Joss Stone shares rare look at her four young children
Joss Stone had an emotional reunion with her husband and children as she returned home to the UK after touring in Europe.
The star, 38, was welcomed home by her husband Cody DaLuz, a former Marine, and their four kids as she walked through arrivals.
A video shared by Joss on her Instagram on Sunday shows her eldest son Shackleton, two, running into her arms, closely followed by his sister Violet, three.
Joss then shared hugs and kisses with her husband and their two youngest children, who beamed up at her from their double buggy. 'Coming home to this' she captioned the video.
The singer and her husband adopted their son Bear, two, as a newborn at the end of 2024 and Joss announced she was pregnant soon after. She gave birth to daughter Nalima Rose in June 2025.
In 2023, Joss revealed she and Cody had started the adoption process to expand their brood in the hope of one day adopting more childen.
Joss Stone had an emotional reunion with her husband and children as she returned home to the UK over the weekend after touring in Europe. Pictured with son Shackleton, two, and daughter Violet, three
Joss then shared hugs and kisses with her husband and their two youngest children, who beamed up at her from their double buggy
Joss told HELLO! magazine of the adoption process: 'We're trying to do our home study. I hope we get to do it. I want, like, 25 kids.'
Cody was adopted himself and Joss has previously spoken to her fans on social media about why the pair were keen to adopt a child of their own.
She said: 'The reason why Cody even exists is because his bio mum loved him enough to make an adoption plan for him and the same goes for Bear.
'Honestly bio mothers do not get the gratitude they deserve. It is a more selfless love than I knew existed. Truly. We are just so happy to be part of this beautiful cycle.'
Now living back in her home county of Devon in the UK, Joss and Cody were based in Nashville, Tennessee after meeting in 2020 when Joss fled the UK amid a terrifying kidnap plot.
The singer was the target of a chilling conspiracy in 2011 when two men were caught near her Devon home carrying knives, hammers, rope and a body bag.
They planned to rob and kill the then-24-year-old singer before being intercepted by police and later convicted of conspiracy to murder and robbery.
Speaking last year, more than a decade later, Joss says she no longer lives in fear - and even hopes her would-be killers have found peace.
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The singer and her husband adopted their son Bear, two, as a newborn at the end of 2024 and Joss announced she was pregnant soon after
She said: 'It's traumatic because, of course, that is a horrible thing to have happened - but it didn't happen. The idea that somebody would want to chop you up into small pieces and put you in a little bag is a bit jarring...
'But luckily, they didn't get there. They didn't hurt me.'
Speaking on the Nicky Byrne HQ podcast, she continued: 'I just hope that they are okay and healed. It's a weird feeling because it's hard to not feel sorry for people that are in that space. It's also hard to not feel sorry for the mother of those people.'
Joss admitted she longs for an explanation from the men who once plotted to end her life. 'I still don't even know if they were pissed off at me or if they were hired by someone that was pissed off at me. Who knows?...
'I don't have a lot of answers. I hope they didn't try and do that because they didn't like a song or something, but I'll never know. I would like to ask… It's one of those niggling things. I'm just like, can we just have a cup of tea? Can we just talk about it?'
The singer - who first shot to fame as a teenager with her multi-platinum album The Soul Sessions - said she felt 'looked after' by fate when police foiled the plot. 'I feel like something's watching over me. I feel very looked after in that scenario,' she explained.
She gave birth to daughter Nalima Rose in June 2025. Now living back in her home county of Devon in the UK, Joss and Cody were based in Nashville, Tennessee after meeting in 2020
But the ordeal shattered her sense of safety at home. 'That did make me feel really uncomfortable in that house as well, which is the house I grew up in,' she recalled. 'I woke up one morning in that place and I said to Cody, "I don't want to come back here ever." And we never did.'
Soon afterwards, Joss left Britain and began a new life in America, living first in New Jersey and later in Nashville.
The family have since relocated back to Devon with Joss explaining she wanted her children to be schooled and raised in the UK to replicate her own idyllic childhood.
