Keith Urban Remembers Early-Career 'Playgirl' Photoshoot: 'Luckily, I Play Guitar and Not Harmonica'

Mar. 15, 2025

Keith Urban on ‘Literally! with Rob Lowe’ on Sept. 17, 2024.Photo:Emma McIntyre/Getty

Emma McIntyre/Getty

Keith Urbanembraced his heartthrob status early on, even posing forPlaygirlat the start of his career.

In a live taping ofLiterally! With Rob Loweon SiriusXM, the country star and hostRob Lowehad a laugh about the risqué photoshoot.

“I didn’t know there was such a thing!” Urban, 56, said about the existence of the NSFW magazine, to which theUnstablestar, 60, responded with disbelief: “Hang on, Mr. Urban. We know you’re fromAustralia.”

Keith Urban on ‘Literally! With Rob Lowe’ in September 2024.Emma McIntyre/Getty

The “Somebody Like You” singer clarified that he understood the purpose ofPlayboy, and Lowe cheekily responded with, “it’s equal titillation.”

Urban also shared the simple backstory of the almost-forgotten shoot.

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“It was a guy at my record company who was like, ‘Hey, you know, we can do this article inPlaygirl, and they’ll do a big, long, nice piece on the record,’ and I was like, ‘Great,’ and then we’ll go to a photoshoot too. I was like, ‘Oh, okay,'” he recalled.

Elsewhere in the interview, the “Blue Ain’t Your Color” musician dished on writing love songs and revealed that not everything is about his A-List wifeNicole Kidman.

“People think everything I write is about her and of course, you know, a lot of things are and a lot of things aren’t,” Urban said.

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Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban in November 2023.Taylor Hill/WireImage

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Urban met Kidman in 2005 andtied the knot in 2006. The couple shares two children, Sunday Rose and Faith Margaret. TheBig Little Liesactress, 57, shares two children — Bella and Connor — with ex-husbandTom Cruise.

source: people.com