Personal Life
Blundell was born in Queensland town of Stanthorpe and was brought up on a sheep and cattle station near the town. As an adult he worked as a station hand across various locations in northern Australia. After a back injury sustained while working on a farm in Papua New Guinea he turned to music.
He created controversy in Australia on 26 August 2007, when his manager announced that he was leaving his second wife, to whom he was married for nine years, for "an Australian Idol competitor twenty years his junior." Blundell met Jesse Curran, at one of his concerts. On his MySpace page, Blundell says: "I heard Jesse singing at the Broken Hill races and she just floored me. You can find great talent in the most unexpected spots." Blundell has been married twice and has two sons from his second marriage.
In the lead-up to the Australian republic referendum in 1999 Blundell recorded the official song for the No campaign despite being in favour of a republic.
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