Trying again at younger love! To the satisfaction of many longtime Shawnmila shippers, Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello’s longtime friendship transitioned right into a steamy relationship in 2019, and so they shared many candy moments earlier than splitting.
5 years earlier, Mendes and Cabello met whereas they had been each opening up for Austin Mahone on tour. On the time, Mendes was contemporary off of his Vine success and Cabello was nonetheless part of woman group Fifth Concord. Ever since their meet-cute, the duo maintained an in depth and supportive friendship.
The music stars teased their curiosity in one another through the years, with one of many earliest ”will they, gained’t they” moments occurring in 2015. Throughout an look on The Late Late Present With James Corden in November of that yr, Mendes admitted that he had tried to “make a transfer” on Cabello after the present’s host requested in regards to the standing of their relationship. The “Deal with You Higher” crooner claimed that his longtime pal “swerves” him each time.
James Corden then advised the pair that he didn’t “consider” them and steered that “there’s no manner you haven’t made out.” Cabello responded: “He friend-zones me! He calls me ‘child!’”
Mendes and Cabello would later crew up for the only “I Know What You Did Final Summer time” in 2017. The next yr, Mendes advised Beats 1 that the Cuba native was his “favourite particular person in the entire world,” inflicting Cabello to share that she beloved the singer “a lot.”
In the end, issues started to formally warmth up between the duo after they dropped the sultry single “Señorita” in June 2019. Cabello’s cut up from then-boyfriend Matthew Hussey adopted the track’s launch, and followers quickly started to see the duo in every single place collectively earlier than they lastly confirmed their romance the next month.
Although they’re completely satisfied of their pop stardom, the pair nonetheless favor to maintain many particulars about their romance personal.
“I don’t know; individuals can say no matter they need,” the “Havana” singer advised Elle in October 2019. “They will speculate, however on the similar time, we’re going to reside our personal lives, take pleasure in it, and fall for one another like no one is watching. That’s how I wish to reside. I by no means wish to open the door for individuals to really feel like they’re concerned. Like I mentioned, I need it to be mine and [his]. That’s why I’m so tight-lipped about it: as a result of I wish to defend it.”
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Scroll down for a take a look at the pair’s prolonged historical past — together with their 2021 cut up: