Actress Halle Bailey and YouTube star and musician Darryl Dwayne “DDG” Grandberry Jr. have been collectively for a couple of 12 months and a half. However they’ve been conscious of each other for much longer as two younger individuals who got here up within the leisure enterprise.
The pair have been first linked romantically in January 2022 after they have been seen collectively in Las Vegas whereas at Usher’s residency there. Issues turned official a number of months in a while Instagram when DDG wished her a cheerful birthday in a now deleted video. He wrote on the time, “Joyful Birthday to the beautifulest, the flyest, the sweetest ❤️ love you endlessly 🥺💎.”
Right here’s the whole timeline of their relationship thus far.
January 2022
The couple meet up in Las Vegas to take pleasure in an Usher live performance and photographs taken of them by different live performance goers began circulating on-line. It was so standard, the phrase “Usher” started trending on Twitter. The video exhibits DDG ingesting a beverage as Bailey talked to him excitedly, seeming to exclaim, “Oh my god!” over what was happening on stage.
Later, the musician shared pictures with the brand new couple on his Instagram Tales wherein DDG has his arm round her shoulders.
June 2022
For his or her purple carpet debut, the couple attended the BET Awards collectively.
“I’ve my boo with me right now,” Bailey instructed Additional correspondent Rachel Lindsay on the occasion. “We’re so excited. We’re gonna have a lot enjoyable simply supporting Chloe [for her solo performance]. It’ll be nice!”
She added, “I used to be so nervous, like, we’re making an attempt to determine what to put on [and] all these things.”
DDG made an look in a TikTok video with Bailey that month as nicely, wherein they appear very intimate and are doing a little vocal heat ups collectively.
“Singing classes with @DDG,”she wrote within the caption.
August 2022
The couple have been collectively on the Selection Energy of Younger Hollywood Occasion in Hollywood collectively.
October 2022
They attended the the fifth annual Wearable Artwork Gala.
November 2022
In an interview with Essence, Bailey talked about how she has been conscious of DDG and a fan for a very long time.
“I’ve been a fan of his for years,” she stated. “I grew up being on YouTube and would all the time see the younger Black creators and was consistently impressed by them. He was one in every of them.”
Bailey had seen his movies in 2015, however defined she “forgot about him” for some time.
She added, “However then I noticed that he was dropping music, and I actually gravitated towards this one tune. Coincidentally he messaged me — and the remaining is historical past.”
December 2022
DDG accompanied Bailey to the premiere of Avatar 2: The Means of Water.
February 2023
In February of 2023, followers began speculating about their relationship after DDG’s ex-girlfriend Rubi Rose tweeted about seeing her ex’s new girlfriend put on her previous garments in a tweet. She did not point out both DDG or Bailey by identify, nevertheless it was rapidly famous that Bailey was carrying a black and white t-shirt in an Instagram publish that Rose had been seen in again in 2020.
Some took this to imply that DDG had not too long ago cheated with Rose, one way or the other taking her shirt within the trade, however that does not appear to be what she is saying. DDG added gas to the hearth, nonetheless, when he unfollowed Bailey and tweeted “All these ladies the identical, ain’t no method.”
He later wrote that no dishonest had gone down.
In a since deleted tweet, Bailey additionally addressed the rumors, writing, “The satan is working lol Please don’t really feel into the lies, particularly from a 3rd occasion. Keep blessed everybody.”
DDG has since re-followed her.
March 2023
In March, they attended the Self-importance Honest Oscar occasion collectively in Los Angeles.
April 2023
Bailey instructed British Vogue that love has modified her inventive life as nicely.
“Experiencing deep love for the primary time in my life is one thing I really feel has opened an entire new world for me creatively,” she stated. “What it looks like to like somebody apart from your loved ones, like someone you might not have identified two years in the past however now they’re the middle of your world.”
She continued, “I like the entire scary emotions that include that. I just like the suspense, the not understanding what’s going to occur, and I really feel like that’s what I’m presupposed to be going by in womanhood.”
Nevertheless it hasn’t been simple to handle her non-public life whereas her star was rising, notably with the main focus she acquired throughout press for Disney’s reside motion remake of The Little Mermaid.
“There’s quite a lot of eyes on me now, particularly with what’s to come back,” she stated. “And generally I want I didn’t have so many eyes on me, particularly experiencing one thing like this for the primary time.”
Might 2023
In Might, because the work of selling her Disney movie wound down, Bailey shared a TikTok of herself kissing her boyfriend, writing within the caption, “On my final day of press like…”
July 2023
On July 14, DDG confronted appreciable backlash after the discharge of his new tune “Well-known,” which appear to take goal at Bailey’s press tour for her function as Ariel in The Little Mermaid.
“Filmin’ a film now you kissing dudes / You realize I like you numerous / I do not give a f–k if that s–t for promo / I do not wanna see this s–t no extra,” the lyrics go. “Why is y’all holdin’ fingers within the photograph? / You realize I am insecure, that is a no-no.”
She held fingers with co-star Jonah Hauer-King in Might, the Prince Eric to her mermaid on the London premiere of their film. DDG went on in his tune to say:
“Fall in love, I hate that s–t / Knockin’ me off my grind, I am unable to f–k with relationships/ I ain’t even received sufficient time in a day for me to chase a bitch / I do not even ask for a lot, I ask you to do the essential s–t / Hardest factor I did was fall in love with a well-known b-tch.”
Aimée Lutkin is the weekend editor at ELLE.com. Her writing has appeared in Jezebel, Glamour, Marie Claire and extra. Her first guide, The Lonely Hunter, shall be launched by Dial Press in February 2022.