Jennifer Nettles found fame with country group Sugarland. Now she’s embracing the next stage of her career, including hosting the new reality show “Farmer Wants a Wife.”
After all, once you’re part of a Grammy-winning duo that sold millions of albums, what more could you want? That is certainly the thinking among a certain set in country music, which can get territorial with its stars. It was one thing when Nettles, 48, embarked on solo projects more than a decade after conquering Nashville with her Sugarland duo partner,Advertisement
But then Nettles watched the Australian version and found the premise — pairing up women from “the big city” with farmers from small towns where dating is a struggle — more genuine than she expected. Nettles, who was born and raised in rural southern Georgia and now lives in New York City, liked the idea of being a “facilitator” of that potential love story. Mostly, it just sounded fun.
Back in 2015, director Stephen Herek was nervous when he first saw Nettles’s audition tape for NBC’s Nettles remembers that she had to tamp down her natural inclination to play to the cheap seats, because in addition to touring arenas, she spent years in community theater and drama club when she was a teenager. She leveraged her love of musical theater into a limited Broadway engagement as Roxie Hart in “Chicago” in 2015, and returned to the stage in 2021 to briefly take over the lead role from Sara Bareilles in “Waitress,” which she calls “dream-level stuff.
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