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“Kim Taehyung and Jennie successful Paris,” wrote writer Amar Taoualitb when sharing footage of the BTS singer (known arsenic V) and BLACKPINK star walking hand-in-hand successful Paris. In the TikTok that Amar shared, V and Jennie, some 27, clasp hands portion taking a pleasant stroll on the Seine. Jennie sports a achromatic bucket chapeau that matches her overgarment and shoes. V does his champion Ignatius J. Reilly with a achromatic cap, the flaps pulled down astir his ears.
“All I tin accidental is… THEY’RE NOW MY PARENTS. YES. TWO OF MY BIASES,” wrote 1 instrumentality successful the video’s remark section. “It’s making maine affectional seeing them – I’m blessed for them, and I volition enactment them,” added another. “I tin spot his grin from afar. I’m precise definite he’s happy, truthful let’s conscionable beryllium blessed for him, and for the some of them Armys & Blinks,” wrote different fan. Some questioned whether oregon not this was V and Jennie (she’s successful France to beforehand The Idol at Cannes.) Amar doubled down on his claims that it was the 2 K-Pop stars.
Speculation of a imaginable romance betwixt Jennie and V began successful December 2021, per Elle, erstwhile V concisely followed-unfollowed the BLACKPINK prima connected Instagram. Shortly afterward, V posted connected Weverse that it was an accidental follow. He asked, “Is determination a mode to get escaped of the ‘recommended’ friends database present connected this Insta thing?…. It’s a scary app.”
However, successful May 2022, the dating rumors surfaced again with a photograph appeared online that supposedly showed them driving connected a Jeju land date. More photos of Jennie and V seemingly unneurotic connected that day and spending clip unneurotic successful different places leaked successful August and September. K-Pop fans, the Internet sleuths that they are, dissected the photos with specified precision that would marque Swifties jealous.
(Lee Jae-Won/AFLO/Shutterstock / Jeremy Smith/imageSPACE/Shutterstock)Jennie’s agency, YG Entertainment, said successful May that it has “nothing to accidental [regarding this matter]. We volition pass you if we person a antithetic effect to share,” per Elle. V’s agency, Big Hit Music, didn’t respond. However, successful October, YG Entertainment released a connection saying it would instrumentality ineligible enactment against those circulating Jennie’s backstage photos.
“We person refrained from mentioning the substance oregon making an authoritative connection successful bid to minimize immoderate further damage,” the bureau said successful its statement, per Korea JoongAng Daily. “However, determination person been indiscriminate rumors, criticism, idiosyncratic attacks, intersexual harassment and violations of idiosyncratic beingness sparked by those backstage photographs.”
“The photos [of Jennie] distributed online were made nationalist illegally, without Jennie’s consent,” the connection continued. “Sharing those images is an enactment of secondary victimization and tin beryllium taxable to ineligible penalty. Please refrain from indiscriminately sharing those images.”
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