After dinner in New York City, the two 30-year-old music singers are dating rumours.
After @klarissa.mpeg uploaded a text chat with a buddy who pretended to be the pair's hostess at a downtown restaurant, their outing became viral on TikTok.
After explaining that she and her buddy work at celeb-favorite hot spots, she posted a screenshot of their texting conversation in which the friend wrote:
Tell me how Selena Gomez and Zayn just went into [restaurant] hand in hand making out and I seated them."
Gomez followed Malik on Instagram weeks before the dinner. The "Pillowtalk" vocalist follows her as one of 18 accounts.
Gomez's early 2010s red carpet response to which One Direction member she wants to kiss has also been recirculated.
"Oh no," the "Lose You to Love Me" singer says, then giggles, "Zayn." In January, the Only Murders in the Building actress was seen bowling with Drew Taggart of the Chainsmokers.
She quickly denied relationship rumours in a since-deleted Instagram post. Gomez lip-synced to audio that said: "I despise ladies saying, "Oh my God, my crush doesn't even know I exist.