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Sabrina Carpenter and Barry Keoghan may have been the celebrity couple that no one saw coming, but their loved-up displays have quickly evolved from blurry paparazzi snaps to Keoghan starring in the singer’s ‘Please, Please, Please’ music video as her nefarious lover.
While many Hollywood romances typically fly well under the radar before revealing themselves to the world via a soft-launch social post or brazen red-carpet debut, Carpenter, 25, and Keoghan, 31, have done things their own way.
Supposedly meeting at Givenchy’s Spring/Summer 2024 show during Paris Fashion Week at the end of September 2023, the duo were first photographed getting cosy in December of that year, following the Saltburn star’s divorce from Alyson Kierans. By February, Carpenter and Keoghan had made their first public appearance together at W magazine‘s Grammys after-party.
Now, in a new interview with Vanity Fair, the songstress has opened up about dating in the public eye and what advice Taylor Swift had for her on the matter.
“It’s a lot of what I’m writing about, and it’s a lot of what inspires me,” she said of her love life making it into her songs. “I don’t think there’s ever a ‘how-to’ book on any of this stuff.”
But while many of her songs touch on love and relationships, she affirmed that she divulges much more.
“This is my diary. Once I put it out there, it’s for other people to interpret. I try to not tell people what a song is explicitly about,” she continued. “People don’t always know what’s going on inside the minds of anyone, let alone a young girl who’s navigating love and a lot of things for the first time.”
Carpenter, who served as the opening act for Swift’s mammoth Eras Tour, was also asked whether Swift gave her any advice about handling public relationships. As Swift has a long history of dealing with her love life being in the press, it seems only fitting that the two would bond over this part of their lives.
“On a personal level, she’s really been there for me, and I’m so grateful,” she told the outlet. “That’s something she’s taught me really well—she has remained very human throughout all of it.”
