This next piece of gossip is a throwback to an older story. Back in July 2022, singer Doja Cat made headlines for beefing with Noah Schnapp, who plays Will Byers on Stranger Things. The whole incident was particularly noteworthy because at the time, Doja was a 26-year-old woman and Noah was a 17-year-old child. Doja thought Noah’s co-star, Joseph Quinn (Season 4’s Eddie), was hot, so she messaged him to ask if Joseph was single and to have him hit her up. Noah’s response was basically, “Umm leave me outta this, go hit him up yourself.” Then, he posted that convo on TikTok. Doja responded by doing a TikTok Live, where she complained about Noah’s actions, calling his behavior “snake” and “weasel sh-t,” while also admitting that he was just “a kid.”
The whole thing was dumb, but apparently it worked somehow. Last week, Joseph and Doja were spotted at an Osees concert together in London. Two weeks ago, they were filmed holding hands and doing some light butt-grabbing while out and about for a walk in London. Deuxmoi posted the video on their Instagram account on Sunday.
The Grammy-winning singer was recently spotted holding hands with the “Stranger Things” star during a stroll in London, per a video posted by Deuxmoi Sunday. The pair appeared quite comfortable with each other as the British actor wrapped his arm around the pop star’s shoulder before caressing her back and subtly touching her bum.
It’s unclear how long the two have been romantically involved.
The video surfaced shortly after Deuxmoi obtained a photo of the duo snuggling during an Osees rock concert at Dingwalls in Camden, London, on Friday. Fans of the “Kiss Me More” hitmaker, 28, were excited about her potential new relationship with Quinn, 30, considering she previously asked his “Stranger Things” co-star Noah Schnapp to set them up.
“She manifested this years ago 🤣 I’m happy for her,” one Instagram user posted Sunday.
“Doja’s wishes are fulfilled. She wanted him from the very beginning,” a second commented.
“I love a girl who goes and gets her man! Ladies, yall want that man? Go get him!!” a third gushed.
The “Paint the Town Red” artist first revealed her crush in July 2022 when she slid into Schapp’s DMs for help reaching out to the “Gladiator II” star, who she described as “fine as s–t.”
“Noah can you tell Joseph to hmu,” she wrote, adding, “wait no. does he have a gf?”
“LMAOO slide into his DMs,” the young actor replied, before sharing the link to Quinn’s profile.
However, the interaction eventually turned sour when Doja — born Amala Ratna Zandile Dlamini — called out Schapp, now 19, for sharing their private messages in a since-deleted TikTok video. The “Say So” songstress slammed Schapp for being “unbelievably socially unaware and whack” in a TikTok Live. “That’s like borderline snake s–t. That’s like weasel s–t,” she said at the time.
Following the video, Doja faced backlash from fans who criticized her for asking a 17-year-old to “play matchmaker” in the first place.
“That’s kinda weird in itself,” one person tweeted. According to data from Social Blade, she lost nearly 200,000 followers amid the drama, while Schnapp gained 2 million.
But the “Stranger Things” actor cleared the air on social media days later.
“Guys everything is all good I apologized and I still follow her and love her music no hard feelings,” Schnapp posted on TikTok.
I don’t really know much about Doja beyond the fact that she’s problematic along with this story from two years ago. I’m not sure if she’s the type to have someone on her team send in tips like this to sites like Deuxmoi or if they were trying to keep it quiet and just happened to get outed at the concert. Do we think that they’re together for real or for PR? If so, I want to know the backstory on how they ended up getting together. Was it a result of the drama with Noah? Or did something start up more organically and recently? Who slid into whose DMs?! Inquiring gossip minds want to know!
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Ugh, Joe. You’re a Marvel superhero now, you can do better!
I think Joseph can do better.
I wouldn’t know who she was if she walked right up to me (honestly, probably wouldn’t recognize him either). Everything I’ve read about her sounds messy though.
He reminds me of Justin Timberlake which leads to an instant recoil.
I’m with Doja on that old story. It was a d*ck move for Noah to post their conversation online. His generation is entirely online. He knew it was not ok. Her mistake was not handling her response better given that he was a minor at the time. She should have let her PR feed a story to Page Six describing how hurt and embarrassed she was, and that she regretted trusting a child.
Having said all this, I love Noah and I think he should have gotten an Emmy for that scene in the van in the last season of Stranger Things. I love Doja’s music and that she’s into making her own persona.
I’m with the young teenager on that old story. She came over as an entitled, pompous biach of the first order. I also agree with the posts above, Joe could do so much better.
Eh, grown women shouldn’t be “trusting children” with their romantic lives period. Children should feel safe letting others know when they do because that can get really sketch really fast. The less online privacy between adults and children, the better, and that should be everyone’s expectation.
She has a team of people working for her so even if Quinn doesn’t have any social media accounts surely her team could contact his team instead of going through a 17 years-old and then complain because he did what any normal 17 years-old would do.
I loved Joseph on ST. I was so sad when his character got killed off. More Eddie!