Matt Healy & Gabriette Bechtel stepped out after their engagement announcement

Here are some new photos of Matt(y) Healy and his fiancee Gabriette Bechtel. That’s right, they’re officially engaged. Yesterday, we covered it as an unconfirmed rumor, but Gabriette did seem to indicate that Healy proposed to her with a black diamond ring, which she then showed off on her social media. Apparently, Bechtel has been wearing this ring for weeks already, and Healy’s mother confirmed the news on Loose Women on Wednesday:

He couldn’t be more in love — the 1975 frontman Matty Healy is engaged to his model girlfriend Gabbriette Bechtel. The two announced their engagement late Tuesday night after attending mutual friend Charli XCX’s Brat show in Brooklyn, with Bechtel sharing photos of herself wearing the ring, featuring a black gem surrounded by pavé diamonds around both the stone and band.

“MARRYING THE 1975 IS VERY BRAT,” she captioned an image, tagging Healy’s Instagram account as well. (The 1975 drummer George Daniel proposed to Charli last November.) The “Happiness” singer regrammed her post.

Healy’s mother, actress Denise Welch, confirmed the news on Loose Women Wednesday morning.

“I obviously have known for a few weeks that Matty got engaged … They went over to see their friends Charli and George in New York [last night] and I woke up this morning to the fact they’ve put it on Instagram. Instagram official … he’s got engaged to Gabriella Bechtel — Gabbriette she’s known as. Black diamond; he had it made for her,” she said on the UK chat show. “I couldn’t be more thrilled. We couldn’t be happier — she is everything I would want in a daughter-in-law. I’m thrilled.”

Bechtel was first spotted wearing the ring in late May.

[From People]

“She is everything I would want in a daughter-in-law. I’m thrilled.” Amazing. And slightly shady too, although I don’t think we should make everything about Taylor Swift. While I know this might be a tough pill for Taylor and for the Swifties, I hope these photos make them feel a bit better. Healy looks like unwashed ass. He looks like he smells like B.O. and cigarettes. He’s the kind of guy who tucks his t-shirt into his sweatpants and tucks his sweatpants into his boots. We’ve all been there, honestly – a lot of young women go through phases where we’re hung up on the dirtiest, sleaziest men. Usually we go through those phases in our early 20s or even our teens, but I hope Taylor looks at these photos and understands that she’s well rid of him.

Photos courtesy of Backgrid.

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  1. Abby says:

    “And I’ll say GOOD RIDDANCE…”

    I don’t know how Taylor or how other fans feel, but I’m not sad he’s engaged. Good luck to Gabriette.

    Maybe I’m reading the tone wrong but his mom’s interview does feel kind of shady!

    • tealily says:

      Yeah, I haven’t heard the audio obvs, but “I woke up this morning to the fact they’ve put it on Instagram” doesn’t sound exactly thrilled.

    • AlpineWitch says:

      The photo under the title screams “you dodged a bullet Tay Tay”.

      He’s greasy, unwashed and his stache makes him look like the ‘guy’ he admires so much.

  2. Barbara says:

    As goofy as he can be, Travis Kelce is a definite upgrade from this guy.

  3. sevenblue says:

    I think he looked more greasy when he was with Taylor. She still wanted him. Maybe the girl likes unwashed men? There was an increase in engagement stories about Taylor and Travis for a few weeks. I wonder, if those stories were because of Matty’s engagement since their friends probably aware of the news.

    • Lauren says:

      This she know this guy for years so his “ greasy” looks were not something that was a problem for her when she started dating him.

  4. fineapplewinner says:

    This isn’t a tough pill for Taylor or the Swifites to swallow lol. 99% of Swifties despise him and are just glad that people can move on from this. There was a small sub-set of shippers who were very loud and decided that every surprise song Taylor sang on tour was dedicated to Matty which was annoying but now hopefully they’ll move on. Most (not all) Swifties love Travis for her.

  5. Cj says:

    The speed of his love suggests the songs about how he was talking marriage with TS are accurate despite his comments that they weren’t serious.

    He seems like the type to lovebomb and I hope that isn’t the case for his fiancée and she gets exactly what’s she’s hoping for with him!

    • Gemtrudy says:

      Wow, Matty sure looks like those ‘dude bros’ of the 1970s. From his dressing to the ‘tache, the above pictures could have been taken from 1975. No shade to the 70s or his band.

    • Kate says:

      Exactly what I was thinking re love bombing

  6. Emily says:

    What is with men dressing like slobs while their partner looks incredible. Bieber does this too.

    • Flamingo says:

      I assume she is trying to present herself to get hired by brands. Who is taking pictures of her if she isn’t next to him. Hailey built a successful brand off of pap walks.

