Truly didn’t have actor/singer Dove Cameron and Måneskin vocalist Damiano David on our “adorable couples of 2024” Bingo card, but they’re out here being cute on red carpets, so clearly we’re in need of a timeline. But just FYI, while these two have made a bunch of public appearances in the past month thanks to the 2024 Grammys and its many parties (it’s basically been back-to-back-to-back events), Dove tends to value her privacy. Especially following her breakup with Gossip Girl’s Thomas Doherty in 2020.

As she told Entertainment Tonight in 2021 following her split from Thomas, “I look back at my previous relationships and how public I was with them, and I think it was because my relationship with the public was different. It’s not that I felt differently about those people or anything like that, it’s just a difference in maturity when you’re dating somebody and you’re 20. You want everyone to know about your love story... Now I look back and I’m like, ‘Why would I have done that?’ but it just feels natural when you’re that age.”

On that note, here’s a chronicle of Dove and Damiano’s public moments.

~June 2023

Damiano confirms his breakup with his longtime girlfriend, Giorgia Soleri, and hits up Instagram Stories to apologize for a video where he was seen kissing someone else shortly after their breakup.

“I am very sorry this video came out, it was not how I wanted to handle the situation and it was my mistake,” he reportedly said, adding that he and Giorgia had broken up days before and there were “no betrayals of any kind.”

“I hope this doesn’t affect Giorgia’s image,” Damiano noted, encouraging fans to “respect the delicacy of this moment.”

Just FYI, things between Damiano and Giorgia were seemingly fine as recently as one month earlier in May based on this loved-up photo:

September 22, 2023

Fans notice that Dove is at a Måneskin concert in Madison Square Garden and what looks to be her Instagram Story from the night is shared by fan accounts. Could mean something! Could mean nothing! (It meant something.)

November 4, 2023

Amid rumors swirling that Dove and Damiano have gone on dates, they’re spotted at Espaco Unimed in Sao Paulo, Brazil, following a Måneskin concert. These two are clearly trying to keep things low-key, but they end up being photographed by paparazzi:

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November 28, 2023

Dove and Damiano are spotted holding hands and kissing on the beach in Australia, and the photos make the cover of an Italian magazine.

January 25, 2024

Dove and Damiano are seen enjoying a casual dinner with friends in West Hollywood:

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February 2, 2024

Label exec David Massey shares a pic of Dove and Damiano and calls them a “power couple.”

February 3, 2024

After months of rumors + pap pics, Dove and Damiano finally go red carpet official at Clive Davis’s pre-Grammy gala and even kiss for the cameras:

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But honestly, the video is the vibe:

February 4, 2024

Dove and Damiano step out again one night later to attend W Magazine, Mark Ronson, and Gucci’s Grammy after-party. Looking chic!

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February 6, 2024

’Kay, if you swipe, I’m 99.99 percent positive that’s Damiano holding Dove’s shoes:

February 13, 2024

After going red carpet official, these two take things one step further and go courtside official at a Lakers game. And honestly the pics are TOO MUCH FOR ME TO HANDLE:

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Allen Berezovsky//Getty Images

May 6, 2024

Dove and Damiano hit the Met Gala red carpet together looking jaw-dropping.

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June 2, 2024

Damiano accompanied Dove to the Cameron Boyce Foundation's third annual Cam For A Cause gala in honor of her late friend and Descendants co-star, Cameron Boyce. The couple looked adorable and loved up on the red carpet:

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Gilbert Flores//Getty Images

June 25, 2024

Dove graced our digital cover, and dear reader, she opened up about the nature of her relationship with Damiano—including how they met. When they were both nominated for Best New Artist at the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards, Dove and Måneskin crossed paths backstage. "When I met them, I don’t think I even spoke to Damiano. I didn’t think anything of it. I went about my night. I’d just won a VMA," Dove dished. "And then a couple months later, their team had reached out to me about coming to their album release and I couldn’t make it work with the dates." The "Boyfriend" singer revealed that they had a collaboration in the works at one point and that she nearly opened for them on tour. "There were just these passing-ships-in-the-night things happening. So when we met again at the 2023 VMAs, we had a reason to talk to each other," she explained.

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Damiano then invited her to attend Måneskin's Madison Square Garden show, and I'll pretty much just let Dove's full quote from our cover story do the talking:

And when he came up to me, it felt like…I don’t know, a year can do a lot. It felt like it had been 10 years or something. When we had met before, he was in a very different space and I was too, so we didn’t register each other at all in that way. And then he was like, “We’re starting our world tour at Madison Square Garden. If you’re still in town in a few days, we’d love it if you came.” It was super innocent. And then they invited me back to their greenroom and then we started talking and then he asked me to the after-party. And then very quickly it became “Let’s have dinner at 8:00 at this spot.” He’s a Capricorn, so he was very much like, “Okay, these are my intentions.” It was super honorable. He’s like a 1950s gentleman, angel, teddy bear. He’s the best person I’ve met in my life.

As for their ~first date~, Dove shared that it was "very, very slow, cautious, feeling-out, interview-type questions for eight hours" before they made a move on each other. "I remember I was fascinated because he presents in a way that seems very easily digestible and then you spend two minutes around him and you realize he is the kindest, most generous, most innocent, most giving person. He’s just a beautiful, sensitive soul," she said. Excuse me while I 🤧🤧🤧.

That brings us up to date, but we’ll be keeping this timeline updated, naturally.

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