Doja Cat has denied being engaged to Joseph Quinn.
The “Paint The Town Red” hitmaker sparked speculation that the “Stranger Things’ actor had popped the question when she showed off a giant ring while performing at the iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas on Sept. 21.
“Rub it in their face, put a rock on her hand,” Doja sang while holding out her hand as she performed “Agora Hills.”
“No, [I’m] not engaged. [It’s] a David Yurman ring with no rocks in it,” Doja squashed the engagement rumors in a since-deleted post on X.
The pair fuelled romance rumors after they were spotted on a date in London recently.
Doja and Quinn are said to have packed on the PDA at the Coach and Horses pub in London’s Soho, two years after she declared an interest in the star.
“It very much looked like they were together. They were acting like a couple. He had his arm around her, then she put her arm around him. He kissed her on the head at one point. It was just them together, deep in conversation for ages. She was puffing on a vape and looked really happy,” an eyewitness told The Sun‘s “Bizarre” column.
In July 2022, Quinn’s “Stranger Things” co-star Noah Schnapp revealed Doja had asked him to set her up with Joseph.
“Noah can you tell Joseph to [hit me up] … wait no. does he have a gf [girlfriend]?” Schnapp shared a screenshot of their chat on TikTok, in which Doja had written to him.
“LMAOO slide into his dms,” Schnapp then responded by telling her to contact Quinn directly.
“Doesn’t have a DM to slide in,” Doja replied, insisting she was struggling to find his social media pages.
“Right here, ma’am,” Schnapp then found one of Joseph’s pages and sent Doja a link.
However, things turned sour as Doja later took to Instagram to brand Schnapp — who was 17 at the time — a “weasel” in a foul-mouthed rant after he shared their private messages.
” I think that … to be fair, let’s try to be chill about it. Like, Noah is a kid, but I don’t even know how old he is, but he can’t be over — like, there’s no way he’s over 21. But when you’re that young, you make mistakes,” part of her otherwise unkind message read.
Doja went on to call Schnapp — who plays Will Byers in the Netflix show — a “snake.” She insisted she wasn’t comfortable with the way he shared her private messages publicly.
“I’m not saying that that encapsulates his entire personality — like I don’t imagine Noah that way. Maybe he is, like a whole snake. But I didn’t see him that way. I made an assumption that he was gonna be chill about it and he went and shared information that I didn’t feel comfortable with him sharing,” she added.
Schnapp later admitted he had said sorry to Doja after he shared their private messages.
“Yeah, I mean, look, I’m super unserious on social media and pretty goofy, so I posted that not thinking too much of it, but obviously it hurt her feelings. So, as I should, I apologized and she was totally OK with it, and was, like, ‘I’m sorry how I reacted,’ ” Schnapp said.
“It was all good. I love her. I’m like the biggest fan of her music, and I told her that,” he told Variety. I was, like, you’re literally my role model. It’s all good. People make such a big deal out of everything when it’s on the internet, but, like, in reality, it’s like a two-minute thing.”