    • VoominVava says:

      It’s so true! I remember the photos of Justin with Hailey at the donut shop while promoting her lip gloss and he had his hat on TOP of his hoodie and was just miserable. It’s so disrespectful.

      He is giving MAJOR Shia LaBeouf vibes here. So glad Taylor got that infatuation out of her system. I’ve been there – when I was younger .. and you just won’t listen to reason (even from yourself) until you try it out and then learn a tough lesson. I mean she got a great album out of it, so there’s that. 🙂

  7. Flamingo says:

    I was hoping he would just go back to obscurity. I get anything Taylor related is clickbait. But he is so ick.

  8. K-Peace says:

    Poor Taylor. (I say this sarcastically since i don’t like her.) She’s so obsessed with this guy, and put out a whole-ass album declaring her love. And he gets engaged to someone else. WOMP WOOOOMP. Her “relationship” with Travis is fake. Just an arranged PR relationship. And i get the vibe that that too is over. I don’t think she & Travis have been seen together since their very glum, miserable-looking driveway dinner at Lake Como a few weeks ago. Things are NOT going well for Taylor lately. I think her career is headed for a downfall too. And it’s all well-deserved!

    • B says:

      Hahaha What a bitter comment. Laughable that you could look at footage from her shows and think her career is headed for a downfall.

      • fineapplewinner says:

        All of that person’s talking points (right down to calling their dinner with a view of Lake Como a ‘driveway dinner’) have been ripped directly from a particularly nasty subreddit which is obsessed with Taylor and Travis being a PR couple of praying every day for their break-up. Just sad and weird behaviour.

        They’re convinced she’s still in love with Matty just because they’re desperate for her to be miserable.

      • Alaqaday says:

        Yep, comments ripped straight from the Reddit snark sub where people don’t seem to realise whatever ish they pull up on her or Travis won’t get her cancelled…

        The former moderator is so sulky and butthurt he or she got bounced for breaching Reddit rules in their little fiefdom they’re out there on Al Gore’s internet publicly running a half-assed extortion attempt claiming they’ll offer six figures to anyone with damaging info on either Taylor or Travis. I mean – if you had that kind of info, hadn’t signed some kind of serious NDA, and were looking for a payday you’d either go straight to a media outlet or you’d cut out the middleman and go straight to the billionaire and multi-millionaire rather than some idiot on the internet…

      • Fortuona says:

        Their Lake Como meal took place on an island and the pics were taken by people an a boat or on land with a mega zoom lens .

        And we know he is is Europe next week as the podcast is being filmed in Cannes at a conference and he now has 5 weeks off before Training Camp starts on 23 July .

        And did anyone really expect him to pay $ 100 k in fines for missing Mandatory Camp ( like Rodgers did ) and not pick up his Super Bowl Ring . And he attended all 3 Optional Camps this year as well in the last 3 weeks and missed 1 day

        That is the reason he is not there with her

    • Koots says:

      What an absolutely bonkers comment to make about people you don’t even know. Take it back to Reddit.

      Good luck with that

    • Emily says:

      She wrote a song calling him the smallest man who ever lived and that he sucks in bed (couldn’t measure up to any measure of a man). Taylor doesn’t care.

    • Fortuona says:

      Travis took a job that they probably discussed since was living off and on in her house in LA , his training for the next season began 3 weeks ago , did a lot of charity work at weekends and was not boozing it up , had a visit to the White Houseand he gets his own rock tonight

    • Treeeee says:

      😂😂😂 love it . . I don’t know if Travis is through with the circus yet though…. that boy Loves attention.

    • Hell Nah! says:

      Wow, K-Peace, you really dislike her!
      I’ll sit beside you on some of your points but I don’t think her career will falter anytime soon.

    • Fabiola says:

      What are you smoking K-peace?

  9. girl_ninja says:

    I do wonder if Matthew and his fiancée denigrate Black women together?

    • Laura says:

      Yep.
      Everyone moved on, but I stayed right here on his admission of racism.
      And grand ol’ Taylor was just fine with that.
      So let’s not pretend she is in anyway better than him: by her own PR account, they knew and liked each other for years. She was out here calling him the happiest time of her life in concerts.
      He is 100% trash and so is she. Don’t even know the blonde with him here, but if they’re together then she is probably just as bad.

      • Treee says:

        100000% agree…. imagine if she were ever held accountable.

      • Ameerah M says:

        THIS. If he is is denigrating Black women with the new girl then he was definitely doing it with Taylor. And she was cool with it too.

  10. K says:

    He needs…scraped? Or something. He looks like something you find in a Staten Island fishing net.

