Joey King’s career has been going from strength to strength over the past few years, with her latest dystopian film Uglies debuting on Netflix on Friday, September 13.
As she excels in her professional life, what do we know about her love-life and who has she dated?
The actress embarked on a relationship with her The Kissing Booth co-star Jacob Elordi after the pair met on the sets of the film back in 2017.
The two played love-interests in the teen romance, with Joey’s character getting with her best friend’s older brother. In real life, things didn’t work out as they called it quits in November 2018 after nearly a year together.
Speaking about their split to Refinery29 in July 2019, she expressed: “All you can really do at that point is shut your phone off and crawl into your sister’s bed and watch Friends with her, because when you’re going through something and the world wants to go through it with you or [wants] to get every piece of detail from you about it, it’s really difficult.
“Some of these things are just meant for you. I don’t fault it, but it was a little difficult going through some of that stuff a couple months ago. Now I feel good, and they’ve calmed down a little, which is nice.”
Despite breaking up, the exes went on to star in The Kissing Booth 2 in 2020 followed by The Kissing Booth 3 in 2021.
After the second film released in July 2020, the rumour mills went into overdrive about whether she was dating her co-star Taylor Zakhar Perez.
Ending months of speculation, he told Access in 2020: “I know, we went away this weekend for some friends’ birthdays, and her birthday, and everyone kinda freaked about it. I will say that we are not dating.
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“We just became really close during filming, but then we became even closer after filming because we live really close to each other.
“I think we’re like a three or four minute drive from each other. We’re kind of each other’s accountability partners during quarantine. So we got to hang out, make sure that we weren’t seeing anybody outside of the circle of people that we trusted.”
In 2019, Joey began dating producer and director Steven Piet after they met on the sets of television series The Act.
The two got engaged in February 2022 before going on to tie the knot in September 2023 in Mallorca, Spain.
The husband and wife recently celebrated their first wedding anniversary and to celebrate the paper anniversary, she found the newspaper one year from the day he was born.
Uglies is streaming on Netflix now.
Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
