This is a timeline of their journey from mates to lovers then again to mates once more — and now, possibly again to lovers.
Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello backstage through the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards at Prudential Heart on Aug. 26, 2019 in Newark, N.J.
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Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello shocked followers after they seemingly rekindled their romance at Coachella on Friday (April 14), as a clip circulated social media during which the previous couple is seen sharing a passionate kiss on the pageant grounds.
The replace got here lower than two years after asserting their cut up in November 2021.
Mendes and Cabello’s friendship dates again to 2014, when he and Cabello’s then-group Fifth Concord opened for Austin Mahone on tour. Rumors about their romantic relationship kicked into excessive gear following the discharge of their “Senorita” duet in June 2019, particularly given the tune’s steamy music video.
Beneath, Billboard has compiled a timeline of their journey from mates to lovers then again to mates once more.
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2014 – Austin Mahone tour
Mendes and Cabello met when the previous Vine star and the songstress, who on the time was a part of Fifth Concord, opened for Austin Mahone on tour. Of their June 2019 V journal digital cowl, the duo talked about their first impressions of each other. “I bear in mind I needed to hang around with you, however you had been all the time on the tour bus, simply studying guitar,” Cabello mentioned, to which Mendes replied, “Yeah, that was me. I didn’t speak to anyone. You had been the one individual that talked to me. Like, you had been the one one in all everyone on that tour who would say phrases to me. Truly, I feel if we go into our DM’s or one thing, there’s a photograph from the day we met, I feel.”
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April 2015 – Mendes picks Cabello in a spherical of “Lips, Spouse or Go away It”
Picture Credit score: Brad Barket/Getty Pictures for iHeartMedia Mendes stopped by the U.Okay.’s Capital FM, the place he performed a spherical of “Lips, Spouse or Go away It” (a PG model of “F—, Marry or Kill”) and was confronted with a alternative between the “Havana” singer, Jade Thirlwall from Little Combine or actress Chloë Grace Moretz. Naturally, he selected to marry Cabello. When requested if she’d be a great spouse, the singer replied, “Yeah, she rocks.”
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November 2015 – “I Know What You Did Final Summer time”
Cabello’s first solo transfer got here within the type of duet with Mendes. The 2 teamed up for “I Know What You Did Final Summer time,” which sparked courting rumors even again then. In a 2015 Rolling Stone interview, they talked about writing the tune backstage throughout Taylor Swift’s 1989 Tour. “We had been simply backstage hanging out, I pulled out my guitar and we had been simply messing round, not likely fascinated about writing a tune,” Mendes recalled.
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March 2017 – “Kiss Me” cowl
Issues quieted down between the 2 for just a few years, as their respective careers skyrocketed. Nonetheless, the 2 had the Shawnmila wheel turning once more after they uploaded a canopy of Ed Sheeran’s “Kiss Me.”
Watch it right here.
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Could 2017 – “Crying within the Membership” reward
Following the discharge of Cabello’s emotional solo single “Crying within the Membership,” the heartthrob took to Twitter to share help for his good friend. “speechless.. goosebumps throughout. You’re unbelievable,” he wrote, linking to the tune’s music video.
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April 2018 – Mendes calls Cabello his “favourite particular person in the entire world.”
“She’s my favourite particular person in the entire world,” Mendes mentioned in a Beats 1 interview with Zane Lowe. “I shouldn’t be crying at the moment within the morning however I AM,” Cabello tweeted in response. “i like you SO a lot.”
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April 2018 – “Actual Mates” photograph
Just some days after the Beats 1 interview, Mendes went to one in all Cabello’s reveals on her headlining tour. The songstress took to Instagram to submit a collection of Polaroids they took collectively. “Actual mates,” she captioned the submit, together with a Canadian flag emoji.
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December 2018 – Cabello hints at a musical reunion
The pop star took to Twitter to share a photograph of herself taking part in the guitar on the ground, whereas Mendes watched her. “Canadian fury + Latin sass,” she captioned the photograph, and Shawnmila shippers went wild over the opportunity of one other collaboration.
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June 2019 – “Senorita”
After months of social media teasing, the duo dropped their sultry midtempo duet “Senorita,” filled with lyrics like, “You say we’re simply mates/ However mates don’t know how you style/ ‘Trigger you recognize it’s been a very long time coming/ Don’t you let me fall.” The accompanying music video reveals the 2 creating a relationship, hook up and dance. The tune debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard Scorching 100 and finally topped the chart.
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July 2019 – Holding palms in West Hollywood
Across the similar time as “Senorita,” the duo began getting rather less pleasant and much more romantic. They had been noticed holding palms in West Hollywood and spent the Fourth of July collectively at a celebration in Malibu the following day.
