Bob Dylan dropped out of college and left Minnesota at 19 to play Greenwich Village clubs, befriending folk icons and writing love songs. Timothée Chalamet dropped out of NYU and played a terminally gay Italian boy. These men are not the same. Despite Chalamet dedicating years of practice to play Bob Dylan for A Complete Unknown, there are some things you just have to experience. Namely: the swagger of bagging a perfect 10. Chalamet’s first long-term public relationship, with the final boss of nepo babies, Kylie Jenner, is playing out before the world’s (and Club Chalamet’s) eyes as he graduates to leading man. Below, a timeline of his quest to become one of the greats who also dated a Kardashian. So far no kids and no Oscars, but there’s always next year.
January 7, 2023: “Kylie and Travis are off again,” sources tell Us Weekly of Jenner’s relationship with Travis Scott, the father of her two children. “They were supposed to spend the holidays together, but she went to Aspen to be with her family and friends up there … This has happened so many times before, they’re known to be on again, off again, but always remain friends and great co-parents.”
January 25, 2023: Like any good Hollywood romance, it starts in Paris. Enter rizz god Timothée Chalamet, who has Kylie giggling backstage at Jean Paul Gaultier for Haider Ackermann’s one-season guest spot at the haute couture label. This matters even if you don’t care about fashion because Ackermann frequently dresses Timothée, including the white tux he wore to the Oscars when nominated in Best Actor for Call Me by Your Name.
April 6, 2023: Guess whose Range Rover is in Timothée Chalamet’s driveway.
April 7, 2023: Kylie and her security detail swing by an art show in Santa Monica to pick up Timothée. Security drives them around the corner to a taco spot, brings their food to them in the backseat, and waits outside for about 30 minutes, per the Daily Mail, before driving off. It may be all black with tinted windows, but a custom extended Lincoln Navigator isn’t exactly low key.
April 14, 2023: People reports they are “hanging out” and “getting to know each other.”
April 27, 2023: Monica Barbaro of Top Gun: Maverick is “in final talks” to portray Joan Baez in A Complete Unknown. Her resemblance to the Kylie Cosmetics founder is noted by X users, even as early as 2018. (Chalamet has been attached to the biopic since 2020.)
May 5, 2023: Kylie attends her annual family dinner, the Met Gala, wearing Haider Ackermann for Jean Paul Gaultier.
June 1, 2023: The paparazzi perched in a tree outside Chalamet’s Beverly Hills home photograph Jenner holding a carton of cigarettes and an ashtray outside while chatting with Pauline Chalamet, Tim’s older sister. It confuses a generation raised on anti-smoking ads.
July 28, 2023: Travis Scott sneaks a line about Timothée — “Chocolate AP and chocolate the Vs, Got the Willy Wonka factory” — into his new song “MELTDOWN” off UTOPIA, the rapper’s first full length project since the Astroworld tragedy. “Burn an athlete like it’s calories,” he continues in that verse. “Find another flame hot as me, bitch. Yeah, is you fuckin’ crazy? (Nah) is you fuckin’ crazy? (What?)” The song Billboard’s critic called “disappointingly one-dimensional” debuts at No. 3 on the Billboard “Hot 100.”
August 2, 2023: They are still dating, BTW.
September 5, 2023: Every celebrity and their mother was at Beyoncé’s Renaissance World Tour, including Stormi’s mom. She and Timothée give “Drunk in Love,” chain-smoking inside SoFi Stadium and confirming their relationship in front of God (Beyoncé).
Simone of Club Chalamet shares a long post about Chalamet’s smoking and his choice of company. “After months and months of gossip media bombardment, gossip speculations, ‘sources’ from the kajenner camp, her people stalking Timmy’s private residence, and his obvious avoidance of her, has finally paid off and had her primary objective met. Timothée has now played her hand and relented,” she writes on Reddit that night in a since-deleted caption.
September 8, 2023: Kylie accompanies Timothée to a New York Fashion Week dinner for Haider Ackermann’s collaboration with Augustinus Bader.
September 10, 2023: They’re making out at the U.S. Open. This has the complete opposite energy of Challengers, but Luca Guadagnino was probably into it.
September 21, 2023: Kylie Jenner’s lock screen happens to be a photo of Timothée kissing her cheek. In the photograph of her holding her phone, taken at Prada during Milan Fashion Week, she’s gripping it with three fingers while holding up Prada sunglasses.
Fall 2023: In an episode of The Kardashians that won’t air until June 2024, Kylie cries while discussing her body image. “I went on a journey last year dissolving half my lip filler,” Kylie shared during the episode, which was filmed in the fall of 2023. “I hate having this same conversation over and over and over again because it feels like a waste of my breath because I think, with me, it’s just never going to change. But it’s just been …”
October 24, 2023: “Meet Khy.” Kylie’s clothing line is soft-launched on Instagram. Following in her sisters’ footsteps, the debut collection is officially announced by WSJ. magazine, which describes it as “the wardrobe of a biker babe during the apocalypse — who happens to have internet access and a Pilates-toned body.” So, in other words, Chani from Dune, if she was born in Los Angeles.
November 1, 2023: The day of Khy’s first drop, Chalamet supports Jenner as she accepts “brand innovator of the year” from WSJ. The actor also presented the film-innovator award with Martin Scorsese — but that’s not who he left with.
November 11, 2023: Chalamet makes his sophomore debut on Saturday Night Live and attends the after-party with Jenner, though they arrive separately.
November 28, 2023: The Wonka premiere couldn’t be their red-carpet debut, for posterity’s sake, but Kylie attended both the London and L.A. screenings and parties, per People. Timothée walks straight up to Club Chalamet, in a swarm of fans, who posts about it online, saying “Thanks to everyone’s positive feedback and support regarding my experience at the L.A. Wonka premiere. I was very lucky and I think after the events of recent months, it was a nice karmic scenario for both me and Timothée.”
December 24, 2023: Chalamet can be seen at the Kardashian Christmas Eve party in the background of Landon Barker’s Snapchat despite rumors he didn’t attend.
January 7, 2024: Selena Gomez is allegedly overheard saying Jenner denied someone a photograph with Chalamet at the Golden Globes. While Timothée’s Rainy Day in New York co-star would go on to deny those rumors (setting off new dating rumors instead), it was the nucleus of gossip surrounding Timothée Chalamet and Kylie Jenner that night. The pair avoided cameras for the most part, with only a handful of photographs of Kylie on Getty, but they still managed to be caught kissing during commercial breaks.
February 4, 2024: Travis Scott performs at the Grammys, in case you were wondering.
March 7, 2024: Cosmic, a new fragrance by Kylie Cosmetics, launches.
March 10, 2024: Both attend the Vanity Fair Oscar party but walk the carpet separately.
March 11, 2024: Kylie lands Sam Edelman’s 20th anniversary campaign, which she says “epitomized that fashion is more than just something to wear, it is a source of power.” Around this time, she’s also “papped” in Bottega Veneta, casually holding a single case of Sprinter, label out.
March 16, 2024: After some Dune: Part Two press, Timothée begins filming A Complete Unknown in New York City.
March 22, 2024: Timothée and his assistant/best friend, Nick Spiro, attend the launch party for Kylie’s canned vodka soda, Sprinter, at Catch LA. You may know him from his supporting role “Guy Waiting With Timmy For Kylie Jenner’s Security to Pick Him Up for Tacos.”
April: Daniel Tosh spreads a rumor that Kylie’s pregnant. “while we’re sitting here joking about kylie having timothee’s firstborn, clubchalamet is somewhere being 5150’d,” @kirkxxs tweets.
April 25, 2024: Multiple sources confirm Kylie is not pregnant — she’s doing long distance while Timo’s on set.
May 10, 2024: Kylie’s phone background is (still?) a selfie with Timmy while she’s promoting Sprinter in Las Vegas, per DeuxMoi.
May 23, 2024: They casually get a table at Kwame Onwuachi’s Tatiana in Lincoln Center, the New York Times’ No. 1 restaurant of 2023.
June 18, 2024: A day before A Complete Unknown wraps, Jenner is seen at Stereophonic on Broadway. Whatcha doin’ in town, girl?
June 20, 2024: Travis Scott is arrested for disorderly conduct in Miami Beach.
June 28, 2024: A month later, Kylie and Timmy see a movie at only the most famous cinema in Los Angeles, the TCL Chinese Theatre.
July 19, 2024: Backgrid drops photos of Timothée and Kyliée touring the South of France.
July 24, 2024: Timmy’s Bob Dylan vocals debut in a trailer for A Complete Unknown.
August 9, 2024: Travis Scott is arrested again, this time for assaulting a hotel security guard in Paris.
August 10, 2024: Leo baby Kylie celebrates her 27th birthday on a yacht in the Bahamas playing poker with Chalamet and a “small group of close friends,” per a source. “She’s incredibly happy with him. She’s never been in love like this before,” the source tells People. “He’s great for her.”
Also: “Her family loves him.” And “He’s so discreet and always has her back. He’s very much a gentleman and everything that Kylie deserves.”
If it wasn’t clear, the source adds: “They are very serious.”
September 30, 2024: Back in New York, Chalamet is seen on set of his ping-pong movie, Marty Supreme, which, fun fact, also stars Tyler, the Creator. Now that’d be a good PR relationship.
October 12, 2024: Sources do their best investigative work and tell us Kylie and Timothée ate “standard meatballs” for dinner at Little Charli’s. What is the plot, again?
October 17, 2024: Right, he’s a movie star. Photos of Timothée kissing Gwyneth Paltrow leak from the set of Marty Supreme.
October 27, 2024: Timothée stops by his own look-alike contest. In retrospect, where was the simultaneous Kylie Jenner look-alike meet-up?
October 28, 2024: Kylie wears a feathered Jean Paul Gaultier gown from Ackermann’s 2023 spring couture collection at the CFDA Awards.
December 10, 2024: They’re holding hands at the premiere party for A Complete Unknown, right in front of “Joan Baez,” “Sylvie Russo,” and Kris Jenner.
January 5, 2025: Kylie dispels new pregnancy rumors attending the Golden Globes. This time, Timothée debuts Ackermann’s Tom Ford collection and there are countless photographs of their PDA throughout the night. (Adrien Brody wins Best Actor.) “Timothée is used to attending awards shows and events, but it was nice having Kylie there to support him,” a source tells “Page Six.” “Kylie really is his best friend and his biggest supporter. They have such a strong connection and he was so thankful she could be there with him.”
January 14, 2025: Chalamet rides a Lime bike onto the red carpet at the London premiere of ACU. (And eats a fine for not returning it.)
January 15, 2025: Chalamet wears a cunty little pink scarf at the Paris premiere of ACU. Kylie skipped the red carpet, but met him for dinner, amid news of the Kardashians fleeing the California wildfires.
January 23, 2025: Everything leads up to Oscar nominations. Both Dune: Part Two and A Complete Unknown are up for Best Picture, with Timmy’s Bob Dylan against Adrien Brody’s László Toth for Best Actor.
January 26, 2025: Kylie attends the SNL afters to celebrate Chalamet pulling double-duty.
February 11, 2025: “Kylie Jenner rubs on her boyfriend’s humpback and gives him a standing ovation as he receives the artist of the year award at the Santa Barbara international film festival” reads a Reddit post on r/TimotheeChalametDaily. What else is there to say?
February 15, 2025: The ACU press campaign winds down in Berlin. Kylie Jenner wears a full black sequined gown to the A Complete Unknown premiere while her man wears an all-pink sweatsuit and tank top. It’s the difference between fashion and style; divorce would be on the table, personally. In footage, she sits down next to him without a word. Later, per The Hollywood Reporter, she strokes his face while he speaks. “Bob Dylan, the man, the artist, became a shining light for me and a guide for me to this day,” Chalamet says at one point. “His individuality and the refusal to be a part of the masses.”
February 16, 2025: Timothée wears all-black Bottega Veneta for the BAFTAs. In photographs, he’s clasping his fingers around Kylie’s left hand, creating a knot of fingers. (Adrien Brody wins Best Actor.) Kylie is wearing John Galliano, posting photos and videos in the gown, and spraying perfume.
February 17, 2025: Oh, what do you know? “ahhhh my new sister fragrance coming 2.27,” Kylie posts on Instagram, announcing Cosmic 2.0.
February 18, 2025: Oscar voting ends right as Cosmic 2.0 promoting begins.
February 23, 2025: Timothée doesn’t include self-made billionaire Kylie Jenner when he lists the names of a bunch of “greats” he aspires to be like in his SAG Best Actor acceptance speech. (Adrien Brody loses, is gagged a little bit.)
February 25, 2025: Cartier throws a poker night in honor of Chalamet’s Oscar nomination. He forewent the dinner offered by Cartier and asked for a poker night instead, inviting a random assortment of A-listers. Even a member of the Pussy Posse shows up. “Timothée and Kylie went head-to-head once, on a defeat he graciously and proudly accepted. (She was, sneakily, one of the most formidable players at the table, raising big bets with the confidence of a high roller, as a woman who’s up Bs should,” writes GQ’s Frazier Tharpe.)
February 26, 2025: WWD reports the Instagram announcement for Cosmic 2.0 “earned $3.1 million in media impact value for Kylie Cosmetics in one week, according to Launchmetrics.”
March 2, 2025: Timmy brings his mom and his girlfriend to the Oscars, though we don’t see them interact. Front row at the Dolby Theatre, the couple is near-immediately photographed kissing before host Conan O’Brien can even get onstage. He loses Best Actor to Adrien Brody and switches from his butter-yellow Givenchy suit (debuting Sarah Burton for the label) to a black tux. Kylie also changes from Miu Miu into a matching black lace gown, pressing her cheek into his for photos at the Vanity Fair after-party.
December 25, 2025: Marty Supreme’s theater-release day. Place your bets on whether or not Chalamet appears on The Kardashians before then.