A Full Timeline of Ella Langley and Tucker Wetmore’s Rumored Romance, Because It’s Very Confusing

If you’re a country music fan (or tbh, even if you’re not), then you’re probably well aware that the love lives of country music’s rising stars are quite entangled...and have been for a minute now. The latest (reported) update? Ella Langley and Tucker Wetmore are rumored to be dating, but we really can’t talk about their maybe-relationship without discussing Tucker’s ex Bryana Ferringer...or Ella’s rumored ex Riley Green (who went on to maybe date Bryana).Ella and Tucker may have sparked dating rumors late last year, but it wasn’t without some drama on the way. It’s a pretty confusing ride, so buckle up and let’s get into it. Starting with...Jump to:September 2024December 2024August 2025November 2025December 2025March 2026May 2026September 2026September 2024After months of dating rumors following the success of Ella and Riley’s song “You Look Like You Love Me,” Ella finally shuts down Riley dating rumors. “We’re not dating,” she tells Taste of Country, adding, “We’re just good friends.”December 2024Riley also shuts down dating speculation during an appearance on The Viall Files podcast. “Ella’s probably too smart to date me anyway,” he jokes, later adding, “When we first started having the success we did with that song, I kinda told Ella, I was like, ‘There’s gonna be a lot of things said, but I mean, you don’t really have to play into it or not play into it.’”August 2025Tucker posts a TikTok on August 20 with the caption “@ my ex,” sparking breakup rumors with his model girlfriend Bryana (who, btw, appeared in his music video for “Wind Up Missin’ You”).Soon after, Bryana is spotted with Riley at his Red Rocks tour stop.November 2025Ella and Tucker both attend the 2025 BMI Country Awards on November 18, though it’s unclear whether this is the first time they ever meet (or if they even interacted, despite standing right next to each other in this group photo):Emma McIntyre//Getty ImagesA day later, after several reported sightings around Nashville, Riley brings Bryana as his date to the CMA Awards on November 19.However! Riley later refers to Bryana as merely a “friend,” telling Backstage Country, “It’s gonna be tough to tiptoe out of having a date to an award show. Yeah, I mean, you go to award shows all the time, and I’m always by myself, or I’ve got, like, a security guy, or a buddy with me, so I took a friend with me to the award show.”Around the same time, Ella sparks dating rumors with Farmer Wants a Wife season 3 star John Sansone (whose cousin, music exec Sophia Sansone, previously dated Riley). Rumors begin after John includes a picture of Ella’s dog, Crue, in a November 26 Instagram photo dump...and then, on the same day, Ella includes a video of herself shooting shotguns with John in a photo dump of her own.John later confirms to Taste of Country in April 2026 that he and Ella “dated for a couple of months” after he slid into her DMs but are no longer together.December 2025On December 5, Tucker releases “Proving Me Right,” which fans are preeeetty convinced is about his ex, Bryana.A few weeks later, Ella and Tucker are photographed together in the British Virgin Islands at the Soggy Dollar Bar...but considering the photo also includes other country artists, rumors circulate that the trip was possibly a writing retreat.March 2026Tucker and Ella reunite to sing a live acoustic duet of Tucker’s “Sunburn” at the Heart Strings for Hope charity event on March 10.And while Tucker didn’t write “Sunburn” himself, a few of the lyrics kiiiinda seem to allude to his December getaway with Ella.Tucker then appears on the March 17 episode of Kristin Cavallari’s Let’s Be Honest podcast, where he claims that he has “never been broken up with” and has always been the one to “call it quits.” Kristin asks if he has “sworn off blondes,” Tucker says, “Yep. I have. For the foreseeable future. That’s right.”And then, a few days after that on March 21, Tucker posts an Instagram photo of himself holding a fish, and Ella slides into his comments with, “Cute fish.” Flirty!May 2026Tucker releases “Brunette,” and—while discussing the song with Audacy—says, “My mom’s always said, ‘You're going to mess around with blondes for a little while but I truly believe you're going to settle down with the brunette,’ and I was like, ‘Yeah, 100%.’”Not long after during an appearance on Taste of Country Nights, Tucker notes, “Pretty much every girlfriend I have ever had was blonde, and I think it’s time to change up a couple of things.”September 2026On September 23 (just a day after Ella breaks Mariah Carey’s record for longest-running Billboard Hot 100 hit with “Choosin’ Texas”), TMZ breaks the news that Tucker and Ella are (reportedly) dating.The outlet obtains photos of the two out with friends in Nashville on the night of September 22 following the Nashville Songwriter Awards, with sources telling TMZ that the two met “through the music industry and mutual friends.”Multiple sources also confirm the rumored romance to People so...it seems legit to me!