"What I will never do is give up" – Kimmich rules out international retirement after Germany's World Cup exit
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Germany captain Joshua Kimmich is not considering retiring from international football after Monday's heartbreaking World Cup exit to Paraguay.
"I'll always have the determination to make another attempt. What I will never do is give up," Kimmich told MagentaTV after the match.
AdvertisementAdvertisementThe 31-year-old, who was also part of the squads that crashed out in the group stage at the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, converted his penalty in the shootout. However, it wasn't enough to prevent another disappointing tournament exit.
"I grew up in Germany watching the national team on television, and it always seemed to be the semifinals or the final. Of course, you want to give today's children, the people, and this generation that same experience. The fact is, we weren't able to give the people back home that," Kimmich said.
According to Kimmich, everyone in the team must take full responsibility for the latest failure.
“It's a real shame, especially at a time when it would do us so much good to have something in Germany we can be proud of. Unfortunately, the national team isn't that right now, and we all share responsibility for it,” he said.
"We have to take responsibility – no one can distance themselves from it. We have to own it, because we, the players who were on the pitch, are the ones who messed it up."
Taylor Swift won over Kelce's skeptical friend in backstage encounter
Taylor Swift won over another new fan in Travis Kelce's friend Taylor Lewan, days before the American power couple are expected to get married at New York's Madison Square Garden.
Swift joined Kelce last week for his annual 'Tight End University' - an event he helps plan for practice and networking with players who play in the position where the Kansas City Chiefs star made his name.
Swift has sprinkled some stardust over the last two events with a brief performance at the concert they host each year and this time, ex-NFL man turned podcast host Lewan got to witness Swift preparing to perform backstage.
Speaking on his popular Bussin' With The Boys podcast, Lewan explained: 'I'll just tell you this, dude - I was kind of into her music when I was younger. I haven't been super into it since then. It is just not my genre.
'The girl is incredible. What a performer. We are sitting backstage for a moment and she's about to go out. She's got a cluster, she's got a gaggle of individuals with her. But she's in the back before she walks out and you can see her just getting in the zone.
'I remember just looking at her being like "it is so cool that somebody who is as successful as she is, as famous as she is, she just handles her business the correct way at all times".
Taylor Swift stunned fans with a surprise performance at Travis Kelce's Tight End University
Swift joined Travis Kelce (left) alongside Claire Kittle, George Kittle, Greg Olsen and Talbot Olsen (L-R) at the opening event of Tight End University on Monday
Bussin' With The Boys host Taylor Lewan was impressed by Swift's performance last week
'And for her to sit back, get in the zone and go out and put on a performance, whether it was three minutes or five minutes, it was a very short amount of time, but the pop from the crowd... everybody in that moment felt like she was singing individually to them. And I thought that was just awesome.'
Swift joined Lainey Wilson on the stage to perform her hit 'Love Story' and dedicated it to Kelce's friend and rival tight end George Kittle, who plays for San Francisco 49ers.
'She probably misses ball!' Lewan joked about the lengthy NFL offseason. 'She misses ball a little bit, dude! But she was awesome. It was just really cool to watch people who are outliers in their craft perform.
'And I thought she is clearly that, the biggest superstar in the world. It is just awesome to see all that going down, all while our boy Trav is just bobbing around, stoked to kind of like be there.'
Swift and Kelce are expected to tie the knot this weekend in New York at the city's most iconic venue.
There were people in the industry who wondered if their plans to marry at MSG were a high-profile decoy but Daily Mail earlier this week shared pictures of equipment getting loaded into the venue, seemingly in preparation for the big day.
It remains to be seen if Lewan is going. He has known Kelce for around 10 years but the guestlist has been kept quiet and those attending have been sworn to secrecy.
And if, as Lewan suggested, Swift is missing football then she doesn't have too much longer to wait.
Kelce's Chiefs team start the season with a Monday Night Football showdown against AFC West rivals Denver Broncos on September 14 at Arrowhead Stadium.
