Megan Fox has began a recent chapter in her dating life. Months after separating from her husband of greater than a decade Brian Austin Green, the actress has found recent love with musician/actor Machine Gun Kelly (real name: Colson Baker). After meeting on a movie set earlier in 2021, they’re now engaged over a 12 months later.
Below, a breakdown of Fox and Kelly’s time as a pair, including how the couple is “planning their future together.”
March 2020
Fox, 34, and Kelly, 30, met earlier this 12 months on the set of the upcoming indie thriller Midnight In The Switchgrass. Deadline reported that the film’s production in Puerto Rico shut down after two weeks on account of the coronavirus pandemic. A source told E! News that the co-stars had “been hanging out loads since their movie was shutdown,” adding, “The down time has been good for them…They’re intrigued by one another and having quite a lot of fun.”
May 15, 2020
Rumors of romance between Kelly and Fox began when the DailyMail published photos of the pair grabbing takeout together in Calabasas. The outing got here amid rumors that she was quarantining individually from her longtime husband, Green. Each had been spotted without their wedding rings in recent months.
The subsequent day, Green posted a cryptic message to Instagram, marking his wifeâs birthday.
âEventually butterflies get bored sitting on a flower for too long,â he wrote alongside a photograph of a butterfly on a flower. âThey begin feeling smothered. Itâs an excellent big world and so they wish to experience it.â
May 18, 2020
Three days later, the Beverly Hills 90210 alum confirmed that he and Fox have been on a break since December 2019, via his …with Brian Austin Green podcast. âShe said, âI spotted once I was in a foreign country working alone that I feel more like myself and I liked myself higher during that have and I feel that may be something value trying for me,ââ he recalled Fox telling him. âI used to be shocked and I used to be upset about it, but I canât be upset at her because she didnât ask to feel that way. It wasnât a selection she made, thatâs the best way she truthfully felt.â
He also addressed recent photos of Fox and Kelly out together. âIâve never met him, but Megan and I actually have talked about him,â Austin said. âTheyâre friends at this point, and from what sheâs expressed, heâs a very nice, real guy, and I trust her judgment.â
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Green and Fox share three sons, Noah, 7; Bodhi, 6; and Journey, 3. The previous couple began dating in 2004 and split in 2006 before getting married in 2010. They filed for divorce in 2015, but reconciled ahead of their third son’s birth in 2016.
âI’ll all the time love her, and I do know she’s going to all the time love me, and I do know so far as a family, what we built is actually cool and really special,â Brian explained, later adding, “I actually donât want Megan and I to be at odds. Sheâs been my best friend for 15 years, and I donât wish to lose that.â
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A source from Fox’s camp spoke to E! about her relationship with Kelly. “Megan has been working on a movie with Machine Gun Kelly and gotten near him. They’re hooking up and have been for a little bit while,” the insider said. “She is separated from Brian Austin Green, and so they are taking time apart as a pair. She has something happening with Machine Gun Kelly that she is enthusiastic about.”
May 20, 2020
Then, Kelly released the music video for “Bloody Valentine,” the primary single off of his upcoming album. Fox starred within the video as Kelly’s domineering girlfriend, sharing an almost-kiss with the musician and stoking further speculation about their relationship.
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June 15, 2020
Nearly a month later, the Every day Mail published photographs of Fox and Austin holding hands and kissing after an evening spent at Mr. Furley’s Bar in Sherman Oaks, California. The couple’s public date night got here in the future after Green was seen having lunch at a Mexican restaurant in Los Angeles with model Courtney Stodden by TMZ.
Later that day, Kelly appeared to allude to his recent relationship, tweeting a lyric from “Bloody Valentine.” “Iâm calling you girlfriend, what the f*ck.â Life imitated art on that one,” he wrote.
June 16, 2020
A source told E! that although Fox could also be moving on, Green “is not filing for divorce yet,” adding, “He wants to offer Megan space and is hopeful they’ll find their way back to 1 one other. It has been hard to see her get back out within the dating world, but he’s attempting to fill his time along with his kids and friends.”
