“Lunatic Country Music Person” Maren Morris fully embraces his affinity for pickleball. The Grammy winner visited Jimmy Kimmel Live this week, her first time on the show since being asked to host it, and was introduced as the latest cover star of Pickleball magazine.
“vogue, eat your heart out,” Morris joked. “Pickleball is life.”
The country-pop hitmaker explained that she and her husband, Ryan Hurd, got into pickleball during her current North American tour in support of humble questhis third studio album from March.
“We would just set up courts outside the tour bus and play against each other,” Morris told Kimmel. “It was kind of like a team-building thing, and then everybody got into it. And now, apparently, there’s a Pickleball magazine. They’re all going to freak out that we’re talking about this on the show tonight. But yes, I am the cover girl.
“We play doubles. We have dashboards,” she continued. “There is a lot of talk. We do it just before the soundcheck and before the concerts. It was kind of a good way – we hadn’t toured in so many years, so there were a few new faces on the team, and I felt like the first night we played after the show in the parking lot.
“They say there’s no better way to get to know someone than to play pickleball with them,” Kimmel quipped.
“It is, I think, the Pickleball magazine motto,” Morris joked, noting that she would be playing pickleball before her show at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on Thursday night (October 13).
Morris didn’t leave Kimmel without performing a swoon-worthy rendition of “Good Friends,” so check that out below.