In one flirty video, she calls Julez "my baby" as he gives her a piggyback ride
Credit: Tommie Lee/Snapchat (2)
NEED TO KNOW
- Daniel “Julez” J. Smith Jr. sparked rumors of a romance after being spotted out with reality star Tommie Lee
- Julez is the 21-year-old son of Solange Knowles and nephew of Beyoncé Knowles-Carter
- The model appeared in several flirty videos with the 41-year-old Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta alum
Daniel “Julez” J. Smith Jr. and Tommie Lee are sparking romance rumors.
The 21-year-old model, who is the son of Solange Knowles and her former husband Daniel Smith, was seen spending time with the 41-year-old Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta alum in several videos that surfaced on social media on Monday, March 23.
PEOPLE reached out to reps for Smith Jr. and Lee, but did not immediately receive a response.
In a video that appeared to be reposted from her Snapchat account, the reality star and rapper filmed herself receiving a piggyback ride from Julez in a selfie clip as the two talked and laughed together during a night out.
Credit: Tommie Lee/Snapchat
“Typa s— you do when you like somebody,” Julez said. A few seconds later, she added, “My baby. So fine.”
Julez then jokingly said that it's “hard to be fine” when carrying another person. “Still fine,” she said while laughing.
Another repost from the same night showed her holding onto his arm after getting down from his back, laughing about their “crazy weekend.”
Additional footage included in an Instagram carousel documented Julez and Lee inside of a venue watching a female contortionist perform.
“You can do that?” a male voice, appearing to be Julez, said as he later appeared on camera. “Sure can [two laughing emojis] and better” was written over the Snapchat video.
The model, who walked the runway for Bluemarble Men's Spring 2026 ready-to-wear show during Paris Fashion Week last year, recently cleared the air about "misconceptions" on a recent livestream.
When asked what “the hardest part” about being raised in the spotlight was, he replied, "Misconceptions," adding that strangers have been judging him since "the start of [my] life."
"Look — the first time I ever heard of myself in the media was I was in seventh grade, and my mom posted this picture of me," he said of the “Cranes in the Sky” singer, 39. "I was dressed as LL Cool J. I had like this red jumpsuit, I was 13 at the time. Mind you, I had a girlfriend at the time. I went to school and my girlfriend showed me a picture that my mom posted."
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"This is grown-ass adults who was calling me gay at what, 13?" Julez said, adding that commenters called him a "pretty boy."
As for Lee, she joined the cast of LHHATL in 2016, where her love life was frequently depicted on the series.
On the show, Lee said she’d been arrested nearly 30 times. She later spoke to VH1 about welcoming her first child while in jail.
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“Well, one day I was sitting in jail just leaking and I pressed the button like, please somebody, can I get checked?” she said in a 2016 interview with the outlet. “You know it’s hard to get medical attention in jail. Then they said if you press the button again you’re getting locked down. So when it was our time to get out, I called my mom and I was like ‘Ma, some s— is coming out and it’s just coming out every day.'”
Eventually she was transported to a hospital, and because there “was no fluid” around the baby, she had an emergency C-section. “Yeah, that saved my daughter,” she said.
PEOPLE reached out to Knowles' reps for comment.
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