Elliot Page is celebrating Pride Month with some exciting news.
The “Juno” actor took to Instagram on Saturday, June 28, to debut his relationship with “Overcompensating” actress Julia Shiplett – marking his first public romance since coming out as a transgender man back in 2020.
Page shared a picture of himself and the comedian standing close and smiling for the camera with a rainbow painted on the street beneath them.
Although the “X-Men” star did not provide any details about his and Shiplett’s relationship, he did caption the sweet selfie with a rainbow and a double-heart emoji.
Similarly, the “Turn Me On” actress took to her Instagram Stories hours earlier to share her own post of the “Umbrella Academy” star.
“Happy prideee,” Shiplett, also 38, wrote alongside a picture of Page shirtless and standing in a hot spring.
While this marks Page’s first public relationship since coming out as transgender in December 2020, it would not be his first romance since privately transitioning.
In his 2023 memoir “Pageboy,” the “Inception” actor detailed a secret romance he shared with an unnamed celebrity who was also “closeted” at the time.
“My partner was more closeted than me for a change,” Page wrote. “We were together for almost two years, and even some of my closest friends were not aware I was in a relationship. Her parents did not know.”
“It was not a sustainable relationship, just like when I had kept people hidden,” the actor, who was married to dancer Emma Portner from 2018 to 2021, continued. “People didn’t ‘think she was queer,’ but they definitely assumed I was, and I don’t think she could handle the shame.”
“Ultimately, she had to do what was best for her, and unfortunately, it resulted in my heart being shattered,” Page concluded the passage.
He also detailed his relationship with actress Kate Mara in the surprising tell-all memoir.
“The first person I fell for after my heart was broken was Kate Mara,” Page wrote, although the “House of Cards” actress was dating actor Max Minghella at the time and later married Jamie Bell in 2017.
Page also opened up about his romance with his “Juno” co-star, Olivia Thirlby.
“We started having sex all the time: her hotel room, in our trailers at work, once in a tiny, private room in a restaurant. What were we thinking?” the actor wrote. “We thought we were subtle,”
“Being intimate with Olivia helped my shame dissipate,” he added. “I didn’t see a glint of it in her eyes and I wanted that — done feeling wretched about who I am.”
But things quickly changed for the “Whip It” star after he came out as trans, and in June 2023, Page told the Los Angeles Times that he was having “the most fun I’ve ever had dating.”
“Interacting with people feels so much easier and more connected, because I’m not feeling lost in myself and not seen in the right way,” he said at the time.
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
