Meet Matte Babel, partner to Pretty Little Liars’ Shay Mitchell – and friend of Drake

Jul 4 , 2024

Matte Babel is part of Drake’s crew, and has been dating actress Shay Mitchell for seven years. Photo: @mattebabel/Instagram

Babel works for Drake’s entertainment group DreamCrew, where he oversees the rapper’s Nike sub-label Nocta, and shares 2 children with the actress

Canadian-Filipino actress Shay Mitchell recently said on Today with Hoda and Jenna that she has no plans to marry her partner, Matte Babel.

Matte Babel and Shay Mitchell have been together for seven years. Photo: @mattebabel/Instagram

The Pretty Little Liars star has been with Babel since 2017 and they even share two children together: Atlas Noa, four, and Rome, one. During the interview in May, she emphasised, “I’ve manifested quite a few things in my life, and getting married was never something that was right for me.”

So what do we know about her baby daddy, who’s also her business partner?

How did Shay Mitchell meet Matte Babel?

Matte Babel and Shay Mitchell started out as friends running in the same crew in Toronto. Photo: Getty Images

Babel was born and raised in Toronto, Canada, just like his baby mama Shay Mitchell. In an interview with Fox News in 2017, Mitchell talked about how she and Babel started off as friends in Toronto. “We’ve known each other for nine years. We knew each other in Toronto. Like Drake and all of them, it’s a Toronto crew.”

The pair were first linked in January 2017 while Babel was still working as a reporter for Entertainment Tonight Canada. A source told ET at the time that Mitchell and Babel had been together “for a few months”, before adding they “are serious and are having fun together.”

What’s Matte Babel’s background?

Matte Babel got together with Shay Mitchell around 2017. Photo: Getty Images

Born on October 13, 1980, the Toronto native attended Wilfrid Laurier University from 1999 to 2003, where he double majored in communications and sociology. He then worked as a host for Canadian cable channel MuchMusic and as a co-host on CP24 Breakfast before he became a correspondent for ET Canada, per IMDb.