Inside Kylie Jenner and Timothée Chalamet’s Very Public Yet Private Romance
Kylie Jenner Supports Timothée Chalamet at ‘A Complete Unknown’ Premiere
If you want to view paradise, simply check out the way Kylie Jenner and Timothée Chalamet look at each other when they’re surrounded by people.
The actor and the cosmetics mogul quickly became adept at creating a world of their own no matter where they are, be it at nationally televised events like the U.S. Open and the Golden Globes or in the middle of Beyoncé‘s Renaissance birthday show in Los Angeles, the site of their first public appearance together in September 2023.
Date night sightings tapered off this past spring as Chalamet got busy playing Bob Dylan in the James Mangold-directed A Complete Unknown, but he and the Kylie Cosmetics mogul surfaced for a movie date à deux in June. (Wearing masks in the parking lot, incidentally, to up the privacy factor despite being smack in the middle of tourist central on Hollywood Boulevard.)
And Kylie was at the after-party following the Dec. 11 L.A. premiere of A Complete Unknown, an indicator that they’re still going strong—and perhaps will make the Globes for the second straight year, Chalamet having picked up a nod for Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama, for his Dylan-sanctioned performance.
With celebrity romances often indecipherable in their early stages, it was unclear at first just how serious Jenner, 27, and Chalamet, who’s turning 29 on Dec. 27, were—or whether they were even more than friends.
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But now it has been 19 months since they were originally linked in a romantic fashion (and in regular fashion, as Jenner wore Gaulthier by Chalamet favorite Haider Ackermann to the 2023 Met Gala), and at the 2024 Golden Globes they graduated to the fans-frantically-lip-reading-for-clues stage of their relationship.
Yet that world of pure imagination was only possible because the pair are full-on dating in public, not bothering with any comments or Instagram posts and just letting their PDA-packed outings do the talking.
“Privacy is so important to me in life,” Jenner explained to British Vogue for an August profile. Which, she noted, “feels so good” to have on her terms for a change.
Of course, that hasn’t squelched the public’s desire to know more or to desperately scour what is visible to the world for clues.
“I don’t know how I feel about that,” Jenner told the New York Times in March when asked if she had thoughts on the Internet’s assumption her love life was manifesting in some tweaks to her style. “I just don’t want to talk about personal things.”
As for Chalamet, while he knows every move he makes will garner interest—”I can’t say that this stuff doesn’t matter,” he told GQ for its November 2023 cover story, “because my intense fandom has led me to where I am”—he wouldn’t mind being left alone just a bit.
Though he acknowledged the irony of wanting to keep something to himself while dating someone with 395 million Instagram followers. (And he’s hardly an unknown with 19.3 million.)
Referencing a South Park episode that parodied Prince Harry and Meghan Markle‘s concerns about privacy while simultaneously opening a door into their world via interviews, a docuseries and a best-selling memoir, Chalamet said, “Sometimes, people are going to be hella confused when you say you’re trying to live a private life.”
Though Jenner’s been on reality TV in one form or another since middle school, she has been known to take the occasional break from big reveals— such as when she waited until after daughter Stormi Webster (with ex Travis Scott) was born in 2018 to share scenes from her pregnancy journey.
But while Jenner—also mom to 2-year-old son Aire Webster—has yet to call Chalamet by the name of boyfriend (out loud while talking into a recording device, that is), she has acknowledged his presence in this world and on Arrakis.
Asked if she’d seen Dune, Chalamet’s blockbuster 2021 sci-fi epic, she told the Wall Street Journal, “I do love that movie.”
She reportedly smiled.
And that was before she attended a Wonka party in London last November and sat right next to Chalamet during the film’s L.A. premiere, to which she brought mom Kris Jenner. The Kardashians matriarch, who was also at the A Complete Unknown party, had not-so-subtly shipped her youngest daughter’s romance with the movie star by reposting one of the teasers for his November 2023 Saturday Night Live hosting gig on Instagram Stories.
The familial support runs both ways, meanwhile, with Timothée’s sister Pauline Chalamet in the audience for Jenner’s walk down the runway for Coperni during Paris Fashion Week in October.
And consider excitement to be officially running high for a red carpet sighting at the Globes on Jan. 5.
The pair treated Globe viewers last January to a veritable PDA-fest, Jenner wearing a vintage Hanae Mori gown that seamlessly coordinated with Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy nominee Chalamet’s black Celine suit. In fact, there were moments where you couldn’t be sure where his couture ended and hers began.
And even if they never speak directly on the subject, pictures can be worth a thousand words. Press on and see Kylie Jenner and Timothée Chalamet’s romance in photos:
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Table for Two: January 2024
What award show?
It was only lovers in the building as the 2024 Golden Globes doubled as a TImothée-and-Kylie kiss cam. And there was nary a rumor that could puncture their blissful bubble.
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Live From New York: November 2023
…it’s Kylie and Timothée. The pair arrive separately at the SNL after-party after the actor hosts the show.
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WSJ. Magazine 2023 Innovator Awards: November 2023
The two are all smiles on their date night.
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Desire for Private Life: October 2023
When Kylie’s level of fame was brought up during Timothée’s recent discussion with GQ about privacy, he responded with a laugh.
“This reminds me of that recent South Park episode with the Worldwide Privacy Tour,” he said, referencing the show’s parody of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. “Sometimes, people are going to be hella confused when you say you’re trying to live a private life.”
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Courtside Kiss: September 2023
It was love-all at the US Open on Sept. 10.
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Doubles Partners: September 2023
Tennis is fine.
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Making It Official: September 2023
After packing on the PDA at Beyoncé‘s birthday concert in Los Angeles on Sept. 4, the pair attended a star-studded New York Fashion Week dinner together.
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Going Strong: August 2023
E! News confirmed in August that the Kardashians star and the Dune actor were still an item, despite reports claiming they’d called it quits.
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Romance Rumors: April 2023
Kylie Jenner and Timothée Chalamet first sparked romance rumors in April after her split from Travis Scott, with whom she shares kids Stormi, born in 2018, and Aire, born in 2022.
(Originally published Jan. 21, 2024, at 5 a.m. PT)
