Gracie Abrams and Paul Mescal Enjoying 'Hooking Up': 'It's Still Early Stages' Says Source (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Gracie Abrams; Paul Mescal.Photo:Weiss Eubanks/NBCUniversal/Getty; Jeff Spicer/Getty

Weiss Eubanks/NBCUniversal/Getty; Jeff Spicer/Getty

Gracie AbramsandPaul Mescal’s love story is just beginning.

The“Close to You”singer, 24, andNormal Peoplestar, 28, have been spotted out and about together this summer, causing romance rumors to swirl on social media.

Shedding light on the pair and the nature of their relationship, a source tells PEOPLE that “they’ve been hooking up and it’s still early stages.”

Representatives for Abrams and Mescal did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.

Gracie Abrams in Los Angeles in February 2024.Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images

Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images

The pair were pictured sitting across from each other at a window table and, in one photo, Mescal appears to reach across the table and touch Abrams’ face.

The new couple was photographed walking around in London’s Mayfair area on Sunday, Aug. 18.Daily Mailreported that the city date was PDA-filled, noting that the pair were spotted “kissing a lot.”

Paul Mescal in London in February 2024.Dave Benett/Getty

Dave Benett/Getty

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Prior to her romance with Mescal, Abrams dated musician Blake Slatkin. In a 2021 interview withRIFFMagazine, the singer revealed that she and Slatkin, 26, dated for five years before breaking up and collaborating heavily on her debut EP,Minor.

“It’s maybe even more awkward, perhaps because he was my previous relationship. We had broken up and I was writing these songs in response to our breakup, which we then made a project about,” she told the Bay Area magazine. “We’d had a bunch of time together. … Our history, is what I’m saying, was strong enough to bear the weight of a creative process like this.”

Mescal, meanwhile, was previously romantically involved with musicianPhoebe Bridgers. The former couple first connected on Twitter (now X) in May 2020, and continued to interact on social media until they made theirred carpet debutin November 2021.

Paul Mescal and Phoebe Bridgers make their red carpet debut in November 2021 in Los Angeles.Taylor Hill/WireImage

Fans began tospeculate that they had broken upin late 2022. Though neither Mescal nor Bridgers, 30, publicly confirmed the split, theboygeniusmember struck up a romance with comedianBo Burnhamaround the same time.

In a February 2023 interview withVanity Fair, Mescal said he was hesitant to address the alleged breakup, explaining that “giving strangers an answer about my life doesn’t actually help me.”

“It’s like a quick boost of serotonin, being like, ‘I’ve said what I need to say.’ And then it’s just Twitter fodder,” he added.

source: people.com