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Teyana Taylor and Aaron Pierre did their own James Bond tribute in new Instagram photos together.
On Monday, March 3, just one day after the 2025 Oscars and the subsequent, star-studded Vanity Fair afterparty, Taylor, 34, shared a series of black and white photos to her Instagram account that featured herself and Pierre, 30, standing close together and posing for the camera.
“Oscar night in black & white, no grey area. 🤍,” the singer wrote in the caption, which was set to SZA’s “Take You Down.”
Pierre shared the same photos on his Instagram page, but did not add any caption.
In the photos, the two channeled James Bond and his Bond girl as they gave sultry looks to the camera and leaned against each other, back-to-back.
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Both the musician and Mufasa: The Lion King actor were in attendance at the Vanity Fair‘s Oscar afterparty on Sunday, where they posed together with actress Niecy Nash and her wife Jessica Betts.
The twosome have been sparking dating rumors for a while. They appeared together at the American Black Film Festival Honors on Feb. 17.
Taylor and Pierre — who received the Rising Star award that night — were seemingly photographed deep in conversation as they shared a table at the ceremony.
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Aaron Pierre, Teyana Taylor, Niecy Nash and Jessica Betts attend the 2025 Vanity Fair Oscar Party. Dave Benett/VF25/WireImage for Vanity Fair
While Pierre has remained private about his relationships over the years, Taylor has previously been candid about her marriage to basketball player Iman Shumpert, whom she divorced in January 2023 after seven years of marriage.
At the time, Taylor shared a post to Instagram to assure her followers that her relationship with Shumpert — which was featured on VH1’s Teyana and Iman in 2018 as well as in numerous other TV series — will remain “best friends” and are successfully co-parenting their two daughters, Iman “Junie” Tayla Shumpert Jr., 9, and Rue Rose Shumpert, 4.
“We are still the best of friends, great business partners and are one hell of a team when it comes to co-parenting our two beautiful children,” Taylor wrote on Instagram.
Despite Pierre’s silence about his past relationships, he and his fellow Mufasa castmates have jokingly acknowledged his newfound status as an internet heartthrob. In January, actor Kelvin Harrison Jr. took to TikTok in a hilarious video to poke fun at how Pierre had become a viral sensation while promoting the movie.
The nine-second clip begins with Harrison Jr. looking directly into the camera, saying, “I’m giving the people what they want.” He then pans the camera to reveal Pierre scrolling on his phone, blissfully unaware that he’s being filmed. When Pierre finally looks up, the pair burst into laughter. “You’re welcome,” Harrison Jr. captioned the post.
Representatives for Taylor and Pierre did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