June 17, 2020
The subsequent day, Us Weekly reported that Kelly and Fox were officially dating. “Megan and MGK have gotten more serious and are officially dating and referring to 1 one other as boyfriend and girlfriend,” a source told the outlet. “Theyâre having fun with spending an increasing number of time together and have a robust connection.”
A source told E! News that this relationship is “recent and exciting for Megan” and that she’s spending time with Kelly every time Brian has the youngsters. The insider continued, “She has only been with Brian for a few years, and this could be very different. Sheâs into it.”
June 23, 2020
Greater than a month after their first public outing, Fox and Kelly seem like going strong. The Every day Mail ran photographs of the couple leaving dinner at Soho House in West Hollywood, on Tuesday, June 23. Earlier that day, Kelly shared photos of his and Fox’s matching “Bloody Valentine”-inspired manicures on his Instagram Story, via Us Weekly.
July 17, 2020
The couple was seen at Los Angeles International Airport and spotted sharing a kiss, which The Sun captured in these photos.
July 22, 2020
Fox and Kelly gave their first joint interview on Lala Kent and Randall Emmett’s podcast, Give Them Lala … With Randall. Randall directed the couple in Midnight within the Switchgrass and Fox recalled her initial thoughts when she discovered Kelly was forged. “I used to be like, ‘Who’s going to play this role?’ And he was like, ‘Oh, we just got Machine Gun Kelly,’ and immediately, I used to be like, ‘Uh oh,'” Fox said, via Entertainment Tonight.
“Because I knewâI could feel that some wild shit was going to occur to me from that meeting, but I wasn’t yet sure what. I just felt it like, deep in my soulâthat something was going to come back from that,” she added.
After meeting on set and filming for 2 days, Fox said she felt an astrological connection between them. “I knew instantly that he was what I call a twin flame,” she recalled. “As a substitute of a soul mate, a twin flame is definitely where a soul has ascended right into a high enough level that it might probably be split into two different bodies at the identical time. So we’re actually two halves of the identical soul, I feel. And I said that to him almost immediately, because I felt it instantly.”
“I feel it was the second day [of filming],” she continued. “I asked him to come back into my trailer for lunch, and I put him through all of this astrology stuff. I went deep instantly. I knew before I even did his chart, I said to him, he has a Pisces moon. I could tell by his energy.”
The entire astrological talk ensued since the couple got a reading from astrologist Susan Miller in the course of the podcast. Miller said the pair appeared destined to be married, although Fox clarified, “We’re not engaged or anything like that.” But when the astrologist said Kelly was meant to marry someone who’s “comfortable, or it could possibly be a scholar,” he replied, “Yeah, Megan is all the time really comfortable.”
July 28, 2020
The pair of greater than two months went Instagram official every week later. Kelly was the primary to post a photograph, sharing a black-and-white mirror selfie of the couple sticking their tongues out. He captioned the image, “waited for eternity to seek out you again … đȘđ«â€ïžđȘ” As if that wasn’t passionate enough, Kelly tagged “The Universe” as their location.
August 5, 2020
Fox made the connection official on her feed the next week. This time, the declaration caused some drama. It began when Fox shared her own black-and-white mirror selfie of the couple. She sported a bikini, while Kelly opted to go shirtless. “Achingly Beautiful Boy… My heart is yours đȘâ„ïžđȘ” Fox captioned the photo.
And although she disabled comments on the post, that did not stop her ex from weighing in. Green copied Fox’s caption, posting his own photos of his 4 sons, including his three with Fox, on Instagram and Twitter. “Achingly beautiful boys…… My heart is yours,” he wrote alongside headshots of sons Kassius, 18; Noah, 7; Bodhi, 6; and Journey, 4.
Green’s shade comes two days after he spoke on the Hollywood Raw podcast about co-parenting with Fox. “I feel for us…the conclusion of that we won’t take the view that it won’t affect the youngsters, because it’s going to,” he said, via E!. “I feel it’s as much as us, and fogeys basically, the way it affects your kids…whether it’s a very negative experience for them or it’s okay and so they feel secure in it and so they feel loved…and so they feel like, you recognize, everyone still loves and respects everyone, things are only different. But, it isn’t bad different, it’s just different.” He added, “I wish Megan the best possible in the whole lot. I would like her to be completely comfortable for her and for the youngsters. That is super necessary.”
