Becky G and Sebastian Lletget just announced their engagement, but they’ve always been one of our favorite celebrity couples. The 25-year-old singer and actor has been dating the 30-year-old soccer star since 2016.
Despite their fame, the couple actually met in the most old-fashioned way: being introduced by mutual friends. As J-14 reported during a 2017 radio interview with Mega 96.3, it was a bit of a backdoor connection at first. While Becky G was filming “Power Rangers” with Naomi Scott, the two became friends and Scott’s husband Jordan Spence played football alongside Lletget. Scott and Spence came up with the idea of bringing Becky G and Lletget together, and it looks like they’re expert matchmakers!
“[Our introduction] sort of happened while we were shooting the movie. The way we were introduced, me and Sebastian, was by my co-star Naomi. Her husband — she’s 23, they’ve been married for a few years now — and [he] played football together, he and Sebastian. So Nae met me and said, ‘Girl, you’re awesome! You deserve to be with one man!” she recalled at the time.
It took a bit of convincing, though. Becky G went on to explain that, despite her co-star’s insistence, she wasn’t that keen on going on a date at the time. But a video of Lletget ended up changing his mind in a good way.
“I was like, ‘No, I don’t want to be with anybody. I’ve been there, I’ve done that [with] the relationship thing. I’m focused right now. I’m doing well. I’m fine.’ She says, ‘It’s ok, it’s ok, I already know who you’re going to marry’. It’s okay, it’s okay,” Becky G described to the radio station. “She’s talking to her husband and he’s like, ‘Oh yeah, Sebby, Sebby. And I think, who is this Sebby? What are they talking about? Then she shows me a video of him, and I try to minimize it like because I’m like, ‘He’s good, good looking. What’s going on?’ All of that kind of led to this. He came out of nowhere. He came out of nowhere.”
So Becky G did what anyone would do: she followed him on social media. She told POPSUGAR in 2021, “I followed him on Twitter and he followed me, and I remember it was like this ghost thing, ‘I know you exist, you know I exist’ She explained: “I waited a few days after my 19th birthday just to look older, which is so funny to me now…he was about 23 at the time…so I slipped very loud in the DM and I was like, ‘Hi, how are you?’ So revolutionary! . . . Honestly, we first became friends. We were vibrating so hard. I was living in Vancouver and he was living here in LA playing for Galaxy, so it wasn’t like we could go on a date. We really had to get to know each other, and that was fun.”
Becky G later described their first date in a 2017 Instagram post congratulating her new beau on a professional milestone. “On our first date, we talked about everything that happened under the moon…literally. I specifically remember stuffing my face with sushi and talking about our dreams, our goals and our visions of where we see ourselves…everything we talked about that day, we are currently doing or working on. It’s crazy how time has flown by,” she said. writing.
And the couple have been together ever since. The secret to their happy relationship? Unwavering support for each other. Becky G said Hola! in 2019 that Lletget is so much more to her than her boyfriend – he’s her best friend and biggest fan.
“My relationship with Sebastian is something very beautiful because besides being my boyfriend, he is also my best friend… There is nothing I can’t talk to him about, and I think that “Having that support from your partner is very important. It has helped me to be more independent. I think as a woman in this industry, it’s very important to have a partner who supports you.
In 2020, she told POPSUGAR that the COVID-19 lockdowns gave her and Lletget time to slow down and enjoy each other’s company. “I had never been able to enjoy my apartment with my boyfriend like this,” she explained. “It’s the first time we’ve spent time together to really bond. I love it.”
She told POPSUGAR in 2021 that they don’t exactly watch movies because of how busy they are. “Either Seb or I end up falling asleep, so we never finish the movie,” she explained. “We both work so hard, and whenever we try to sit down and watch a movie, we’re more of a TV series type of people, and even then, it’s still hard for us to keep up the pace together because that our schedules always miss each other. But we watched ‘Ted Lasso’ together, and we had a great time. We were so impressed with the quality of the show, it was awesome.”