Cody Simpson, Gigi Hadid relationship: The lie Aussie star told to take supermodel on a date

Cody Simpson has revealed the lie he told Gigi Hadid that helped him woo her as a teenager.

Appearing on the We Need To Talk podcast, the Aussie singer, 29, looked back on his relationship with the supermodel, explaining how he managed to go on a date with her.

Simpson, who was 16 at the time, reached out to Hadid and said he wanted her to star in a music video he was filming. There was just one catch.

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”I would’ve just turned 16. She had just done her first billboard for Guess. She was a couple of years older than I was, I thought she was the hot older girl,” he told host Paul C Brunson.

“I cold-called her and said: ‘Hey, it’s Cody, I’m a musician. I’m doing a music video and was calling to ask if you wanted to be in it?’

“There was no music video. I pitched her this whole concept that didn’t exist.

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“That broke the ice, then I started texting her saying, ‘I don’t think the video is happening anymore, but do you want to go out for food?’

“She was my first love. We were together on and off for about two years.”

He also touched on his relationship with Miley Cyrus.

“We became friends when I was 18, we used to go out to parties together and just hang out,” he said.

The pair reconnected during the COVID-19 pandemic, when their friendship turned romantic.

“We connected and bonded from rebelling from being in that teen pop stardom thing.”

“She came into my life and helped me navigate it in some ways.”

“We lost contact, but when we were older, we reconnected again, and it sort of turned into something else.”

Simpson also spoke about his most recent relationship, with Olympian Emma McKeon

The pair met when Simpson qualified for the Australian swimming team and moved from LA to Australia. They quietly separated in late 2025 after dating for four years.

Recalling how it began, he described their romance as “inevitable.”

“She was in the training group that I joined when we went back, so we met at the pool, training under the same coach,” he said.

He said they quickly became friends, bonding over their passion for swimming.

Simpson said he had to think long and hard about whether he was going to take their friendship to the next level.

“You have to put a lot of thought into whether that’s a bridge you want to cross with somebody that you know you’re going to be spending the next four years with every day,” he said.

“That environment is so intense, adding a romantic layer to it is something that you really have to think about.”

He did not address their split, but said their relationship was bound to happen.

“I think after a certain amount of time it [the relationship] was inevitable and something that ended up being a really beautiful thing for us to do together – moving in together and living that lifestyle together,” he said.

“It’s a lifestyle that’s hard to understand. I feel it would be different to be with someone who isn’t doing it while you’re doing it.”

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