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July 2019 – PDA-filled weekend in San Francisco
Mendes was within the Bay Space on tour for 2 reveals on the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. On July 13, TMZ captured the duo kissing at a restaurant in San Francisco. A day earlier, they locked lips in public as soon as extra at Dottie’s True Blue Cafe in SF.
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August 2019 – Cabello needs Mendes a contented birthday
To rejoice his twenty first birthday, Cabello posted a photograph of her and Mendes to Instagram. “Blissful birthday to this magic human, I really like you!!!!” Cabello wrote within the caption of the pic, which is a lo-fi polaroid that reveals Mendes taking part in along with her hair.
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August 2019: “Señorita” on the VMAs
The duo took the stage collectively to carry out their Scorching 100-topping megahit duet “Señorita” for the primary time dwell collectively. The performers received more and more intimate over the course of the tune, and at a number of factors discovered their lips merely inches aside, teasing followers worldwide who had been rooting the duo. However after all, the kiss by no means fairly occurred.
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September 2019: *The* kiss
“So we noticed like on Twitter and stuff, you guys saying about the best way we had been kissing and the way it appears to be like bizarre. Like we kiss like fish,” Mendes tells the digicam in a clip posted to Instagram.
“Yeah, it actually harm our emotions,” Cabello chimes in.
“We simply wish to present you ways we actually kiss,” the Canadian pop star provides. And so they plant a sloppy, moist one, confirming their relationship as soon as and for all.
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October 2019 – Camila “actually, actually loves” Shawn
The “Havana” singer unapologetically gushed over her boyfriend in an interview with the Capital Breakfast radio present. “We’re fairly blissful — I actually, actually love him lots,” she informed hosts Roman Kemp and Vick Hope. “This tune was actually enjoyable as a result of we received to simply hang around once more like we did on the tune we did earlier than, ‘I Know What You Did Final Summer time,’ which is once we received actually shut,” she mentioned of reuniting with Mendes for “Señorita.”
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November 2019 – An evening by the courts
The “Señorita” collaborators had been noticed locking lips courtside at an L.A. Clippers sport as their fellow followers watched the staff tackle the Toronto Raptors contained in the Staples Heart. See the images right here.
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November 2019 – Matching tattoos
Tattoo artist Kane Navasard shared Mendes’ new tat on his Instagram web page, a small letter “A” behind his ear, a tribute to his 16-year-old sister, Aaliyah. For Cabello’s first piece, the singer opted for the phrase, “it’s a thriller,” written in cursive on the within of her pinky finger, referencing the 1998 model of Shakespeare in Love starring Gwyneth Paltrow.
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November 2019 – Submit-AMAs letter
After their efficiency of “Señorita” on the American Music Awards, which gained favourite collaboration of the 12 months later that night time, Cabello took to Instagram to shout-out her particular somebody and their followers. “i like you @shawnmendes thank u for being so there for me yesterday and each different day, u have probably the most caring and delightful coronary heart on the planet !” she captioned their couple photos from the awards present. “due to all our followers for voting , we love and admire you guys a lot and are so grateful for you.”
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March 2020 – Cinderella-themed party
Cabello turned 23 years previous on March 3, 2020, and celebrated her birthday in England, the place she was filming Cinderella. The Disney princess was the theme of her party, which came about on the Blackpool Tower in London. Mendes flew throughout the pond to be in attendance, and the real-life Cinderella ball featured a glass slipper ice sculpture and a pumpkin-turned-carriage birthday cake.
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March 2020 – Quarantine livestream
When not going for paparazzi-filled walks round Miami, Shawnmila spent the start of quarantine livestreaming from Miami. Notably, they took half within the Collectively, At Residence: WHO-International Citizen Solidarity Classes, the place they sang plenty of songs, together with Cabello’s “Havana” and Mendes’ “Misplaced in Japan,” earlier than wrapping up with their hit duet “Señorita.”
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April 2020 – Hospital go to
Working with Ryan Seacrest’s eponymous charitable basis, the pop star couple brightened the day for pediatric sufferers at Kids’s Nationwide Hospital in Washington, D.C., by calling into the healthcare middle through video chat. Through the digital go to, Cabello answered questions from the little ones, and Mendes performed guitar, and each danced together with a pair of younger sufferers to Megan Thee Stallion‘s “Savage.”
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Could 2020 – Quarantine cuddles
Cabello posted an cute image on Instagram, one arm round Mendes and one round her canine Thunder, who seemed as smiley because the blissful couple quarantining collectively.