August 14, 2020
If Instagram didn’t already make things official, then Kelly just did. When the rapper appeared on BuzzFeed Celeb’s Thirst Tweets, he read a tweet from a fan who asked if he’d exit on a date.
“Machine gun kelly I just wanna let you recognize am free this sunday to go on a date just let me know if ur free sunday cause I’m free and would love to take you on a date,” the fan wrote.
Kelly responded: “I’m locked in already immediately. No dates for me. Probably ever.”
When one other fan wrote, “I might let machine gun kelly suck my toes possibly,” Kelly responded: “Like I said, Iâm only sucking one pair of toes.”
August 25, 2020
Fox slyly reacted to her ex’s post while speaking with Entertainment Tonight. “For whatever reason, persons are very trigger comfortable to call me silly or call me vain or call me a slut, which is crazy. I used to be in the identical relationship for 15 years, you recognize?â she explained, adding, âItâs bizarre, this image that gets projected onto me that individuals have just accepted and thatâs lived for over a decade and that I never really did anything to earn in the primary place.â
August 30, 2020
Green went ahead and gave one other update on how he’s feeling regarding his ex’s romance. “I never say never,” he said when asked on an Instagram Live whether he’d reconcile with Fox, via ET. “I kinda feel like persons are on paths in life and sometimes your paths are together and also you travel that path together and also you see eye to eye, after which sometimes paths do various things.”
He was also asked by a fan what his opinion of Kelly was. “I’ve never met him, I do not know,” he replied, adding, “I can say, yeah, Iâve heard bad stories about him, but I’ve heard bad stories about myself as well and I do know most of those aren’t true. As of immediately, I don’t have any problem with him in any respect. I actually hope that he and Megan are comfortable.”
September 10, 2020
Despite the occasional public input from Green, Kelly and Fox’s relationship appears to be going easily. âMGK has met Meganâs kids, but Brian is pretty protective of them,â a source told Us Weekly. âMegan and Brianâs relationship is so up and down. They’ve been coparenting in a healthy way as best as they’ll.â
Nevertheless, the insider explained that this four-month relationship wasn’t going faster than in needed to. “MGK and Megan arenât seriously taking about getting engaged, married or having kids immediately and so theyâre not there yet. Itâs too soon for everybody, each of their kids and Brian included,â the source said. âThey’re definitely super into one another. MGK is obsessive about Megan.â
September 17, 2020
Then the couple shared one other milestone from their romanceâhearing the song “Bloody Valentine” on the radio for the primary time. Megan and Kelly sit within the automotive together because the song for which they co-starred within the music video plays within the background.
September 23, 2020
Kelly offered one other update on his and Fox’s relationship to Howard Stern, telling the host that he “didn’t know what [true love] was until me and her made eye contact,” via E!. “That is once I was like, ‘Whoa.'”
He elaborated on how falling in love impacted the creation of his latest album. “After I made the massive chunk of the album [Tickets to My Downfall] I did fall in love for the primary time,” Kelly explained. “That was my first experience with being open to like and stuff like that. I definitely wasn’t set as much as imagine that that is something that would ever exist.”
September 25, 2020
The pair made a stir days later, while celebrating the discharge of Kelly’s album. People spotted Fox and Kelly out for a date night in Los Angeles, which later proved to involve the couple scaling the roof of The Roxy. Kelly posted photos from the evening, including a media request for information about The Roxy scaling, to Instagram.
September 30, 2020
Kelly’s next music video for his song “drunk face” also showcases his love for Fox. Within the documentary-style video, there are several clips featuring Fox, including one where the pair shares a kiss for the camera.
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Fox also plugged Kelly’s record on her Instagram feed, lip-synching along to certainly one of her favorite songs from the album.
October 13, 2020
Just a few days after their last public date night in Santa Monica, recent reports emerged that Kelly had been introduced to Fox’s kids. A source told People who Kelly “recently met her kids for the primary time. Megan thought it was a natural step, since they’re getting more serious. They’re in a committed relationship and it isn’t only a fling. They’re planning a future together.” The insider added that Fox and Kelly “spend as much time together as they’ll” and are “doing great.”
