Sophia Bush’s romance with Ashlyn Harris continues to thrive.
The 41-year-old actress and 38-year-old soccer player ‘love being together’ and ‘love sports and want to do good in the world,’ an insider told US Weekly on Thursday.
‘It’s only been a couple of weeks since their first official date, but things already feel really natural between them,’ the insider said of the tandem, who were seen last week on an outing in Santa Monica, California.
Both are coming off contentious splits to their respective marriages: Bush has parted with businessman Grant Hughes, 42, while Harris made headlines in her breakup with fellow soccer star Ali Krieger, 39.
A second insider told the outlet that the Pasadena, California native, who appeared on the TV series One Tree Hill, first crossed paths with Harris in June at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity in Cannes, France, and ‘sparks flew.’
The latest: Sophia Bush’s romance with Ashlyn Harris continues to thrive, as the 41-year-old actress and 38-year-old soccer player ‘love being together’ and ‘love sports and want to do good in the world,’ an insider told US Weekly on Thursday
The second source said that the romance between Bush – who has also been seen on Chicago P.D., Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and This Is Us – and Harris only began after their marriages to their former spouses were over.
Bush and Harris ‘bonded over their breakups and having to start over,’ the source said. ‘Sophia and Ashlyn insist they were just friends, but by all accounts, it was instant chemistry.’
Bush in August filed for divorce from Hughes after a 14-month marriage, alluding to the drastic life change in an Instagram post at the time.
‘Sometimes you have to remind yourself that you’re something special,’ Bush said. ‘That you can’t be replaced. Your heart, your mind, your conversation, your care, it can’t be replaced. By anyone.’
Harris, a Cocoa Beach, Florida, native, in September filed for divorce from Krieger, more than three years after they were wed in December of 2019 in Miami at the at Vizcaya Museum and Gardens.
The soccer players are parents to daughter Sloane, two, and son Ocean, 14 months.
Both Hughes and Krieger have put out statements in the wake of their aforementioned partings.
Hughes’ rep told Page Six last week, ‘Grant will always want the best for Sophia, and is supportive of all that makes her happy and fulfilled.’
The Pasadena, California native first crossed paths with Harris in June at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity in Cannes, France , and ‘sparks flew.’
Harris ‘bonded over their breakups and having to start over,’ with Bush after their respective breakups. Pictured earlier this month in Seattle
Harris and Krieger wed in December of 2019 in Miami at the at Vizcaya Museum and Gardens. Pictured in 2020 in LA
Bush in August filed for divorce from Grant Hughes after a 14-month marriage. Pictured in LA in March
Krieger last week alluded to Beyoncé’s famed 2016 album Lemonade – which includes allusions to having been cheated on – in a post that ahead of her NWSL soccer playoffs
‘Preparing for playoffs while in my Beyoncé lemonade era,’ she said.
Harris announced her retirement from the sport in November of 2022, while Krieger, currently with the Gotham FC, will retire from professional soccer at the end of the playoffs this year.
Both Harris, a goalkeeper, and Krieger, a defender, are two-time World Cup winners, in 2015 and 2019.
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