Wait, Jeremy Allen White And Molly Gordon Are Kissing… Offscreen?

It feels like just yesterday that I was romanticising The Bear star and Calvin Klein superhunk Jeremy Allen White’s cigarette-studded flirtation with singer Rosalía, but the Hollywood romance mill moves at lightning speed. Now, White has been spotted kissing actor Molly Gordon in what does not appear to be a scene for The Bear, the show in which they both appear, but rather a real-life moment of spontaneous passion. Is it possible that White and Rosalía are still together? Sure – nonmonogamy is famously a thing – but I kind of feel like the White-Gordon pairing was inevitable! We all saw their chemistry as romantic interests practically zing off the screen, and though Gordon made some new haters as the maybe slightly-too-patient Claire, I am emphatically not one of them. Sue me!

I’ve been a diehard Molly Gordon fan – Gordonite? Gordonista? – ever since I saw her make out with Rachel Sennott in Emma Seligman’s 2020 film, Shiva Baby, and my obsession was deeply validated by 2023’s Theater Camp, a witty and genuinely moving mockumentary about a performing-arts camp in the Adirondacks that 28-year-old Gordon codirected and costarred in as a dippy, clog-wearing music instructor inexplicably yet perfectly named Rebecca-Diane. (The image of Ben Platt entering a room looking for Gordon’s character and calling out “Becks-Di?” may never leave my mind.) I have to admit that I like White for her, even though I’m pretty sure her first move will be to make him throw out the two packs of what appear to be American Spirits that he’s clutching in their make-out pic. (I don’t know, I just get a “will make you quit smoking” energy from her, but that’s not a criticism; needling girlfriends save lungs and lives!)

While it’s unclear when White and Gordon’s romance began, White has only been divorced from his ex-wife, actress Addison Timlin, since May of 2023, after which he was briefly involved with model Ashley Moore before being spotted around Los Angeles with Rosalía. You could accuse him of moving on quite quickly, but is that really such a bad thing? (Don’t forget, I’m a divorce stan, so I’m naturally also pro-rebound in many but not all cases.) Gordon, for her part, reportedly dated her Theater Camp codirector Nick Lieberman for some unspecified period of time, but to be honest, even my CIA-level celebrity-romance googling skills couldn’t surface much else about her romantic history. But why shouldn’t Gordon make her A-list dating debut with someone as bedroom eyed and in demand as White? Theatre girlies for the win!