Camila Cabello’s former dating coach Matthew Hussey was back in the news after the Senorita pop star recently opened up about losing her virginity to him.
The singer, 27, dated the romance specialist from 2018 to 2019 and described the experience with her first boyfriend as “beautiful.”
The 36-year-old British life coach and the Havana singer struck up a romance after they met in February 2018 on the set of Today, admitting that she was a fan of his before dating and had listened to his relationship advice podcast.
While Matthew is touted as the dating guru, his own love life was shrouded in mystery – until his romance with Camila became public.
Here FEMAIL lays out what we know about Matthew’s dating history, from his relationship with another singer before meeting the former Fifth Harmony star, to the woman who would eventually become his wife.
Camila Cabello opened up about losing her virginity and revealed it was with dating coach Matthew Hussey (the couple in the 2018 photo).
The singer, 27, dated the romance specialist from 2018 to 2019 and said the experience with her first boyfriend was “beautiful.”
Camila opened up about her first real relationship with Matthew, then in her 30s, and admitted she hadn’t had sex “at all” before she was 20, when they met.
‘No. That was the first time I had sex. The first time I made love was when I was 20, 21… It was literally making love. It was beautiful,” he revealed on Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast.
Camila added that her ex-boyfriend’s experience as a relationship coach “honestly made him a great partner.”
‘He was a great person. It was like the perfect first relationship. “He really expanded my world because he wasn’t in my industry either,” he explained.
Matthew is known for his best-selling dating book, Get The Guy: Learn Secrets Of The Male Mind To Find The Man You Want And The Love You Deserve, which was published in 2013.
Camila and Matthew made their romance red carpet official when they attended the Vanity Fair Oscars after-party together in February 2019.
However, the couple ended their relationship after a year of dating at the end of 2019.
After the couple split, Matthew’s ex-girlfriend, Dutch singer Elieve, claimed during an interview with a local radio station that the relationship coach had been dating her and Camila at the same time, according to J-14although this has never been confirmed.
Following his relationship with Camila, Matthew met Audrey Le Strat at a friend’s engagement party in London a year later and the couple began dating.
A year after breaking up with Camila, Matthew met Audrey Le Strat at a friend’s engagement party in London and the couple began dating.
In April, the hitmaker opened up about his struggles maintaining long-term relationships in the past.
Matthew’s alleged ex-girlfriend, Dutch singer Elieve (pictured), claimed that Matthew was dating her and Camila at the same time, although this has not been confirmed.
The couple married in October 2023 in Sicily and Matthew gushed: ‘I am incredibly lucky to be loved by this human being. Our wedding was everything we expected
The couple married in October 2023 in Sicily and Matthew gushed: ‘I am incredibly lucky to be loved by this human being. Our wedding was everything we expected
The couple got engaged in February 2022 after maintaining a long-distance relationship between Los Angeles and London.
He remembers flying from the United States to the United Kingdom to propose to his then-girlfriend.
“I had the ring and I knew I wanted to do it while I was in London, but I didn’t know when,” he told the newspaper. On the moon blog in November 2023.
‘There was a moment when she was in her pajamas sitting on our bed and for some reason I felt the need to do it right then and there. All I remember is her smile, her wide eyes, and her excitement saying, “What?! Really?” over and over again, while he waited for her to say yes. There was some jumping on the bed too!
‘We are both introverts and love more than anything the time we spend together away from the world. It was perfectly us.
In a post on Instagram at the time, Matthew wrote: “I’ve been helping other people find love for 15 years, never knowing when I’d find it myself.”
‘I’ve been asked countless times, “How come you’re not married?”‘
While reflecting on her love life, the Havana hitmaker, 27, admitted that after “the year and a half mark” she “has kind of a ‘wandering gaze'” (pictured with ex Shawn Mendes).
He continued, “I never wanted this pressure to push me into making a decision that wasn’t right for me.”
“I knew that when I chose my life partner I wanted him to come from the deepest place of knowing what I wanted.”
On October 12, 2023, the couple married in Sicily and Matthew gushed: ‘I am incredibly lucky to be loved by this human being. “Our wedding was everything we hoped for.”
Audrey now works as a creative director at her husband’s relationship coaching company.
Of their first meeting, Matthew told the Over The Moon blog: ‘A friend told me on the way that there was a woman who would be there who the other guys were in love with.
‘The moment I walked in and saw her standing there with her friends I knew who they were referring to.
“It happened that that night there was a big boxing match being broadcast on television in the pub, and she noticed that I was constantly distracted. She pretended (the only time in our relationship) to be interested in boxing and asked me questions about it .It worked. We didn’t talk to anyone else for the rest of the night.
Camila dated singer Shaun Mendes, with whom she sang on his hit song Senorita, from 2019 to 2021.
After that, he spent a year with technology CEO Austin Kevitch, who founded the Jewish dating app Lox.
In April, the hitmaker opened up about his struggles maintaining long-term relationships in the past.
While reflecting on her love life, the Mercy singer admitted that after “a year and a half” she tended to have “a wandering look.”
“It’s also difficult in my industry because there are so many interesting people,” he told Star magazine.
The singer is now focused on her music career and will release her fourth studio album C, XOXO, in June.