Chilli and Matthew Lawrence Share a Kiss Celebrating New Year’s in N.Y.C.

Matthew Lawrence and Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas are sealing 2024 with a smooch!

The couple spent New Year’s Eve in New York City, the place they rang in 2025 with a kiss and shared a video of the countdown in Times Square in a joint Instagram put up.

In the footage, folks will be heard counting down from 10 earlier than the gang cheers amid fireworks and confetti. Lawrence, 44, and Chilli, 53, additionally share a fast peck for the digicam.

“HAPPY NEW YEAR!! 🎊 Hoping 2025 brings many blessings to everybody 🙌🏼 #ny #2025 #newyearsrockineve,” actor Lawrence wrote in a caption to his put up, on which his musicial girlfriend commented, “🙌🏽❤️.”

Chilli was joined by her longtime TLC groupmate Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins throughout the night to carry out a few of their most iconic hit songs throughout Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, together with “Waterfalls,” “Creep” and “No Scrubs.”

Lawrence and Chilli made their romance Instagram official in 2022, and the singer’s longtime rep Christal Jordan confirmed her consumer was courting the Boy Meets World alum in January 2023 in an announcement to PEOPLE, saying, “I’ve been with Chilli since 2005 and I’ve by no means seen her this in love.”

In an interview with Entertainment Tonight that March, Lawrence shared how he and the singer met — particularly, because of a giant snowstorm that introduced them collectively on the identical flight.

“Really, it was the flight speaking, after which afterward saying, ‘Hey, what? Let’s hold in touch,’ and it virtually didn’t occur,” the actor mentioned.

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“Literally an hour earlier than the flight took off, they mentioned, ‘Okay, we acquired you on this flight. You gotta go,’ ” Lawrence added to ET about frantically making the journey for work.

During a May look on Fox 5 Atlanta’s Portia life-style present, Chilli revealed that her boyfriend has helped erase any fears she as soon as had about tying the knot.

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“I have no worry in any respect in terms of him,” she informed host Portia Bruner of the previous Brotherly Love star, throughout the May 13 episode of Bruner’s present.

“It is simply the best way he’s as a person, ?” Chilli continued of Lawrence. “He is an effective man. He has an incredible coronary heart and I imply, he checks off all of my listing — apart from a couple of I do not know but — however we’ll determine that half out.”