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Love Letters To Kellie

Love Letters To Kellie – At first it’s hard to be sure if the slim, red-headed woman sitting on a sunny patio in Toulouse is Kelly Raspberry Evans. She’s a rare type of celebrity, known especially in DFW, but many people who know her name have never seen her face. Hers is one of radio’s most recognizable voices, with her South Carolina sunshine and unwavering confidence. I wasn’t entirely sure it was her, until she started talking.

“Kelly Raspberry,” she says with a brisk handshake. “The Kid Craddick Morning Show.” As she browses the menu, she says, “I’m trying to be nice, but it’s so hard,” and tells me that years ago, when she visited Paris, she practically lived at Croque Monsieur’s. She orders one for “good memories.”

Love Letters To Kellie

Christmas is approaching. We talk about the little things, the stitches of everyday life. This year she is celebrating her first Christmas with her new family. It wouldn’t just be her and her 12-year-old daughter, Emma Kelly, but her husband, Alan Evans, and his three children. Gift giving can be a challenge. “We try to be fair. The girls are close in age, one of the boys is easier to buy for, the other is harder—it’s complicated. We want to make sure it’s the same for everyone, now we need some filler to make the difference. That’s the hard part. ” Going from single mother of one child to matriarch of a family of six is no small feat.

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Every morning, commuters wake up with thermoses of coffee attached to cup holders, start their cars and head to work on DFW highways. For many of us, as well as others around the country, when the engine revs, that familiar eight-note jingle: “106.1 … Kiss FM! Kid Craddick Morning Show!”

Kelly was the frank, crazy queen of the Kid Craddick Morning Show for 25 years this May. Since they became nationally syndicated, The Kid Craddick Morning Show has garnered loyal listeners across the country, tuning in to hear four different personalities — Kelly, Big Al Mack, J-C Chavez and Jenna Owens — talk about the celebrity break. Ups and make-ups, light news and their own daily lives. They captured radio’s most important demographic: female listeners between the ages of 18 and 49.

“We’ve got our ratings back, and they’re higher than they’ve been in years,” she says. “After the kid died they spiked and then leveled off somewhat. But now, they’re higher than they’ve been since Kidd. “

Even if Kelly himself doesn’t ring the bell, Kid Craddick’s name will. A trailblazer in the radio industry, Kidd was a legend, the man who brought Kelly and the other hosts together and created their true alchemy. For 19 years, Kidd and Kelly’s playful feud was the heart of the show, until his sudden death in 2013. Some of the show’s most popular segments—namely, Love Letters to Kelly, in which listeners receive love advice from Kelly—were his brainwaves.

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She laughs at the early days when Kidd dispensed love advice and kept a personal diary to read on-air. “The kid can do anything to anyone. I’ve been doing [love letters] for over 20 years now. At first I felt like I didn’t know anything. I am as ignorant as anyone. ” But the Kid liked her spirit. She owned her opinions, were mostly based on faith, and didn’t hesitate to share them even when they were controversial. Listening to her old tapes, Kelly is sometimes shocked by her own fire. “They say 10,000 hours of anything makes you an expert?” She shrugs. “At this point, I think I’m really the expert.”

Every letter read by one of the other hosts begins the same way: “Kelly, you’re the love expert.”

“Me,” she always agrees. Then, she sits back and listens to a letter from a fan who needs advice. Once she hears the story, she gives honest feedback. Recently, a woman who had an affair with a married man wrote for advice saying she was going to leave his wife, and Kelly didn’t sugar coat her reply.

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“what do you want from me?” she demanded. “She wants me to say, ‘This works for everyone, so keep it up.’ So what I’m saying to you is: Keep going. But that man is never going to leave his wife for you. Only three percent of married men actually leave their wives. If you’re happy to be second…keep going.” . Picture her standing close to the microphone to be heard clearly, her expression firm and unapologetic as she speaks directly to the listener. “If you don’t want my real advice, don’t write a love letter to Kelly.”

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“I was very black and white in my thinking,” she tells me. “The older I got, the more gray I saw. If a couple writes to me for advice and they live together, my old self is like, ‘You don’t need to live together.’ Today, I’d say, ‘You’re not asking me for my opinion, or. You don’t live together. You are asking for help with a problem you have because you live together.” Life, she says, has mellowed her. Although she’s not one to dwell on the past, Kelly’s love life has been public knowledge for 25 years, especially her seven-and-a-half-year relationship with her now-ex-husband, the father of her daughter. . It was not a fairy tale.

“It was one of those things where you had to get married to get a divorce,” says Kelly, a fundamentalist Baptist from a “hellfire and brimstone” background.

At age 40, Kelly became a divorced single mother of a newborn child. The cast of the show grew up together. Big Al went from a married man to a nightclub owner and bachelor. J-C became a family man and a father. Kelly was happy in her 40s, raising her daughter and dating. At that time, only one person was able to meet her daughter, Emma Kelly. It would be another 10 years before she met Alan Evans.

“I’m starting my diet,” Allen said recently on the podcast he and Kelly do together, A Sandwich and Some Lovin’.

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“Why are you teasing me?” he asks, even as their banter heats up, the undertones playful.

“When do I become a judge? Don’t answer it. You know, we’ve got a family vacation that I’m going to have to take care of … Listen, when we go on this vacation, they can bounce a quarter off my abs.

“Well, they can throw quarters at you. But regardless of whether they can beat your abs, you’re going to wear a speedo because that’s your jam.

Once Kelly decided she was ready to settle down, she approached it with her unique single-mindedness, lining up first dates on Bumble like dominoes, knocking them down one after the other. Sometimes she has five first dates a week. “The right one is out there, but they’re not going to walk up to you and say, ‘Me,'” she explains.

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When Alan Evans’ profile first appeared on her screen, Kelly thought he was handsome. So they met at a small local sushi place where they sat at the bar and talked. He doesn’t know who she is. They lightened the conversation. “After a night of fun, but no bells and whistles and fireworks,” they didn’t kiss and parted. Later, Alan would tell her that he went out with her again because she didn’t feel crazy or weird. She would reply that if he hadn’t, she wouldn’t have bothered; She already had another date set.

“A lot of people get confused because if they don’t immediately burst out with butterflies and stuff when they meet someone, it’s not right. But what about a good person with whom you have a good conversation? There’s something to be said for that, give it a chance. That’s what we did,” she says simply.

Kelly’s life is an open book, so before Alan became a character on the show, because of his hobbies. “He’s a wizard of entertainment,” Kelly says fondly. “On our third date he pulled out his deck of cards and I was so nervous. Everyone around us loved it, but I was disappointed. Now I think it’s beautiful and everyone loves magic.

They dated for a month before Alan told Kelly he was deleting his Bumble account and other matches. “I said that’s fine. But I haven’t canceled mine yet. I was still talking to a few other guys. Then, after a while, I realized he was the one I wanted to spend my time with.