One other source spoke to E! about how the couple is “planning their future together” and are “very serious.” The insider explained, “They see themselves as soulmates and life partners. They’re taking steps every single day to construct on that. Machine Gun Kelly has met her kids and is becoming an element of their lives. She desired to be certain it was moving into a serious direction and so they each feel very strongly that it’s.”
As for his or her five-month long relationship, the E! News source affirmed, “They’re very much in love and excited that they’ve found each other.”
December 2020
Now that Kelly and Fox have been together for, well, your complete pandemic, things are beginning to get serious. A source told Entertainment Tonight that Kelly sees marriage with Fox as something that can occur for them soon.
“MGK and Megan make one another laugh and that is a giant thing for Megan,” the source said. “They keep one another smiling. MGK totally sees marriage in his future with Megan and friends could one hundred pc see them getting engaged inside the following 12 months.”
The source added, nonetheless, that “Megan doesn’t take into consideration getting engaged [or] married and he or she doesn’t put a timeline in place and it isn’t something that actually crosses her mind.”
February 2021
Although marriage could very much be in Fox and MGK’s future, a source told Entertainment Tonight that Fox is not quite ready for marriage along with her “twin flame.”
“An engagement could possibly be in Megan Fox and MGK’s future and same with having kids together. MGK definitely wants each of those things, but Megan is a little bit hesitant immediately. Within the meantime, they’re continuously laughing together and all the time have the perfect time.”
March 2021
The couple made an appearance as that they had a date night on the UFC 260 event in Las Vegas. They appeared to notice the cameras on them:
Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker were nearby:
Ah, we do love a socially distanced celebrity-couple sighting.
April 2021
A source near Fox told E! that Fox and MGK “plan to get engaged and married” and that the couple is “very much in love and have a robust and intense relationship…Her divorce is moving along, and so they are hashing out custody details.”
For context, a separate source told E! in February that Fox’s ex, Brian Austin Green, was dragging out divorce proceedings. “Brian is unquestionably not making it easy or doing things quickly,” the source said. “Megan would love to wrap it up and get it finished as quickly as possible, but Brian is just not exactly working along with her on that.”
May 2021
Kelly and Fox had a giant month of appearancesâand potentially even greater private talks about their future. A source told ET that the couple is “doing great,” and that the singer “would marry Megan in a heartbeat.” Fox, meanwhile, was “definitely in love” with Kelly but in no rush for that next step. “[She is] having an excellent time with where things are at now,” the source said. “She really takes her kids into consideration and knows that taking that next step could be a giant adjustment, nevertheless it’s not off the table.”
On May 23, Fox and MGK attended the Billboard Music Awards together, where they were seen touching tongues (Kelly had a black tongue), being affectionate in front of the cameras, and just generally showing quite a lot of PDA.
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Later that week, on the iHeartRadio Music Awards, they wore matching pink outfits. Fox was in a pink Barbie jumpsuit while Kelly matched her with a white suit embellished with a pink butterfly. Their PDA was more restrained this time in comparison with their previous date’s tongue touching:
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The identical week, Kelly tweeted in regards to the one-year anniversary when Fox told him she loved him for the primary time.
On a photograph of Fox on the red carpet on the iHeartRadio Music Awards that Fox captioned “Daddy Issues Barbie,” Kelly also commented, “daddy loves you.”
During Indy 500 weekend, Kelly and Fox made an appearance at Barstool Sportsâ party at Grand Park in Westfield, Indiana, where the audience called for Fox to hitch Kelly onstage.
âShe got here out after everyone was chanting âMeganâ for a while,â a source told E!. âThen she did stay on the stage within the background for the entire song.â
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June 2021
The next month, Fox and Kelly were spotted sharing an intimate PDA moment for all to see. The 2 shared a kiss near a street in Sherman Oaks. Fox showed off her abs as she wore beige matching crop top and short set. Kelly wore a pink button down with light blue jeans paired with white sneakers.
