New Couple Alert?! Chelsea Handler & Ralph Fiennes Spotted Leaving Oscar Party Together!

Are Chelsea Handler and Ralph Fiennes an item?!

The Chelsea Lately alum may have a brand new man on her hands nearly three years after her split from ex-boyfriend Jo Koy… And the new dude is an Oscar nominee! The 50-year-old comedian attended the 2025 Vanity Fair Oscars Party on Sunday, where according to insiders, she cuddled up to Best Actor nominee Ralph Fiennes! In photos obtained by multiple outlets, the unlikely pair can be seen leaving the afterparty arm-in-arm — Chelsea in a luxurious silver Khoon Hooi gown and the Conclave star in a classic black tuxedo. But their most prominent accessories were their matching ear-to-ear grins as they made their way out of the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts together. See (below):

Chelsea Handler and Ralph Fiennes spark dating rumors after getting cozy at Oscars 2025 afterparty https://t.co/UjFa1g34H1 pic.twitter.com/TBcU99VRqW

— New York Post (@nypost) March 3, 2025

This all comes as Chelsea raved about a new someone she’s seeing whom she’s “very attracted to”! During Tuesday’s episode of The Jamie Kern Lima Show, she dished:

“I have someone that I’m seeing now that I’m very attracted to and that I like having sex with, and so that’s a really good like nice little thing I have going.”

Ooooh la la! She didn’t reveal who the special someone is, but noted it’s not too serious as of yet — as she tends to not be a huge “relationship person.” She told the host:

“I think of myself as a purpose person. Like my purpose is here, to be here to have conversations like the one we’re having right now, to infuse people with optimism, to be there for women, that is my purpose in this life, whether they’re more lives or not.”

The author added:

“All I know is I know what I’m supposed to be doing, and any man that’s in my life is not the main character. That’s a side relationship, and I love them, and I want to respect everybody, but that’s not my main M.O. in life. I’m not that kind of person.”

She did, however, reveal that she’s been seeing this mystery dude for “nine months.”

Soooo, is she talking about Ralph? Or were those post-Oscars after-party pics just strictly platonic? Well, an on-screen moment from last month seems to lend itself to a romance.

During the Critics Choice Awards in February, host Chelsea joked about Ralph’s filmography:

“[You’ve] played a ruthless Nazi, an evil lord [Voldemort] and a celibate cardinal, and somehow you’ve made me want to have sex with you in all roles… I’m begging you never play Vladimir Putin. I can’t do that again.”

HA! Later in the show, the two recreated a scene from Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson’s Babygirl — Chelsea guzzled a glass of milk as Ralph chanted:

“Good girl … Keep going, don’t stop, go on”

Watch (below):

In #Babygirl fashion, Ralph Fiennes calls Critics Choice Awards host Chelsea Handler a "good girl" after she chugs a glass of milk.

Video courtesy of @CriticsChoice pic.twitter.com/JBVpeKSAmv

— IndieWire (@IndieWire) February 8, 2025

So steamy!!

We would not have placed these two together, but we’re not mad at it! What are YOUR thoughts, Perezcious readers?? Are they together? Let us know in the comments down below!

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