Kanye West and his wife, Bianca Censori, made quite the entrance to the 2025 Grammys.
West, 47, posed at the red carpet on Sunday, February 2, in an all-black T-shirt and jeans while Censori, 30, took off her fur coat to reveal a completely sheer dress. (West’s “Carnival” is up for “Best Rap Song” at Sunday’s awards show at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles.)
West has been linked to Censori since January 2023, two months after the music mogul finalized his divorce from Kim Kardashian. (West and Kardashian, 44, who share daughters North, 11, and Chicago, 6, and sons Saint, 8, and Psalm, 5, were in a lengthy legal battle after they pulled the plug on their six-year marriage.)
Us Weekly later confirmed that same month that West and Censori previously had “a small marriage ceremony.” At the time, a source told Us that the milestone was “very real” for West and Censori even though it remained unclear whether the event was legally binding.
Now that the 2025 Grammys red carpet has been rolled out, see the fashion statements that the industry’s biggest stars are already serving on music’s biggest night in real time, as it all goes down on Sunday, February 2, in Los Angeles, California. With multiple multi-time Grammy winners scheduled to present (and possibly also collect) […]
After speculation that they were headed for divorce, a second insider told Us in October 2024 that the pair were “working through” some issues after facing “ups and downs recently.”
“Their relationship is definitely rocky,” the insider added. “Bianca knew what she was getting herself into when marrying Kanye, but, as months went on, the lifestyle took a toll on her.”
West’s appearance at the 2025 Grammys came one day after he took to Instagram to show that he is now following Taylor Swift. In a post on Saturday, February 1, West shared a screenshot of his “Following” list on his Instagram Stories, confirming that Swift, 35, was the only one included.
The update came as a surprise after West and Swift’s rocky past. West infamously overshadowed Swift’s win for Best Female Video at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards when he interrupted her speech to issue a shout-out to Beyoncé. After West later named Swift in a vulgar lyric on his song “Famous,” his then-wife, Kardashian, released edited footage that made it seem like Swift had heard the full lyrics and was fine with it.
“West had claimed that Swift gave him permission to include the vulgar lyric, which she repeatedly vehemently denied,” a rep for Swift told Us in a statement. “West’s then-wife, Kim Kardashian, subsequently released footage of an alleged phone call between the two Grammy winners that corroborated West’s version of events. It has since come to light that the call was edited.”
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More recently, Swift — who is also going to be in attendance on Sunday — called the incident a “career death.”
“Make no mistake — my career was taken away from me,” she recalled to TIME in a December 2023 profile. “You have a fully manufactured frame job, in an illegally recorded phone call, which Kim Kardashian edited and then put out to say to everyone that I was a liar.”
Swift continued: “That took me down psychologically to a place I’ve never been before. I moved to a foreign country. I didn’t leave a rental house for a year. I was afraid to get on phone calls. I pushed away most people in my life because I didn’t trust anyone anymore. I went down really, really hard.”