Jack Hughes, Tate McRae ‘having enjoyable’ as romance rumors swirl after Olympics

Jack Hughes and Tate McRae are nonetheless hooked on one another.

Fresh off the Devils ahead’s gold-medal run on the 2026 Milan Cortina Games, a source relayed to Entertainment Tonight on Wednesday that Hughes and the “Greedy” singer are “having fun getting to know each other” after fueling romance rumors late final yr.

“They have a lot of the same friends and started hanging out that way,” the insider stated. “He has gone to her shows, and she likes supporting him at games too.”

The 22-year-old McRae, who beforehand dated singer The Kid LAROI, first sparked buzz with Hughes, 24, in November after they took in a dinner date in New York.

The relationship chatter intensified a month later when the “You Broke Me First” crooner took in certainly one of Hughes’ video games in Newark.

Both Hughes and McRae then set their sights on the 2026 Winter Olympics, with the Devils’ 2019 first-round choose teaming up with older brother Quinn on the U.S. males’s hockey staff, whereas McRae had the web speaking over her look in an NBC advert spotlighting the video games and Team USA athletes, given she’s a Calgary, Alberta native.

“…y’all know I’m Canada down,” McRae wrote on social media in response to the backlash earlier this month, based on People.

Hughes went on to turn into an Olympic hero after scoring the golden aim within the Americans’ 2-1 extra time overcome Canada final weekend, securing the primary gold medal in males’s hockey for the U.S. since 1980.

However, not lengthy after the celebrations started, controversy erupted over how the lads’s staff reacted to a joke made by President Donald Trump on a congratulatory telephone name, when the commander-in-chief acknowledged he would even have to ask the U.S. ladies’s hockey staff to the White House following their gold medal win in Italy or else, “I do believe I probably would be impeached.”

Team members laughed on the remarks, as captured in video footage of the decision, with a number of expressing regret afterward about how the matter was dealt with.

The Hughes siblings addressed the firestorm Tuesday throughout an interview on “Good Morning America.”

“We’re extremely happy for them. Obviously, there’s a lot going on with social media right now surrounding our team and their team,” Quinn, a defenseman on the Minnesota Wild, stated.

“But in the last couple of summers, we did a lot of training with them and got to know a lot of those girls really well.”

McRae, who apparently double-tapped a celebratory Instagram put up from Hughes’ brother Quinn, is rumored to have removed the “like” amid the warmth engulfing the lads’s staff, based on Cosmopolitan.

Although the 2 at present comply with each other on Instagram, Entertainment Tonight’s supply famous the place McRae stands on romances now.

“She’s not looking for something super serious,” the insider stated. “But he really likes her.”