Sophia Bush and Ashlyn Harris created their crimson carpet debut as a couple at the White Dwelling Correspondents’ Affiliation Dinner on Saturday, April 27.
Bush wore a strapless black gown with gold embellishments whilst Harris complemented her in a black accommodate with an embellished jacket.
Colin Jost will host the party this year, which is an yearly event to raise revenue for WHCA scholarships and honor the recipients of the WHCA’s journalism awards. President Joe Biden will show up at and expects to be roasted by the Saturday Night Stay star, as is traditional.
Bush has attended the event on several events, but this is her first time attending with Harris, 38. The 1 Tree Hill alum confirmed her romance with Harris just days prior to the WHCD in an essay for Glamour in which she recalled the conclude of her marriage to Grant Hughes and verified she identifies as queer.
Bush was married to Hughes, 42, for a little much more than a 12 months ahead of she submitted for divorce in August 2023. She was romantically joined to Harris the adhering to fall.
“It took me confronting a good deal of things, what felt like a great number of classes of treatment, and some prodding from loved ones, but inevitably I asked Ashlyn to have a non-good friend-team cling to discuss about it,” Bush wrote. “And that food was 4 and a fifty percent hours extended and actually just one of the most surreal experiences of my daily life hence much. In hindsight, perhaps it all experienced to occur bit by bit and then instantly all at when. It’s possible it was all fated. Perhaps it seriously is a edition of invisible string idea.”
Bush emphasized that they didn’t get together until eventually they equally walked absent from their respective marriages. (Harris was previously married to Ali Krieger, with whom she shares two young ones, Sloane, 3, and son Ocean, 20 months.)
Just after Bush and Harris’ romance was described final tumble, Bush faced “blatant lies,” “violent threats” and “accusations of staying a house-wrecker” — all of which Bush declared are untrue.
“The ones who stated I’d still left my ex for the reason that I instantly recognized I required to be with ladies — my associates have known what I’m into for as prolonged as I have,” she wrote in her Glamour cover tale. “The concept that I left my relationship centered on some hysterical rendezvous — that, to be crystal-crystal clear, by no means transpired — relatively than owning taken about a 12 months to do the most soul crushing operate of my existence? Instead than recognizing I had to be the most vulnerable I have at any time been, on a public stage, despite staying terrified to my core? It feels brutal.”
Ashlyn has considering the fact that long gone Instagram official with Bush, sharing the deal with tale with the caption “Proud of you, babe,” and sharing a picture of them with each other at the White Property Correspondents’ Backyard Brunch in Washington, D.C. on Saturday morning.
