The actress and her partner have been dating since at least February 2020
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NEED TO KNOW
- Cat Missal confirms she is gay during a joint interview with her partner, Jess Panneton
- The couple has been dating since at least February 2020
- Panneton said she met the Tell Me Lies actress in West Hollywood years before the hit television show aired
Cat Missal is opening up about her love life.
The 26-year-old Tell Me Lies actress, who plays Bree on the hit Hulu drama series, told Teen Vogue in a Wednesday, Feb. 18, article that she is currently in a relationship with a woman.
In the interview, Missal discussed the show’s series finale after three seasons and its dramatic storylines that are never short of toxic relationships with men.
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“Well, I am gay, so thank God,” the actress quipped of not having those problems to worry about in her real life off-camera.
Her partner, Jess Panneton, was present for the conversation, adding, “You're safe with me.”
The couple lives together in Los Angeles and are pet parents to two cats named Chicken and Bunny.
Though Missal is usually private about her personal life, the couple revealed that they met at a drag show in West Hollywood.
“I just thought you were so cool,” Missal told Panneton, adding that she “just felt kismet” when their paths first crossed.
Missal and Panneton have been dating since at least February 2020, according to a post shared to Panneton’s Instagram account captioned “when’s valentine’s day?” on Feb. 12 of that year.
In the two-photo carousel, the couple stood in a bathroom, gazing into each other’s eyes in the first image. The second slide showed them leaning in a tad bit closer, almost as if they were about to kiss.
The House of Dynamite actress appeared in yet another Instagram carousel the following month, this time wit lots of loved-up photos.
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Panneton's cover shot featured two printed out photo booth strips of the couple in a variety of poses and moods, including laughing together and Missal planting a kiss on her partner’s cheek.
Other posts in the round-up consisted of the couple roller skating, modeling for a snap shot during a night out and the Vacation alum playing with a puppy.
In Tell Me Lies — which is based on the Carola Lovering book of the same title — fans meet Missal as a student at the fictional Baird College in the mid 2000s who becomes friends and dormmates with Lucy Albright (played by Grace Van Patten) and Pippa (played by Sonia Mena).
The series follows Lucy’s rollercoaster relationship with Stephen DeMarco (played by Van Patten’s real-life boyfriend Jackson White), but also shows the almost equally messy situations that her friends get involved in — including an affair with a married college professor.
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Hours before the final episode of season 3 landed on Hulu, showrunner Meaghan Oppenheimer dropped a bombshell on social media.
"After three amazing seasons of Tell Me Lies, tonight’s episode will be the series finale," the 39-year-old wrote.
"This was always the ending my writing team and I had in mind, and we are insanely proud of it. Your incredible response to this season inspired us to explore whether there was another organic way to continue the story, but ultimately we felt it had reached its natural conclusion," Oppenheimer continued.
All three seasons of Tell Me Lies are now streaming on Hulu.
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