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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Carsen Holaday

Florence Pugh goes Instagram official with boyfriend two years after sparking romance rumors

Florence Pugh is making it Instagram official with her boyfriend after years of hinting at her new relationship.

Pugh, 30, shared a carousel post Tuesday that featured the Thunderbolts star and her partner Finn Cole, 30, at the Bulgari Eclettica High-End Collection launch event in Milan, Italy.

In the picture, the couple posed together with Cole gazing at Pugh, who wore a green dress and Bulgari sapphires. The post also featured a snap of Pugh hugging her manager, George Freeman.

“Bvlgari with my boys. Milan, I like your late night pizza,” Pugh initially captioned the post. She later edited it to say, “For those that were upset about me saying I had pizza, I’m sorry if that felt insensitive. I really was just talking about the Italian bread that’s graced by God- pizza.”

Cole, an actor known for his role in Peaky Blinders, also shared a picture of Pugh on his Instagram, showing her posing on a couch at the Bulgari event.

The couple first sparked dating rumors in July 2024, after they were seen together at Glastonbury Festival. In October of that year, Pugh revealed in an interview with British Vogue that she was dating someone, but declined to say who.

“We are figuring what we actually are. And I think for the first time, I’m not allowing myself to go on a roller-coaster,” she said at the time. “I’m allowing myself to take time to let something evolve and let it be completely real to its core, as opposed to racing into that.”

Pugh was previously in a headline-grabbing relationship with Scrubs star Zach Braff for three years, which drew attention due to their 21-year age gap. The two actors split up in 2022.

She told British Vogue that she felt forced to defend her relationship to her fans.

“I had to be public in the past because people were bullying me and bullying my partner,” she told the outlet. “Mine and Zach’s relationship was actually quite private until it was nasty, and I could see the toll that it was taking on him and us and our families.”

She continued: “I think for anyone I’m with, I want to protect them...So that was necessary. I needed to talk about it. I think any relationship in this limelight is going to be stressed.”

Pugh, 30, previously said she was trying to not race into a relationship (Getty Images for CinemaCon)

Last year, the Dune: Part Two actor said that she does not have time to date because of her busy schedule.

“I’m more sympathetic to the people who are in love with me, because it’s not easy,” Pugh said to Harper’s Bazaar UK. “I’m tricky – I’m always busy, I can never make dates. But it’s not good enough for me to ask someone to just to accept that. I’ll just end up alone. I don’t want that – I want a family.”

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