In this sometimes horrible world of ours, there’s a wholesome light that always shines through — and its name is Niall Horan. Bless his cotton socks, the Irish contingent of One Direction exudes a “just happy to be here” energy, and honestly I wish him all the success in the world. Including in the romance department, which is why I’m obsessed with the current Selena Gomez related rumours doing the rounds.
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That’s right, there are folks that firmly believe these two are a Thing, and I couldn’t be more here for it if I tried. I mean, it’s pretty believable considering Selena hasn’t dated anyone publicly since she split from The Weeknd a coupla years back and Niall has been single since dating Hailee Steinfeld last year.
Plus, there’s HISTORY. For a bit of back story, Niall has long been a vocal admirer of Sel’s. In fact, as someone with an encyclopaedic knowledge of One Direction’s 2015 appearance on James Corden‘s Carpool Karaoke, I recall that during a round of Fuck / Marry / Kill Niall said he’d “marry Gomez”. Bless.
Around the same time, Sel was flat-out asked by Entertainment Tonight if the pair was dating and she literally screamed: “Oh my god! No. I love him, I always have. He’s amazing.” Which was a nice if not quite damning response to the whole thing. But the rumours have been reignited this week again, twice.
The first instance was 5 days ago when the pair’s mutual friend Courtney Lopez posted this pic from last Thursday US time which featured the pair looking somewhat cosy:
YES WE SEE THAT HAND NIALL.
Then the pair took to Instagram stories to share these cute posts about each other:
And:
The pair also had a little house visit, with Selena snapped heading into Niall’s house with fruit salad and ice cream (I’m telling you, WHOLESOME). While E! News boringly published some quotes from a source saying “Selena and Niall are not dating and have been hanging out as friends”, Twitter is having none of it and is predictably shipping Nelena / Niallena (?!) hard.
selena and niall, that’s it that’s the tweet pic.twitter.com/HbhigWPYuE
— . (@gomezdrxgons) October 4, 2019
Selena arriving at Niall’s house
Omg ✨💖 pic.twitter.com/GOS3XdTQcd— LDY 🍉 (@isfucking_real) October 9, 2019
https://twitter.com/stainedbyharry/status/1182019374640697344
https://twitter.com/badliarisgay/status/1180124523972251648
https://twitter.com/snakeputation/status/1182014310375186432
https://twitter.com/dreaminofmila/status/1182022345130758144
Of course there are some boring people coming through with the ~facts~, but we dare to dream.
Selena and Niall have been friends for YEARS. They’re just friends. Y’all need to calm down.
— SG (@iAdoreSelena92) October 9, 2019
Niall and Selena, Selena and Niall… whichever way you look at it, it’s meant to be.
