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Forward of the 2022 Met Gala, Olivia Rodrigo sparked courting rumors once more when the singer was seen out in New York Metropolis with 25-year-old DJ Zack Bia. A supply advised E! that the 2 have been spending time collectively and having “a number of enjoyable.”
“Zack [feels] that Olivia is absolutely right down to earth and he loves how low-key she is,” the supply mentioned. “It is a good steadiness between them.”
On June 21, 2022, Folks confirmed that Rodrigo and Bia had been formally courting and had been for months. “They have been courting for the reason that Tremendous Bowl,” a supply mentioned. “They actually like one another.”
Then, in August of 2022, it was reported that the connection had ended. So who’s Bia and what’s his historical past with Rodrigo? This is all we all know up to now.
Olivia Rodrigo and Zack Bia out in NYC on April 25, 2022.
Rodrigo and Bia began “casually hanging out” in February 2022.
Rodrigo beforehand dated Adam Faze till January 2022. A month later, Rodrigo and Bia had been seen collectively across the Tremendous Bowl, which occurred on February 13. They’ve been “seeing one another” extra since then, a supply advised E!.
“He invited her to Tremendous Bowl events that he was DJing that weekend and he or she went to help him,” the supply mentioned. “They hit it off and have been casually hanging out.”
A supply advised Folks on June 21 that Rodrigo and Bia truly began courting at the moment. “They have been courting for the reason that Tremendous Bowl,” the supply mentioned.
In April 2022, Rodrigo and Bia had been nonetheless having “a number of enjoyable” collectively and making issues work once they can with their busy schedules.
Whereas Rodrigo and Bia journey so much for his or her jobs (Rodrigo, significantly, is on tour), a supply advised E! they’ve “made the hassle to remain in contact and spend time collectively when potential,” the outlet wrote.
They mesh nicely, the supply mentioned, including that “Zack [feels] that Olivia is absolutely right down to earth and he loves how low-key she is. It is a good steadiness between them.”
Rodrigo and Bia had been photographed collectively in New York Metropolis on April 25.
Additional fueling romance rumors, Rodrigo and Bia had been photographed leaving Bar Pitti on April 25. The photograph company famous that Rodrigo and Bia had frolicked for the previous few months, posing collectively at Rodrigo’s nineteenth birthday celebration in images. See the photograph of their Bar Pitti outing above.
Rodrigo does not observe Bia on Instagram, however she did like his Valentine’s Day put up.
Bia follows Rodrigo on Instagram, however Rodrigo, who does not observe any person, hasn’t returned the favor. She did like his Valentine’s Day put up although the place he wrote about his February 2022 Complex profile.
In late June 2022, a supply advised Folks that Bia and Rodrigo very a lot have emotions for one another.
A supply advised Folks merely that the non-public couple started their romance in February. Now, 4 months in, “they actually like one another,” the supply mentioned.
Bia beforehand dated Madison Beer on-off till their March 2019 breakup.
Rodrigo shouldn’t be Bia’s first high-profile potential companion. Bia was with singer Madison Beer for practically one yr till March 2019. Beer confirmed their break up herself on her Twitter and alluded to their being main drama between them in a sequence of tweets. “Earlier than you diagnose your self with despair and nervousness be sure you’re not simply surrounded by assholes and individuals who don’t care about you,” she wrote. She added, “oof i rlly owe myself the most important apology for puttin up w shit i by no means deserved.”
Bia was born in New York and moved to Los Angeles for highschool. He went to USC for faculty and have become a nightclub promoter whereas there.
As Bia defined to i-D in July 2020, “My dad and mom are from Paris, however I used to be born in New York, and after I was twelve or 13 I moved to Los Angeles with my mother and brother,” he mentioned. (Bia’s dad and mom received divorced when Bia was 9.) “My mother was a modeling agent and he or she labored in trend—we did not have some huge cash however I grew up with some actually cool stuff. She made me take heed to music, took me to museums, and taught me a lot.”
“After we moved to L.A., it was a bit tougher and I needed to do issues for myself,” he continued. “I used to be very fortunate although, I used to be despatched to public college and after I was 18, by likelihood, I had the chance to work in a membership. It was a manner that I might begin paying for issues myself. Through the day, I went to high school after which I labored at night time. I sort of had a double life.”
He credited H.Wooden Group proprietor John Terzian for actually making his profession. “I noticed him as a mentor, and I turned his proper hand after I was nineteen,” he mentioned. “We grew stronger collectively. I confirmed him the brand new stuff that I assumed was cool, he launched me to his older contacts after which we opened Delilah. That’s when every part modified. Delilah is to LA what Chiltern Firehouse is to London. It isn’t a membership, there’s no who’s-who, no promoters; it was simply John and I dealing with the reservations with our workforce, and we created a restaurant the place folks wished to remain after their meals.” (Delilah is a significant celeb hotspot to at the present time.)
Bia is shut buddies with a number of younger Hollywood, together with Kendall Jenner (who usually likes his Instagrams) and Drake.
