Has their professional or personal relationship changed in public appearances since 2023?
Executive summary
Available reporting shows 2023 was widely covered as a year of many celebrity breakups and new public pairings — outlets catalogued dozens of splits and new couples across the year (e.g., People, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle) [1] [2] [3]. Sources describe a crowded public record of changing relationships in 2023, but they do not collectively track whether any single pair’s professional or personal public relationship definitively changed after 2023; individual items list breakups, new relationships and continued public displays through the year [1] [4] [5].
1. The 2023 media framing: “the year of the breakup”
Throughout 2023 outlets framed the year as unusually breakup-heavy, publishing lists of high-profile splits (Ariana Grande/Dalton Gomez, Kylie Jenner/Travis Scott among others) and repeatedly compiling breakups into single stories — a narrative reinforced across People, Harper’s Bazaar and StyleCaster [1] [2] [6]. That editorial framing shaped public perception: multiple mainstream outlets assembled periodic roundup pieces, which presents 2023 as a turning point for many public romances [1] [2].
2. New public pairings and visibility shifts
At the same time, 2023 produced many new publicized relationships (Taylor Swift/Travis Kelce, Kendall Jenner/Bad Bunny, etc.), which outlets treated as notable because couples were photographed together or spoke publicly about “showing up” for each other — evidence of deliberate public visibility [4] [7]. Coverage emphasized when celebrities “went public” — red carpets, concerts and interviews — as signals that a relationship had changed in its public presentation [4].
3. What reporters actually documented: discrete events, not long-form trend proofs
The sources are collections of episodes — breakups, engagements, red-carpet appearances — rather than systematic tracking of whether specific professional or personal relationships evolved after 2023. For instance, People and Elle list who split and when, and Us Magazine/Harper’s Bazaar recap big breakups, but none offers longitudinal documentation proving a sustained change in a named pair’s public behavior beyond the itemized events [1] [3] [2]. In short: reporters document events; they do not always follow every couple’s trajectory in the years that follow [1] [2].
4. Competing explanations offered by commentators
Coverage includes expert commentary about why celebrity relationships appear to change so often: psychologists and communications experts pointed to parasocial intimacy and social-media visibility as reasons the public perceives more instability — a perspective reported by NPR and echoed in thematic pieces [8]. Another line of reporting and commentary raised PR-stunt suspicions, arguing some high-profile pairings may be manufactured or amplified by publicists — an alternative viewpoint highlighted by The Independent [9].
5. Patterns visible in the sources: publicity, breakup noise, and select stability
Across outlets, patterns recur: many relationships became more public through red-carpet outings or social posts; many ended and then were packaged in list-form journalism; and some couples who stayed together were less featured. But these are aggregate tendencies derived from many discrete items rather than a single-source confirmation that “their” professional or personal relationship definitively changed after 2023 — that specific claim is not uniformly documented across the provided reporting [1] [4] [2].
6. What the sources do not say (and why that matters)
Available sources do not mention a comprehensive, pair-by-pair audit showing which relationships definitively changed in public appearances after 2023; they focus on episode-level reporting (new couple revealed, breakup announced, appearance captured) rather than comparative before/after analyses for individual pairs [1] [6]. If you have a specific couple in mind, current reporting collections above could be searched for that pair’s red-carpet chronology or breakup timing; the general roundups cannot substitute for that targeted tracking [1] [4].
7. How to get a definitive answer for one couple
To establish whether a particular professional or personal relationship changed in public appearances since 2023, consult timeline-style items: People/Us/Harper’s Bazaar archives for that couple’s appearances, corroborating red-carpet/photo evidence and any public statements. The supplied sources demonstrate the media habit of documenting events, so the same approach applied to a named pair will produce the clearest answer [1] [2] [4].
Limitations: This analysis uses only the provided sources and therefore reports aggregate media themes and examples from those outlets; it does not invent longitudinal tracking that the sources themselves do not publish [1] [2] [8].