Influencer Haley Kalil shut down rumors that she's at the moment courting Austin Butler, whereas joking that she's open to the chance sooner or later.
The TikTok star — who goes by “haleyybaylee” on-line — was wrongly linked to the Caught Stealing actor when followers speculated that she could be a blonde girl noticed with Butler in viral footage of a current dinner date. A spokesperson for Kalil later informed TMZ that the lady within the viral video was not really the influencer.
“It's not me, however I want it was,” Kalil, 33, additionally humorously admitted to the outlet. “Austin, my DMs are open.”
Followers have been attempting to determine Butler's newest love curiosity ever since he cut up from longtime girlfriend Kaia Gerber in January after three years of courting. A number of media shops confirmed that the pair had gone their separate methods once they spent the vacations aside. (Gerber has since began courting Thunderbolts* star Lewis Pullman, with the pair sharing some PDA on the pink carpet on the Venice Worldwide Movie Competition on September 2.)
Extra not too long ago, Butler, 34, was photographed cozying as much as Caught Stealing costar Zoë Kravitz on an evening out with mutual pals on the Dragon bar in Paris on August 21. Kravitz is casually seeing Harry Kinds, whom she has been noticed spending time with.
Previous to his romance with Gerber, Butler was with Excessive Faculty Musical actress Vanessa Hudgens between 2011 and 2019. He informed Esquire in February 2024 that he felt “a lot love and take care of” Hudgens, 36, regardless of their cut up 5 years earlier.
In the meantime, this isn't really the primary time Kalil has been caught up in social media hypothesis this 12 months. In Could, she responded to a viral video erroneously claiming that she had been “discovered useless.”
“I imply, RIP I suppose?” she joked in response to the dying hoax.
Haley Kalil in February 2025. Maya Dehlin Spach/GA/The Hollywood Reporter through Getty Photos
She later shared a satirical memorial montage through Instagram, together with the tongue-in-cheek caption: “Without end in our hearts. Haleyybaylee. August 6, 1992 – Could 25, 2025 I suppose. Reason behind Dying: possibly foul play idk but. A funeral service might be held this week at any time when I've time as a result of I believe I'm nonetheless alive so carry items.”
Haley — who was married to former NFL star Matt Kalil from 2015 to 2022 — has amassed greater than 15 million TikTok followers and a pair of.1 billion “likes” since becoming a member of the app in October 2022. She has developed a signature model of humorous interviews with celebrities at occasions just like the Golden Globes and the Grammys.
“It's been loopy,” she completely informed Us Weekly in March about her social media fame. “I by no means thought once I made an Instagram again within the day, and, like, was selecting my username, and I selected one with like 10 e's and 6 y's, and I assumed no one's ever gonna see it.”
The influencer added of her TikTok's particular attraction, “I believe for me, social media got here into my life in a approach that I by no means anticipated. And I believe it's coming into individuals's lives in methods they by no means anticipated as a result of it's additionally new. And I believe we're at the moment the place we're figuring it out. However I additionally suppose on the identical time, this world is a lot extra accessible to individuals who possibly didn't develop up on this world.”
