Rising US popstar Sabrina Carpenter is not only dating Irish Oscar nominee Barry Keoghan - she's putting him to work too! The singer, who shot to a new level of fame this summer thanks in large part to her hit song "Espresso," has been dating Dublin native Keoghan for about a year. The status of their relationship was solidified back in June when Keoghan played a flirty criminal opposite Carpenter in the music video for her song "Please Please Please." "I heard that you’re an actor," Carpenter sings in the song, "So act like a stand up guy / Whatever devils inside you / Don’t let him out tonight / I tell them it’s just your culture / And everyone rolls their eyes" Now, Carpenter has revealed why, despite wanting to keep her personal life personal, she cast her Irish beau in the music video.
"I am genuinely - not even a biased opinion - I was like, who's the greatest actor that I can find for this music video?" she recently told CBS. "And he [Keoghan] was next to me in a chair. And he was so excited about it, and he likes the song, which is great, he's a fan of the song.
"He does like my music a lot, yeah." Sign up to IrishCentral's newsletter to stay up-to-date with everything Irish! Rumors about Keoghan and Carpenter's coupling kicked off in December last year when they were spotted leaving a 'romantic' dinner in Los Angeles. The following month, Keoghan all but confirmed during an interview with GQ that he had split with girlfriend Alyson Sandro, with whom he shares a.