing that I was at the exact same moment in time.”

Continuing, he added, “If Gwen and I were being honest right now, talking about this, I think in the back of our minds we both kind of thought, ‘This is a rebound deal.’”

Shelton and Stefani met as coaches on The Voice and started dating in 2015, not long after Shelton’s divorce from fellow country crooner Miranda Lambert and Stefani’s divorce from Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale.

RELATED: Gwen Stefani Joins Blake Shelton Onstage as He Jokes About ‘Messin’ Around’ When They First Met

Shelton went on to say that neither of them were sure things would become serious, because they were both “coming out of a pretty low spot in our lives” and were “kind of clinging to each other to get through this.”

“But now here we are, going on three years later and every day that goes by it just feels like a stronger bond between the two of us and it constantly feels like it’s going to the next level,” he remarked.

The country singer previously hinted at their not-so-serious origins in September 2017, when he was joined by Stefani for an intimate concert at his Ole Red Tishomingo venue in Oklahoma.

While jokingly discussing their relationship, Shelton explained they “started hanging out together and messing around.”

After Stefani — who had brought along her three sons — appeared surprised by his admission, he added, “you know, texting each other.”

The former No Doubt frontwoman also addressed the beginning of their romance on her 2016 album This Is What the Truth Feels Like.

On “Truth,” she sings, “And they’re all gonna say I’m rebounding, so rebound all over me.”

RELATED VIDEO: Gwen Stefani and Her Kids Spend Spring Break in Blake Shelton’s Native State of Oklahoma

While discussing what the future holds for the pair, Shelton admitted to CMT’s Cody Alan that while he is contemplating marriage, fans shouldn’t be waiting on pins and needles for an engagement announcement.

“I think about it. I don’t think it’s anytime soon or anything,” Shelton said when asked about walking down the aisle. “The more time that goes by, I guess, the closer you’d be getting to that.”

See Shelton’s full interview Sunday, June 24th on Sunday TODAY.

Music, love and vodka — Blake Shelton has it all.

The most-crowned judge on The Voice, recent CMT Video of the Year winner and boyfriend of Gwen Stefani has added “restaurateur” to his long list of titles. Still, he’s a much better judge of music than he is of cocktails.

“I have one drink, and it’s Sprite Zero and vodka,” he tells PEOPLE with a laugh while taste testing cocktails at Ole Red Nashville, his newest restaurant, live music venue and retail space, named after his first hit “Ol’ Red.”

In this week’s issue, the country star, 42, opens up about the venture and how he couldn’t be happier — or busier.

Thinking back, “‘Ol’ Red‘ was handed to me within the first week that I moved to Nashville,” Shelton says of recording his breakout 2001 song that catapulted his career. “Twenty-four years later, it seems too good to be true how it’s all come back around.”

The first Ole Red restaurant opened in Shelton’s hometown of Tishomingo, Oklahoma. In service since September 2017, the restaurant is “doing really good,” Shelton says.

When he was ready for round two, Shelton smartly set his sights on the Country Music Capital of the World, but it wasn’t exactly smooth sailing for him to set up shop in Nashville.

Two years ago, when he and Stefani went to check out the vacant former bank building that would become the next Ole Red location, there were some holes in the plan — literally.

“We went upstairs to the rooftop and Gwen’s heel goes through the roof,” Shelton recalls of the venue’s rough beginnings. “And I’m trying to get her leg back out and free and I’m like, ‘What the f— is that?'”

Now, the place is buzzing with live music and guests sipping on the “Tishomingo Sunset” cocktail or enjoying “Cumberland Punch,” named after the Cumberland River running through Music City’s backyard.

Shelton, who’s already enlisted a slew of his famous friends to perform at the venue, wants to make sure that the Nashville music scene continues to thrive. “It’s funny how it’s taken all this time for us artists to figure out we ought to stake a claim downtown and remind people this is still a music-based community,” Shelton says.

For more on Blake Shelton and his newfound happiness, pick up the latest issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday.

