BTS’s V and Blackpink’s Jennie Dating Rumors Timeline

Rumors that BTS’s V and Blackpink’s Jennie are dating have, once again, hit a fever pitch after the pair were reportedly spotted on what appeared to be a date in Paris in a video posted to Twitter on May 17.

Speculation that the K-Pop idols are dating first kicked off in May 2022 when alleged photos of the pair hanging out on several different occasions leaked over the course of a few months. Ever since, fans have been in a heated debate over whether the photos were real or doctored by fans. After all, V and Jennie are two of the biggest names in K-Pop, and they wouldn’t be the first idols fans shipped passionately together despite very little evidence to back up their gut feeling.

While the V and Jennie dating rumors died down for some time, the pair’s most recent alleged sighting has re-piqued fan interest. Ahead, get a breakdown of V and Jennie’s rumored relationship so far.

May 2022: First Reported Photo of Jennie and V Leaks

A photo of V driving in a car with someone who looked like Jennie on Jeju Island emerged online (via AllKPop). While some fans believed the image was real, others were skeptical, thinking it could have been edited, especially because, up until that point, Jennie had been rumored to be dating another K-pop star, Big Bang’s G-Dragon.

According to Allkpop, an employee from the Korean airline T’way Air claimed to have seen the two on a flight to Jeju Island together that May. The publication wrote: “One employee of the Korean budget airline T’way wrote on the ‘Blind’ app saying that they saw BTS’s V and BLACKPINK’s Jennie together. She also said that many of the T’way employees thought they were publicly dating because the two were traveling together in the open.” The worker reportedly made the claim on a messaging app called Blind, which is used anonymously by South Korean employees, according to Reuters.

Jennie’s agency, YG Entertainment, briefly addressed the rumors on May 23, 2022. “We have nothing to say [regarding this matter],” the agency said (via Soompi), adding, “We will inform you if we have a different response to share.”

August-September 2022: More Reported Photos of V and Jennie Leak

Over the next few months, more private photos of Jennie and V hanging out on what looked to be several different occasions leaked.

October 2022: YG Entertainment Requests Investigation Into Jennie’s Leaked Private Photos

In October 2022, YG announced an investigation into who was leaking Jennie’s photos. “We have officially requested the police to investigate who first circulated Blackpink Jennie’s personal photos,” YG said in a statement (via Rolling Stone). “We have refrained from mentioning the matter or making an official statement in order to minimize any further damage. However, there have been indiscriminate rumors, criticism, personal attacks, sexual harassment, and violations of personal life sparked by those private photographs,” the statement continued. “We are now announcing that we will take legal action and correct the situation.”

YG never specifically addressed the alleged photos of V and Jennie, so the heated debate surrounding whether they were real or doctored continued, as YG could have been referencing other privacy breaches in their statement.

May 2023: V and Jennie Seemingly Spotted Together on a Date in Paris

The rumored couple went under the radar for months until May 2023, when they were reportedly spotted taking a romantic stroll in Paris in a video captured by an onlooker from a distance. While V and Jennie’s schedules do confirm they were both in France at the time of the stroll (V for his Celine brand ambassadorship and Jennie to promote “The Idol” at the Cannes Film Festival), the debate surrounding whether the pair in the video was actually Jennie and V continued among fans. However, other close-up photos of V and Jennie with their managers wearing the same outfits seemingly confirmed the couple in the video was, in fact, V and Jennie.

HYBE did not immediately respond to News JoJo’s request for comment on the latest rumors, and reps for Jennie could not be reached.