‘This Is Love’: Keyshia Cole and Her Bae Niko Hale Serve Couple Goals Ahead of the Premiere for New Reality Show

It’s safe to say Keyshia Cole and her boyfriend Niko “Khale” Hale are madly in love with each other.

The happy couple left IG followers gushing over their love this week after uploading a series of sweet photos taken together. Cole, 38, took to Instagram on Tuesday and posted a picture of herself and Hale, 24, holding hands while sitting on set of their new BET reality show “My New Life.” The pair even matched each other by wearing color-colordinated outfits in all black.

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Another image, showed the R&B crooner posing sexily in front of her bae with an ample amount of her cleavage showing, as he looked down at his phone. She also showed off her new cotton-candy, blue, and pink mane that she debuted to her five million followers on Monday.

Boasting over the love of her life and their new reality series, the mother of two captioned her post, “Topic of discussion. New Life.Monday, November 18th 10PM.”

Cole racked up more than 192,000 likes on her photos and a slew of comments from fans who gushed over her and Hale’s relationship.

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Keyshia Cole and Niko Khale. @keyshiacole/Instagram

“Now this what love looks like 🤩❤️ I’m so glad you’re happy Niecey. I love y’all together 👏🏻🌹💯 You look beautiful as always.”

“Love LOVE.. when its REAL 💘 As long as your happy 😃 we’re happy 😊 Niko take care of our girl. Beautiful couple”

“Seems the topic is healthy and happy 😉 @keyshiacole you two look so good together. KC is glowing”

“Yasssssssssss happiness looks good on you gorgeous @keyshiacole 🤗🤗🤗💯 she deserves to smile after all she went thru”

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Keyshia Cole and Niko Khale. (Photo: @keyshiacole/Instagram)

Cole and Hale have publicly been dating since early 2018 and appear to be madly in love. Their relationship formed nearly a year after she filed for divorce from estranged husband and former NBA player Daniel “Booby” Gibson, with whom she shares 10-year-old son Daniel Gibson Jr. Their divorce has yet to be finalized.

The “Heaven Sent” singer and Hale welcomed their first child together, son Tobias Khale, on Thursday, August 1. The child’s facial identity has been concealed, and viewers will get the opportunity to see the infant on the couple’s reality show slated to air Monday, Nov. 18.

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