Forget calling her señorita, she loves that he simply kept calling, pursuing the spark that she didn’t really know how to ignite. “For sure. I, for sure, had a crush there,” she allowed while watching one of their 2015 performances on The Ellen DeGeneres Show “We were stupid. I think we both had a crush there. But we were both, like, I don’t know, being babies about it.”
They were also being, you know, burgeoning pop music sensations, packed itineraries leaving little room for dinner dates. Even when they were on the road together, both Fifth Harmony and Mendes opening for Austin Mahone back in 2014, I never saw him,” Cabello told Variety in 2018. “He would go to his tour bus and practice guitar, then go onstage, and then go back and practice guitar. He’s the most dedicated, driven person I know.”
So she linked up with Mahone (“While we were on tour Austin and I were dating and Shawn was just kind of being a loner!” she told E! News in 2015) and laughed off chatter of her and Mendes’ obvious chemistry, even joking to E! News when told they’d make a cute couple, “We actually hate each other in real life. We can’t stand each other.”
