Overview

• The pair were spotted holding hands and smiling together after attending a movie screening in Los Angeles on July 25.
• Their public PDA follows earlier sightings, including a February brunch together at HomeGrown in Des Moines, Iowa.
• Both 45-year-olds are single parents—Cook shares daughter Charlotte, 11, and son Theodore, 10, after finalizing her 2021 divorce from Daniel Gillies, and Routh will co-parent his 12-year-old son, Leo, following his July 10 divorce settlement with Courtney Ford.
• Each star rose to fame in the late 1990s and 2000s—Cook in She’s All That and various Hallmark films, and Routh in Superman Returns alongside subsequent Hallmark holiday projects.
• Requests for comment to representatives of both Cook and Routh have gone unanswered as media outlets continue to document their outings.