The pandemic really messed with my sense of time, because I could have sworn that the big Varsity Blues scandal happened during the pandemic. But it did not!! It happened in 2019. Some of the trials and plea deals happened during the pandemic though. Varsity Blues was the scandal about rich parents in LA buying their kids’ SAT scores and bribing their kids’ way into college. That was when we were introduced to Lori Loughlin’s daughter Olivia Jade Giannulli, who was attending USC under false pretenses. Long story short, Lori paid a huge fine and she did some time in federal prison. Meanwhile, Olivia dropped out of college and continued doing what she wanted to do originally: build her YouTube/influencer brand. One of the craziest twists of this saga was when Jacob Elordi split up with Kaia Gerber and then two seconds later (well, like a month later) he started dating Olivia. They’ve been on-and-off ever since 2021. It’s just such a random coupling, right? Although he has a physical type, because Olivia and Kaia are really similar-looking (Olivia also looks so much like her mother). Well, in any case, Olivia and Jacob are now completely done.
Olivia Jade Giannulli and Jacob Elordi have broken up, PEOPLE has learned. The influencer, 25, and the Euphoria actor, 28, who have been dating on and off again since 2021, recently decided to call it quits, a source tells PEOPLE.
PEOPLE has reached out to reps for both Giannulli and Elordi.
The news of the split comes amid months of speculation about the couple’s relationship status. In April, Giannulli seemed to hint that the pair was still going strong, after liking a post from the actor’s sister Isabella Elordi about his latest project, The Narrow Road to the Deep North, on Instagram, per E! News.
The pair first sparked dating rumors in late 2021, when they were seen having coffee together in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles, just one month after Elordi’s split from model and actress Kaia Gerber.
Since I don’t follow her comings and goings on YT or social media, I really have no idea how much or how little Olivia milked this relationship. I suspect she wasn’t revealing all, just because we would have heard about it, right? Anyway, I always thought it was an odd move for an up-and-coming actor with a lot of heat to date someone coming out of such a major scandal. Guess he’ll have to find another fine-boned, brown-eyed brunette with a pretty face. If he hasn’t found her already! OMG, look out, Jenna Ortega, you’re next!!
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- Marrakech International Film Festival – ‘The Order’ Red Carpet and Opening Ceremony Featuring: Jacob Elordi Where: Marrakech, Morocco When: 29 Nov 2024 Credit: Abaca Press/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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It’s crazy how much she looks like a carbon copy of her mother! Aside from that, he looks WAY different with facial hair. I didn’t recognize him! Hope he gets to shave soon bc he is so hot without it.
Jenna is tiny and he’s like 6’5”. Besides height not each other’s types at all.
Amazing Lori did all that for a daughter who could have cared less about college
I remember thinking the same thing. She was pretty open about having no interest in college, her life career goal was to be an influencer (and/or live off her parents $$). The other daughter, IIRC, actually did want to go to college but it seems like it was the more the parents dream for them to go to USC.
What made me lol about the Varsity Blues thing was that USC is a private school- you can just buy your way in with donations. You don’t have to lie just write a check.
I will always have a grudge against her and her family for what they did. Even though it was her mother’s primary “doing”, it just grosses me out so much. Should have listened to the (entitled) kid. And about Elordi…I guess we want what we want, but it IS hard to imagine him pairing up with her after that scandal, when he was so “hot”. Similar to Chalamet being with that Kardashian…..
I normally wouldn’t think twice about whether guy looks better with bangs or without, but he looks way better with his hair falling forward.
Imagine having had that much rhinoplasty at such a young age. Also, if they take any more of her nose, she’ll look like Voldemort. Same with Ivanka Trump. Way overdone, and on top of that it doesn’t even look good … or normal.