Teyana Taylor leaves 'no grey area' about Aaron Pierre: The two look to be coupled up

Teyana Taylor appeared to boldly state her narration presumption with “Mufasa: The Lion King” histrion Aaron Pierre successful a photograph snapped Sunday nighttime astatine the Vanity Fair Oscars bash.

“Oscar nighttime successful achromatic & white, nary grey area,” the “Coming 2 America” histrion wrote connected Instagram, including three photos and seemingly indicating her couplehood with the British performer beyond a doubt.

Representatives for Pierre, 30, and Taylor, 34, didn’t respond instantly Tuesday to The Times’ requests for confirmation of the relationship, but the 2 were photographed together successful snapshots taken wrong the VF party.

In the archetypal melodramatic black-and-white photograph Taylor posted, the singer-songwriter-actor-model poses with her hands connected her hips successful a plunging achromatic halter gown portion the 6-foot-3 Pierre, overmuch taller than his woman contempt her precocious heels, stands formally, hands successful pants pockets, successful a tux with a achromatic bow tie.

The adjacent changeable sees them peeking astatine Pierre’s watch, portion the 3rd shows them backmost to back, with the “Genius: MLK/X” actor holding his overgarment implicit 1 limb and looking a spot similar James Bond arsenic she bumps her booty against him and flashes her metallic stilettos. “A View to a Kill,” anyone?

“That’s however you popular retired and show,” histrion and comic B. Simone wrote successful comments, portion crip-walker Serena Williams added, “Oooooppp lol emotion this.” Taraji P. Henson, Lala Anthony and Keke Palmer besides weighed successful with affirmative reinforcement, with Palmer quipping, “Now I’m huffy origin they ain’t sent maine my pictures.”

“Girllaaaaaaa … das Mufasaaaaaaa,” wrote Adiz “Bambi” Benson of “Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta,” echoing the chant from Pierre’s viral December stroll down the Spirit Tunnel backstage astatine Jennifer Hudson’s show.

“This is however you bash a hard launch!,” Essence mag wrote successful its own post, which included 2 of the photos. “After weeks of rumors, Teyana Taylor and Aaron Pierre are making it Instagram official. My Shaylaaaaa!!! P.S. It should beryllium amerciable for 2 radical this beauteous to beryllium together!”

The caller mates arrives connected the country much than a twelvemonth aft Taylor and erstwhile pro hoops subordinate Iman Shumpert separated and aboriginal divorced. Before their split, Taylor won “The Masked Singer” arsenic Firefly successful 2022 aft Shumpert successful 2021 was the archetypal NBA sanction to instrumentality location the “Dancing With the Stars” Mirror Ball trophy.

“The Underground Railroad” prima Pierre voiced Mufasa successful Barry Jenkins’ prequel “Mufasa: The Lion King,” which deed screens successful December and earned a Razzie information for worst remake, rip-off oregon sequel. (“Joker: Folie a Deux,” the Joaquin Phoenix-Lady Gaga philharmonic sequel to “Joker,” took the trophy.) Pierre volition popular up soon successful the Season 4 premiere occurrence of AppleTV+’s “The Morning Show,” starring Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston.

Taylor, meanwhile, is formed successful Paul Thomas Anderson’s inactive untitled “event film,” which IMDb says is successful postproduction and expected to premiere this year. Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Regina Hall, Wood Harris, Benicio del Toro and Alana Haim are besides successful the cast. Along with its title, the movie’s crippled is being kept “under wraps,” according to the Hollywood Reporter.