The magnitude of the new undertaking isn’t lost on him. “This is a big deal for me,” says Shelton who dreams of having Ole Red locations across the nation in coming years. He adds, “It’s overwhelming.”

RELATED: Blake Shelton Digs into His Cake as Gwen Stefani Serenades Him — and Buys Him a Flagpole! — for his 42nd Birthday

Still, with Stefani and her three sons cheering him on, “I wouldn’t change one thing about my life right now,” he says. And if nothing else, Shelton’s banking on his new venture giving him an even bigger competitive advantage on The Voice. 

“None of those other three morons can say, ‘If you get on my team, you’ll have a gig at Ole Red,'” Shelton jokes. “What can they say? ‘Do you want to play Adam ‘s barbecue?'”

Gwen Stefani is Las Vegas’ newest star… “holla” if you hear me.

On Wednesday night, Stefani kicked off her Las Vegas residency at Planet Hollywood’s Zappos Theater. The show, titled Gwen Stefani — Just a Girl, is good. In fact, it’s hella good.

“This is a crazy night, okay, because this is the first night. I’ll remember this for the rest of my life, so you guys have a huge responsibility,” she told the sold-out crowd early into the show. “This is going to be an epic night tonight.”

Over the course of 100 minutes, Stefani sang her biggest hits, touching on songs from her solo career and her career with No Doubt. When Stefani announced the show in April she promised that the residency show would be b-a-n-a-n-a-s, and it was… literally. The first song of the show — “Hollaback Girl” — featured her dancers carrying oversized bananas.

During other songs, such as “Simple Kind of Life,” Stefani wore a makeshift wedding dress, and she harkened back to her ska roots with “Sunday Morning,” donning a midriff-bearing shirt and plaid pants.

Stefani wasn’t afraid to incorporate her love life into the show either. In fact, she seemed to pay homage to boyfriend Blake Shelton as she dressed in a cowgirl outfit for “Make Me Like You,” a song she’s said is about her beau.

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Shelton, as expected, was in attendance, even getting a standing ovation when he walked into the theater before settling in with Stefani’s 4-year-old son Apollo in his lap.

“I see a lot of admiring eyes on my sparkles. I know, it’s ridiculous,” Stefani said. “You don’t know what it’s like to wear a cowgirl costume right in front of Blake Shelton. It’s like my fantasy come true.”

SO PROUD OF MY FRIEND GWEN !!! HER #JUSTAGIRLVEGAS SHOW WAS A STELLAR TOUR DE FORCE !!! THRILLED TO BE IN VEGAS FOR THE OPENING NIGHT & SEE HER CLOSE THE SHOW IN THE CUSTOM MOSCHINO COWGIRL LOOK I CREATED FOR HER ! THE ENTIRE SHOW IS SO MUCH FUN, SO EXCITING AND SHE SINGS & DANCES HER BEAUTIFUL LIL HEART OUT ! GET YOURSELF A TICKET AND GO SEE IT !!! @gwenstefani @robzangardi @marielhaenn JOB WELL DONE !!!

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After all the costume changes and the hits, the show at its core was, pardon the pun, a sweet escape. But, not only did Stefani give fans a musical trip down memory lane, but she gave her fans a deep dive into her personal life.

During an interlude, Stefani spoke of her younger self, saying she envisioned herself with several kids and a “perfect family.”

“That’s something I dreamed of for a long time,” she said in a video during the show. “But, my own love life experience wasn’t what I thought it would be, and I feel like I had so much love to give inside me, but I was unlucky in love, which has been a blessing because I’ve been able to write about that and share that and have this incredibly blessed musical career.”

She continued, “There was a point in my life where I felt that I was losing everything … When I look back at all the times my heart was broken, it was always music that healed me.”

RELATED VIDEO: Gwen Stefani Reveals Blake Shelton Once Dated a Big Fan of Hers

Before the show even started, Stefani got a loving confidence boost from her man, as he tweeted his well-wishes and sent a bouquet of flowers to her dressing room.

