Are they?! The Summer I Turned Pretty has quickly become one of the biggest shows of the summer, with the stars of the series receiving a huge fanbase nearly overnight. With that, many dating rumors have started to swirl around the actors — including Sean Kaufman and Minnie Mills, who play Steven and Shayla in the series. Keep reading for everything to know.
Are ‘TSITP’ Stars Sean Kaufman and Minnie Mills Dating?
Fans started shipping the duo offscreen after Minnie posted a sweet Instagram post for Sean’s birthday in June 2022. The pictures were of the two of them hugging, looking lovingly into each other’s eyes and all around being cuties.
“Happiest of birthdays to my best friend <3 thank you for always making me smile,” she captioned the post. The comments of the post were full of fans asking if the two were dating. “Omg they’re together in real life?” one commenter wrote. Another wrote, “Favorite friendship.”
However, a little over a year later, Sean shut down dating rumors by going public with his girlfriend, Nikol Tsvetanova, in August 2023.
Are Sean Kaufman and Minnie Mills’ Dating in ‘TSITP’?
Minnie and Sean played a couple during the show’s first season. Sean’s character, Steven, endlessly attempts to impress rich girl Shayla, Minnie’s character, who asks him to be her date to the debutante ball. After he makes some mistakes on the way due to insecurities, she tells him that she chooses him and they kiss. However, in season 2, Minnie’s Shayla is missing from the show — her character is in Ibiza, Spain.
Previously, Sean spoke to J-14 about what it was like to play Steven on the show.
“Whatever expectations are put on the character by other people are amazing and I’m so thankful for it,” Sean shared of his character in June 2022. “But at the end of the day, I have to be truthful to who Steven was for me. I think we all had a little bit of a cheat code on set with Jenny [Han] being the showrunner and being on set every single day. You know, if we had a question we could always go to her and that was amazing, but it really was just about finding who that person is for me.”
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