>>218 There are so many possibilities for that article. She wanted to establish their relationship in the public sphere or they both wanted to leak it to get people talking before ISTL (leverage a real relationship). Maybe it wasn't a planned leak, but someone sighted them together and sold the story (maybe someone on the ISTL set?).

Relationship wise, he seems to like to keep his head below the parapet, so I would think that he wanted this relationship introduced via a tabloid. But who knows at this point.