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Yahoo
23-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Anna Camp and Girlfriend Jade Whipkey Make Red Carpet Debut 1 Month After Confirming Romance
Anna Camp and her new girlfriend, Jade Whipkey, are red carpet official. Camp, 42, stepped out at the Los Angeles premiere of her new movie Bride Hard on Wednesday, June 18, with Whipkey by her side. The actress stunned in a sequined teal gown, while the stylist opted for a gray suit. As Camp and Whipkey posed together on the DGA Theater Complex red carpet, the Pitch Perfect alum even sweetly wrapped her arm around her partner. The couple debuted their relationship via Instagram last month after Camp previously teased she was happy with Whipkey. Anna Camp Passionately Kisses New Girlfriend Jade Whipkey After Confirming Same-Sex Romance 'Happiness lately happening,' Camp wrote via Instagram on March 28, uploading a carousel that featured images of Whipkey, who replied in the comments section, 'Big time happy.' Weeks earlier, Camp and Whipkey were interviewed together and teased her relationship status. 'Well, I don't expect anything anymore because I like women and it's great,' Camp said in a February social media video, sharing her worst dating experiences. 'I left a date once because a guy was, like, 45 minutes late, and I stayed and waited. Then he said that I was prettier in a movie than I was in person, because I'm an actor, and I was like, 'OK, bye.'' Later during the interview, Camp joked that being 'married to a guy' by the age of 30 was one of life's biggest conspiracies. 'That in order to be happy, you have to be married to a guy, with children, at, like, 30 or something,' she said at the time. 'That's a conspiracy. That's not true. I grew up in the South, and people told me that I basically had to do that.' Camp was married to actor Michael Mosley from 2010 to 2013 and her Pitch Perfect costar Skylar Astin from 2016 to 2019. She now remains on amicable terms with her exes, revealing on a May episode of the 'Podcrushed' podcast that she occasionally chats with Mosley, 46, post-divorce. 5 Things to Know About Anna Camp's Girlfriend: Celebrity Styling, Famous Clients, More 'It was like an out on the town [night] in Union Square with a couple of friends,' she said on the podcast episode, revealing how she met Mosley in New York City when she was 21. 'I was not planning [on it]. … So we met very young. It was like a one-night stand that lasted seven years. I was not planning [on it]. … So we met very young. It was like a one-night stand that lasted seven years. I changed so much when we both moved from New York to L.A. together.' She added, 'So, to have it just not be working at all and having us be totally different people, that was really, really, really hard. That was definitely a heartbreak of mine.'
BBC News
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
The History of Sound review: Paul Mescal and Josh O'Connor's gay romance is 'too polite'
In this period drama, premiering at Cannes, two of Hollywood's buzziest male actors play lovers making music together – but the film could do with far more passion and urgency. Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain was released 20 years ago, but there haven't been many period dramas about same-sex romances since. In a way, then, The History of Sound must count as a daring project: an expensive Hollywood film in which two of cinema's buzziest male actors are cast as gay lovers. Subject matter aside, though, it's an oddly old-fashioned and conventional work. If you'd never heard of its stars, Paul Mescal and Josh O'Connor, you could easily mistake it for a long-lost film made by some Merchant Ivory impersonators in the 1980s or 90s. Mescal plays Lionel, a Kentucky farm boy who is raised in a shack in the early years of the 20th Century. As well as having perfect pitch, Lionel supposedly has a remarkable singing voice – and although Mescal's singing never sounds any better than anyone else's in the film, the character's talents are enough to earn him a place in a Boston conservatory. This is just one of the many advancements that come implausibly easily to him. Just as easily, the shy Lionel falls into a relationship with the arch and confident David (O'Connor), a composition student with a taste for folk music. Their problem-free romance continues until David is drafted to fight in World War One and Lionel has to return to his family farm. But in 1919 (every date is there on the screen, so we don't get lost), David invites Lionel to go on a song-collecting field trip with him. The pair will roam around the scenic countryside for weeks, recording folk ballads on wax cylinders, and sleeping under