The Keke Palmer Sean Evans dating rumours are very much alive: the pair were spotted enjoying dinner together at a restaurant in Brooklyn, with photos published by Yahoo Entertainment in mid-June 2026 that sent fans into a spin.
A photo tip sent to DeuxMoi showed the two deep in conversation over dinner. No video accompanied the tip, but the image was enough to set comment sections alight.
From Hot Ones Kiss to Brooklyn Dinner
The backdrop to all this goes back to Palmer’s appearance on First We Feast‘s Hot Ones. Midway through the episode, Palmer made her move. ‘I saw an interview where you said, like, I was your favorite guest, you know, and all this really sweet stuff,’ she said. ‘I know we’ve just had some wings, but I thought that maybe we could just have a quick smooch to see if there’s a spark.’ They kissed. Evans’s response afterwards: ‘When I’m dying and my life flashes before my eyes, I’ll have that snapshot.’
That moment planted the seed. Fans latched on immediately, and the speculation has barely let up since.
What makes the Brooklyn sighting more than just a one-off is the trail of breadcrumbs that had been building quietly for months beforehand. In November 2023, Evans appeared on Chicken Shop Date with Amelia Dimoldenberg. When asked whether he had ever crushed on one of his guests, he didn’t hesitate: ‘Keke Palmer,’ he said, adding, ‘Very charming. Very charming woman.’ That admission did not go unnoticed.
Palmer certainly clocked it. In August 2024, she told People magazine that she was ‘living for’ Evans’s interview with Dimoldenberg. That is not the language of someone who missed the subtext.
Keke Palmer Called Evans a ‘Potential Future Suitor’
Palmer then had Evans on her own podcast, and she was anything but subtle about it. She called him a ‘potential future suitor’ and said that ‘there’s something good here.’ Weeks later, they were at dinner together in Brooklyn.
Fans in the DeuxMoi comments had strong feelings. ‘Everyone leave them alone, we can’t mess this up!’ one user wrote. Another added, ‘The way he looks at her, it’s so sweet I can’t take it! WE’RE ALL ROOTING FOR YOU!’
The sequence is pretty clear: a Keke Palmer Sean Evans flirtation that started on camera, played out across podcasts and a well-documented Chicken Shop Date moment, and has now moved into real-world dinners. Whether there is more to come, the mid-June 2026 Brooklyn photos confirm this is no longer just a bit of TV chemistry. The pair are, at minimum, making the time to see each other off-screen, and Palmer has already gone on record saying there is ‘something good here.’
Hard to argue with that.