Sophia Bush And Ashlyn Harris made their red carpet debut as a couple at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner on Saturday, April 27.
Bush wore a strapless black dress with gold embellishments, while Harris complemented her in a black suit with an embellished jacket.
Colin Jost will host the event this year, which is an annual event that raises money for WHCA scholarships and honors recipients of WHCA’s journalism awards. President Joe Biden will be present and expected to be roasted by the Saturday Night Live Star, as is traditional.
Bush has attended the event several times, but this is the first time she is attending with Harris, 38 A tree hill alum confirmed her romance with Harris just days before the WHCD in an essay for shine in which she remembered the end of her marriage Grant Hughes and confirmed that she identifies as queer.
Bush was married to Hughes, 42, for just over a year before filing for divorce in August 2023. The following fall she became romantically linked to Harris.
Sophia Bush and Ashlyn Harris’ friendship turned romantic after their respective divorces from Grant Hughes and Ali Krieger, and they have quietly built their relationship. A source exclusively told Us Weekly that Bush and Harris “bonded over their breakup and new beginnings” in October 2023, a month into their relationship. […]
“I had to deal with a lot of things, what felt like countless therapy sessions and some prodding from loved ones, but I finally asked Ashlyn to meet a group that wasn’t my friends to talk about it,” Bush wrote. “And that meal lasted four and a half hours and was truly one of the most surreal experiences of my life so far. In hindsight, maybe everything had to happen slowly and then suddenly all at once. Maybe it was all fate. Maybe it really is a version of invisible string theory.”
Bush emphasized that they only got together after they both left their respective marriages. (Harris was previously married to Ali Warriorwith whom she shares two children, Sloane, 3, and son Ocean, 20 months.)
After the Bush-Harris romance was reported last fall, Bush faced “blatant lies,” “violent threats” and “accusations of being a homewrecker” – all of which Bush said were untrue.
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“To those who said I left my ex because I suddenly realized I wanted to be with women – my partners have known what I was into for so long,” she wrote in it shine Cover story. “The idea that I left my marriage because of a hysterical tryst – which, to be clear, never happened – and not because it took me over a year to do the most soul-destroying work of my life? Instead of realizing that I had to be the most vulnerable I’ve ever been on a public stage, even though I was scared to my core? It feels brutal.”
Since then, Ashlyn has gone Instagram official with Bush, sharing the cover story with the caption “Proud of you, baby” and sharing a photo together at the White House Correspondents’ Garden Brunch in Washington, DC on Saturday morning.