Meet The “Boyfriend” Singer’s Previous Loves – Hollywood Life

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Dove Cameron, 26, is an actress and singer finest recognized for her hit track “Boyfriend”, which she launched in 2022. And even if she famously sings about how she could be a “higher boyfriend,” Dove has really dated some significantly completed males herself. Maintain studying to fulfill the singer’s boyfriends through the years!

Ryan McCartan

The Disney Channel actress dated her former costar Ryan McCartan, 29, from 2013 to 2016. Regardless of the pair being very publicly in love with every, they in the end referred to as it quits in October 2016. Ryan and Dove first met on the set of Liv and Maddie in 2012 and shortly grew to become enamored with each other.

By April 2016, Dove and Ryan had been formally engaged, which he introduced by way of Instagram. Ryan wrote, “Dedicating my 1,000th put up to my fiancée. I can’t consider I get to name you that. Thanks for saying sure.” However simply six months later, the couple appeared to have fallen out with one another once they introduced their break up. On October 5, 2016, Ryan took to Twitter to disclose the main points of the breakup. He wrote, “Dove has determined this relationship isn’t what she needs. We nonetheless love one another very a lot. Please be delicate, as that is painful.”

And it appears there was dangerous blood after their breakup, as Dove later wrote by way of Instagram that her ex-boyfriend “Was horrible to me“. Ouch! Later, Ryan took no time to clap back via Twitter, writing, “Take the excessive street, there’s much less visitors.”

Thomas Doherty

Regardless of Dove’s messy first public break up, she quickly moved on and located love once more with Gossip Woman actor Thomas Doherty, 27. Dove and Thomas met whereas working collectively on the set of the 2017 Disney Movie Descendants 2. The singer confirmed the information to PEOPLE on the time and mentioned, “We’re courting. I’m maintaining it kind of… we’re maintaining it to ourselves, as a result of all the things is simply so extra romantic and actual when it’s yours and it’s personal.” She additionally added, “So we’re maintaining the main points to ourselves, however yeah, we’re courting.”

Two years later in 2019, Dove gushed to Leisure Tonight that she had thought-about marriage. When requested about it, she mentioned, “I travel on whether or not that may be a factor that I even need to do,” whereas including, “I believe, if I’m going to marry anybody, it’s going to be him.”

However sadly, their romance didn’t final an excessive amount of longer, as Dove announced their split by way of Twitter in December 2020. The “Breakfast” singer wrote, “hello all. In October, @thomasadoherty and I made a decision to half methods. The choice was extremely tough, however we nonetheless have love for one another, and can stay pals. Thanks for permitting us our privateness on this time.” Thomas didn’t tackle their break up publicly.

Dove Cameron’s Sexuality

Though Dove’s public relationships have been recognized to be primarily with males, the singer is, the truth is, queer. She spoke to Homosexual Instances concerning the time that she got here out and mentioned, “I’ve hinted about my sexuality for years whereas being afraid to spell it out for everyone.”

When she spoke about her sexuality on-line the singer mentioned, “I went on Instagram Reside and mentioned ‘Guys, I actually wanted to elucidate one thing to you. Possibly I haven’t mentioned it, however I’m tremendous queer. That is one thing I need to symbolize by my music as a result of it’s who I’m.’” And since then, Dove has launched some hit LGBT songs like “Boyfriend”, which is a few girl she needs to “steal” from a person.

The lyrics to “Boyfriend” embrace, “I could possibly be a greater boyfriend than him / I might do the sh*t that he by no means did /Up all evening, I gained’t give up /Pondering I’m gonna steal you from him / I could possibly be such a gentleman.” Dove additionally launched the music video to her track “Breakfast”, by which she flips the script and creates a world and not using a patriarchy. The lyrics to the track embrace, “I eat boys such as you for breakfast /One after the other held on my necklace.” Dove’s relationship standing now seems to be single, as she is targeted on her music profession.