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Ilana Frost
Listen… I too watched Sabrina Carpenter’s “Please, Please, Please” music video at least 50 times when it came out. I get it and I am with the girls on this one. Barry Keoghan definitely seems hot as fuck in the Barbrina hard launch music video. However, that could just be Sabrina’s main pop girl glow radiating onto him in their adorable Bonnie and Clyde scenes. The Irishman and the former Disney queen really secured their It Couple status with this masterpiece and almost convinced me to root for them.
What’s holding me back, you ask? Well, Sabrina’s hit song about Barry’s questionable reputation didn’t come out of nowhere. I still don’t totally trust him. Before that me espresso entered his life, the Saltburn star was in a different serious relationship and had very recently had a baby with his ex-girlfriend, Alyson Sandro. Fans have commented on how quickly he started dating Sabrina after that messy situation and they’ve also accused him of being a “deadbeat” dad: Here’s the 411 on Barry Keoughan’s ex-girlfriend and their son, Brando.
Barry dated Scottish dentist and orthopedic therapist Alyson Sandro for nearly three years before UK tabloids reported their split in July 2023. At the time, a source told The Sun that Barry and Alyson had grown apart. Apparently, his partying after the success of The Banshees of Inisherin caused problems in their relationship. The insider also noted, “Alyson suspects he has got close to someone else and is adamant there is no going back.” Ope… no idea who that could be.
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During a January 2024 interview with GQ, all Barry didn’t offer details on their relationship or breakup. He left it at: “She’s done a great job and she’s an incredible mother.”
Barry and Alyson welcomed little Brando in 2022 when Barry was in the middle of shooting Saltburn. He told GQ that filming a movie and having his baby boy was “the best time of [his] life” and opened up about how being a father has changed him. “I feel a responsibility,” Barry said. “I feel an enormous amount of pressure, which is good. And I can’t get the little boy off my mind. It’s beautiful. Y’know, it’s crazy, but when he looks at you, you feel like the most important person in the world.”
In a new interview on the The Louis Theroux Podcast, Barry responded to online allegations that he’s a “deadbeat dad.” He said the chatter is “going to affect me being a father when I had no blueprint to take from.” The actor emphasized, “I’m not an absent father. People love to use my son as ammunition or whatever, and it kind of leads me to stop [posting him.] The more attention I’ve gotten lately and the more in the public I’ve become, the less I’ve posted about my child.”
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Barry continued, “Because I reined that in, people draw a narrative and go, ‘Absent father, deadbeat dad,’ and more disgusting things I wouldn’t even repeat. Just the audacity of some people, man, it sickens me. It makes me furious.” There ya have it — he spends time with Brando but prefers to keep that part of his life private now.
Perhaps Sabrina’s entering her stepmom era? She’s already Mother to so many.