Setting here watching @gwenstefani rehearsals it continues to shock me the amount of GIANT hits this girl has written… I highly recommend y’all catch her Vegas show if you can get tickets!!!

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The kind of hits that if an artist only had ONE of they’d have a hell of a career.. #icon

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Today’s the day!!! @gwenstefani opening night in Las Vegas!!! I wouldn’t miss this for the world….

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So far @gwenstefani has performed 3 shows in Las Vegas. I have been to 3… #stalker

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“You’ve worked so hard on this show. Congrats on opening night!!!” read his note on the bouquet. “I love you. Blake.”

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Love life aside, the show — the first of 25 — was all about the music and the experience, and Stefani left no doubt that she’s ready to headline a Vegas residency.

Gwen Stefani — Just a Girl will run through mid-March 2019 at the Zappos Theater.

Blake Shelton really can’t complain.

On June 6, the country crooner celebrated the opening of his new restaurant and bar Ole Red Nashville, which joins his existing location in Tishomingo, Oklahoma. And though girlfriend Gwen Stefani wasn’t able to make it out to the festivities, she’s yet another reason he’s pinching himself these days.

“I wouldn’t change one thing about my life right now,” he tells PEOPLE in this week’s issue, on newsstands Friday.

“I’m happy,” he adds. “Sometimes happiness can seem like fleeting moments, but this one has been staying in the same lane for a long time. It’s just amazing.”

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When the Voice coach — who’s packed six wins in the 14 seasons he’s been on NBC’s hit singing competition show — isn’t guiding hopeful artists or selling out arenas with his Country Music Freaks tour, he spends his time being blissfully in love with former Voice coach Gwen Stefani, 48.

“I would just like to ride this wave till I die,” he says. “The personal side of my life has been chaotic at times over the last few years, but it’s kinda settled down now and just feels good.”

Though the “God Gave Me You” singer is the first one to admit he and the glam pop singer are an “interesting” couple, he says somehow they just “make sense.”

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“When we first started seeing each other, friends of mine would be like, ‘What the hell is that all about?'” he says. “But if you ever had a chance to be around us together, it does make sense.”

“People do like us together,” Shelton, who supported his love Tuesday night at her Vegas residency kickoff, adds.

Though the pair spends most of their time in Los Angeles, they make it a point to jet off to his waterfront home in Oklahoma with Stefani’s three sons, Kingston, 12, Zuma, 9, and Apollo, 4.

“We love to go out on the lake,” says Shelton. “My family, Gwen and her family, we all get together and go out and float around. The kids swim and tube and all that stuff. We have a blast.”

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And while Shelton and Stefani “appreciate” the support and the time that fans have invested in their relationship, wedding rumors that have been swirling from the start are laughable at this moment.

“Don’t you read the tabloids? Gwen and I already have a few kids,” he jokes. “We’ve been married and divorced and married again a couple of times. We were married before we ever even met each other!”

For more on Blake Shelton’s new restaurant chain and building a life with Gwen Stefani, pick up the latest issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday.

Gwen Stefani was about to take the stage on Wednesday night to kick off her Las Vegas residency show when a message came across her phone. The text was from her 12-year-old son, Kingston, and the message read, “Break a leg, Mom. I love you.”

Almost 24 hours removed from both the text and the first of 25 “Gwen Stefani — Just a Girl” shows, the singer still got emotional about it.

“I was like, ‘You think about me?’ It makes me cry right now, so I’m excited for to see it — I think going to love it,” she told PEOPLE on Thursday.

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On opening night, Stefani’s 4-year-old son Apollo was the only one of her children to see the show live — he sat with Stefani’s boyfriend Blake Shelton. Kingston and son Zuma, 9, had summer school but planned to catch the show soon.

So far @gwenstefani has performed 3 shows in Las Vegas. I have been to 3… #stalker

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“My kids usually don’t care about anything I do,” Stefani admitted, which is what made the impromptu text that much more memorable. Her middle son shows the most interest out of the three, occasionally helping mom out on her last tour. “Zuma always works the backstage with me,” Stefani, 48, told PEOPLE. “I don’t know how to incorporate him because it is a serious backstage — you see dancing girls and people getting naked. But I’ll have to get a job for him.”