Meanwhile, a source told Entertainment Tonight mid-month that the pair âare pretty inseparableâ and are planning a serious future together.
âMGK would love to begin a family with Megan someday, but immediately doesnât appear to be the time when it comes to scheduling,” the source told the outlet. “So far as engagement goes, it is probably going that it will occur earlier than later, and it has been a subject of conversation without query.â
The source continued, âtheir schedules are beginning to get super busy again, in order that they just wish to be certain that the timing is true since it could be a giant step for each them and their families.â
July 2021
In an appearance on Fox 5 Recent York Fox shared the nicknames she calls MGK. Included on the list are: âCookie,â âBuddha,â and âBooby.â
In a separate interview surrounding the discharge of her movie Till Death, Fox also shared with The Washington Post that she knew MGK was her âsoulmateâ as soon as they met:
âThe primary time I looked into his eyes, I used to be like…âI do know you. I actually have known you so repeatedly, in so many various forms, in so many various lives.â She told the publication that âwasnât expecting itâd be like, âGod, you might be my soulmate,â immediately.â
October 2021
Fox and Kelly were interviewed by British GQ in October and described their romance as âintense.â
âIt is a very intense relationship,â Fox said. âOur souls selected this to utterly must face our shadow selves; to face things about ourselves we didnât wish to must know, that we tried to push away.â
âIt needs to be light [like first love], but additionally we go to hell with one another,â Kelly added. âItâs ecstasy and agony of course… I donât want people to think anythingâs perfect with us. I didnât say it was the darkest fairy tale for no reason. God provide help to in the event you wouldâve met us last Saturday.â
January 2022
Machine Gun Kelly proposed to Fox under a banyan tree that was apparently pretty significant to their romance, in keeping with a post on Instagram. Within the caption, she explained the meaning of the placement and admitted that after she accepted his hand in marriage, they drank one another’s blood.
On his Instagram MGK shared a photograph of the emerald and diamond ring designed by jeweler Stephen Webster, saying it incorporated each of their birthstones.
In an interview later that month with Vogue during Dolce & Gabbana’s Milan show, Kelly revealed that the ring is designed so it hurts to take it off.
Kelly explained, âItâs a thoroughbred Colombian emerald, with no treatment. It was just carved into the teardrop, straight out of the mine. And the diamond was directly from Stephen [Webster]. The concept is that the ring can come apart to make two rings. When itâs together, itâs held in place by a magnet. So that you see the way it snaps together? After which it forms an obscure heart. And also you see this right here? The bands are literally thorns. So if she tries to take it off, it hurtsâŠâ
âLove is pain!â he added.
February 2022
In February, Machine Gun Kelly made an appearance on The Late Late Show with James Corden to perform âEmo Girlâ with Willow Smith. During an interview with the host, he said that he and Fox had been discussing their wedding theme.
MGK said he was âtrying to seek out a spotâ that worked for his âartisticâ vision of the ceremony and reception. The couple desires to have a âred riverâ and âgothicâ features, so naturally the âlocation is difficult.â
âI modify my opinions about things loads,â MGK explained.
April 2022
Fox posted a loving tribute to MGK for his birthday together with an lovable pic of him giving her a piggyback ride against a wonderful pink sunset.
May 2022
The couple celebrated Fox’s birthday together, during which the actress had one special request for her man. In an interview by Entertainment Tonight’s Denny Directo on the red carpet, Fox said, âMy predominant request is all the time just no cell phones. So, whatever we do, wherever we go, I just want there to be no phones.â
July 2022
The couple is discussing potentially having more children. Fox has three children along with her ex, Brian Austin Green, and MGK has one daughetr from a previous relationship. A source told Entertainment Tonight that they’re discussing âexpanding their family in the future.â
âMegan and MGK are just about done wedding planning. They’re each totally on the identical page, which has made things easy for them, but Megan is unquestionably pulling the whole lot together and has the ultimate say on what goes and what doesn’t,â the source explained. âThey’re so excited to spend the remaining of their lives together, traveling the world, living in complete bliss and harmony, and potentially expanding their family in the future.â
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