Lucy Hale Sparks Romance Rumors With Rob Lowe's Son John During Lunch Date

Is romance successful the aerial for Lucy Hale and John Owen Lowe? The brace surely person tongues wagging aft being spotted unneurotic implicit the weekend.

The 35-year-old histrion and 29-year-old actor/writer were photographed leaving the Tocaya Modern Mexican edifice successful Studio City connected Saturday, with John carrying immoderate nutrient successful a achromatic to-go bag. The Katy Keene star kept it casual successful a achromatic sleeveless top, high-waisted airy bluish jeans, achromatic descent sandals, and achromatic sunglasses. John, the lad of Rob Lowe, opted for a akin vibe, wearing a sleeveless cream-knit vest and beige escaped pants.

While Lucy nor John person spoken retired to corroborate oregon contradict the dating rumors, they bash travel each different connected Instagram. Fans began speculating thing was going connected betwixt the 2 when Lucy commented connected 1 of the Unstable star's posts backmost successful April.

The station successful question was shared connected April 1 and celebrated John's six-year sobriety anniversary.

"Six years agone contiguous I took my past sip of alcohol. If you oregon anyone you cognize is struggling with addiction, scope out. Ask for help. I did and it changed my life," John captioned the inspiring post.

Lucy, who has been candid astir her conflict with intoxicant and addiction, commented, "This is amazing. You are amazing. Bright & shiny quality ❤."

In February 2023, Lucy revealed to her Instagram followers that she had precocious celebrated one twelvemonth of sobriety -- which she commemorated with a peculiar cake.

"Bear with me, this is an alternate Valentine's Day post," she wrote, alongside the photo of a sprinkle-covered barroom with the words "1 Year!" written successful icing. "This is simply a station astir self-love and astir the top happening I've ever done."

Lucy explained, "On January 2, 2023 I celebrated 1 twelvemonth of sobriety."

"While this travel has mostly been private, I felt compelled contiguous to fto anyone who is struggling cognize that you are not unsocial and you are loved," the histrion added.

Later that year, Lucy opened up for the archetypal clip astir her earliest recollections of drinking arsenic a impermanent connected the Call Her Daddy podcast.

"The archetypal clip I ever had alcohol... I was astir apt 12, oregon 13? I was successful Florida, connected vacation... and we drank Green Apple Pucker," Lucy recalled. "I retrieve my precise archetypal acquisition with intoxicant was the aforesaid arsenic erstwhile it ended. I blacked retired -- astatine 12 years old. I don't retrieve what happened, I threw up, I got precise sick, and I retrieve being truthful distraught erstwhile I realized what had happened."

"I was like, 'Oh my god, my ma is going to beryllium truthful disappointed successful me,'" she added.

Lucy explained, "I didn't recognize I had a occupation until my aboriginal 20s," which is erstwhile she archetypal realized however often she thought astir drinking and however she felt uncomfortable going retired and not having alcohol. Thus, she decided to question help.

"I went to rehab erstwhile I was 23," she revealed. "I don't deliberation anyone connected the amusement [Pretty Little Liars] knew. And it was my choice, too."

"That was a pivotal infinitesimal successful my life," she added. "[But] I wasn't acceptable to springiness up drinking, which is wherefore I didn't get sober until I was 32."

At the time, Lucy said she'd been cleanable and sober for 2 years -- and credited her sobriety, astatine slightest successful part, to having gotten COVID-19 during the pandemic, which forced her to enactment in, laic low, and debar a batch of the societal situations that would often pb to dense drinking.

"Without having COVID, I mightiness not person gotten sober -- oregon committed to it," she confessed.

Meanwhile, John and his begetter are gearing up for the merchandise of Unstable season 2. In the show, Rob and John prima arsenic (you guessed it) begetter and son. 

John plays Jackson, the shy kid of eccentric tech CEO Ellis Dragon (Rob), who is successful a downward spiral aft the decease of his wife. Jackson indispensable measurement successful to assistance prevention his begetter and the institution earlier helium spins the full concern into utter chaos. 

ET spoke with the father-son duo successful June, during which the younger of the 2 Lowe household members joked that fans of the brace should soak up each the clip they get unneurotic connected the amusement arsenic it could beryllium a portion earlier they bash different TV amusement oregon movie together. 

"Would you bash different task with me? If thing came up, would you?" Rob asked. "If I wanted you to, would you?"

"It depends connected what project," John joked.

Rob asserted that they could prime up the mantle from the Sheen family, including Martin Sheen, Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez, who person collaborated connected galore projects implicit the years. 

"Yeah, but they cared little astir similar nepo babies backmost then," John quipped. "I got to get distant from you, man. I got to spell bash immoderate different stuff... Maybe successful similar 10 years."

Unstable season 2 premieres connected Netflix Aug. 1.

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