Sophia Bush and Ashlyn Harris made their crimson carpet debut as a pair on the White Home Correspondents’ Affiliation Dinner on Saturday, April 27.
Bush wore a strapless black robe with gold gildings whereas Harris complemented her in a black go well with with an embellished jacket.
Colin Jost will host the occasion this yr, which is an annual occasion to boost cash for WHCA scholarships and honor the recipients of the WHCA’s journalism awards. President Joe Biden will attend and expects to be roasted by the Saturday Evening Reside star, as is conventional.
Bush has attended the occasion on a number of events, however that is her first time attending with Harris, 38. The One Tree Hill alum confirmed her romance with Harris simply days previous to the WHCD in an essay for Glamour by which she recalled the top of her marriage to Grant Hughes and confirmed she identifies as queer.
Bush was married to Hughes, 42, for somewhat greater than a yr earlier than she filed for divorce in August 2023. She was romantically linked to Harris the next fall.
Sophia Bush and Ashlyn Harris’ friendship turned romantic on the heels of their respective divorces from Grant Hughes and Ali Krieger, and so they’ve been quietly constructing their relationship. A supply solely informed Us Weekly Bush and Harris “bonded over their breakups and having to begin over” in October 2023, one month after they started courting. […]
“It took me confronting quite a lot of issues, what felt like numerous periods of remedy, and a few prodding from family members, however finally I requested Ashlyn to have a non-friend-group grasp to speak about it,” Bush wrote. “And that meal was 4 and a half hours lengthy and actually one of the crucial surreal experiences of my life to this point. In hindsight, possibly all of it needed to occur slowly after which out of the blue all of sudden. Possibly it was all fated. Possibly it truly is a model of invisible string concept.”
Bush emphasised that they didn’t get collectively till they each walked away from their respective marriages. (Harris was beforehand married to Ali Krieger, with whom she shares two children, Sloane, 3, and son Ocean, 20 months.)
After Bush and Harris’ romance was reported final fall, Bush confronted “blatant lies,” “violent threats” and “accusations of being a home-wrecker” — all of which Bush declared are unfaithful.
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“Those who stated I’d left my ex as a result of I out of the blue realized I wished to be with girls — my companions have recognized what I’m into for so long as I’ve,” she wrote in her Glamour cowl story. “The concept that I left my marriage based mostly on some hysterical rendezvous — that, to be crystal-clear, by no means occurred — moderately than having taken over a yr to do probably the most soul crushing work of my life? Somewhat than realizing I needed to be probably the most weak I’ve ever been, on a public stage, regardless of being terrified to my core? It feels brutal.”
Ashlyn has since gone Instagram official with Bush, sharing the quilt story with the caption “Happy with you, babe,” and sharing a photograph of them collectively on the White Home Correspondents’ Backyard Brunch in Washington, D.C. on Saturday morning.
