If you think about it, Kylie Jenner and Timothée Chalamet make perfect sense as a couple. They both love fashion, they’re both rap-adjacent, and they both have rabid fan bases who track their every movement. That’s so much stuff to talk about! While it somehow feels like both just yesterday and about ten years ago, these two started dating last April. Since then, they’ve made out at a Beyoncé concert, attended family events together, and even gone radio silent for months at a time. Here’s everything we know about Kylie and Timmy, from the beginning.
DeuxMoi kicked things off
The Instagram page devoted to occasionally true celebrity gossip shared a tip in early April of last year. “Multiple sources have told me that Timmy C has a new girl… Kylie Jenner,” it read, followed by two coffin emoji. Shortly after, another tip came in, claiming that they could confirm the new couple. The second source said that they had known about them since Paris Fashion Week, which had taken place in January.
A video quickly resurfaced of Chalamet and Jenner talking to each other during Paris Fashion Week, which now had a new context.
Soon after the rumors began, someone from Jenner’s camp decided to set things straight. An anonymous source “close to Jenner” told People that she and Chalamet were “hanging out and getting to know each other.” That same day we got an example of what their version of hanging out was when they were spotted pulling up to a taco spot in L.A. in separate blacked out SUVs. Ah, romance.
They stayed low-key for a bit
The couple stayed relatively private following the massive burst of attention they received after news of their relationship broke. A source told Entertainment Tonight that they were “keeping things casual,” but that Kylie was “having a lot of fun” with the actor. She was spotted a couple times coming and going from his L.A. home, but there was nothing to write home about.
Someone said they broke up
In August, a source told Life & Style that Jenner was “dumped” by Chalamet. TMZ jumped on the case, and quickly reported that there was no truth to the story. One source told fans to “not to believe everything they read.” Longtime Kardashian devotees would’ve known that Life & Style is not one of the tabloids that the family’s press machine uses to put out news.
They hard-launched at the Beyoncé concert
Seemingly every celebrity in the world went to Beyoncé’s Renaissance World Tour show in Los Angeles last September. However, it was Chalamet and Jenner who made the biggest wave. The couple effectively hard launched their relationship at the show, where they smooched for the whole world to see. We also got to learn that Chalamet is the kind of guy who would smoke a cigarette inside an arena.
It was at this point that we here at the Cut could no longer deny the evidence: Timothée Chalamet and Kylie Jenner were officially dating. Much like Club Chalamet, we were kind of shaken.
The dam was broken
After the Beyoncé concert, the couple entered a more public-facing period of their relationship. They canoodled at the U.S. Open in sort-of-matching outfits, bringing Hollywood sex appeal to tennis a full six months before Challengers hit theaters. While Jenner was attending the Prada show during Milan Fashion Week, she accidentally revealed that the lock screen on her phone was a close-up pic of Chalamet kissing her cheek.
They supported each other in their respective careers
The winter was all about business for Jenner and Chalamet. In November, she was honored at the WSJ Mag Innovator Awards as part of the promo for her new clothing brand, Khy. He was there not as her date, but as the person presenting Martin Scorsese with his own Innovator Award (the director and Jenner are kind of on equal footing when it comes to innovation). Nonetheless, Chalamet and Jenner sat next to each other that evening and were reportedly “smiling and chatting” throughout the evening.
A little more than a week later, Chalamet hosted Saturday Night Live and Jenner showed up at the after-party in support of her boyfriend. He was promoting Wonka at the time, and in December it was reported that Jenner had been to two of the movie’s premieres. At this point you really had to accept that they were in love because there’s really no other reason to see Wonka more than once unless you’re bringing your kids (Stormi and Aire were nowhere to be seen).
Timmy became part of the family
Thanks to a stray Snapchat post from Travis Barker’s son, it was revealed that Chalamet was a guest at the Kardashian family’s annual Christmas Eve party. Love actually is all around.
Tylie became Work-Event Official
While the couple had previously attended each other’s work events, I don’t think it really counts until it’s broadcast live on national television. In January, Chalamet brought Jenner as his date to the Golden Globes, where he was nominated for Wonka. The cameras were on them all night as they chatted, smooched, and stared lovingly into each other’s eyes. It was at this point that I let my icy heart thaw a bit and admitted that these two made for a very cute couple.
The night was not without its drama, though. Remember the Selena Gomez lip-reading debacle? Someone claimed that Gomez told Taylor Swift and Keleigh Teller that Jenner had barred her from getting a photo with Chalamet. Gomez later claimed that she was actually telling them about two friends of hers that had just hooked up, but the news cycle on this story seemed never-ending. Was Kylie mean? Was Selena overblowing things? Should we ban all lip-reading forever?
They went quiet for a while
Starting in February, Chalamet set off on an international press tour for Dune: Part Two. Jenner was not spotted anywhere along the way, and in March fans began to speculate that the couple had broken up. In an interview with the New York Times in March, Jenner was asked if she had seen people speculating that Chalamet was the reason she had been dressing in a more cottagecore vibe recently.
“I don’t know how I feel about that,” she said. “I just don’t want to talk about personal things.”
Then, in April, comedian Daniel Tosh (remember him?) spread a truly bizarre rumor that Jenner was pregnant. He claimed that an employee at a Malibu grocery store told him that they had recently shut the store down so that the Kardashians could film a scene in which Jenner revealed her pregnancy. TMZ quickly debunked the rumor, with production sources saying that they hadn’t shot at a grocery store and a source close to Jenner saying that she wasn’t pregnant.
They’re back!
After five months of radio silence, we got confirmation that the couple were still together. In May, Chalamet and Jenner were spotted together for the first time since January enjoying dinner at Tatiana in New York City. Do you think they got the cosmic brownie for dessert?
Most recently, they were photographed in the parking garage at the TCL Chinese Theater in Los Angeles. What could be more romantic than seeing A Quiet Place: Day One with your special someone?
A Complete Timeline of Kylie Jenner Dating Timothée Chalamet
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