The Return of Tanya Tucker Decades after Tanya Tucker slipped from the spotlight, music star Brandi Carlile wrote an entire album for her hero based on Tanya's extraordinary life, spurring the greatest comeback in country music history. The Return of Tanya Tucker featuring Brandi Carlile was released in NY and LA on October 21, 2022 and nationwide November 4. It was accompanied by the track "Ready As I'll Never Be". Other works Tanya appeared as a celebrity judge on Dance Fever in 1979. Tucker published a 1997 autobiography, Nickel Dreams: My Life. Tucker starred in her own reality show, Tuckerville, on TLC in 2005. It ran for two seasons for a total of 18 episodes. The show covers an in-depth visit with Tucker in her home with her family. Tucker continues to perform for the military doing benefits with newer country acts such as Eric Agnew and Cole Deggs & the Lonesome. She has stated in interviews that she is filming new episodes of her reality show Tuckerville. Since Tucker has moved out of her Nashville home, the show will take place in Malibu, where she currently resides. It will be called Tucker Time. She stated that another reason for the name change is because TLC would not let them have the previous name. In 2019, Tucker launched her own brand of tequila called, Cosa Salvaje. Personal life Tucker had relationships with various entertainers, most notably with Glen Campbell in the early 1980’s. She also dated Merle Haggard, Andy Gibb, and Don Johnson. Tucker later had a relationship with actor Ben Reed, with whom she had daughter Presley Tanita (born July 5, 1989) and son Beau "Grayson" (born October 2, 1991). Tucker has had an on-again, off-again relationship with Jerry Laseter, a Nashville musician. They were engaged for the first time in 1997 and again in 1999. Just days before their 1999 wedding, Tucker canceled the ceremony when she discovered she was pregnant with her third child, Laseter's daughter Layla LaCosta (born June 25, 1999), saying she did not want to walk down the aisle pregnant in her wedding dress. Laseter was co-producer of Tucker's albums in 2002 (Tanya), 2005 (Live at Billy Bob's Texas), and 2009 (My Turn). One of Tucker's two brothers, Robert, died in September 2017 from pneumonia. Her surviving brother's name is Don. Her sister is artist La Costa. In 2022, Tucker sold her Brentwood, Tennessee,