Kelsea Ballerini Beams in 'Sunflower' Gown at 2024 People's Choice Country Awards — and Chase Stokes Can't Look Away!

Mar. 15, 2025

Chase Stokes and Kelsea Ballerini attend the 2024 People’s Choice Country Awards.Photo:Terry Wyatt/Getty

Terry Wyatt/Getty

Kelsea BalleriniandChase Stokesare serving looks (and showing off their love!) on the2024 People’s Choice Country Awardsred carpet!

On Thursday, Sept. 26,Outer Banksstar, 32, joined his country singer girlfriend, 31, at the annual country music awards show, where she is nominated for four awards — and where she will take the stage at Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry House for a performance later in the evening.

As per usual, the pair were one of the most stylish couples on the red carpet, with Ballerini wearing a Roberto Cavalli gown meant to “look like a sunflower” plus statement earrings and a slicked hairstyle. For his part, Stokes complemented her in a relaxed brown suit and croc embossed boots.

Chase Stokes and Kelsea Ballerini attend the 2024 People’s Choice Country Awards.Jason Kempin/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty

Jason Kempin/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty

The star teased “a lot of drama” to come from her performance of “Two Things” from her upcoming album,PATTERNS.

“The whole record really does cover all of, truly, the relational patterns that I had to assess in my life,” she shared. “I’m 31 now, I’m in a beautiful relationship, and when you’re in a good relationship, it really mirrors you, so you have to really assess yourself and then the other person, vice versa,” Ballerini shared on the carpet. “I think there’s a lot of that kind of intricacy within the record.”

Chase Stokes and Kelsea Ballerini attend the 2024 People’s Choice Country Awards.Terry Wyatt/Getty

Ballerini is up for female artist of 2024, a stacked category including nominees like Beyoncé, Dolly Parton and Lainey Wilson.

The “This Feeling” singer is also nominated for the social country star of 2024 — another stacked category — and the crossover song of 2024 forher collaboration with Noah Kahan, “Cowboys Cry Too.”

Kelsea Ballerini attends the 2024 People’s Choice Country Awards.Terry Wyatt/Getty

Performing at theShania Twain-hosted awards show alongside Ballerini areBrad Paisley,Machine Gun Kelly,Kane Brown,Keith Urban,Kelsea Ballerini,Lady A,Miranda Lambert,Parker McCollumandThe War and Treaty.

Presenters, meanwhile, includeCarly Pearce,Dan + Shay,Little Big TownandNate Bargatze.

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Ballerini and Stokes’ PCCAs appearances comes shortly after the couple — who began dating afterthe singer slid into Stokes' DMsin December 2022 —hit the red carpet at the Los Angeles premiere ofDoctor Odysseyon Sept. 18.

Chase Stokes and Kelsea Ballerini at the premiere of ‘Doctor Odyssey’.Emma McIntyre/Getty

Emma McIntyre/Getty

The country singer — whomakes her acting debut as a guest starin the upcoming ABC show — rocked a silky, scaly gown at the event and carried a show-stealing goldfish bowl-shaped purse from Kate Barton.

At the premiere, Ballerini revealed to PEOPLE that she was “definitely was nervous” as she plunged into the acting world inDoctor Odyssey— andshared how her actor beau helped ease her nerves.

“I’ve always called acting his world, and so whenever I was asking him questions about this opportunity, I was like, ‘What about this in your world?’ And he was like, ‘Hey, it’s just a world. I’m a part of it and now you’re a part of it. It’s not my world,'” she said of Stokes.

The Netflix star even helped her prep her lines, she told PEOPLE: “By the end of the conversation, I was like, ‘Okay, so you’ll run the scene with me?’ And he was like, ‘Yeah, let’s do it.’ ”

The 2024 PCCAs will air live on Thursday, Sept. 26 at 8 p.m. ET/PT across NBC and Peacock from the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville.

source: people.com