Grace Van Patton and Jackson White's relationship has stepped out of the small screen and into real life on Friday August 30 the two who star and who lose tell me lies were seen together in New York City Van Patton 27 wore a dark blue shirt matching pants and orange Adidas trainers while carrying a red bag white 28 wore a dark T-shirt and jeans the couple has faced romance speculation since they began working together on tell me lies but it was not until they did a joint interview with ABC news that they confirmed they are a real life couple it's amazing we had our first fight on camera Ben Patton said in an interview ABC shared on Tik Tok on August 28 we got it out of the way yeah it's cool we get to bring a lot of freedom and safety and we get to do whatever we want with each other because there's so much trust there white said of how their offscreen romance affects their on-screen chemistry it's so much easier to be vulnerable and be open and be mean to each other on camera because we built such a safe secure bubble Van Patton chimed in white said the two get to relax at home after spending part of the day screaming at each other at Work Van Patton then jokingly compared filming to coup's therapy although this was the first time Van Patton and white acknowledged they were dating the two have shared their feelings about one another before in 2022 white said on an episode of the not skinny but not fat podcast that he had such a crush on Van Patton and HED they dated tell me lies was created by Megan Oppenheimer and centers on the toxic Romance of college students Lucy Albright Van Patton and Steven DeMarco why it is based on the novel by Corolla lovering in a 2022 interview with people Van Patton said she felt safe with white which was important due to the intimate nature of the show she also said she appreciated the sex scenes because they were important to the plot it really shows the power dynamic in Sex and relationships Van Patton told people and I found that so interesting every sex scene had a meaning and a point and was necessary to the characters in The Plot and I really admired it because you don't see that very often tell me Lies Season 2 premieres its first two episodes on Wednesday sep for on Hulu the remaining episodes Premier weekly