{"id":21833,"date":"2026-04-27T10:11:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T10:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/?p=21833"},"modified":"2026-04-27T10:11:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T10:11:33","slug":"a-surprising-turn-in-the-love-story-of-brooks-rosser-and-rae-boyd-as-new-details-shift-everything-in-an-unexpected-and-intriguing-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/?p=21833","title":{"rendered":"A Surprising Turn In The Love Story Of Brooks Rosser And Rae Boyd, As New Details Shift Everything In An Unexpected And Intriguing Direction"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"American<\/p>\n

Here at\u00a0Swooon<\/em>, there\u2019s nothing we love more than a good showmance, and\u00a0American Idol<\/em>\u00a0is delivering on that during Season 24.\u00a0Brooks Rosser\u00a0and\u00a0Rae Boyd\u00a0recently\u00a0confirmed their romantic relationship\u00a0after fan speculation that they were more than friends.<\/p>\n

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Of course, we\u2019ll have to wait and see if Brooks and Rae become the next\u00a0Gabby Barrett\u00a0and\u00a0Cade Foehner, but the young lovebirds are slowly sharing more about their relationship and how it came to be.<\/p>\n

Scroll down for everything we know about the timeline and more.<\/p>\n

How did Brooks and Rae meet?<\/h2>\n

\"American<\/em><\/p>\n

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American Idol<\/em>\u00a0brought Brooks and Rae together! During Hulu\u2019s Get Real event on April 22,\u00a0American Idol<\/em>\u00a0podcast host\u00a0Danielle Fishel\u00a0spoke to Brooks on TikTok Live, and he confirmed that they \u201cnever met until\u00a0American Idol<\/em>,\u201d despite living near each other.<\/p>\n

Brooks and Rae are both from similar areas in Maryland, so it certainly could\u2019ve been possible that they crossed paths before the show, but fate would have it that the singing competition was what made them actually meet.<\/p>\n

\"American<\/p>\n

While it\u2019s not known exactly when Brooks and Rae met for the first time, Auditions and Hollywood Week for Season 24 were filmed in November 2025, so it was sometime during that month.<\/p>\n

When did Brooks and Rae start dating?<\/h2>\n

The exact anniversary of when Brooks and Rae began dating is unknown, but he\u00a0told\u00a0Swooon<\/em>\u00a0and a group of other outlets on April 20, \u201cWe\u2019re both from Baltimore. In between rounds, we kind of hung out and we clicked.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Brooks<\/p>\n

However, it\u2019s unclear if the \u201cbetween rounds\u201d meant Hollywood Week (November 2025) and the Ohana Round (January 2026), or between the Ohana Round and Live Shows (March 30). Either way, the relationship seemingly began at the end of 2025 or the beginning of 2026.<\/p>\n

When did Brooks and Rae go public with their romance?<\/h2>\n

During the\u00a0American Idol<\/em>\u00a0Live Shows, fans noticed Brooks and Rae\u00a0leaving each other\u00a0flirty comments on social media, and felt there was\u00a0chemistry between them\u00a0in videos they posted online together. However, it wasn\u2019t until the April 20 episode of\u00a0American Idol<\/em>\u00a0that they officially confirmed their relationship.<\/p>\n

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At that point in the competition, Rae had been eliminated, but she returned to the show to support Brooks during his Top 7 performance. Afterward, she surprised him by coming out on stage. \u201cThe princess is here to claim her prince!\u201d Rae declared. Brooks later referred to Rae as his \u201cgirlfriend\u201d while doing press following the show.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were trying to think of cute ways to hard launch, so why not with the help of @ryanseacrest and @americanidol !!!\u201d Rae shared on\u00a0Instagram\u00a0afterwards. \u201clol this literally was the most special night, I\u2019m so happy that the secret is finally out lol love yall :))))).\u201d<\/p>\n

American Idol<\/strong><\/em>, Season 24, Mondays, 8\/7c, ABC<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here at\u00a0Swooon, there\u2019s nothing we love more than a good showmance, and\u00a0American Idol\u00a0is delivering on that during Season 24.\u00a0Brooks Rosser\u00a0and\u00a0Rae Boyd\u00a0recently\u00a0confirmed their romantic relationship\u00a0after fan speculation that… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21834,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21835,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21833\/revisions\/21835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}