Influencer Haley Kalil shut down rumors that she’s presently relationship Austin Butler, whereas joking that she’s open to the likelihood sooner or later.
The TikTok star — who goes by “haleyybaylee” on-line — was wrongly linked to the Caught Stealing actor when followers speculated that she is likely to be a blonde girl noticed with Butler in viral footage of a current dinner date. A spokesperson for Kalil later instructed TMZ that the girl within the viral video was not really the influencer.
“It’s not me, however I want it was,” Kalil, 33, additionally humorously admitted to the outlet. “Austin, my DMs are open.”
Followers have been making an attempt to determine Butler’s newest love curiosity ever since he break up from longtime girlfriend Kaia Gerber in January after three years of relationship. A number of media retailers confirmed that the pair had gone their separate methods after they spent the vacations aside. (Gerber has since began relationship Thunderbolts* star Lewis Pullman, with the pair sharing some PDA on the crimson carpet on the Venice Worldwide Movie Competition on September 2.)
Extra just lately, Butler, 34, was photographed cozying as much as Caught Stealing costar Zoë Kravitz on an evening out with mutual pals on the Dragon bar in Paris on August 21. Kravitz is casually seeing Harry Types, whom she has been noticed spending time with.
Previous to his romance with Gerber, Butler was with Excessive Faculty Musical actress Vanessa Hudgens between 2011 and 2019. He instructed Esquire in February 2024 that he felt “a lot love and take care of” Hudgens, 36, regardless of their break up 5 years earlier.
In the meantime, this isn’t really the primary time Kalil has been caught up in social media hypothesis this 12 months. In Might, she responded to a viral video erroneously claiming that she had been “discovered useless.”
“I imply, RIP I suppose?” she joked in response to the demise hoax.
Haley Kalil in February 2025. Maya Dehlin Spach/GA/The Hollywood Reporter through Getty Photos
She later shared a satirical memorial montage through Instagram, together with the tongue-in-cheek caption: “Ceaselessly in our hearts. Haleyybaylee. August 6, 1992 – Might 25, 2025 I suppose. Reason behind Dying: possibly foul play idk but. A funeral service will likely be held this week each time I’ve time as a result of I believe I’m nonetheless alive so convey presents.”
Haley — who was married to former NFL star Matt Kalil from 2015 to 2022 — has amassed greater than 15 million TikTok followers and a couple of.1 billion “likes” since becoming a member of the app in October 2022. She has developed a signature model of humorous interviews with celebrities at occasions just like the Golden Globes and the Grammys.
“It’s been loopy,” she solely instructed Us Weekly in March about her social media fame. “I by no means thought once I made an Instagram again within the day, and, like, was selecting my username, and I selected one with like 10 e’s and 6 y’s, and I assumed no one’s ever gonna see it.”
The influencer added of her TikTok’s particular enchantment, “I believe for me, social media got here into my life in a manner that I by no means anticipated. And I believe it’s coming into folks’s lives in methods they by no means anticipated as a result of it’s additionally new. And I believe we’re at the moment the place we’re figuring it out. However I additionally suppose on the similar time, this world is a lot extra accessible to individuals who possibly didn’t develop up on this world.”
