Internet personality Haliey Welch, aka Hawk Tuah girl, introduced her boyfriend on her Talk Tuah podcast, months after speculations about her love life and the mystery guy called “Pookie.” In the Tuesday, November 12 episode of the podcast, Welch revealed her boyfriend Pookie, whose real name is Kelby Blackwell, to her viewers.
Haliey Welch’s relationship rumors and Pookie’s name had come out since June 2024, when she shouted a certain “Pookie” during her now-viral TikTok interview. She can be heard in the video saying:
“I love you, Pookie! Forever!”
Since then, the internet personality has shared a couple of things about her relationship status while keeping the identity of her mystery man a secret. When Logan Paul asked her who Pookie was during her appearance in BS with Jake Paul in July 2024, Welch didn’t reveal his identity but shared that he had black hair and “the longest eyelashes you’d ever seen.” At the time, Hawk Tuah girl said they were not official and were in a “situationship.”
But in the October 16 episode of her Talk Tuah podcast, the internet star revealed she and Pookie are now an item, saying:
“Pookie’s my officially my man.”
She also revealed that while they only made their relationship official recently, they’ve known each other for three years.
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Who is Hawk Tuah girl Haliey Welch’s boyfriend Pookie?
As mentioned, Haliey Welch’s boyfriend Pookie’s real name is Kelby Blackwell. He joined the Internet personality on the recent episode of her Talk Tuah podcast to share a little bit more about their relationship. Blackwell is a plumber who said that he prefers his small-town lifestyle to the high-profile celebrity life that his girlfriend now has after her viral video.
The couple revealed that Blackwell was in a two-year relationship, and months after that ended, they started “hooking up.” They said it happened sometime in 2023, but they weren’t official then. He said in the podcast that he was still “working on himself” by the time he met Welch, and it was one of the reasons why he didn’t make it official with her. He said:
“I didn’t want to bring the hurt on to her.”
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They first met outside of “Sonic,” and Blackwell saw Welch with his cousin, Alyssa, at the time. But the internet star said that they had been “Snapchatting” “for a while” before that while Blackwell was on a break with his on-and-off girlfriend.
When Haliey Welch’s friend Chelsea brought out the rumors that Blackwell only made his relationship official when the internet personality “blew up” after her Hawk Tuah interview, he said that he doesn’t care what other people think. He added:
“You can believe what you want at the end of the day. I know what I feel in my heart and that I love Haliey, and that’s just that.”
Kelby Blackwell also admitted in the podcast that he’s a “very jealous person” by nature. He said that he takes offense over people sliding into his girlfriend’s DMs, but he clarified that it “really depends on the person and what they say.” He also joked that if famous people slid into Haliey Welch’s DMs, he wouldn’t care.