Did Ayo Edibiri And Paul Mescal Just Soft-Launch A Relationship?

She's one of Hollywood's newest darlings and the star of hit series The Bear and he's the chain-wearing Irish heartthrob who broke hearts around the world with his role in the adaptation of Sally Rooney's Normal People. Could it be that the relationship stars have aligned in Tinsel Town and Ayo Edebiri and Paul Mescal have just soft-launched their relationship?

If newly-released pictures from the St. Patrick's Day celebration the pair both attended at the weekend are anything to go by, then yes. We can assume that something may well be brewing between the pair.

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The images, which were shared by Edebiri on her Instagram story, revealed the pair were on an outing in honour of the Irish holiday with screenwriter Jeremy O. Harris. And while it may well have just been a platonic celebration, needless to say that it didn't take long before fans were demanding a relationship or, at the very least, a rom-com from the pair.

One fan page wrote, 'the paul mescal and ayo edebiri romcom is imminent,' while another added 'I need them in a romcom asap.'

The news of the potential pairing comes after Mescal, who was previously engaged to Phoebe Bridgers and most recently linked to Florence Pugh, revealed what gives him the 'ick' and it's something we are all guilty of doing.

In an interview ahead of the release of his recent romance drama, All Of Us Strangers, Mescal admitted: 'Do you know what gives me more of an ick, because I think we all do it, is if you were like, "Oh, I'm just gonna go down and turn off the lights." And they're being all chill and then you hear them accelerate up the stairs because they're scared.

'Because I think we'd all do it. But I think if I was trying to impress someone I'd, like, smoothly walk up the stairs, than be dealing with the... yeah.'

It’s not Mescal's only stair-related ick. He also revealed in the video that people who 'slide down [the stairs] on their bum' give him even more of an ick.

Regardless of what their relationship status might be, let's just all hope that Edebiri knows her stair etiquette.

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