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Ben Plattis sharing what he’s most grateful for from the past year.
TheDear Evan Hansenstar, 28, posted a picture onInstagramWednesday, showing him kissing the cheek of boyfriend Noah Galvin, who has starred inThe Good DoctorandThe Real O’Neals.
“2021 often deeply sucked and yet he somehow made it mostly wonderful,” Platt sweetly wrote in the caption.
Both he and Galvin — who replaced Platt in the Tony-winning Broadway productionDear Evan Hansenin 2017 — also shared video and images from their time riding a jet ski in the ocean.
The pair have been together since January 2020, after a friendship that lasted a number of years. Galvin, 27,went public with their relationshipthat May during an episode of theLittle Known Facts with Ilana Levinepodcast.
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Platt later opened up about how his bond with Galvin turned romantic during anappearance onTheKelly Clarkson Showin June, explaining that he didn’t realize his feelings for the actor until five years into their friendship.
“We’ve been together a year-and-a-half now,” he said at the time. “We were friends for five years and right before the pandemic, we finally decided to really give it a shot. We kind of skated around it for a long time.”
According to Platt, the COVID-19 pandemic brought things from “zero to 60,” and the couple started “living together with my parents in our childhood home and seeing each other all the time.”
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“It ended up being a beautiful time,” he added.
In September, Platt shared more details about his relationship with theBooksmartactor in an interview withOutmagazine.
ThePoliticianstar told the outlet he’s found “a partner that I really love, Noah Galvin, my boyfriend,” before opening up about how Galvin helped him overcome the “fear and apprehension” he felt aboutreprising his role as Evan Hansen in the recent film adaptationafter playing the character on Broadway in 2016.
Platt said his partner “has a really unique ability to help me to … be present where I am and to make the life that’s happening day to day too wonderful to not want to be on the ground for it.”
source: people.com
