Ariana Grande and Pete Davidson, More Couples Who Made Their Red Carpet Debut at the VMAs

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Ariana Grande and Pete Davidson, More Couples Who Made Their Red Carpet Debut at the VMAs

No better way to make an entrance! The MTV Video Music Awards are known to make headlines for awesome performances, viral moments and even red carpet debuts for some of Hollywood’s most fun couples. In 2018, Ariana Grande and Pete Davidson made their first awards show appearance as a couple, just two months after getting engaged. Though the “7 Rings” songstress and the Saturday Night Live star called it quits on their relationship weeks later, the twosome stole the show both on the red carpet and inside New York City’s Radio City Music Hall. “Pete Davidson, thanks for existing,” the “God Is a Woman” singer gushed during her acceptance speech after winning in the Best Pop Video category. “Love you.” Nearly two years after ending her engagement to Davidson, the Grammy winner returned to the VMAs to perform her hit collab “Rain on Me” with Lady Gaga. “Thank u so much for having me @ladygaga i love u with all my heart always. u were so beyond brilliant tonight. so grateful to have been a part of this with u. & thank u again @mtv. 🖤,” Grande captioned an August 2020 Instagram slideshow. The final photo showed the singer holding hands with Dalton Gomez, whom she wed in May 2021. Also in 2018, Victor Cruz and Karrueche Tran stepped out for a head-turning appearance at the VMAs. The athlete and the Claws actress looked lucky in love as they posed for photos and kept close, walking hand in hand. [jwplayer GyQasAEH-zhNYySv2] Hours later, Cruz announced that he would be retiring from the NFL to become an analyst for ESPN. “The game of football has given me so much,” Cruz shared in a series of YouTube videos at the time. “As soon as I got on that practice field, as soon as I put on those pads and that uniform and started playing, it was a place of zen for me … This last chapter of my life was a great one, obviously — to win the Super Bowl, to play in the Pro Bowl, to have my daughter be born throughout all of this, as well.” He added: “As I officially close one chapter of my life and begin another, I could not be more thrilled to join another championship team at ESPN. I’m excited to get started and share my insight and analysis with the viewers and fans of the NFL.” One year later, Miley Cyrus and Kaitlynn Carter had a PDA-filled evening less than a month after they were first romantically linked. The Hannah Montana alum performed “Slide Away” at the awards show and a source told Us Weekly at the time that Carter showed up at the singer’s rehearsal and watched the live show backstage. The women called it quits in September 2019, and nearly two years later, Carter announced her first pregnancy. Scroll down to see some of the couples that made their red carpet debuts at the VMAs! [podcast_block]

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Travis Barker and Kourtney Kardashian

Us confirmed in January 2021 that the drummer was dating the reality star, and they made their red carpet debut at the VMAs eight months later.

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Avril Lavigne and Mod Sun

Six months after Us confirmed that the singers were dating, they posed together on the September 2021 VMAs red carpet.

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Nessa Barrett and Jaden Hossler

The TikTok stars made their red carpet debut at the 2021 VMAs after confirming their relationship.

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Miley Cyrus and Kaitlynn Carter

A source told Us that the pair were inseparable before and after the 2019 awards show. While Cyrus performed “Slide Away,” the Hills: New Beginnings star was seen waiting backstage. The couple, who began dating in July of that year split less than two months later in September.

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P.K. Subban and Lindsey Vonn

The athletes attended the 2019 MTV VMAs as a newly engaged couple. Subban popped the question earlier that month after dating Vonn for more than a year. The duo called it quits in December 2020.

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Victor Cruz and Karrueche Tran

The duo complimented each other on the 2018 red carpet, with the ESPN personality sporting blue jeans and a matching jacket while the model rocked a leather dress.

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Pete Davidson and Ariana Grande

The former couple appeared to enjoy themselves during their first public outing together in 2018, even sharing kisses on the red carpet. The comedian went casual in a white hoodie and black jogger pants, while the singer stunned in a shiny minidress and thigh-high boots.

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Amandla Stenberg and King Princess

The Hunger Games actress and her leading lady packed on the PDA at the 2018 VMAs, just one month after going public with their relationship. “It was a classic Malibu function; a drunken crowd by a heated pool,” Stenberg told Wonderland magazine in June of that year in an interview conducted by Princess. “We talked s—t about the systems that made us feel small and the effort we put in rejecting the institutions that reluctantly raised us. What I didn’t tell her was that I distinctly remember walking out of my junior year English class reading: ‘Amanda Sternberg comes out as queer.’ She unknowingly set a precedent in my life, a gold standard of how to be proud and exist in the inter sectionalist of multiple identities that were once thought of as being conflicting.”

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Noah Cyrus and Lil Xan

Months after the now-exes started heating things up, the youngest daughter of Billy Ray Cyrus and the “Betrayed” singer hit their first event together at the 2018 VMAs. “I slid into her DMs four months ago, and she barely saw them,” Xan told Us Weekly at the time of how they first met. “We started hanging out, and it went from there.”

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Cher and Richie Sambora

In 1989, the “If I Could Turn Back Time” singer and former Bon Jovi guitarist stepped out together as a new couple at the awards show. They called it quits the next year.

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Brad Pitt and Christina Applegate

The Fight Club star and Dead to Me actress reportedly went on their first and only date to the 1989 MTV VMAs.