Joshua Jackson was seen holding hands with model Olivia Burgess during a June 7 outing in New York City, a public moment that quickly put a new romance rumor in motion. The pair walked through downtown Manhattan in casual summer clothes before ending the afternoon with drinks at il Buco in Soho.
Jackson wore an all-white linen set. Burgess, who graduated from Fordham University in 2015 and has walked for fashion houses including Jean Paul Gaultier, was seen in gray Bermuda shorts, a black camisole and leather split-toe mules. For readers tracking Jackson’s personal life, the outing lands at a time when he has already been linked in recent years to Bridgerton star Simone Ashley after a year-long romance with Lupita Nyong'o, making the hand-holding sighting feel like a new chapter rather than a stray afternoon in the city.
The timing also matters because Jackson has been talking publicly about Katie Holmes, his former Dawson’s Creek co-star and on-screen love interest, while the two prepare to revisit that chemistry in the upcoming film Happy Hours. On March 10, he described Holmes as “a lifelong friend now” and said it was “kind of magical” to return to work with her, adding that she wrote “this beautiful love story in three parts” and that they filmed it “last summer.”
That overlap gives the New York walk a sharper edge. Jackson is being watched not only for whether he is starting something with Burgess, but also because his name remains tied to a revived screen romance with Holmes at the same moment he is out in public with someone new. He is also a father; his daughter Juno is 6 and he shares her with ex-wife Jodie Turner-Smith. The public sighting does not confirm a relationship, but it does give the rumor more weight than a whispered dinner date ever could.
What happens next is simple enough to measure: whether Jackson and Burgess are seen together again. If they are, the June 7 walk will look less like a casual afternoon and more like the first public sign of a relationship that has not yet been named. If they are not, it will stand as a brief but telling snapshot of a star whose private life has once again become part of the story around him.
