No Doubt frontwoman Gwen Stefani and her British husband, fellow rocker Gavin Rossdale, will be getting their son Apollo, 10 months, a stuffed Paddington bear. The rockstar mama, 45, teamed up with Pharrell to sing Shine, the hit single off the Paddington film’s soundtrack.
And while the couple’s older sons – Kingston, 8, and Zuma, 6 – aren’t quite into stuffed bears anymore, they are super excited about the film. “My kids are half-English, so we’ve been going to London their whole lives, and the street that they film on is the street right behind our house,” Stefani told E! News.
She added: So when you’re watching the film, we keep going, ‘There it is! There it is! There’s the street!’”
Paddington sounds like a a really fun film for the whole family.
“It’s really exciting for them,” Gwen continued of her kids. “And also in the film, they did such a great job of taking everything English, and all the little details of being English…like ‘Oh my gosh, that’s the same ketchup thing they have there.’ Every little detail, and all the acting is just so great in the movie. Just the feeling of it, it has such a good tone, the whole film…It was really fun to be part of it and the fact that the kids can recognize where they come from…plus we’re in it and they’re such a huge fan of Pharrell,” she added of her fellow judge on The Voice.
But when it comes to mommy’s music, her sons have their favorites.
“I definitely play all of the songs that we do for [my kids], they have a huge opinion,” Stefani said. “Children really know if songs have that magical thing or not—they are very clear if it doesn’t. “They’re like, ‘That one’s not good.’ You’re like, ‘Whoa!’
“But not this one,” she added, referring to Shine. “They liked it.”