Definition: In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Input: Nicole Richie and Joel Madden have been together for nearly a decade and have regularly been accused of splitting. In May fresh reports from both Life & Style and InTouch Weekly insisted the 33-year-old fashion designer and the 36-year-old rocker were close to calling divorce lawyers. But on Tuesday her father Lionel Richie slammed the talk. 'It's completely untrue,' the 65-year-old All Night Long hit maker told Hello! magazine. The weeklies argued that Nicole and Joel - who have daughter Harlow, aged seven, and son Sparrow, aged five - have 'been leading separate lives for months' and often vacation apart.Two weekly magazines accused the couple in May of being close to a splitLionel, 65, said he talked to Nicole recently and she insisted all was fineNicole, 33, and Joel, 36, have been together for almost a decade 
 Question:'_ is never around,' a source told Life & Style.

Joel Madden