Is Blake Lively Responsible for Bringing Gigi Hadid and Bradley Cooper Together?

The pair first started their fling turned serious romance at the backyard birthday party of a mutual friend’s kid, according to a new cover story in Vogue. Okay, let’s check our notes: in September 2023, Cooper and Hadid each brought their daughters to Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds’s daughter Inez’s fashion-themed seventh birthday party, also attended by Taylor Swift. And while it wasn’t held in a backyard (unless you count all of Manhattan as a backyard, which some kinda do)…c’mon, this is it, right? Hadid and Coops were spotted getting dinner together less than a week later. I know kids have a lot of birthday parties, but it seems too close to be a coincidence. Another week after, we got reports that they were holed up in Swift’s Rhode Island house for a romantic getaway. According to Hadid, the reports that have trickled out about the pair are often “kind of right and kind of wrong,” so, grain of salt…but still.