  11. Beer Mat says:

    As someone said on twitter yesterday and I agree “these 2 are giving Blake and Amy vibes”.

    • ariel says:

      Yikes!
      But you’re not wrong.
      Many of us have been involved with creative “genius” dirtbag drug users.
      It is intense- and EXHAUSTING. I wish this young woman luck.

    • tealily says:

      Yikes and true.

  12. Kitten says:

    I find both of these people so unattractive but congrats I guess.

    • JC says:

      I think she’s stunning. I LOVE her style. <3

      • Kitten says:

        I think she’s the opposite of stunning and I’m generally drawn to unconventional looks. She’s just….not it. And her “style” to me is just bland generic goth.
        But to each their own I guess.

  13. Libra says:

    Flip flops are something you wear to get from the pool to the locker room. They are not street wear imo. Does she own sandals?

  14. caitlinsmom says:

    I cannot see the appeal in this guy. not at all.

  15. wolfmamma says:

    Two creepy people together in love.. wishing you all the best

  16. bitchy architect says:

    shia labeuf / mia goth vsn 2.0

  17. bumbles says:

    Hahaha! The comments here are hilarious!

  18. Melissa says:

    When you order Sid and Nancy from Temu….

  19. Cali says:

    Can’t get over his childbearing hips…

  20. Ameerah M says:

    It’s odd to me to see so many Swifties dragging this girl and calling her a racist for dating Healy. Taylor dated this dude as well – and had been dealing with him on and off for YEARS. She wrote a whole album about it. So if you think this girl is racist for dating Healy – then so is Taylor. The only reason they are not together in the first place is because HE dumped her. That’s obvious. The cognitive dissonance of slamming this girl while portraying Taylor as a victim is WILD.

    • sevenblue says:

      Let me write like a swiftie: “Nooo, he lovebombed Taylor, who is a little billionaire girl at the age of 34. She was also manic, so he tricked her. Moreover, he wasn’t even racist, he just laughed at that podcast, the other guy was the one making the racist jokes. He didn’t even know the p*rn they were joking about.”

      It must be so hard to be a swiftie, defending their taytay from multiple fronts, so she would still have her squeaky clean role-model image. She knew what she was doing performing her song “anti-hero” first time at Matty’s concert. The girly gave some many signs.

      • Get Real says:

        Exactly. She’s been writing the same song since John Mayer broke up with her. Insert different guy. Pun intended.

    • Treee says:

      Swifties and MAGAS sitting in a tree…. delusional losers. Just like their false gods.

    • Lauren says:

      Yes, can we talk about all the fans on here who were making up excuses for his racism or even downright saying it never happened and his words were taken out of context. It’s funny to read those same people comments now.

      Also, anyone having valid criticism against Taylor is anti-feminist, but them dragging another woman calling her types and names is perfectly ok.

  21. Jenn says:

    My Away roller luggage looks pretty banged-up after like 5 flights, so I’m grimly pleased to see that Matty’s does too

  22. Miramuffin says:

    Shia LeBouf vibes… also, hon, you woke up early and put your face on, what did he do? Get away from the unwashed man-child, while you can.

  23. Justjj says:

    I don’t understand the bleached eyebrow thing. It looks like absolute edgelady(coining this as the counterpart to edgelord), notice me plz, I TikTok about hating my parents and I’m 15, sh*t on every single person…

    • HeatherC says:

      I don’t understand it either! As someone with naturally very pale eyebrows (I had to pencil them in to make them even show up in my senior portrait….now I rarely bother) I wish I had low maintenace yes you have eyebrows. These girls don’t know what they’re throwing away lol.

  24. Nat says:

    I think he legitimately cares about this girl and that Taylor is in her feelings trying not to think about his engagement, which was announced while she’s in the UK. Matt’s mom really did have to put that dig in, but I do think Taylor is raw about it. She does this thing where she has staged photo shoots with all of her “friends” to show off that she’s fine and she’s not. I like her music but her admitting that she was willing to deal with his racism and didn’t care about it, and the fact that she was having an emotional affair that she wanted to become physical while with Joe makes this feel like this is her karma.

    I can’t wait until Joe goes public with someone.

    • Fortuona says:

      Taylor is sooooo into him that must be the reason that she was sat up from 1.3o till 3.00am Brit time watching the Ring Presentation and writing about it on X and making jokes about Mecole and his magic hands re-signed yesterday and his girlfrind was running the live stream

      And he wore his version of the TnT bracelet in his bling last night

  25. Mandy says:

    I’m going to refrain from being vulgar and rude…I don’t find him in the least bit appealing.

  26. Ash says:

    I can’t imagine this relationship lasting, but that girl is absolutely stunning.