Take a Look at Ayo Edebiri’s Private Dating History Amid Rumors She’s With Jeremy Allen White

Colin Burgess (2021 – ?)

The only confirmed relationship Ayo Edebiri has been in is with fellow comedian Colin Burgess. On Valentine’s Day in 2021, he posted a picture of him and her in matching face masks. “after much consideration I have decided that this year my valentine is my girlfriend Ayo,” he captioned the post. “this is a photo of us together doing Dr. Jart+ Water Jet Vital Hydra Solution™ sheet mask.”

He also made an Instagram post accompanying her to the Emmys in 2022. “congrats to my gf Ayo on presenting her first Emmy,” he posted with a selfie of him while Ayo was interviewed in the background.

The two keep their relationship very private. In the midst of her dating rumors with Jeremy Allen White, Joel Kim Booster defended Ayo’s boyfriend in a deleted tweet. “I’ve known Ayo’s boyfriend for close to a decade and he is such a kind, smart, funny dude and y’all are being weird as shit. Log off and make a real human friend I’m begging you,” he wrote.

Rumored: Paul Mescal (2024)

If you don’t know the long-running gag that Ayo Edebiri is Irish, here’s a brief explainer: she joked that she starred in the wildly Irish film The Banshees of Inisherin as the stubborn donkey Jenny in an interview with Letterboxd, and the internet seems to take that joke as far as it can.

So when Ayo Edebiri posted a photo of her with current Irish heartthrob Paul Mescal, the internet went very crazy. In a photo with her arm wrapped around his on a stairwell, she wrote in her Instagram stories, “Happy St Paddy’s 🍀.”

A source close to the actors revealed that the two are “just friends” to People. However, it’s been a long-running wish for the Normal People actor to work with the Bottoms actress. “I think in the next five years I’m going to set myself a challenge to do maybe a rom-com with Ayo, or something like that would be cool,” he told AwardsWatch.  

Rumored: Jeremy Allen White

Despite how much the internet wants SydCarmy to be a thing in the show, as well as their actors in real life, Jeremy Allen White and Ayo Edebiri never dated. Rumors usually start swirling whenever The Bear starts filming or whenever a new season comes out.

In the middle of filming, both actors were spotted at Wrigley Field to watch the Cubs play the Pittsburgh Pirates, a video of him affectionately rubbing her back went viral. Fans went crazy. “Work wife-husband relationship is going crrazzyyy,” one fan wrote, while another said: “I’m just gonna say I don’t touch my friends like that.”

The two have the best chemistry in the business and have talked highly about each other. “We really enjoy each other in life, on camera and off camera. I have a tremendous amount of respect for her as a person, but also as an artist. And so I hope that sort of — that kind of thing shines through on camera between Carm and Syd,” she told Vanity Fair. “Also, boy’s got some beautiful blue eyes. You know what I mean? Those are eyes you want to project onto.” She’s also been very vocal about how they are only friends and co-workers “I’m happy for him. That’s my boy,” Ayo said in a red carpet appearance. “I do feel like I want people to understand that he’s my co-worker!” Jeremy Allen White is currently dating musician Rosalía.

Rumored: Jamen Whitlock (2024 – present)

Ayo Edebiri was linked to Jamen Whitlock after an Instagram post shared by actor Ke Huy Quan in December 2024 during a trip to Taipei showed the two together.  In January 2025, she shared a photo on her Instagram Story where he tries to smooch her. How cute!