Jelly Roll feels like a new man after losing nearly 300 pounds over the past three years. The “Save Me” singer who once tipped the scales at more than 500 pounds hit the red carpet on Wednesday night (Jan. 21) to celebrate the premiere of Netflix’s Star Search reboot — on which he serves as a judge — and spoke to Extra about how he’s feeling and tout one very exciting benefit of his slimmed-down profile.
“I feel incredible, dude,” Jelly said, adding that wife Bunnie XO “put me on her Instagram allegedly as her hall pass. Said, ‘Hey, alright.’ The new hall pass, dude. This is big.”
He wasn’t kidding. In a post cued to the Marvelettes 1961 Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 girl group classic “Please Mr. Postman” podcaster Bunnie is seen staring in stunned, lusty silence at her hubby doing his thing on the show with the on-screen caption “Ummmm I just saw my new hall pass on TV [heart eye emoji].” She doubled-down in the post’s caption, adding, “Don’t tell my husband [looking away emoji].
Jelly also ticked off the other ways his weight loss has changed him both physically and mentally. “Every way… Spiritually, I’ve gotten closer to God. I’ve gotten closer to myself,” he said. “I’m a better father. I’m more present with my children. You should see it, dude. I mean, I’m coaching my son’s basketball team this year… I just feel physically better and I feel like I can physically do it.”
He added that when you weigh 550 pounds “you definitely don’t think about trying to coach a team, you wonder if there’s a bench you can sit on, you know? So, it’s like for God to just even make that big of a difference to have the weigh off… literally the weight, 300 lbs. I’m a whole different human.”
The singer also noted that Bunnie will be appearing on a future Star Search episode and that they plan to attend the 2026 Grammy Awards on Feb. 1 at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. Jelly is nominated for three Grammys at the 68th annual awards, best contemporary Christian music performance/song for “Hard Fought Hallelujah,” best country duo/group performance for “Amen” and best contemporary country album for his 10th studio album, 2024’s Beautifully Broken.
Star Search airs live on Tuesdays and Wednesdays on Netflix.
