Becky G and Sebastian Lletget simply introduced their engagement, however they’ve all the time been one in every of our favourite celeb {couples}. The 25-year-old singer and actor has been relationship the 30-year-old soccer star since 2016.
Despite their fame, the couple really met in essentially the most old school manner: getting launched by mutual buddies. As J-14 reported from a 2017 radio interview with Mega 96.3, it was a little bit of a roundabout connection at first. While Becky G was filming “Power Rangers” with Naomi Scott, the 2 grew to become pleasant, and Scott’s husband, Jordan Spence, has performed soccer alongside Lletget. Scott and Spence bought the thought to get Becky G and Lletget collectively, and it appears they’re professional matchmakers!
“[Our introduction] sort of happened whereas we have been filming the film. The manner we bought launched, me and Sebastian, was by my costar Naomi. Her husband — she’s 23, they have been married for a pair years now — and [he] performed soccer collectively, him and Sebastian. So Nae met me and was like, ‘Girl, you are superior! You should be with a man!'” she recalled on the time.
It took just a little little bit of convincing, although. Becky G went on to elucidate that, regardless of her costar’s insistence, she wasn’t fairly so eager on the thought of being arrange on a date at that time limit. But a video of Lletget ended up altering her thoughts in an excellent manner.
“I used to be like, ‘Nah, I do not wish to be with anyone. I’ve been there, performed that [with] the connection factor. I’m centered proper now. I’m good. I’m good.’ She’s like, ‘It’s positive, it is positive, I already know who you are going to marry. It’s positive, it is positive,'” Becky G described to the radio station. “She’s speaking to her husband and he is like, ‘Oh yeah, Sebby, Sebby.’ And I’m like, who’s this Sebby man? What are they speaking about? Then she exhibits me a video of him, and I’m making an attempt to downplay it like as a result of I’m like, ‘He’s positive, handsome. What is occurring?’ It sort of all led to that. He got here out of nowhere. He got here out of nowhere.”
So, Becky G did what anybody would do: she adopted him on social media. She instructed POPSUGAR in 2021, “I adopted him on Twitter and he adopted me again, and I keep in mind it was like this ghost-y, “I do know you exist, you understand I exist” factor.” She defined, “I waited a pair days after my nineteenth birthday simply to sound older, which is so humorous to me now . . . he was like 23 on the time . . . so I slid within the DM actual laborious and I used to be like, ‘Hi, what’s up?’ So groundbreaking! . . . Honestly, we grew to become buddies first. We have been vibing so laborious. I used to be dwelling in Vancouver and he was dwelling right here in LA taking part in for Galaxy, so it wasn’t like we may go on a date. We have been actually pressured to get to know one another, and it was good.”
Becky G later described their first date in a 2017 Instagram submit congratulating her new beau on an expert milestone. “On our first date we talked about the whole lot underneath the moon…actually. I keep in mind particularly stuffing my face with sushi and speaking about our goals, targets and visions for the place we see ourselves… the whole lot we talked about on that date we are actually doing or working in the direction of. Crazy how briskly time has flown by,” she wrote.
And the couple have been collectively ever since. The secret to their comfortable relationship? Unwavering assist of one another. Becky G instructed Hola! in 2019 that Lletget is a lot extra to her than her boyfriend — he is her greatest pal and her largest fan.
“My relationship with Sebastian is one thing very lovely as a result of in addition to being my boyfriend, he’s additionally my greatest pal… There’s nothing I am unable to speak to him about, and I feel to have that assist out of your companion is essential. He has helped me to be extra unbiased. I feel that as a lady on this trade, it is crucial to have a companion that helps you.”
Back in 2020, she instructed POPSUGAR that the COVID-19 lockdowns gave her and Lletget time to decelerate and revel in one another’s firm. “I hadn’t been capable of take pleasure in my condo with my boyfriend like this, ever,” she defined. “This is the primary time we have had steady time collectively to essentially simply bond. I find it irresistible.”
She instructed POPSUGAR in 2021 that they are not precisely movie-watching folks due to how busy they’re. “Either Seb or I find yourself falling asleep, so we by no means find yourself ending the film,” she defined. “We each work a lot, and any time we have tried to take a seat down and watch a film — we’re extra TV series-type folks, and even then, it is nonetheless laborious for us to maintain up with it collectively as a result of our schedules are all the time lacking one another. But we watched ‘Ted Lasso‘ collectively, and we had the best time. We have been so impressed by the standard of the sequence, it was nice.”