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Thomas Doherty Gushes Over Dove Cameron, Reveals Dating Red Flags, & More

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He's Scottish, he's a Taurus, he plays Captain Hook's son, he's got a killer smile and eyes you can get lost in.... what isn't there to love about Thomas Doherty?! We get to take it all in when the actor pays a visit to the Young Hollywood Studio and challenges our ability to keep it together while he oozes all the charm! When he's not making us completely envious with his numerous PDA Insta posts with his boo and 'Descendants' co-star Dove Cameron (#relationshipgoals), you can catch him in the film 'High Strung Free Dance'. He tells us how he prepped for the dance-heavy role, plus he takes us through his morning routine, and then we dictate the perfect love note to Dove to send with some flowers!

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Young Hollywood

What up Young Hollywood? Ruben Wilson here. I am here with Thomas Doherty.

Thomas Doherty

What up y'all? What's up? You pronounce it so well.

Young Hollywood

You know, I've been practicing. You've blown it. It was like red leather, yellow leather, red leather, yellow leather. I kid you not. What have you heard?

Thomas Doherty

Uh I hear loads of different ones.

Young Hollywood

Did you say loads?

Thomas Doherty

Loads.

Young Hollywood

Oh okay, go ahead. Carry on. Carry on. I need to hear your Scottish accent. I feel in the this, you need to give me a good Scottish accent.

Thomas Doherty

I don't even know where to start. I feel like this one.

Young Hollywood

That was so bad. That was so cringy. That was a good English. That was a good Irish. I thought that was a Scottish. What's the difference? Oh. Oh, I listen, you guys already everyone knows me. I'm not good with agriculture. That's like a full-on thing. I'm really not. No. Or accents.

Thomas Doherty

Or accents. I feel like it was all kind of like the same thing.

Young Hollywood

Okay, whatever. Well, welcome to the show.

Thomas Doherty

Thank you. Thank you so much for having me. I'm just sitting like how cool this setup is and like It's a good time. It's so lovely to be here. I'm loving this whole vibe. Thank you. It's a good time. I actually dressed myself.

Young Hollywood

Did you really?

Thomas Doherty

I did, yeah.

Young Hollywood

Are you proud?

Thomas Doherty

I'm very very proud of that.

Young Hollywood

Do you do you normally not dress yourself? You see makeup in the morning and people like birds and hummingbirds.

Thomas Doherty

Well, normally when like you do like things like press and stuff, like people dress you. Right. But I was like, no, I'm going to do it myself. And I yeah.

Young Hollywood

That's what up. I love. Really quick. What is your birthday? I'm like big on like zodiacs.

Thomas Doherty

I am the 21st of April.

Young Hollywood

Of April. Sweet. Are you like a Taurus? Aries?

Thomas Doherty

I'm no just Taurus. I just missed Aries. Oh. Yeah.

Young Hollywood

What are you?

Thomas Doherty

Tuesday.

Young Hollywood

I'm an Aries, April 9th. Oh, we get It's that is that a thing? I don't really know. Oh, like my bestie is a Taurus. He's May 14th. This is the beginning of something very special. Oh my god. He said it. I Now, I love doing a little snooping on IG and you know, your page is just filled with just like tons of love and just more love and more love that makes me really nauseous because I'm like, oh my god, why don't I have that? You and Dove are legit perfection manifested. Oh. Like I'm not honestly, I'm not trying to be that one, but I just speak the truth.

Thomas Doherty

Oh, of course. Well, it's so weird because like we never like think of ourselves like that at at all. Oh, you're I mean, you should see us both when we wake up in the morning. It's not a pretty sight.

Young Hollywood

I just you know, I'm having a really hard time believing that because like when I like look on IG, I see like pictures of you guys in the car and you're like massaging your feet and I see flowers and like her lipstick all over your face. Like I refuse to believe that you guys don't think of yourselves as like a bomb couple.

Thomas Doherty

We just love each other so much. That's so cute. Yeah, so we just yeah, we're very we're both very tactile. Like we both just she's like, just like we take care of each other and we just love each other and yeah.

Young Hollywood

Okay. Now, in the beginning stages of a relationship, what are some red flags? For you. Personally? Yes.

Thomas Doherty

I'm quite I I I pick up on what people say and I remember what they say. And then like say like a week later, if that is different, I'm like, Wait a minute. You said this at 7:45 at Crustacean in Beverly Hills.

Young Hollywood

So you're that guy.

Thomas Doherty

That's a red flag for me, yeah.

Young Hollywood

Okay.

Thomas Doherty

Because I'm like, not not like judging them, but I'm like, why are you doing that? Like why are you lying? But like Like you're done. Done. Cancelled. For sure.

Young Hollywood

So, really really quick, have you ever been like ghosted?

Thomas Doherty

What's that mean?

Young Hollywood

Ghosted. Like has like have you dated somebody and all of a sudden they dipped and you're like, excuse me, wait, I thought I thought we had like a thing. No. You've never heard that term ghosted.

Thomas Doherty

I've never heard that before.

Young Hollywood

And how long have you been here in the States?

Thomas Doherty

Three years.

Young Hollywood

Oh, that's a shame. Shame on you. Three years. Goodbye. We're done. Have you been ghosted? I have. Oh, how what is it? What do you mean ghosted? It's like everything is going well and you send a text. Da da da da da and you're waiting. You're waiting. Left on red. You give them a little call. Nothing. You hear nothing. They're gone.

Thomas Doherty

No. I've never been ghosted.

Young Hollywood

Really? Yeah. Wow. Touch wood. Well, you know what? Hit me up when you do get ghosted. Hopefully you don't. But I'll come back on. You know, misery loves company. That's me. Like it's okay, Thomas. It's okay. It's okay. We're here for you. So we have to talk about this new film that you're in. Fill us in.

