A conclave for 2.
Chelsea Handler and Ralph Fiennes set the Hollywood rumor mill into movement after they have been noticed leaving an Oscars celebration collectively on Sunday night time.
The pair have been all smiles, laughing as they walked arm-in-arm on their method out of the 2025 Vainness Honest Oscar Get together on the Wallis Annenberg Middle for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills following the 2025 Academy Awards, leaving many questioning whether or not the comic and the “Conclave” star have struck up a romance.
Fiennes was nominated at this 12 months’s Oscars within the Finest Lead Actor class for his efficiency in “Conclave,” his third profession nomination, although the British star misplaced out to Adrien Brody, whose portrayal of a Hungarian architect shifting to the US after the Holocaust gained him the coveted trophy.
Drink in hand, Handler, 50, wearing a metallic pale champagne-colored costume by KHOON HOOI and gold Manolo Blahnik BB heels, and Fiennes, 62, dashing in a black vast lapel tuxedo and white-edged bow tie from London model Taillour, minimize a sublime determine as they giggled their method out of the luxury soirée.
The Submit reached out to Handler and Fiennes’ reps for remark.
The pair’s Oscar celebration exit follows a saucy bit they carried out collectively throughout this 12 months’s Critics Alternative Awards, which the “My Horizontal Life” writer hosted final month.
Reenacting Nicole Kidman’s now iconic milk scene from the 2024 erotic thriller “Babygirl,” Handler chugged a full glass of milk on the urging of Fiennes.
“Babygirl was one of my favorite movies this year because I love everything Nicole Kidman does and it even inspired me to hire a new sexy intern,” Handler mentioned, taking the glass from an off-camera helper.
“Oh, this must be from him, thank you,” she quipped as she started to down the milk, clearly doing a send-up of the memorable scene within the Halina Reijn-directed movie.
Fiennes then joined in, taking part in the function of Harris Dickinson, who performs Kidman’s younger intern and love curiosity.
“Good girl. Good girl. Good girl,” the “Maid in Manhattan” star mentioned, repeating Dickinson’s line from “Babygirl.”
“Keep going, don’t stop, go on, go on,” Fiennes urged Handler as she completed the drink.
In an unscripted second, the previous “Chelsea Lately” host was heard saying,”That was loads of milk” after the cameras minimize to the following presenter.
Handler not too long ago hinted that she is at present courting somebody, although she didn’t disclose their id.
“I’ve been down that road before with having a public relationship—my last relationship,” the comic instructed Alex Cooper on her “Call Her Daddy” podcast in December, referring to her relationship with Jo Koy, whom she dated for a 12 months earlier than they broke up in July 2022.
“It’s more out of respect for their privacy,” she mentioned of her new love curiosity. “I don’t want him to have to be exposed to my world.”
Handler shared that she met her present important different “a long time ago” however famous that they didn’t “become lovers” till just a few months in the past after she invited him on a visit to Mallorca together with her buddies.
“He’s hot, he’s awesome and so caring,” the star continued, including that he understands how her life is “pretty crazy.”
She mentioned that “he’s around” when she needs him to be and defined that she doesn’t ever need to be married.
Fiennes has stored his love life non-public in recent times. He divorced “E.R.” actress Alex Kingston in 1997 after 4 years of marriage and greater than a decade collectively as a pair. In October 2023, he was rumored to be courting filmmaker Svetlana Zill.