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September 2020 – Marvel announcement
Issues within the Shawnmila world had been a bit quiet, as Cabello wrapped up Cinderella filming within the U.Okay., however followers breathed a collective sigh of reduction when the “My Oh My” singer beamed with delight over Mendes’ upcoming album, proving that the couple had been nonetheless going robust. After her “Señorita” collaborator shared a teaser video for his upcoming album, Cabello reposted the clip with a heart-melting message. “the world may use some magic, magnificence, and Marvel all the time, however particularly proper now,” she wrote. “@shawnmendes what a beautiful reward to the world. He’s crafted this album with each final little bit of his soul, his spirit, and his essence with the purest of intentions. My love, I’m so pleased with the particular person you might be and I’m so excited for individuals to see and listen to your coronary heart.” See her submit right here.
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October 2020 – Shawn’s candy interview
Mendes sat down with SiriusXM’s The Morning Mash Up on SiriusXM Hits 1 to explain how his girlfriend impressed him to jot down his upcoming album and the way he can’t wait to see her once more after greater than a month aside. “She’s doing superb. I haven’t seen her truly in like a month and two weeks, not that I’m counting,” he informed co-host Nicole Ryan, who questioned if Cabello had heard Shawn’s just-released single “Marvel” and what she thinks of it. “She’s again actually quickly and I feel it’s fascinating ’trigger when your girlfriend is an insanely proficient, actual musician who writes her personal music, it’s scary to jot down an album round her. And she or he was with me once I was form of within the studio doing it. I spotted the trick is like, present her the actually tough demo model out of your cellphone that you just recorded, and if she doesn’t like that, she’ll let you know, then don’t wait to indicate her the combined completed product. As a result of if she doesn’t prefer it then, you then’re form of, I don’t know what to say to you. I’m sorry.”
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October 2020 – In Marvel documentary trailer
Within the teaser for his In Marvel documentary, which can premiere on Netflix on Nov. 23, Cabello reveals up all through, in what seems to be the rehearsal and efficiency of their Scorching 100 No. 1 hit “Señorita” on the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards. “My tune comes on the radio or one thing, and I’m like, ‘Every thing is about you, they’ve all the time been about you.’ She goes, ‘What do you imply?’ I’m like, ‘They’re all about you. Like each tune I’ve ever wrote,’” Mendes says on the tail-end of the trailer.
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October 2020 – Reunion and new hairdos
Cabello took to Instagram on Oct. 22 to debut her new haircut with photograph credit score given to none apart from Mendes. “LOST MY SHORT HAIR VIRGINITY!!!! I’ve had lengthy hair all my life it’s TIME TO FEEL THE AIR ON THESE SHOULDERS BABY,” she captioned the snap, during which she’s seen in an alleyway smiling and searching over her shoulder. She adopted it up with one other lovey photograph with Mendes, during which the “Señorita” couple is seen embracing with Cabello’s legs wrapped round Mendes. “heheheheheh,” she captioned the cute snap.
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Nov. 17, 2021 – The breakup announcement
After two-plus years of courting, Cabello and Mendes introduced on Nov. 17 that they’ve damaged up however will “proceed to be greatest mates.” The pair shared an identical assertion, signed “Camila and Shawn,” on their respective Instagram Tales. “Hey guys, we’ve determined to finish our romantic relationship however our love for each other as people is stronger than ever,” the assertion reads. “We began our relationship as greatest mates and can proceed to be greatest mates. We so admire your help from the start and transferring ahead.”
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March 2022 – “Bam Bam”
Cabello’s Familia single “Bam Bam” closely referenced Mendes in its lyrics, and she or he later mentioned the breakup with Zane Lowe throughout an look on Apple Music 1’s New Music Day by day. “These years that we had been courting, I don’t even really feel like, even whereas I used to be scripting this album, and even nonetheless now, I suppose, my focus is admittedly on, How can I be a well-rounded particular person? And other than my profession, my focus wasn’t even on my profession,” she mentioned.
“And similar factor with these years that we had been collectively. My focus was simply, How can I dwell a contented life and be in a wholesome, blissful relationship? I used to be doing remedy lots. My focus actually has shifted,” she continued. “And even now whereas I’m in promo mode, actually, if I’m not having enjoyable, what’s the f—ing level? I feel as I become older, yeah, the priorities shift. And I really feel like that was that approach for each of us. As a result of we each began so younger too, we’re actually studying how you can be wholesome adults. And that generally means not having your primary focus be your profession. And that’s okay.”
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April 2023 – Coachella Reunion
It’s not over but! Shawnmila followers had been shocked when a clip circulated on social media that includes the duo embracing and sharing a passionate kiss whereas watching a night efficiency on the Coachella music pageant in Indio, Calif.