Two witnesses say Kyle Cooke and Ava Dash got cozy in the VIP section at the Palm Tree Music Festival in the Hamptons this past weekend, with one telling Page Six the pair were “kissing openly” at the Celsius sponsor table.

The Summer House star is 43. The Next Gen NYC star is 26. Back in March, after photos of the two holding hands at dinner circulated, Kyle went on Watch What Happens Live and told Andy Cohen flat out: “I am not dating Dash. No, that was a very friendly dinner.” He said they’d been at a “family blessing,” and denied “messing around” with her too.

Page Six’s sources frame the current sighting as the “beginning stages,” just “talking and hanging out,” and stop short of calling it dating. A separate source close to Kyle pushes back harder, insisting the two still aren’t together at all.

Kyle has been leaning into his post-divorce single era, even joking about a “Kissing Bandit” reputation in recent interviews from Cannes. A 17-year age gap with Damon Dash’s daughter is the loudest test of that bit yet.

No photos of the kiss have surfaced, neither Kyle nor Ava has commented, and the entire story runs on anonymous spies at the Celsius table.