Timothee Chalamet is being tipped to take home a host of trophies this awards season — but his top starring role right now is in Kylie Jenner’s life.
Eyebrows were arched when the rapidly rising A-list actor, 30, first started dating the reality-star-turned-cosmetics-mogul, 28, with Hollywood snobs doubting they’d last.
But proving the naysayers wrong, they’ve been taking things up a notch, with Chalamet declaring his love for Jenneras he accepted an award for his role in “Marty Supreme” at the Critics’ Choice Awards last week.
Despite being from one of the US’s most colorful and at times dramatic families and growing up under the glare of “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” reality TV cameras, Jenner is notoriously guarded about his private life, but sources say the actor is responsible for taking her to a happier place.
“After living and growing up really fast, being with someone like Timmy is a wholesome, welcoming stable relationship,” a music industry insider familiar with Jenner and Chalamet told Page Six.
And it doesn’t hurt that Chalamet is currently on fire, being front runner– and the youngest in his category – nominated for Best Actor at the Golden Globes, for “Marty Supreme” as Marty Mauser, the relentless table tennis hustler determined to become a world champ.
Sources say his too-cool-for-school born-and-raised New Yorker personality have won Los Angeles native Kylie — who is also a make-up mogul worth over $670 million according to Forbes — completely.
“Timmy is a very cool, young kid who is dialed in. Even dating Kylie, he still retains that down-to-earth persona and hasn’t forgotten where he’s come from. Timmy’s the girl next door, but in reverse,” the music industry insider said.
Chalamet and Jenner’s love story first started in January 2023, when they were spotted at a Jean Paul Gaultier fashion show during Paris Couture Week, but it was only in September of that year they made a public appearance, at a Beyonce concert.
Throughout their three years together, skeptics have doubted their relationship because, unlike many in the public eye, they rarely talk about it and rumors of a breakup are regularly circulated. But insiders say they’ve grown more comfortable parading their PDA and although they are low key about it, their relationship is getting stronger all the time.
Proving they share a sense of humor and style, the couple stepped out in December for the Los Angeles premiere of his movie “Marty Supreme,” in matching custom Chrome Hearts outfits. Chalamet beamed at cameras from an orange-hued leather suit and silk shirt, punctuating his monochromatic look with orange boots. Meanwhile, the Kylie Cosmetics mogul complemented him in a matching low cut, floor-length orange gown with cutouts at her waist.
Then at the Critic’s Choice Awards in Santa Monica on Jan. 4 the “Wonka” actor made it clear Jenner is his golden ticket.
He locked lips with the beauty guru moments before making his way to the stage to collect his award for Best Actor for “Marty Supreme.”
Then, he allotted the final moments of his speech to praise her.
“Lastly, I’ll just say thank you to my partner of three years, thank you for our foundation. I love you. I couldn’t do this without you. Thank you from the bottom of my heart,” he said as the glossy-eyed mom of two returned the sentiment from the audience, mouthing “I love you” back.
It’s anything but lip service for the Kylie Lip Kit creator.
Growing up the youngest of her generation in her famous family; alongside Kourtney, Khloe, Kim, Robert Kardashian Jr. and sister Kendall, Jenner grew up quickly, regularly appearing on national TV by the time she was a teenager.
She continued to grow up fast, getting pregnant during her second serious relationship with rapper Travis Scott, 34, and giving birth to their daughter, Stormi Webster, now 7, when she was 21 in 2018. They had an on-off relationship between 2019 and 2023, and another child together, son Aire Webster in 2022, but ultimately split at the very beginning of 2023, around the same time she was first spotted with Chalamet.
The star has gone from being a shoulder to cry on, to the sunshine in Jenner’s life. Key to their bi-coastal relationship, with him based out of New York and she in California, is keeping things private. Little is known about Chalamet’s relationship with his beau’s children, for example. And they rarely allow themselves to be seen off-duty, outside of red carpet and public events.
Time and again, gossips have been proven wrong, such as rumors of “trouble in paradise” in November, and reports Chalamet had “broken up with Kylie.”
At the Palm Springs Film Festival earlier this month, Jenner posed in an orange sequined Ludovic de Saint Sernin gown to watch Chalamet honored with the Spotlight Actor of the Year award at role Josh Safdie-directed “Marty Supreme.”
Chalamet matched the support, liking her Instagram post and commenting with orange heart emojis.
Their return to the spotlight comes after spending the holidays together with the extended Kardashian-Jenner family, taking part in their annual Christmas “gingerbread house” tradition, with the “Dune” star’s moniker etched in icing on the family’s gingerbread house.
Sources say that while Jenner enjoys her extended honeymoon phase with Chalamet, she has also maintained a healthy co-parenting rhythm with Scott.
“They are in such a good place. They coparent so well — there’s never an issue. They speak every single day and have a fantastic relationship,” a Scott source said.
Meanwhile, another source told Page Six the movie star keeps Jenner grounded.
“Timmy is a New York kid. He’s got swag to him. You can tell he’s been around the culture.
“Kylie’s always been a kind gentle soul. She’s [Kylie] got somebody whose got a lot going for him. She’s a billionaire — now you got someone whose hot, doing his own thing. Travis is doing his own thing too, but [Timmy] feels safer — he’s on screen, easy to get along with,” the source said.
While the couple is more buttoned up in public, Chalamet — who graduated from Manhattan’s prestigious LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and Performing Arts — has made his name portraying emotionally rich and vulnerable characters.
He played the precocious, sexually awakened 17-year-old teen in “Call Me By Your Name,”the womanizing boyfriend in “Lady Bird,” a recovering meth addict in “Beautiful Boy” and appeared as the love interest, Laurie, in “Little Women.”
And he dazzled audiences last awards season when he transformed into poet and folk singer Bob Dylan in the biopic “A Complete Unknown” in which Chalamet brilliantly matched the nasal-forward, raspy vocal range of the 60’s musician.
Despite his massive fame and success — Chalamet, the entertainment source said, is refreshingly real. Whether he’s grabbing pizza in the West Villageor sitting courtside with Jenner at a Knick’s game.
“They’re good for each other because they both have tendencies to get a little brooding and in their own heads about things, and they lighten each other up,” a Jenner source told The Post last year.
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