In his June 2020 GQ profile, the outlet wrote that in Bia’s first membership go to at 19, Bia and his buddies had been invited by Fetty Wap to affix him as a result of Bia can be a Gemini and had a birthday that month. “I am at a desk, consuming with Fetty,” Bia recalled. “For me, it is so surreal on the time.” A membership promoter thought that Bia might get Wap to come back again to the membership. That chance opened to door that led to Bia changing into a membership promoter himself in L.A. and actually constructing a popularity for himself and the curiosity of celebs.
When working at Blind Dragon, “we had been bringing these events again the place it was just like the actors, the skaters, the fashions, the school youngsters, they’re all in the identical social gathering collectively,” Bia recalled. “That wasn’t how golf equipment in L.A. had been being run. We had been simply doing it as a result of we thought it was cool, we thought it was enjoyable.”
When Rihanna got here one night time, “everybody began exhibiting up,” he mentioned. Of the events he was identified for throwing then on the membership, he mentioned, “Kacey Musgraves and Kendall and Kourtney and Kylie are in a sales space, whereas me and Luka [Sabbat] are on the mic and DJing. And Child Keem and Dominic Fike are on the bar. It is like, everybody’s there. [And] Drake’s strolling within the again.”
Drake and Bia ultimately turned shut buddies. “I think about him a giant brother,” Bia mentioned.
Of how he is ready to construct deep friendships, Bia advised Advanced in February 2022 that he has a pure need to grasp everybody. “I’ve a real love for locating out how somebody grew up: ‘What do they like?’ Oh, shit, we like the identical issues! I like piquing real pursuits, constructing these friendships, and introducing buddies to buddies. It solely will get reciprocated,” he mentioned.
Bia runs his personal document label, Area Journey Information.
Bia spoke to Cool Looking in June 2021 about operating the enterprise. “Now we’re experiencing a time the place the barrier to entry to the music enterprise is the bottom it’s ever been,” he mentioned. “Anybody can document a music from their front room and put it out. That over-saturation of music, it’s factor. Now it’s turn out to be, ‘How do you break an artist digitally?’ So there are all these new challenges that we by no means even considered as a result of the enterprise was operating a technique for therefore lengthy.”
“A part of the rationale that we’re increase our personal document firm is as a result of we don’t have to stay to a conventional mannequin,” he continued. “And I feel that’s the chance. We’re not reinventing the wheel right here. We’re nonetheless placing out music. However you could find these non-traditional methods to companion up with artists and empower folks in a manner that possibly wasn’t considered earlier than, as a result of it was simply so systematic, and so many individuals on the prime had been making a lot cash. Now that barrier’s been damaged.”
“There’s nobody that’s going to be extra in contact with what’s present than the children which are truly doing it,” he added. “And we now have artists which are 17 years previous and so they’re essentially the most self-sufficient folks I’ve ever seen. I signed this child when he was 15, and he was doing all this on his personal from his bed room.”
Regardless of rumors, Bia shouldn’t be from excessive wealth.
In his interview with Advanced, Bia addressed the rumor his father runs Dior. “Anytime I do something cool or accomplish one thing, it’s going to at all times get knocked as, like, ‘In fact he was ready to do that, his dad does this,’” he prefaced. “However the motive I haven’t even actually talked about my dad is as a result of I’ve such a foul relationship with him that I didn’t need to even speak about him. My dad is a photographer. I don’t even actually know the place he lives.”
“I’m cool to speak about it now, however it’s been so humorous as a result of the most important factor in my life has been my single mother elevating me, after which me attempting to perform issues to assist her out,” he added. “She taught me every part and he or she’s such a beast, and the most important knock on me is ‘his dad gave him every part,’ however it’s truly the precise reverse.”
With the Dior rumor particularly, Bia’s full final identify is Bialobos. “Somebody came upon my actual final identify, Googled it, and noticed there was somebody who labored at Dior who was distantly associated to my dad—like two cousins faraway from my dad’s facet—and was not even the pinnacle of it,” he mentioned. “Nevertheless it was, ‘Zack’s dad labored at Dior. Or Zack’s dad runs Dior.’”
Zack Bia and Olivia Rodrigo referred to as it quits in August of 2020.
After simply over six months of courting, Olivia Rodrigo and DJ Zack Bia have parted methods, Us Weekly studies. There doesn’t appear to be any sort of dramatic motive behind their break up, solely conflicting schedules and totally different instructions of their lives.
“Their relationship kind of fizzled,” and insider advised the publication. “They had been casually courting however have not frolicked collectively shortly. There have been no points — they each have totally different work schedules and totally different pal teams.”
The singer was seen out on Friday, August 19, going to a live performance on the Bowery Ballroom with a bunch of her buddies and gave the impression to be in good spirits.
Alyssa Bailey is the senior information and technique editor at ELLE.com, the place she oversees protection of celebrities and royals (significantly Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton). She beforehand held positions at InStyle and Cosmopolitan. When she’s not working, she loves operating round Central Park, making folks take #ootd pics of her, and exploring New York Metropolis.