The little issues! Chase Stokes proved he and Kelsea Ballerini are nonetheless going robust by sharing a uncommon photograph of the twosome getting cozy.
The Outer Banks star, 31, took to social media on Wednesday, Could 10, to recap his life as of late with a collection of photographs — one in every of which featured him and the 29-year-old nation crooner packing on the PDA.
“It’s Tuesday and the Stanley Cup got here to my home. wtf,” Stokes captioned pictures of himself wanting on the hockey trophy, consuming a hamburger, going to the fitness center and spending time along with his girlfriend. Within the candy snap with Ballerini the Stranger Issues alum may very well be seen nuzzling into the “Heartfirst” singer’s neck whereas she smiled for the digital camera. (The carousel additionally included an image of Ballerini’s canine, Dibs.)
The Tennessee native, for her half, shortly took to her beau’s feedback part to reply to the photograph dump, writing, “Discover someone that appears at you want chase seems on the stanley cup,” earlier than including, “PS- you cute.”
Ballerini beforehand uploaded her personal tribute to Stokes by way of Instagram final month. The “Mountain With a View” singer shared pics and clips from her time on the CMTs. “In my heartfirst period,” Ballerini captioned the submit, which additionally featured the couple making their pink carpet debut on the ceremony.
The “Blindsided” songstress and Maryland native have been first linked in November 2022 after attending the School Soccer Championship collectively in Los Angeles. Ballerini later confirmed the pair’s romance throughout a February episode of the “Name Her Daddy” podcast. On the time, the Grammy nominee gave a glimpse into the pair’s first interplay.
“His [Instagram] deal with is ‘hichasestokes’ and I simply mentioned, ‘Hello Chase Stokes,’” she shared with host Alex Cooper. “I’ve my s–t collectively and for me to share that with anybody is a present. I need to be with somebody that feels the identical means about their life. … I’m a relationship bitch.”
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Previous to her romance with Stokes, Ballerini was married to fellow nation star Morgan Evans for practically 5 years earlier than calling it quits in August 2022. Following their cut up, a supply completely toutdated Us Weekly that the exes confronted “many points” of their relationship earlier than in the end pulling the plug.
“Kelsea was very younger and naive when she met Morgan, they clicked immediately, however their relationship was at all times an emotional roller-coaster,” the insider revealed in March, noting that their “intense romance” went by means of intervals of “friction, rigidity and toxicity.”
Based on the supply, Ballerini was “not prepared” to increase her household with the “ Over For You” singer, 37. “Morgan [had] been prepared for a very long time,” the insider added. “That they had been having points, relating to one another and bother being type to one another, however the disagreement over youngsters was the nail within the coffin.”
The previous couple each went on to launch music about their messy breakup, with Evans dropping his single “Over For You” in October 2022 and Ballerini debuting her EP, Rolling Up the Welcome Mat, on Valentine’s Day.
“I felt actually utilized in that second. … His therapeutic journey is his therapeutic journey and I respect that, however publicly exploiting it feels a bit of nasty to me — earlier than it’s ultimate,” she defined on “Name Her Daddy” of the “Kiss Anyone” singer’s resolution to drop the monitor whereas they have been “nonetheless going by means of the legalities of getting divorced.”
The “If You Go Down” songstress added that she waited till the divorce was finalized in September 2022 to launch her personal music, saying, “Now, we’re, like, months handed it. I’ve taken the time to, like, truly sit in my emotions and, like, undergo that grieving course of and take possession of what I delivered to the desk too.”
Stokes, for his half, beforehand made headlines for his personal high-profile romance with Outer Banks costar Madelyn Cline. The duo parted methods in November 2021 after greater than a 12 months of relationship and have usually praised their strategy to working amicably collectively post-split.
“Mads and I’ve been working collectively now for 30 episodes, and we made a promise to one another earlier than we even began relationship that the work was at all times going to come back first,” Stokes informed Leisure Weekly in February. “And that it doesn’t matter what occurs in our private lives, and the ways in which life typically takes you in numerous instructions, that we’re at all times going to honor the work. That stayed one hundred pc truthful this season.