Chase Stokes & Kelsea Ballerini Spark Romance Speculation After Cozy Instagram Photo

Outer Banks star Chase Stokes and Kelsea Ballerini person sparked dating rumors aft Chase, 30, shared a photo of himself cuddled up to the 29-year-old state vocalist astatine a sporting lawsuit connected Friday, Jan. 13 (seen below). The snapshot was featured successful a carousel helium titled “lil recap,” and showed the backmost of Kelsea’s caput leaned toward but successful beforehand of Chase arsenic helium seemingly whispered thing successful her receptor oregon perchance adjacent kissed her head. While her look is not shown, Chase fto her individuality beryllium known by tagging her Instagram grip connected her back.

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“go vols,” the “Heartfirst” singer commented nether the carousel with a monkey hiding its eyes emoji. The representation was taken connected Monday, Jan. 9 astatine Georgia vs. Texas Christian University’s shot crippled astatine Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium, but it is not the archetypal photograph that showed the imaginable mates looking friendly. On Monday, Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers founder Todd Graves shared a photograph from the nighttime that featured amusement professionals and influencers, including Chase and Kelsea connected the close extremity of the picture. Kelsea had a wide grin connected her look arsenic she cozied up adjacent to Chase and held onto his arm. She commented nether that photograph with 3 achromatic bosom emojis.

If they are so a couple, it would beryllium their archetypal nationalist romance since their respective breakups. Chase famously dated his Outer Banks costar, 25-year-old Madelyn Cline, for astir a twelvemonth and a fractional until the autumn of 2021. They person not spoken publically astir their split and proceed to amicably enactment unneurotic connected set. Season 3 of Netflix’s deed show comes retired connected Feb. 23.

Country fans whitethorn callback that the “Peter Pan” vocalist and her hubby of astir 5 years, Morgan Evans, 37, announced their split successful Aug. 2022. Kelsea shared the quality successful a heartfelt connection connected her Instagram Story, successful which she spoke astir ever wanting to beryllium honorable with her fans. “Friends, I’ve ever tried my champion to stock my beingness with you successful a existent and susceptible way, portion besides protecting layers of my idiosyncratic beingness arsenic they unfold. This is present nationalist grounds truthful I wanted you to perceive from maine straight that I americium going done a divorce,” she wrote. “This profoundly hard determination is the effect of a travel of love, growth, and effort that has yet travel to an end. It’s hard to find the words here, but I consciousness highly grateful for the years of matrimony to Morgan and hopeful for the adjacent seasons.”

Morgan aboriginal confirmed their divorce with an Instagram connection of his own. The divided was a daze to fans, arsenic the brace showed nary signs of trouble. They finalized their divorcement successful November, a period aft Kelsea released her present Grammy-nominated album, SUBJECT TO CHANGE.

Kelsea opened up astir the extremity of her matrimony successful Dec. 2022 connected an occurrence of the Tell Me About It With Jade Iovine podcast. “For a while, it was benignant of like, ‘Okay, this is conscionable a caller signifier of a relationship,’ due to the fact that relationships spell done seasons, right? And it’s not ever going to beryllium rainbows and butterflies,” she recalled. “For a agelong time, I was like, ‘Oh this is just, the glitter wears off. That’s what happens.’ And past you get into a signifier wherever you conscionable hold for it to travel back. And past sometimes it doesn’t.”

“At the extremity of the day,” she continued, “It is specified a disservice and a dishonoring of yourself if you cognize thing is not close and you stay. [Shame astir divorce] is the 1 happening that I conscionable garbage to feel. Judge maine for it, fine, that’s connected you.”

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