Merill stre and Martin Short are the talk of the internet once again the only murders in the building co-stars sent social media into overdrive Thursday August 22nd after they were spotted holding hands as they hit up the Hulu Show's season 4 premiere after party in Los Angeles deadline shared a clip of Street 75 short 74 and co-star Steve Martin 79 arriving at the event via X on Thursday another person wrote via X I simply love living in a world where 75-year-old Merill stre is having a soft relationship launch with her 74 yearold boyfriend Martin Short please let them be real pleading face shared another ex-user the sighting comes months after a representative for short denied that he and Streep are dating they are just very good friends nothing more shorts rep said in January amid fervent online speculation following the Golden Globes where the actors were spotted sitting beside each other short was nominated for best performance by an actor in a television series musical or comedy for his role in only murders while stre was nominated in the supporting actress category for the show stre was married to Don gommer for 45 years before news broke in October 2023 that the couple had quietly called it quits Don Gummer and Merill Streep have been separated for more than six years and while they will always care for each other they have chosen lives apart a rep for Streep told US Weekly in a statement Ian March short admitted he was nervous to work with stre who joined the only Murders cast in season 3 as Loretta durgen his character Oliver putnam's love interest