Barry Keoghan reacted with pride to his girlfriend Sabrina Carpenter’s first-ever Grammy nominations for the upcoming 2025 award ceremony.

While making an appearance on SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagle Show With Julia Cunningham on Friday, the 32-year-old actor gushed about the pop singer, 25.

‘I’m really, really happy for her,’ he said about the six nominations she secured this year.

‘I gotta get on the phone soon,’ he continued before joking. ‘Don’t put me on the spot, lads.’

The Saltburn star continued, praising Carpenter’s work ethic from his firsthand experience of working alongside her as her real-life as well as on-screen love interest in her Please Please Please music video.

Barry Keoghan reacted with pride to his girlfriend Sabrina Carpenter’s first-ever Grammy nominations for the upcoming 2025 award ceremony; pictured May in New York City

He said he was ‘really, really happy for her’ and praised Carpenter’s work ethic from his firsthand experience of working alongside her as her real-life as well as on-screen love interest in her Please Please Please music video; pictured March in Los Angeles

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‘I don’t know anyone who works as hard, you know? I’m in awe of her, watching her work and her [commitment] and the standards that she sets, especially being on that music video,’ he gushed.

‘She knows the vision, she knows what she wants, and it’s, yeah…,’ he continued.

The nominations for the 67th annual Grammy Awards were announced early Friday morning. 

For her first-ever nominations, Carpenter impressively secured a total of seven nods including for the highly coveted Album of the Year, Song of the Year and Best New Artist. 

His praise for his girlfriend comes shortly after he made an appearance on a podcast and also brought up how proud he is of his girlfriend. 

‘Listen, all I’m going to say is I’m incredibly blessed,’ he said on The Louis Theroux Podcast after host Louis Theroux asked about their relationship.

He added that his girlfriend is ‘such a strong, independent lady, who’s mᴀssively talented and yeah, pretty special.’ 

The actor continued: ‘I was in Please Please Please. Great video. Great music.’ 

He gushed about working with her for her Please Please Please music video, adding: ‘She knows what she wants’

His praise for his girlfriend comes shortly after he made an appearance on a podcast and also brought up how proud he is of his girlfriend. He added that his girlfriend is ‘such a strong, independent lady, who’s mᴀssively talented and yeah, pretty special’

At the upcoming Grammys, Carpenter received six nominations for her releases from her sixth studio album Short n’ Sweet; pictured September in New York City

Keoghan and Carpenter were first romantically linked in December 2023. 

Since then, the pair have been relatively private about their romance but fueled dating rumors by attending several events together including the Vanity Fair Oscars party in March. 

The pair made it clear they were official when they arrived together and cozied up to each other for a snap at the 2024 Met Gala. 

In June, Keoghan played Carpenter’s love interest in the music video for her Grammy-nominated track, Please Please Please. 

The track was the second single off of her album Short n’ Sweet, which also features other songs rumored to be about her romance with Keoghan. 

At the upcoming Grammys, Carpenter received six nominations for her releases from her sixth studio album Short n’ Sweet.

She is up for Best New Artist and Short n’ Sweet is up for Album of the Year as well as Record of the Year. 

Her song Espresso is nominated for Record of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance while Please Please Please is up for Song of the Year. 

Short n’ Sweet is also up for Best Remixed Recording and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical.

GRAMMY NOMINATIONS 2025 – FULL LIST

 

Song of the Year

Beyoncé – Texas Hold ’Em

Billie Eilish – Birds of a Feather

Chappell Roan – Good Luck, Babe!

Kendrick Lamar – Not Like Us

Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars – Die With a Smile

Sabrina Carpenter – Please Please Please

Shaboozey – A Bar Song (Tipsy)

Taylor Swift Featuring Post Malone – Fortnight

Beyonce’s Cowboy Carter

 

Best Country Album

Beyoncé – Cowboy Carter

Chris Stapleton – Higher

Kacey Musgraves – Deeper Well

Lainey Wilson – Whirlwind

Post Malone – F-1 Trillion

 

Best Country Solo Performance

Beyoncé – 16 Carriages

Chris Stapleton – It Takes a Woman

Jelly Roll – I Am Not Okay

Kacey Musgraves – The Architect

Shaboozey – A Bar Song (Tipsy)

