The reaction came within hours of Lewis Hamilton posting the photos on Sunday night, deep into Formula 1’s summer break. One image showed the couple on a walk together, Kim Kardashian flashing a peace sign at the camera. Another was a selfie with her All’s Fair co-star Glenn Close. A third featured a Golden Retriever puppy the pair have named Halo.
The comment section split in two.
“Wedding pending!” read one of the most upvoted responses gathered by GPFans.
“Lewis is what she needed! A hardworking, fun, active, funny, kind, caring British man!” another fan wrote.
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A third simply asked for the season back.
“My man seems happy. Just bring him to his eighth title please.”
Not everyone joined in. Plenty mocked the 41-year-old for spending his mid-season break as chief hype-man on a Kardashian production, a jibe that has trailed Hamilton since the couple went public at Super Bowl LX in February.
From “aloof playboy” to lunch deliveries
The photo drop lands after a fortnight in which Hamilton’s off-track routine has itself become the story. On 5 August he was photographed arriving on Kardashian’s Los Angeles film set with takeaway containers in hand, red cap pulled low, greeting production staff before disappearing inside. Multiple outlets described the visit as a lunch drop for his girlfriend, who is shooting the legal drama All’s Fair in LA.
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Sources close to the couple say the small gestures are the point.
“All Kim has to do is mention that she wants something and Lewis makes it happen,” an insider told Heat, adding that the Ferrari driver is in “total puppy dog mode”.
The same source drew a line against his previous form.
“Usually he’s very aloof with the women, he mostly acts like he can take it or leave it.”
From Super Bowl LX to Tokyo
The pair became a public item at the Super Bowl in February, then continued to surface together as the F1 calendar moved. Kardashian was pictured walking arm in arm with Hamilton through Tokyo in July, around the Japanese Grand Prix.
“Absolutely sees a future”
Late last month an Entertainment Tonight source quoted by The Tab said Hamilton “absolutely sees a future” with Kardashian and that she feels she has “finally met someone who’s her equal”. Family members are on board too, with Khloe Kardashian said to view Hamilton as “exactly the kind of partner Kim deserves”.
Asked earlier in the season whether his happier mood owed something to a “new girlfriend”, Hamilton did not bother separating the strands.
“Of course, of course, Kim.”
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