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Kendall Jenner and Jacob Elordi Were 'All Over Each Other' at a Coachella Afterparty — What We Know
Multiple sources reported that Kendall Jenner and Jacob Elordi were kissing at a Coachella 2026 afterparty on April 11. The two had previously been photographed together at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in March, and the Saltburn star recently ended his on-again off-again relationship with Olivia Jade.
The Afterparty That Nobody Was Supposed to Know About
Coachella afterparties operate on an unofficial hierarchy of exclusivity, and the specific gathering where Kendall Jenner and Jacob Elordi allegedly became more than just industry acquaintances ranked near the top. Celebrity gossip platform DeuxMoi — which has built a substantial reputation for sourcing accurate inside information about celebrity behavior before it becomes formally confirmed — published claims on April 12, 2026 that were specific in their detail: multiple sources had reported the pair were "affectionate throughout the night" and had been spotted "making out and all over each other" at an event held at the Empire Polo Club grounds during the evening of Justin Bieber's headlining set.
The DeuxMoi report landed in an environment that had already been primed for this possibility. At the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in March, Jenner and Elordi had been photographed together in ways that registered as more than coincidental proximity. "A curious red-carpet collision of two well-known names" is how some outlets described that moment. But Coachella has a specific way of accelerating celebrity relationship timelines, and the combination of late nights, shared social circles, and the specific emotional loosening that festival environments produce has historically been the context for multiple celebrity relationships becoming real.
Jacob Elordi's Recent History and Why This Pairing Makes Sense
Jacob Elordi — the 28-year-old Australian actor whose career trajectory through Euphoria, The Kissing Booth franchise, and the acclaimed Saltburn has made him one of Hollywood's most discussed presences — most recently ended a years-long on-again, off-again relationship with Olivia Jade, daughter of fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli. That relationship reportedly concluded permanently in October 2025. "It's now fully over," an insider close to Olivia Jade told People at the time.
Elordi's specific profile — physically striking, critically acclaimed, operating at the intersection of arthouse indie and mainstream commercial success — creates the kind of pairing with Jenner that produces the specific media conversation about aesthetics and cultural positioning that high-profile celebrity couples consistently generate. Jenner's previous significant relationship, with Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny, ended in 2024 after approximately ten months; she has been publicly single since.
The Kardashian-Jenner Coachella Weekend's Relationship Landscape
The specific accumulation of Kardashian-Jenner family relationship developments across Coachella 2026's first weekend was difficult to miss: Kim and Lewis Hamilton effectively confirmed their romance, Kylie and Timothée Chalamet arrived and watched the headliners together, and now Kendall and Elordi were generating their own separate storyline. The family's combined romantic visibility across the festival created the specific entertainment media moment that entertainment journalists covering the event described as almost impossibly dense with narrative.
What makes the Kendall-Elordi story distinct from the Kim-Lewis story is its specific uncertainty. The Kim-Lewis relationship has been building and confirming across months of accumulating evidence. The Kendall-Elordi situation, as of mid-April, rests entirely on anonymous sourcing, festival party atmosphere, and the specific interpretive tradition that surrounds DeuxMoi posts. Neither has confirmed anything. Both have the specific public profile that makes their combination impossible for entertainment media to ignore regardless of what they themselves are actually feeling.