 

Best Musical Theater Album

Hell’s Kitchen

Merrily We Roll Along

The Notebook

The Outsiders

Suffs

The Wiz

 

Jelly Roll also got a nod

Best Melodic Rap Performance

Beyoncé, Linda Martell & Shaboozey – Spaghettii

Future, Metro Boomin & The Weeknd – We Still Don’t Trust You

Jordan Adetunji Featuring Kehlani – Kehlani (Remix)

Latto – Big Mama

Rapsody Featuring Erykah Badu – 3:AM

 

Best R&B Album

Chris Brown – 11:11 (Deluxe)

Lalah Hathaway – Vantablack

Lucky Daye – Algorithm

Muni Long – Revenge

Usher – Coming Home

 

Best R&B Performance

Chris Brown – Residuals

Coco Jones – Here We Go (Uh Oh)

Jhené Aiko – Guidance

Muni Long – Made for Me (Live on BET)

SZA – Saturn

 

Sabrina Carpenter was placed in the Best New Artist category

Best New Artist

Benson Boone

Doechii

Chappell Roan

Khruangbin

Raye

Sabrina Carpenter

Shaboozey

Teddy Swims

 

Best Alternative Music Performance

Cage the Elephant – Neon Pill

Fontaines D.C. – Starburster

Kim Gordon – Bye Bye

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Song of the Lake

St. Vincent – Flea

 

Benson Boone

Best Rock Album

The Black Crowes – Happiness Bastards

Fontaines D.C. – Romance

Green Day – Saviors

Idles – Tangk

Jack White – No Name

Pearl Jam – Dark Matter

The Rolling Stones – Hackney Diamonds

 

Best Dance Pop Recording

Ariana Grande – Yes, And?

Billie Eilish – L’Amour de Ma Vie [Over Now Extended Edit]

Charli XCX – Von Dutch

Madison Beer – Make You Mine

Troye Sivan – Got Me Started

 

Best Gospel Performance/Song

Doe – Holy Hands

Melvin Crispell III – Yesterday

Ricky Dillard – Hold On (Live)

Tasha Cobbs Leonard, Erica Campbell & Israel Houghton Featuring Jonathan McReynolds & Jekalyn Carr – One Hallelujah

Yolanda Adams – Church Doors

 

Best Pop Duo/Group Performance

Ariana Grande, Brandy & Monica – The Boy Is Mine – Remix

Beyoncé Featuring Post Malone – Levii’s Jeans

Charli XCX & Billie Eilish – Guess Featuring Billie Eilish

Gracie Abrams Featuring Taylor Swift – Us.

Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars – Die With a Smile

 

Best Pop Solo Performance

Beyoncé – Bodyguard

Billie Eilish – Birds of a Feather

Chappell Roan – Good Luck, Babe!

Charli XCX – Apple

Sabrina Carpenter – Espresso

Billie Eilish

 

Producer of the Year, Non-Classical

Alissia

Daniel Nigro

Dernst “D’Mile” Emile II

Ian Fitchuk

Mustard

 

Songwriter of the Year, Non-Classical

Amy Allen

Edgar Barrera

Jessi Alexander

Jessie Jo Dillon

Raye

 

Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media (Includes Film and Television)

Kris Bowers – The Color Purple

Hans Zimmer – Dune: Part Two

Laura Karpman – American Fiction

Nick Chuba, Atticus Ross & Leopold Ross – Shōgun

Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross – Challengers

 

Best African Music Performance

Asake & Wizkid – MMS

Burna Boy – Higher

Chris Brown Featuring Davido & Lojay – Sensational

Tems – Love Me JeJe

Yemi Alade – Tomorrow

 

Best Música Mexicana Album (Including Tejano)

Carín León – Boca Chueca, Vol. 1

Chiquis – Diamantes

Jessi Uribe – De Lejitos

Peso Pluma – Éxodo

 

Best Latin Pop Album

Anitta – Funk Generation

Kali Uchis – Orquídeas

Kany García – García

Luis Fonsi – El Viaje

Shakira – Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran