Giving Use deja vu! Joshua BassettWhen he used social media to make fun of his breakup, he made jokesHigh School Musical: The Musical SeriesCostar Olivia Rodrigo.
“First letter is the love of my life,” Bassett, 21, said in a TikTok video on Tuesday, October 10, before tapping the screen to reveal a pink letter “O.” After a brief — but poignant — pause, the “Lifeline” singer tried again.
“Second letter is the love of my life,” he quipped before “Q” appeared on over his head. “OK, Q. I’ll take it,” he quipped, breathing a sigh of relief.
Joshua Bassett. Joshua Bassett/Instagram
The Grey’s Anatomy alum then captioned the clip with “i—,” seemingly still speechless after seeing the letter of 19-year-old Rodrigo’s first name pop up on the screen.
Fans of Bassett immediately took to the comment section of the clip to respond to the actor’s self-trolling. One person wrote, “YOU DID NOT,” while another said, “josh this should have stayed in ur drafts.”
Bassett, however, and the SourAlthough they never confirmed their relationship, the two were spotted together in 2019 in the Disney+ TV adaptation of. High School Musical. Rumors continued to swirl after the pair wrote a song for the comedy series.
“I think we understood each other. It was really neat … how well we really did work creatively together,” Bassett shared with the L.A. TimesIn January 2020, he shared his creative process with Rodrigo.
The “Brutal” singer, for her part, told the L.A. Times that working with the Better Nate Than EverStar felt natural, recalling an incident in which he improvised to him while filming, which led her to get emotional.
“He said, ‘Remember that one time that we wrote a song, and we didn’t know if anybody would like it?’ That one made me cry because I just remembered sharing those memories with him,” she gushed at the time. In one of her only public statements directly regarding him, she added, “I love him so much. He’s my best friend … It was like I wasn’t acting.”
In August 2020, however, Rodrigo made her own TikTok about a “failed relationship” before releasing her song “Drivers License.” After her debut album, SourFans speculated that the whole record was about the, which was dropped less than one year later. You are stuck in the middle alum.
Soon after, the couple was again in the news as fans speculated on a possible love triangle. Sabrina CarpenterBassett was therefore compelled to address the rumors.
“[Everyone] is asking me about Sabrina and Olivia,” he said during a December 2021 interview with GQ. “Why don’t we focus on these women for who they are? Let’s focus on the art that they’re making and how great they are instead of their relationship to a boy.”
While the “Lie Lie Lie” singer revealed at the time that Rodrigo “hasn’t spoken to me since ‘Driver’s License’ came out,” the duo reunited at the season 3 premiere of HSMTMTSIn August, even the two of them posed for photos together on a red carpet.
