Lifestyle The Evening Standard's journalism is supported by our readers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. It is the celebrity relationship hard launch to top all hard launches.
On Thursday, after months of dating fervour, Sabrina Carpenter released a music video to her new single Please Please Please — starring her boyfriend and Saltburn star Barry Keoghan . The video features a Bonnie and Clyde-esque romance, with Keoghan repeatedly getting arrested following incidents robbing banks and fighting other men while Carpenter is in jail, ending with the Espresso singer handcuffing her boyfriend to a chair and taping over his mouth. It is certainly a dramatic way to formally announce a relationship to the world, and perhaps reminiscent of J-Lo’s 2002 music video for Jenny from the Block, in which Lopez famously has her bottom affectionately caressed by her then-fiancé Ben Affleck .
“Heartbreak is one thing / my ego’s another,” Carpenter sings in the song’s chorus. “I beg you, don’t embarrass me, motherf****r / Please, please, please.” Not a likely prospect, if the couple’s dating timeline thus far is anything to go by.
In the sixth months since they were first spotted together, the Irish actor has become known for being the ultimate supportive fan-boyfriend, giving even Tom Holland a run for his money. The singer, 25, and Saltburn star, 31, were first linked in December last year, when they were seen enjoying a.
