Gaten Matarazzo's Relationship With Lizzy Yu Started Before His Stranger Things Fame

You know when someone becomes famous, and suddenly everyone and their next door neighbor wants to be their friend? Gaten Matarazzo and girlfriend Lizzy Yu's relationship is the opposite. The pair went Instagram official in 2018, before Matarazzo's name blew up. Yu appeared in Matarazzo's homecoming pics in 2018, and in 2019, he followed up with a sweet anniversary post. "I can't believe that I've been with this gorgeous girl for an entire year. It feels like our first date was yesterday but it also feels like it's been ten years," he wrote, alongside a carousel of pics documenting cute moments together. Around the same time, Matarazzo gushed over his girlfriend in an interview with Us Weekly. "My family loves her, she's great. My brother and my sister get along with her great," he said. As for their under-the-radar date nights, "We play pool," Matarazzo added. It seems perfectly in line with their low-key romance, honestly!

Worth mentioning is the fact that Season 1 of "Stranger Things" debuted on Netflix in July 2016, while technically, Yu and Matarazzo weren't a couple until March 2018. However, as a supporting character in the show, Matarazzo wasn't fully in the spotlight until subsequent seasons. 1.35 billion viewers tuned in to watch the fourth installment of the show, compared to the ~14 million people who watched Season 1. Plus, judging by the years they've been together, Yu isn't with Matarazzo for clout. In fact, Yu has a burgeoning career of her own.

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