Jelly Roll showed off his dramatic weight loss alongside wife Bunnie Xo at the Pre-Grammy Gala ahead of the 2026 Grammy Awards.
On Saturday, Jan. 31, the 41-year-old country star — who once weighed 550 lbs. — looked nearly unrecognizable as he walked the red carpet arm-in-arm with the Dumb Blonde Podcast host, with whom he shares kids Bailee Ann, 17, and Noah Buddy, 9.
Jelly — now down to approximately 265 lbs., as he told Men’s Health — sported an all-black textured suit, while his wife, 46, made a statement in a skintight metallic latex dress. The pair shared a few smooches as the cameras captured their sweet romance.
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Bunnie Xo and Jelly Roll attend the 68th Grammy Awards Pre-Grammy Gala on Jan. 31, 2026.Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic
“This outfit right here involved lubrication, which was actually a lot of fun,” he said, prompting Bunnie to chime in, “I had to literally use lube to get into this outfit.”
While some might consider it a wardrobe mishap, Jelly — who is up for three Grammy Awards this year, including Best Contemporary Country Album for Beautifully Broken — seemed to fully enjoy the process.
“Listen, as a husband, man, 10 out of 10 experience,” he quipped before gesturing toward his wife’s figure. “You get your wife one of these right here.”
When Bunnie playfully accused her husband of having a “latex fetish,” the country star responded, “I mean, that’s one of those things. You could shine this thing up like an automobile.”
“You can hit with that one of them old redneck moves,” he continued, mimicking the act of blowing on her dress and wiping it off to make it squeaky clean. “You know what I’m saying? You could polish the paint off that thing. I might not take this off of her tonight. I might polish it off.”
With a laugh, Bunnie then joked, “He’s going to turn me into a slip and slide later.”
Beyond the behind-the-scenes work that went into putting on Bunnie’s showstopping dress, Jelly has been public about his dedication to improving his health since he started losing weight in 2022.
“I’ve been fat my whole life,” he said on The Bobby Bones Show at the time, noting that his mother had given him the nickname Jelly Roll as a child. “She started calling me Jelly Roll when I was young, and I spent the next 20 years trying to grow into the name.”
While the musician previously emphasized that he became successful in spite of his weight, rather than because of it, Jelly told PEOPLE in 2024 that his weight loss journey has drastically changed his lifestyle and rituals on tour.
“It’s cool because there was once a time in life that the culture I built on tour was the opposite,” he explained at the time, estimating that he’d lost between 60 to 70 lbs. during his Beautifully Broken tour. “It revolved around alcohol and drugs. And now our tour culture is around good eating and around exercising and doing emotional check-ins with our crew every day.”
Losing weight and overcoming his food addiction also brought Jelly benefits that he’d never even expected.
“I feel like I’m a teenager, dog,” he quipped in a recent interview with Extra. “I have the sex drive of a 17-year-old again. I’m f—ing pouncing on my wife. We’re having daytime sex again. It’s f—ing awesome.”
