Meryl Streep and Martin Short: A Complete Relationship Rumor Timeline

Even Meryl Streep is not immune to the Hollywood rumor mill.

While it’s not completely clear when these Hollywood icons officially met, Meryl Streep and Martin Short’s friendship can be traced back nearly a decade. However, after the pair played love interests on Only Murders in the Building, fans began shipping the three-time Oscar-winning actor with the two-time Emmy-winning comedian in real life. (Fun fact: As a couple, they’d just be one Grammy shy of an EGOT.)

It’s been nearly a year since Streep, 75, and Short, 74, first sparked relationship rumors at the 2024 Golden Globes—and while their alleged date night may have been overshadowed by whatever conversation Selena Gomez was having with Taylor Swift that night, fans have been quietly keeping track of the alleged relationship ever since.

Here’s a complete timeline of all those relationship rumors and milestones:

October 19, 2024: Steve Martin shares a screenshot of this exact relationship rumor timeline to his Instagram grid, with one small tweak: The actor added a “prohibited” emoji over his own face, so that he appears crossed out of the photo of himself, Short and Streep.

Fans in the comments section took his post as confirmation that the two are together, though the actor and comedian said no such thing explicitly. In fact, he did not share a caption, and his screenshot does not include the headline of the post, which is about the relationship rumors between his co-stars.

Still the people jumped to their own conclusions. “Are u confirming this relationship?!” one commenter begged. A second commenter shared, “did he just hard launch the relationship.”

There were also plenty of jokes in the comments, because comedians flock to each other. Wrote one follower, “Ya know what they say- Steves a crowd.” And another, referencing a viral TikTok sound about a third wheel, wrote, “And your friend Steve, doo doo doo doo doo doo doo STEVE! 🎵”