TLC’s Chilli officially dating ‘Boy Meets World’ star Matthew Lawrence
ICYMI: Chilli (Rozonda Thomas) from the successful R&B group TLC is dating actor Matthew Lawrence.
The two have been friends for years but recently started dating around Thanksgiving, Chilli’s rep, Christal Jordan, confirmed to People magazine. The couple was spotted together in Atlanta over the holidays, where Chilli introduced Lawrence to her family.
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“I’ve been with Chilli since 2005 and I’ve never seen her this in love,” Jordan said to People. “She is glowing. They are really cute together.”
The couple made their relationship Instagram-official on New Year’s Eve, in an impossibly cute post where the pair donned matching pajamas and danced to A-ha’s “Take On Me.”
Rumors of their romance first surfaced in August 2022, when the “No Scrubs” singer and “Boy Meets World” star were spotted together on a beach in Hawaii. The two were reportedly just friends at the time and her management quickly denied rumors of a romance.
But that denial may have had more to do with timing. It’s been just three months since Matthew and his ex-wife Cheryl Burke finalized their divorce in September of 2022 after nearly three years of marriage. The former couple filed for divorce last February after separating in January.
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Chilli, who is from Atlanta, has a 25-year-old son from a previous relationship with music producer Dallas Austin and was also previously involved in a long-term relationship with singer Usher until 2003.
Chilli and Matthew are both long-time stars who rose to prominence in the early 1990s, the former as a member of the Grammy-winning trio TLC alongside Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins and the late Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes, who died in a car crash in 2002.
Earlier this year, during a panel at the first-ever 90s Con, Chilli and T-Boz announced their plans to “go to Broadway,” People reported. But don’t go chasing details! When con host Christy Carlson Romano asked when more information would come out, T-Boz responded, “We ain’t going to do all that now. It’s in the works, but since we’re writers, it’ll come together.” Stay tuned!