Meryl Streep and Martin Short will be closer than ever at the Emmys

Only seat neighbors in the building.

Meryl Streep And Martin Short will apparently be sitting quite close to each other at the 2024 Emmy Awards on September 15, according to behind-the-scenes footage of the seating chart reportedly released by ABC, the network broadcasting the awards show.

According to a post on September 13 on X (formerly Twitter), there is “confirmation through talent seat cards” that the Only murders in the building At the event, the stars will “sit next to each other”.

If true, their mutual exposure on television's biggest night would further fuel rumors that the actors are dating, even though Short's spokesperson denied such speculation in January.

“They're just very good friends,” his rep told E! News at the time. “Nothing more.”

And although Short himself insisted, The Hollywood Reporter Although he and Streep claimed in an August 22 interview that they were just “friends,” their appearance hand-in-hand at the after-party for the Hulu series’ fourth season premiere that same evening did little to calm the rumors. (The Father of the bride Actor and the Mummy Mia! Actress also posed playfully together with Only murders Co-Stars Selena Gomez And Steve Martin.)