Secretly dating! Sparks were flying between Jennifer Hudson and Common on the set of their film, Breathe.
The longtime friends have heated things up!
Covert couple alert! Jennifer Hudson and Common have gone from chums and colleagues to much more. “They’ve known each other for years,” says an insider of the Dreamgirls star, 41, and the rapper (a.k.a. Lonnie Lynn), 50, who costar in the upcoming thriller Breathe. “Things took a romantic turn while they were filming in Philadelphia over the summer,” says an insider. “When the day’s shoot wrapped, they’d always find their way to each other’s side.”
Jennifer, who’s been mostly single since her 2017 split from wrestler David Otunga (with whom she shares son David, 13), has downplayed romance rumors about her fellow Grammy winner. “People create their narratives of it… we shot a film together and he played my husband,” she scoffed, adding, “We gotta eat in between those moments.”
Yet in December, months after filming wrapped, the actress was spotted ducking into his car outside the set of her talk show, The Jennifer
Hudson Show, in Burbank, Calif. “They’ve kept up their communication since shooting the movie,” says the insider. “They get together whenever their schedules allow.”
For now, they’re keeping things light. “Of course he’s known as a total flirt,” the insider says of the “I Used to Love H.E.R.” singer, who split from Tiffany
Haddish more than a year ago. “But Jennifer feels there’s no harm in that, and she’s having fun.” H