Sydney Sweeney is causing a stir once again.
Eight months after the actress, 28, called off her engagement to long-time beau Jonathan Davino, 42, the pair were spotted on Sunday night locked in a heated exchange – inside Davino’s car.
The rendezvous came amid fevered speculation over Sweeney’s budding relationship with controversial music mogul Scooter Braun, 44.
Sweeney had been dining with friends at Santa Monica hotspot Giorgio Baldi before she slipped out and climbed into a black car, eyewitnesses said.
Photos showed the star ducking down in the passenger seat with Davino looking sheepish behind the wheel.
Just weeks ago, Davino had insisted to the Daily Mail that he and Sweeney are ‘still friends’, before adding with a laugh that things remain ‘complicated’.
Certainly, Sunday’s reunion appeared far from smooth sailing.
According to reports, Sweeney appeared to scream at Davino: ‘I don’t believe you. Please leave, leave me alone.’
Sydney Sweeney has been publicly dealing with the fallout from her broken engagement to Jonathan Davino and her budding new romance with Scooter Braun
Sweeney and Davino were together for seven years
Sweeney and Davino were spotted in a car together Sunday Night
For Braun’s part, the Daily Mail is told that the record executive was unfazed by Sweeney’s frosty meetup with her ex.
In fact, an insider says that Sweeney and Braun are going strong and that the couple ‘are still very much together,’ adding that Braun in particular is ‘smitten.’
The pair appear to have struck up a relationship after spending time together at Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez’s lavish Venetian wedding in June.
At first it was said to be a ‘casual’ fling – before sources soon described the relationship as ‘very real’ and ‘full throttle’.
Braun divorced his wife of seven years, Yael Cohen, in 2021. They share three children.
Sweeney, meanwhile, suddenly split from Davino in March, after seven years together.
A second source told the Daily Mail that though Sweeney has moved on, she keeps in touch with Davino because of their shared business interests.
Sweeney was spotted with Braun on October 5 in New York City
In early October, Davino told the Daily Mail he and his ex were ‘still friends,’ but said the situation was ‘complicated’
Despite a ‘very hard breakup,’ the pair are still partners in their co-founded company Fifty-Fifty Films, the independent production company behind Sweeney’s latest movie, Christy – a biopic about female professional boxer Christy Martin.
Business aside, the second insider said Sweeney is ‘frustrated with [Davino] because he knows how to push her buttons.’
‘He’s hurt and she’s hurt that their relationship is over,’ the insider said, adding that Sweeney ‘hates that the paparazzi caught them together.’
The Daily Mail has contacted representatives for Sweeney and Braun for comment.
