Actor Chase Stokes (“Outer Banks”) and singer Kelsea Ballerini pose together on their first red carpet

In January 2023, we learned that chase stokes there Kelsea Ballerini they were one of the New Couples of the Year when they posted a photo together at the College Football Playoff National Championship.

The protagonist of External banks and the country singer just had their first red carpet pose together almost three months later and it was at the Country Music Awards 2023 at the Moody Center in Austin, Texas.

Along with being nominated in the best music video category, she was one of the co-hosts of the event she attended with her boyfriend and allowed us to see their first official posed as a couple.

The story of their relationship

Chase and Kelsea got in touch via social media. “I slipped into these DMs. he was recording External banks in Charleston, and my manager lives there. He was like, ‘You know who’s really cute, like, when you ready? Chase’. I was like, ‘You’re absolutely right,'” he told the podcast. call her daddy.

They got in touch and it seems like things went pretty well between them. She had divorced last August after five years of marriage to the Australian singer Morgan Evans.

“I am no longer married to him and I don’t need to worry about her feelings anymore. I say this with all the respect in the world, but his journey is not mine“, he admitted on this same podcast.

Chase, for his part, had partnered with his co-star on the show, Madelyn Clin. They had been dating for a year, but broke up in November 2021. They had to continue filming together after their breakup, but it looks like they didn’t take it badly at all.

“Mads and I have worked together for 30 episodes, and we made a promise to each other before we started dating. work was always going to come first“, he confessed to Entertainment Weekly in February.

“And that no matter what happens in our personal lives and how life sometimes takes you in different directions, we will always honor the work. That has remained 100% true this season.“, he added at that time.

Now it looks like this new relationship is getting stronger and proof of that is the footage that has reached us from the awards gala. Posed on the red carpet and many gestures of affection during the gala and backstage.

One more step in a relationship that still has a long way to go.