Phoebe Bridgers has gushed that she had the ‘best Christmas ever’ with her boyfriend Paul Mescal and his family in Ireland last year.
The US singer has been dating the Normal People star from Co. Kildare since 2020 and the couple are now reportedly engaged.
And in a rare admission about their relationship, the typically private singer compared her first Christmas with the Maynooth man and his family, to a romantic movie.
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Recalling her best Christmas ever, the 27-year-old told British Vogue: “Last year, I stayed with my boyfriend’s [Paul Mescal] family in Ireland. It was a full rom-com.”
Asked what makes a successful relationship, the Motion Sickness hitmaker added:
“When your favourite thing to do is to hang out with each other.”
Elsewhere in her Q&A, Bridgers said that a “typical date night” for her and Mescal involves “laying in the park for hours, then going home and watching TV”.
The musician also revealed that the top quality she looks for in a partner is “great taste”, adding: “Anybody who will make me a 14-hour playlist is on my good side.”
The couple struck up a romance after the singer tweeted about being “sad and horny” after watching Mescal in his breakout role in Normal People in 2020.
They have since been pictured out and about, including their first public outing at the 2021 Lacma Art+Film Gala in 2021, but have remained notoriously quiet about their relationship status ever since.
With reports circulating that the pair are now engaged, Mescal, 26, recently opened up about how “nerve-racking” it was to go public with their relationship, concerned that people may think of them as “property”.
He told GQ magazine: “That was the anxiety of like, ‘Oh f***, does that mean that we are public property? And I think it’s like, no, that’s what couples choose to do. It’s just how I choose to operate.”
The Aftersun star said he has “struck a happy medium” with having “a public relationship be private, on my terms”.
“That’s satisfying because it just means you’re not travelling around under the cover of night, trying to hide your movements from the world.
“Nor will I ever truly go into depth with anybody about what that relationship means to me or what the inner life of that relationship is,” he told the magazine.
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