Joe Locke is having fairly a yr! After starring in two of streaming’s greatest reveals Heartstopper and Agatha All Alongside, followers wish to know who the star is courting.
He performs Charlie Spring, a homosexual teenager in love with Package Connor’s character Nick Nelson on Netflix’s Heartstopper. For the reason that present’s evergrowing reputation, Joe has been open about speaking about his queerness. “I’ve been brazenly homosexual since I used to be, like, 12,” he advised The New York Instances. He got here out publicly on his Instagram however retracted the assertion. “So I rapidly deleted it and mentioned my Instagram had been hacked. I went again within the closet for 3 years. I retold all my mates they usually’re like, ‘Yeah, you advised us two years in the past.’”
Now, he’s open and pleased with who he loves and displays it to his Heartstopper character. “12-year-old me could be very proud, and terrified” of all that he’s achieved. “I’m getting emotional. I’ve by no means thought of it in that sense earlier than, which is bizarre as a result of I’ve thought concerning the present quite a bit.”
Who’s Joe Locke courting?
Joe Locke retains his private life non-public and for purpose! It’s not identified whether or not or not he’s courting anybody at the moment, however in 2023, the US Solar reported that he joined the courting app Hinge. The screenshots of Joe’s profile are fairly convincing that the Netflix star joined the app searching for love, however like anybody nowadays, it might definitely be a catfish.
He advised British GQ about how he doesn’t just like the media consideration on his courting life. “The thought of a tabloid being thinking about a youngster’s love life is de facto gross,” Locke mentioned on the time. “Somebody earning profits out of rumours about who I – an 18-year-old boy – may be liking or speaking to, it’s actually gross and perverted.”
Did Joe Locke ever date Package Connor?
The reply to that’s no. Although they’ve wonderful chemistry on-screen, Joe Locke and Package Connor shut down rumors that they have been courting IRL. In an interview with Untitled Journal in Could 2022, Package mentioned, “Joe and I are very shut, we’re snug at a degree in our relationship the place we are able to take the mick out of one another, that’s the principle ingredient of our friendship,” he mentioned. “We simply have enjoyable; we really feel very relaxed with one another. Once you spend a lot time collectively on set – most of my scenes have been with Joe—it did imply we in a short time acquired on collectively. It was factor that it did occur as it could’ve been very troublesome to painting that relationship if we weren’t as shut as we’re.”