Thomas Doherty

Yeah, so High Strung Free Dance. It's got Juliet Doherty and Harry Jarvis. And it follows Juliet's journey as a young dancer who wants to become a Broadway star. And then my character obviously is a famous choreographer, young. And then we get ourselves into a bit of a love triangle.

Young Hollywood

Uh-oh. Yeah. He doesn't ghost me though. Oh, I'm glad you know the term now. No, no. That's what's up. So I want to know the prep. Like what was the preparation into tapping into your character?

Thomas Doherty

For me, it wasn't a huge amount of preparation. It was more for me as a character to tap into the mind of a choreographer. I was able to tap into people that I'd worked with in the past. So like Kenny Ortega, Tony Testa, and then people from college like Murray Grant. And then I kind of like took little bits and kind of put it together with the character that was on the page and then yeah, I was out of there.

Young Hollywood

Oh, come through. Okay, now, moment of truth. Moment of truth. Here we go. When you wake up in the morning and you look at yourself in the mirror, what are some thoughts that go through your brain? Just wow. Really? No, I'm telling you. I knew it.

Thomas Doherty

No, no, no, no. You don't lie. Seriously. I have a puffy face. I've got sleep in my eyes. I was probably drooling the night before. It's not a pretty sight. I think

Young Hollywood

You really don't have those moments where you're just like, yo, I'm killing it. Cuz I do. I do. I'm not not to be that one, but you got to you got to feel yourself first.

Thomas Doherty

Yeah, that's true. I mean, I don't actively do it. I mean, I think I I feel comfortable with like, yeah, and like, But I wouldn't.

Young Hollywood

What? It's true though. Like we just We just being real here at Young Hollywood. No, I don't. Some of the things I think in the morning need to feed the cats. Need to make some coffee. What am I going to do today? Okay. My manager's probably called me. Cuz I get up really late. So really late. Shame on you. There's so much more than you get. Early, 5:30 in the morning. I don't play around. That is, can I say that here? I'm sorry. Can I say Go ahead. That is But you're right. You are so right. Now, I get up about like 8:00.

Thomas Doherty

8:00. That's acceptable. That's like a normal person.

Young Hollywood

You said acceptable. I get up at like 12:00. Okay, fair enough. Okay, now one more last thing, one more last thing. You know I'm just gushing over you guys's relationship. Now, I know you have sent and sent and sent and sent tons of flowers to your girl and guess what, she just rubs it in all of our faces and posted it online. So I thought considering the fact that this is your first time here at Young Hollywood, I think it'd be pretty dope if we like collectively sent Dove some flowers. Are you cool with that?

Thomas Doherty

Yeah.

Young Hollywood

Are you cool with that? Of course. Oh my God, can we get a note so we can write her? Yeah. Somebody I want to like write her a really cute note. Oh, you better come through. Thank you. Okay, so what are we going to say? Say Do you want to write it or should I write it? Should you write it? Okay, he's going to write it. Now get about. Say, um, hi Dove. It's me, Ruben and Thomas. We're here at Young Hollywood. How do you spell my name? What? Take a guess. Ruben. R. Uh-huh. U. Uh-huh. B. Uh-huh. E. I'm joking, I'm joking, I'm joking. I was going to say, you know what? For real, it's not you, girl. So, okay, hi Dove. It's me, Ruben and Thomas. At Young Hollywood. Uh-huh. Congrats on the show. You don't want to spell that. Your your face is snatched. Yes. That's a good thing. Do you know what that snatched means?

Thomas Doherty

No. It sounds like it's a Like together. Like Like you.

Young Hollywood

Your face is snatched. You're giving me geometry. I see those angles. That jaw line. Come through. Uh-huh. Okay. Wait, you didn't put here. Your face. Stop laughing. This is serious. Your face is snatched.

Thomas Doherty

That's funny.

Young Hollywood

Exclamation mark. With a heart. With a heart. There you go. Oh, no. I'm not going to give it a heart. Okay, what if she called you? She calls me Tommy. Tommy. Love, Tommy and Ruben. Love, Tommy and Ruben. R U B A E. You can just spell it. Okay, so Dove, when you get these flowers, we're sending you white roses. When you get them, you better hit us up. If we don't, we're coming for you. And I want them as well. Send me flowers. Oh. I never get flowers. Oh, it's it's all good because you're here with us.

Young Hollywood

Dude, once again, congrats on everything.

Thomas Doherty

It was such a pleasure.

Young Hollywood

Thank you, boss.

Thomas Doherty

Thanks for real. Oh my god.

Young Hollywood

All right, you guys, we'll see y'all later.

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PEOPLE MENTIONED

  • Dove Cameron

    Thomas Doherty's girlfriend and fellow actor, subject of much gushing.

  • Ruben Wilson

    The interviewer at Young Hollywood.

  • Juliet Doherty

    Co-star in 'High Strung Free Dance'.

  • Harry Jarvis

    Co-star in 'High Strung Free Dance'.

  • Kenny Ortega

    Director Thomas consulted for choreographer role.

  • Tony Testa

    Choreographer Thomas consulted for choreographer role.

  • Murray Grant

    Person from college Thomas consulted for choreographer role.

FAQ

Who is Thomas Doherty dating?+
Thomas Doherty is dating actress Dove Cameron, his co-star from 'Descendants'.
What is Thomas Doherty's zodiac sign?+
Thomas Doherty is a Taurus, born on April 21st.
What is 'High Strung Free Dance' about?+
'High Strung Free Dance' follows a young dancer's journey to become a Broadway star, with Thomas Doherty playing a famous choreographer involved in a love triangle.
What is one of Thomas Doherty's dating red flags?+
A red flag for Thomas Doherty is when someone says one thing but later does something different, indicating dishonesty.
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