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The Florida Georgia Line boys are reconciling.
Brian Kelley posted a cheeky Instagram Reel on Friday, Jan. 2, after a hike with former Florida Georgia Line partner Tyler Hubbard. The reel hints at their efforts to rebuild their friendship after the duo’s split in 2022.
The video starts by showing Kelley, 40, sporting hiking gear as Turn the Lights Off by KATO plays, then cuts to a meme of Jon Hamm dancing in the club from Your Friends & Neighbors with the country duo’s hit song “Cruise” as its soundtrack. Over the video, Kelley wrote, “After Going on the Hike with T-Hubb.”
“Solid hike bro @tylerhubbard,” Kelley captioned his post. Hubbard, 38, commented, “🏃🏻🏃🏻💪🏻.”
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Their hike comes weeks after Hubbard appeared on the Human School Podcast and opened up about the state of his friendship with Kelley, admitting the pair hadn’t spoken “a lot in the last couple of years.”
“We’re going on a hike next week, so the way I see it is, I have a desire for that friendship,” Hubbard said. “I miss the guy I was partners with for 10 years. I miss my old roommate, my best man at my wedding, and if nothing else, we should have a relationship.”
“It doesn’t have to be what it was, and it doesn’t have to equal FGL doing anything, but we need to repair… and spend some time together face-to-face. And just walk and talk and hang, and go fishing or get a guitar out,” he added. “I’m excited for that, because yeah, it feels like, at this point, enough time has gone by.”
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Elsewhere in the podcast, Hubbard shared that he’s hungry to “get my friend back.”
“It’s like, dude, we had so many amazing years of blessings, and doing the craziest things that our wildest dreams couldn’t have imagined, we should be doing life together in some capacity still,” he said.
In 2020, the duo had a rumored rift in their friendship as a result of differing political beliefs amid the presidential election that year. Fans noticed that Hubbard and his wife Hayley, who expressed support for Joe Biden, unfollowed Kelley and his wife Brittney on Instagram as a result of Kelley’s right-leaning posts on the platform.
“I unfollowed BK for a few days while we were through this political … in the middle of this election and everything going on,” Hubbard explained on Exit 209 with Storme Warren at the time. “I even called him and told him; I said, ‘Hey buddy, I love you. And I love you a lot more in real life than on your stories right now. So that’s why I’m unfollowing you. Nothing personal. I still love you. You’re still my brother.’ I just didn’t want to see it every time I opened Instagram. And so it wasn’t a big deal.”
Two years later, Florida Georgia Line announced their split after 12 years together, and both went on to pursue solo careers. Hubbard and Kelley denied claims that their differing political opinions were the cause of their split.