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(She figured it out — Zuma helped Stefani on and off stage between sets Saturday night, and even joined the band and crew for a final bow.)

When ZUMA join @gwenstefani for the show's closing stage bow last night. Too cute! #ZUMArocks #JustAGirl #GwenStefani #vegas #planethollywood pic.twitter.com/tju3X8hsdS

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‪Thank u for making my #JustAGirlVegas residency opening last night @ZapposTheater @PHVegas so special!! It was a night I’ll never forget Gx‬

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Of course, the memory of the opening night will not fade from Stefani’s mind anytime soon, either.

“I feel like bawling right now in a relief kind of way,” she said, telling PEOPLE that it was touch-and-go up until the last few days. Heck, opening night was the first time she sang her whole set in a row. She implied that in the lead-up to opening night, there were issues with musical arrangements and dancers that put her weeks behind schedule.

“It’s a miracle,” she joked. “When I was getting nervous was two or three days before when things were — if I could use the word I want to use it would be a very bad word, the ‘f’ word with ‘ed’ on the end.”

Asked if the show feels like her “baby,” Stefani said, “It feels like a chapter. I’ve done this long enough to know that when it’s happening, this is it. Even when we were in the hell over the last few days, everything leading up to now, you look at it and reflect on it with joy and gratitude and you realize how that was magic even though it was hell. You can’t really see that while it’s happening because you’re in it. It just feels so good to get to this point.”

“Gwen Stefani — Just a Girl” will run through mid-March 2019 at the Zappos Theater.

Miranda Lambert had a good reason for not doing any interviews before she released her latest album — she didn’t want to “rehash” the heartbreak that inspired it.

The Weight of These Wings was written while Lambert was going through a very public divorce from fellow country singer Blake Shelton in 2015.

“I came into Marion office and said, ‘I’m not speaking to anyone until they hear this record,'” Lambert, 34, told music journalist Holly Gleason in an interview with HITS Daily Double.

“I thought that was fair,” Lambert continued, explaining that she thought the songs spoke for themselves.

From “Vice” to “Tin Man,” “all the sad moments were there, all the truths were right in those songs. All you had to do was listen. I didn’t need to say anything,” she remarked.

The singer also revealed that she wasn’t eager about the prospect of discussing the painful memories that inspired the album over and over again.

“It was going to be hell, and I’d already been through hell,” she explained. “It was hell putting it on paper, putting my words on paper. So I didn’t want to rehash. I’d finally gotten to a place where I wasn’t sad anymore.”

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Lambert went on to say that anything she would have told interviewers “would’ve been taken out of context.”

“It would’ve set up some expectation that couldn’t be met,” she added. “I was very publicly going through this thing, and there wasn’t an explanation to be given.”

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Then, when the album came out and she was finally ready to do an interview, she was immediately asked about Shelton’s relationship with Gwen Stefani.

“I got on the phone for the first interview. First question was, ‘How do you feel about Gwen?’ I hung up. I told Marion, I just can’t do this,” she said. “What was in the music was real, and I wanted people to get it from that. Take from it what they would. Then if I needed to talk, I would. But I haven’t really. Until now.”

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During the first part of the interview, Lambert also opened up about how she’s not afraid to put everything, good and bad, into her music.

“I am who I am. I am honest about being flawed. That’s all I can be, you know? I cuss. I drink. I get divorced and get my heart broken. I break hearts,” Lambert, who has been dating new boyfriend Evan Felker amid rumors that their friendship turned romantic after he suddenly filed for divorce from his wife, shared of her personal experiences.

“I can’t do or be that anymore, or it’ll drive me crazy. I won’t be good anymore. I felt, maybe, a different kind of fear than any other record. It was really my life’s work and my life’s story. But there was also relief, I was thankful to let the music do what the music does — and to allow myself that,” she continued.

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