BTS's V and Blackpink's Jennie Dating Rumors Timeline

Rumors that BTS’s V and Blackpink’s Jennie are courting have, as soon as once more, hit a fever pitch after the pair have been reportedly noticed on what seemed to be a date in Paris in a video posted to Twitter on May 17.

Speculation that the Okay-Pop idols are courting first kicked off in May 2022 when alleged photographs of the pair hanging out on a number of totally different events leaked over the course of some months. Ever since, followers have been in a heated debate over whether or not the photographs have been actual or doctored by followers. After all, V and Jennie are two of the most important names in Okay-Pop, and they would not be the primary idols followers shipped passionately collectively regardless of little or no proof to again up their intestine feeling.

While the V and Jennie courting rumors died down for a while, the pair’s most up-to-date alleged sighting has re-piqued fan curiosity. Ahead, get a breakdown of V and Jennie’s rumored relationship to date.

May 2022: First Reported Photo of Jennie and V Leaks

A photograph of V driving in a automobile with somebody who regarded like Jennie on Jeju Island emerged on-line (by way of AllKPop). While some followers believed the picture was actual, others have been skeptical, considering it may have been edited, particularly as a result of, up till that time, Jennie had been rumored to be courting one other Okay-pop star, Big Bang’s G-Dragon.

According to Allkpop, an worker from the Korean airline T’way Air claimed to have seen the 2 on a flight to Jeju Island collectively that May. The publication wrote: “One employee of the Korean budget airline T’way wrote on the ‘Blind’ app saying that they saw BTS’s V and BLACKPINK’s Jennie together. She also said that many of the T’way employees thought they were publicly dating because the two were traveling together in the open.” The employee reportedly made the declare on a messaging app referred to as Blind, which is used anonymously by South Korean workers, in keeping with Reuters.

Jennie’s company, YG Entertainment, briefly addressed the rumors on May 23, 2022. “We have nothing to say [regarding this matter],” the company mentioned (by way of Soompi), including, “We will inform you if we have a different response to share.”

August-September 2022: More Reported Photos of V and Jennie Leak

Over the following few months, extra non-public photographs of Jennie and V hanging out on what seemed to be a number of totally different events leaked.

October 2022: YG Entertainment Requests Investigation Into Jennie’s Leaked Private Photos

In October 2022, YG introduced an investigation into who was leaking Jennie’s photographs. “We have officially requested the police to investigate who first circulated Blackpink Jennie’s personal photos,” YG mentioned in an announcement (by way of Rolling Stone). “We have refrained from mentioning the matter or making an official statement in order to minimize any further damage. However, there have been indiscriminate rumors, criticism, personal attacks, sexual harassment, and violations of personal life sparked by those private photographs,” the assertion continued. “We are now announcing that we will take legal action and correct the situation.”

YG by no means particularly addressed the alleged photographs of V and Jennie, so the heated debate surrounding whether or not they have been actual or doctored continued, as YG may have been referencing different privateness breaches of their assertion.

May 2023: V and Jennie Seemingly Spotted Together on a Date in Paris

The rumored couple went below the radar for months till May 2023, once they have been reportedly noticed taking a romantic stroll in Paris in a video captured by an onlooker from a distance. While V and Jennie’s schedules do verify they have been each in France on the time of the stroll (V for his Celine model ambassadorship and Jennie to advertise “The Idol” on the Cannes Film Festival), the controversy surrounding whether or not the pair within the video was really Jennie and V continued amongst followers. However, different close-up photos of V and Jennie with their managers carrying the identical outfits seemingly confirmed the couple within the video was, in actual fact, V and Jennie.