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Who Is NFL Star Josh Allen’s Girlfriend? Inside Hailee Steinfeld Relationship, Brittany Williams Split
Josh Allen has the support of his girlfriend, Hailee Steinfeld, as he makes an NFL playoff run with the Buffalo Bills in 2024. The star quarterback started dating the actress in 2023, following his split from Brittany Williams.
Are Josh Allen and Hailee Steinfeld Dating?
Josh and Hailee have kept their relationship extremely private. They were first linked in May 2023 when photos surfaced of them on an apparent date night in New York City. One snap showed the NFL star with his arm around the “Most Girls” songstress as they walked together.
Several date nights in the Big Apple followed throughout the month of May 2023. The two were also spotted packing on the PDA during a July 2023 vacation to Mexico.
While the stars did not speak publicly about the romance rumors, Josh addressed the speculation in an August 2023 podcast interview. “The fact that anybody cares about that still blows my mind,” he admitted. The podcast hosts referred to Hailee as Josh’s girlfriend throughout the interview, where the professional athlete also said that it’s a “gross feeling” to have photographers trying to capture his private moments.
In October 2023, Hailee was spotted shopping with Josh’s mom, Lavonne, in upstate New York. The lovebirds then had a public date night at an NHL game on October 12, 2023.
The “Starving” singer publicly acknowledged her relationship with Josh for the first time while attending the Golden Globe Awards on January 7, 2024. The Bills were playing on the same day as the award show and a reporter on the red carpet asked Hailee how she felt about their chances in the game. “Real good!” she replied. She then noticed the Stefon Diggs jersey that the reporter was holding up and added, “Wrong number, though!”
In a separate interview, Hailee was asked, “What is it about a sportsy man?” She responded, “Listen, what isn’t it about? Come on now!”
When Did Josh Allen and Brittany Williams Break Up?
Josh and Hailee’s dating rumors came nearly a month after eagle-eyed fans speculated that he had split from his longtime love, Brittany Williams.
Josh was with the California State University alum for eight years until it appeared that they had unfollowed each other on Instagram in April 2023. It appeared that Brittany had deleted all of her photos with Josh as well. Neither of them has spoken publicly of the split rumors thus far.
Josh and Brittany were kids when they first met at the NFL star’s brother’s birthday party. They had their first date nearly 10 years later when Brittany asked Josh to be her date for the Sadie Hawkins dance at her school.
“He had never been on a party bus and was just so overwhelmed with everything,” Brittany recalled in a 2022 interview. “And the boys at my school were mean to him. After that, honest to God, I don’t think we talked for a year after that night. He was just so shy and I wasn’t at the time. He ghosted me for, like, a year. But at the same time, I was like, ‘OK, I get it. Things are just not in our timing right now.’ I knew it wasn’t meant to be at that time but I always knew in the back of my head it’s not over.”
The two finally reconnected while they were freshmen in college. Brittany was at Cal State, Fresno, while Josh was at a two-year community college.
“I was dating another guy at the time,” Brittany shared. “I specifically remember [Josh] reaching out to me a whole year later and just randomly texting me saying, ‘I messed up.’ And I’m like, ‘Dude, you haven’t talked to me in a year.’ But at the same time, I liked it.” The next night, Josh and his family came to a graduation party for Brittany’s brother.
“[Josh] shows up at the party and my poor boyfriend at the time is there,” she added. “He didn’t stand a chance. The second Josh walked in, I was like, ‘It’s over for this guy.’”
The two made their relationship official in 2015 and began dating long distance when Josh transferred to the University of Wyoming. Brittany moved to Buffalo with Josh when he was drafted by the Bills in 2018.
Did Hailee Steinfeld Date Niall Horan?
Prior to sparking romance rumors with Josh, the Bumblebee star had a high-profile relationship with former One Direction member Niall Horan from late 2017 until December 2018.
The former flames first met while on the 2017 “Jingle Ball Tour” together. However, it wasn’t until January 2018 that fans started to speculate that they were more than friends.
“I feel so lucky that [my fans] care enough about me to know what I’m doing every second of every day, but I think that sometimes it’s hard for people, in general, to realize that there are boundaries to a person’s life and personal life,” Hailee told Us Weekly at the time, playing coy about the Niall rumors.
In April 2018, their relationship was confirmed after photos of Hailee and Niall sharing a passionate kiss during a Disneyland date surfaced online. At the time, Shawn Mendes weighed in on the relationship, referring to it as “common knowledge” during an interview with Access at the time.
Multiple outlets confirmed their split months later in December 2018. Following the breakup, it appeared that both Hailee and Niall had released songs dedicated to the past romance.
“I think I’ve covered all angles of the relationship from everyone’s point of view, which is good,” the “Slow Hands” crooner told Apple Music in March 2020, when asked if the subject of his songs are aware of the lyrics. “I mean, it’ll probably still sound really selfish, but my idea when I was writing them was that it was written from other people’s angles and stuff. But listen, it’s all good. It’s all good now.”