canvas, where they can have tasteful, un-explicit sex, with no apparent worries about prejudice or danger. Still, this blissful camping holiday can't last forever, so Lionel will have to decide what to do in the years ahead. Settle down with David in a minor college? Move to Europe where he is sure to be lauded as a great chorister? Or take over the farm from his aged parents. To be honest, all three options look pretty enviable. Directed by Oliver Hermanus, the maker of Moffie and Living, The History of Sound is one of those too-beautiful period dramas in which every house is spotlessly clean, even in the backwoods, and every costume is immaculately tailored and richly coloured. Never mind his singing, Lionel's most impressive gift seems to be his ability to find the ideal suit-and-tie combination for every occasion. Aesthetics aside, life goes too smoothly for him for the film to pluck the heartstrings with any force. Lionel may have some doubts about his feelings for David, but he never seems ruffled. Mescal and O'Connor are nuanced and charismatic, and it's amazing that an Irish actor and English actor should play these most American of roles so flawlessly, but The History of Sound doesn't probe beneath the attractive surface of its star-crossed lovers. It chronicles their lives slowly and steadily through the 1920s, but it doesn't find any urgency until what seems to be the final scene – but then it turns out that there are several more scenes afterwards, and they all seem to be the final scene, too. The screenplay by Ben Shattuck is adapted from his own short story, and yet, with its leisurely pace and multiple endings, the film feels longer than its two-hour running time. It's left to the melancholy ballads of heartbreak and grief to provide the piercing emotion that is lacking elsewhere. The most romantic sequence has Lionel and David walking through the woods, harmonising exquisitely without any preparation, so it's a shame that such songs are missing for so much of this polite and polished film. The irony is that Lionel makes a speech about why he likes folk music: it's because it's impassioned, raw and messy. The History of Sound is none of those things. ★★☆☆☆ -- For more Culture stories from the BBC, follow us on Facebook, X and Instagram.
News.com.au
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- News.com.au
Pitch Perfect star Anna Camp kisses new girlfriend after going public with same-sex romance
Anna Camp and Jade Whipkey packed on the PDA after confirming their same-sex romance. In photos obtained by Page Six, the You star was seen puckering up for a passionate kiss while out in Los Angeles last week. Camp wore a casual blue top and jeans for the outing as she took Whipkey's face into her hands for the public kiss. Whipkey, who rocked a backwards hat and jean shorts, drew the Pitch Perfect actress closer, embracing her waist as they put their love on display. In another pic, Whipkey appeared to kiss Camp's cheek as the actress turned her head to showcase her blond hair gathered into a carefree messy bun. In a third image, Whipkey lovingly kissed the actress's hand as she looked on, and in yet another, she pulled Camp close for a tight embrace. The outing happened the same day Camp soft-launched her relationship with the on-set stylist via her Instagram Stories Tuesday. In a photo re-shared from Whipkey's account, the actress stared into the distance while sitting at a candlelit table. 'Her smile is a poem, her eyes are roses, her laugh is music for dancing,' Whipkey wrote over the romantic pic. The Bride Hard star shared a similar photo of Whipkey sipping a glass of wine during a sunset date via her Instagram Stories earlier in May, captioning it 'date night' with red rose emojis. And in a recently resurfaced TikTok originally posted in February, the duo shared thoughts about their romance. After each recalled their worst dating experience, Camp and Whipkey were asked what they 'expect' from a first date with a man. 'I don't expect anything,' Camp replied, gesturing toward Whipkey. 'Not anymore because I'm dating a woman, and it's great.' 'Same, same,' Whipkey agreed. Camp, 42, was previously married to her Pitch Perfect co-star Skylar Astin, 37. The former couple tied the knot in September 2016. Camp and Astin separated in April 2019 and Camp subsequently filed for divorce. 'We can confirm that we have decided to separate, and this decision was made mutually and amicably,' the actress's rep told Page Six at the time. 'We kindly ask for privacy as we navigate this transition.' Camp is currently gearing up for the June release of Bride Hard. She stars opposite another Pitch Perfect co-star — Aussie actress Rebel Wilson — in the upcoming action comedy film.
