Joshua Bassett may have just hard-launched his new romance.
On Tuesday, Sept. 30, the High School Musical: The Musical: The Series star shared a TikTok that featured him with influencer Amelie Zilber. The video, set to his dreamy new track “Blue,” showed the two laughing and running through a sprinkler together. At one point, Bassett slipped and fell, cheekily writing on the screen, “i literally fell out of the blue.”
“blue out now :),” the 24-year-old singer captioned the post. In the lyrics, Bassett croons, “Out of the blue / I fell for you,” seemingly a not-so-subtle nod to his budding relationship.
Just days earlier, on Sept. 26, Bassett shared another romantic snap that fans believe also featured Zilber. In the photo, he sat on a bike in his signature striped T-shirt while a woman in a cream-colored tube top and trousers — who looks very much like Zilber, 23 — perched on the handlebars facing him. “blue! tuesday!” he teased in the caption.
BLUE OUT NOW
♬ Blue – Joshua Bassett
The social media moment quickly had fans speculating that Bassett was going public with the model and activist. Zilber, who previously dated influencer Blake Gray until their 2023 split, has been open about her passion for advocacy work and boasts a strong online following.
Bassett’s love life has long drawn attention. He was most famously linked to Olivia Rodrigo, with their breakup rumored to inspire her smash hit “Driver’s License” in 2021. The heartbreak anthem referenced a “blonde girl,” widely believed to be Sabrina Carpenter, who was later spotted with Bassett at a Black Lives Matter protest that same year.
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Carpenter appeared to address the rumors in her own single, “Skin,” later writing in a since-deleted post, “The song isn’t calling out one single person. Some lines address a specific situation, while other lines address plenty of other experiences I’ve had this past year.”
For his part, Bassett talked about the drama in an interview with GQ, explaining, “people don’t know anything they’re talking about,” when it comes to the situation. “[Everyone] is asking me about Sabrina and Olivia,” Joshua said. “Why don’t we focus on these women for who they are? Let’s focus on the art that they’re making and how great they are instead of their relationship to a boy.”
