Kelsea Ballerini and Chase Stokes’ Relationship Timeline

She’s calling dibs! Kelsea Ballerini and Chase Stokes haven’t confirmed their relationship standing — however followers are already rooting for the rumored couple.

The nation singer and the Outer Banks star had been first linked in January 2023 after they had been noticed collectively on the Faculty Soccer Playoff Nationwide Championship in Los Angeles. That very same month, Stokes snuck a comfortable photograph of himself sitting beside Ballerini into an Instagram slideshow.

“Lil recap,” the Maryland native captioned the carousel, to which Ballerini replied: “Go vols ?.”

On the time, the “Gap within the Bottle” artist uploaded a photograph dump of her personal, which she captioned, “New boot goofin.” One snap confirmed her repping her hometown of Knoxville, Tennessee, on a baseball cap — and Stokes boldly complimented the look within the feedback part.

“I like dat hat ma’am,” he wrote. (Stokes beforehand dated his Outer Banks costar Madelyn Cline from 2020 to 2021.)

Neither Ballerini nor the Seaside Home actor instantly addressed whether or not they’re relationship, however the “Doin’ My Greatest” songstress weighed in on the hypothesis through TikTok. Her January 2023 add confirmed a screenshot of a DeuxMoi submission about her love life — together with claims she was flirting with somebody who wasn’t Stokes — following her break up from Morgan Evans.

“I do know, I do know, I do know,” she stated within the clip. “Cease studying, cease studying. Cease wanting. However what is occurring, guys. What? Let’s not do that.”

The CMA Award winner introduced through social media in August 2022 that she and Evans referred to as it quits after 5 years of marriage. She filed for divorce that very same month.

As information of the musicians’ breakup made headlines, a supply completely instructed Us Weekly that Ballerini and Evans had “been engaged on their marriage for a few years and even tried remedy” earlier than their break up. “They in the end determined that they’d no alternative however to formally separate,” the insider added.

The twosome settled their divorce in November 2022. Each Ballerini and the Aussie crooner have been candid about dealing with the aftermath of their break up within the public eye.

“I feel when there’s an enormous life determination like that, it’s not a sudden one,” the “Heartfirst” performer instructed CBS Mornings in October 2022. “And there’s lots that occurs earlier than that turns into public. So, I’m on my, like, energetic therapeutic journey. … It’s not chaotic. It’s not, like, risky, it simply didn’t work. And that typically is sort of a tough narrative to get your head round while you’re like, ‘Oh, my gosh. It is a good individual. And I’m an excellent individual. And that is simply now not good anymore.’”

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