Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin have been friends for years.
But the singer and the model appeared to take their relationship far out of the friend zone in early 2015 when Bieber shared a photo of the two kissing.
(UPDATE: And now the stars are engaged?!?!?!?!)
This game of tonsil hockey came after numerous denials, mostly by Baldwin, that she and Bieber were up to anything tawdry.
“We’re just friends. I’ve known him for a very long time, since I was about 13,” she told E! News in early 2015, adding that people simply “assume” things because they are the opposite sex.
Still… should we have seen this romantic entanglement coming? Probably.
Just consider Bieber and Baldwin’s history of intimate Instagram photos…
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