Pleading the fifth.
As we sit in 2026, it’s hard to argue that there’s a bigger artist, not just in the genre but in music as a whole, than Ella Langely. Launching off the success of her Riley Green collaboration, “you look like you love me” throughout 2024 and 2025, as well as other hits such as “weren’t for the wind,” the Alabama native has become nothing short of a phenomenon thanks to the megahit that is “Choosin’ Texas,” And, in turn, she has captured the hearts of nearly everyone in the country and the world over the past year.
After what can only be described as one of the most unprecedented rises for a song and artist in music history, over the past 11 months, “Choosin’ Texas” went on to become the longest-running #1 hit in U.S. history at 24 weeks, the only country song by a woman to triple up and go #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100, Hot Country and Country Airplay charts simultaneously. In case that wasn’t enough, thanks to the success of her sophomore album, Dandelion, which debuted at #1 on the all-genre Billboard 200 and sold 169,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in its first week, Langley became just the second woman in history to hold the #1 album and song in the U.S. simultaneously with a country song/album.
With all the attention over the past few years, however, comes a lot of scrutiny. Beyond pop stans (and country haters in general) trying to disparage her history-making success, her personal life — primarily who she’s dating — has been under the microscope as well.
Just when you thought the rumors surrounding her dating life had died down after the Riley Green controversy last year, the internet was set ablaze once again last month when it was reported that fellow country star Tucker Wetmore and the “Be Her” singer were officially an item, according to TMZ.
Sources have told the outlet that Langley and Wetmore have actually been dating for quite some time, and that they are enjoying each other’s company. As to how they became a couple, TMZ says that it was both the music industry and mutual friends that helped orchestrate the beginnings of their relationship:
“The ‘Choosin’ Texas” singer and Tucker met through the music industry and mutual friends, and their relationship has been going on well before they were spotted together Tuesday night in Nashville.”
Wetmore and Langley were out and about together in Nashville for the 9th Annual Nashville Songwriter Awards at Ryman Auditorium on September 22nd. They left together after the event, which at one point honored Ella’s record-breaking run. Of course, this was because “Choosin’ Texas” just reached its 23rd straight week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and broke the record for longest consecutive weeks at the top of the chart (dethroning Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You.”)
And interestingly enough, that wasn’t the first time Langley and Wetmore were spotted together.
It was actually in December of 2025 that the two country singers were spotted together in St. Barth. Fans speculated that they were in the same tropical location based on some Instagram stories and other social media content that both artists had posted, and those speculations were confirmed to be true when they were actually spotted together at the Soggy Dollar Bar in the British Virgin Islands. They even posed for a picture.
Unsurprisingly, the reveal that the two stars are apparently together caused an absolute firestorm on social media over the past two weeks, with “Ella Fellas” wishing it would have been them, some fans cracking jokes about Wetmore finding him a “Brunette” in reference of his #1 hit of the same name and others holding out hope that it isn’t true given the fact that neither of the two have officially confirmed the relationship.
Over the weekend, one fan took matters into her own hands and tried to get an answer out of Wetmore.
During a pre-show Q&A session before his performance at WAVE in Wichita, Kansas, a TikTok user, Grace, would ask the “Wind Up Missin’ You” singer about a “rumor going around.” Wasting zero time, Wetmore would jokingly break out into Lee Brice’s 2018 #1 hit, “Rumor,” which contains the same phrase.
The fan would then directly ask Wetmore to confirm if he and Langley are “a thing.” Avoiding the question completely, he looked at her for a few seconds and laughed before simply saying “next question.”
@graceebaby17 Next question = confirmed! @Tuck @MotherTuckersHQ @Ella Langley @Sia Gould #thatsayes #ellafellasclub #sunburn ♬ Sunburn – Tucker Wetmore
Since this is the internet we’re talking about, fans in the comment section took this non-answer as direct confirmation that the two, in fact, are now officially dating.
“That means Yes”
“I think we have our answer”
“The die hard fans knew. The regular fans had it tossed over our head lol”
“That’s a yes!!”
“He’s like ummm yes but I have to let her know officially”
“they are together”
“I mean he’s not denying it”
Of course, all of this generally wouldn’t be very newsworthy, but after all, Ella has the biggest song in the country right now, just broke Mariah’s record, has caught the attention of Drake, and is probably the biggest star in the format right now.
With all the rumors about Riley Green and her dating life over the last year or so, it might be nice for fans to finally put the speculation to bed and place the sole focus on her music.
