Sam Hunt‘s attention-grabbing facial hair is here to stay, he says — and for a good reason. (See: happy wife, happy life.)
“I grew it out, and she said she liked it,” Hunt told Entertainment Tonight at CBS Radio’s We Can Survive concert of wife Hannah Lee Fowler‘s approval of his beard.
There’s another added benefit to the whiskers: “It gets cold in Nashville, so I like to have a beard in the winter,” revealed Hunt, 32.
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