21-07-2025
Why BJ Novack's Rumored Girlfriend, Delaney Rowe, Says She Isn't Completely 'Cuffed'
Actor BJ Novak has historically been fairly private about his dating life, aside from his well-known former relationship with Mindy Kaling, who was his co-star and on-screen love interest on The Office. The two actors have remained close friends since their breakup in 2007, but neither has shared much about their personal romantic lives since. So, fans were surprised when Novak started openly dating a high-profile TikTok star named Delaney Rowe.
Rowe has a huge following on social media with over three million followers on TikTok alone, where she mainly posts comedic videos commenting on pop culture and film tropes—including rom-coms. Now that the 29-year-old influencer seems to be living in one, fans of both Rowe and Novak are curious about their relationship.
Here's everything to know about Delaney Rowe and her connection to Novak so far.
Rowe is originally from Boise, Idaho, and was drawn to acting from a young age. In an interview with Who What Wear in 2023, she shared that she would participate in the Idaho Shakespeare Festival and hoped to study theater at Juilliard.
'Nobody wanted me in New York,' she joked, explaining she ended up heading to Los Angeles, attending USC's School of Cinematic Arts for her BFA in acting. But she discovered through auditioning that she was better suited for comedy.
'I watched Gossip Girl growing up, but when it came down to auditioning for those types of things, I was so not right for it,' she said. 'It's so my instinct to be making things a little more unusual and a little more comedy-centric, so going into these auditions, I'm riffing, and I'm improving and doing a stand-up set, and they're like, 'Can you stick to the script?''
She said something similar to Vanity Fair in 2023 as well, explaining, 'There was this huge gap in between how myself and my team saw me, and how people in the actual industry saw me—like, something's not connecting, and we couldn't figure it out.'
Rowe started supporting herself with a different talent, working as a personal chef. She told Vanity Fair one of her first clients was the late Marvel icon Stan Lee. But then, when the pandemic hit, Rowe was stuck at home like everyone else.
'I want to do something to make my insides match my outsides a little bit more, and I have to write them. I can't just expect material to show up, and then I can put my fun take on it,' she told Vanity Fair. 'TikTok came around, and I was like, I'm just going to use this as one big self-tape to show anybody who wants to watch that I can be funny.'
Her success online has opened doors for Rowe, and her IMDB profile credits her in films like The List and The Everything Plot.
In October 2024, Vogue shared a photo featuring both of them at a special screening of Goodrich. In November, they were seen at the How Long Gone after-party at The Standard hotel. Soon after, a source told DeuxMoi that they left the Bowery hotel together. In April 2025, sources told People that the two were officially dating.
However, in a June 2025 episode of Liz Plank's Boy Problems podcast, Rowe spoke about her love life, and described herself as not completely 'cuffed.'
'I'm not like, you know, the cuffs aren't on, like I'm not like fully boo-ed up, but like, I am dating and it's going okay,' Rowe said, adding that she was 'the problem' when it came to commitment.
'I was the problem,' Rowe told Plank. 'And I had to sort of reconcile with that recently. I was not sure and so I was sort of noncommittal for a long period of time when he was like very sure. And so now I am sure, and he's like, 'I don't really trust your intentions at this point.''
