Doja Cat denies engagement to Joseph Quinn

Doja Cat has denied being engaged to Joseph Quinn.

The Paint The Town Red hitmaker, 28, sparked speculation that the 30-year-old Stranger Things actor had popped the question when she showed off a giant ring whilst performing at the iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas on Saturday (Sept 21).

Whilst holding out her hand performing Agora Hills, she sang: “Rub it in their face, put a rock on her hand.” However, Doja has put to bed the engagement rumours in a since-deleted post on X, writing: “no, im not engaged its a David Yurman ring with no rocks in it. (sic)”

The pair fuelled romance rumours after they were spotted on a date in London recently.

Doja and Joseph are said to have packed on the PDA at the Coach and Horses pub in London’s Soho, two years after she declared an interest in the star.

An eyewitness told The Sun newspaper’s Bizarre column: “It very much looked like they were together. They were acting like a couple.

“He had his arm around her, then she put her arm around him. He kissed her on the head at one point.

“It was just them together, deep in conversation for ages. She was puffing on a vape and looked really happy.”

In July 2022, Joseph’s Stranger Things co-star Noah Schnapp revealed Doja had asked him to set her up with Joseph.

Noah shared a screenshot of their chat on TikTok, in which Doja had written to him: “Noah can you tell Joseph to (hit me up) … wait no. does he have a gf (girlfriend)? (sic)”

The actor then responded by telling her to contact him directly, writing: “LMAOO slide into his dms. (sic)”

However, Doja insisted she was struggling to find his social media pages, writing: “Doesn’t have a DM to slide in.”

Noah then found one of Joseph’s pages and sent Doja a link, adding: “Right here ma’am.”

However, things turned sour as she later took to Instagram to brand Noah, who was 17 at the time, a “weasel” in a foul-mouthed rant, after he shared their private messages.

Part of her message read: “I think that … to be fair, let’s try to be chill about it. Like Noah is a kid, but, I don’t even know how old he is, but he can’t be over – like there’s no way he’s over 21.

“But when you’re that young, you make mistakes. (sic)”

She went on to call the actor – who plays Will Byers in the Netflix show – a “snake”, and insisted she wasn’t comfortable with the way he shared her private messages publicly.

She added: “I’m not saying that that encapsulates his entire personality – like I don’t imagine Noah that way. Maybe he is, like a whole snake. But I didn’t see him that way. I made an assumption that he was gonna be chill about it and he went and shared information that I didn’t feel comfortable with him sharing.”

Noah later admitted he had said sorry to Doja after he shared their private messages.

He told Variety: “Yeah, I mean, look, I’m super unserious on social media and pretty goofy, so I posted that not thinking too much of it, but obviously it hurt her feelings.

“So, as I should, I apologised and she was totally OK with it, and was like, ‘I’m sorry how I reacted.’

“It was all good. I love her. I’m like the biggest fan of her music, and I told her that. I was like, you’re literally my role model. It’s all good.

“People make such a big deal out of everything when it’s on the internet, but, like, in reality, it’s like a two-minute thing.”