Millie Bobby Brown Marries Jake Bongiovi in Non-public Ceremony
Millie Bobby Brown and Jake Bongiovi could have met in essentially the most Gen Z of the way, however their courtship shortly took a flip for the old style.
After connecting on Instagram in 2021, “we have been buddies for a bit,” Millie shared in a November 2022 Wired interview. “After which, what can I say?”
Nicely, much more would’ve been welcome, particularly for the reason that Stranger Things star got engaged to Jon Bon Jovi‘s mannequin son barely 5 months later, however that is the place Millie left it on the time.
The 20-year-old actress and 22-year-old mannequin have since stuffed in additional blanks: DMing led to FaceTiming, and that led to lastly assembly in particular person, with Jake extending the traditional chivalrous gesture of choosing Millie up from the airport.
“bff <3," Jake captioned a June 3, 2021, photo of them, fairly probably having simply left an arrival terminal.
And three years later, they’re married! The couple reportedly exchanged vows in a private ceremony final weekend, although they have been hinting at a much bigger celebration to return.
“As quickly as we spoke I knew he was going to be an enormous a part of my life,” Millie recalled to The Times of London in an interview revealed Aug. 27. “I ran to my mum and stated, ‘I actually, actually like him!’ After we met we knew we by no means needed to depart one another’s facet.”
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Who says you possibly can’t simply know?
“You’ll be able to’t pinpoint why,” Millie stated. “It is simply the sensation of understanding that that is the particular person you wish to spend the remainder of your time with. I believe a lot of life is overthinking. The one factor that made clear sense to me was him.”
Not that she confirmed up sporting her coronary heart on her sleeve, thoughts you.
“You have been enjoying it cool, like, ‘no matter,'” Jake reminisced about their first assembly as he did Millie’s make-up in a video for her beauty line Florence by Mills, the pair dissolving into giggles as he tried varied feats of software.
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On the airport, he recalled being “bowled over” initially. Having solely had display screen time along with her earlier than, Jake defined, “You do not have a gauge for the bodily particular person since you’re solely speaking to this.” He framed his face together with his fingers. “So, you have been only a floating head for awhile.”
However quickly sufficient, she meant the world to him, their preliminary meet-up turning right into a full-on rom-com’s value of candy moments, from having espresso on a brisk November day in New York to trying out the Christmas tree in Rockefeller Middle to—it was solely a matter of time—kicking off 2022 spending time in Millie’s native England (regardless of being born in Spain, the place her father was working on the time).
The couple made their crimson carpet debut on the 2022 BAFTA Movie Awards in March. Two months later Jake accompanied Millie to the Stranger Issues season 4 premiere, captioning a pic from the night, “Congratulations babe u deserve the world love you.”
In the meantime, they have been additionally busy combining their respective worlds, assembly one another’s buddies and households, not involved that it was an excessive amount of too quickly—or, too early.
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“My dad and mom adore him,” Millie instructed The Instances final summer season. “[We] each come from dad and mom which have stayed collectively for a very very long time. My dad and mom have been younger once they received collectively, so I all the time had wonderful position fashions for relationships.”
On Jake’s finish, dad Jon and mother Dorothea Hurley have been highschool sweethearts and celebrated 35 years of marriage April 29.
“Millie is great,” Jon stated in Could, telling Andy Cohen, “Her entire household is nice, actually nice. Jake could be very, very completely happy.”
Requested if he thought the couple have been slightly younger to get engaged, Jon stated he didn’t think age was what truly mattered.
“In the event you discover the correct associate and also you develop collectively,” the Bon Jovi frontman stated, “I believe that may be my recommendation, actually: Rising collectively is smart. Rising collectively. I believe that every one of my youngsters have discovered the those who they suppose they’ll develop along with and we like ’em all.”
At the 2024 MusiCares Individual of the 12 months gala in early February, Jon reiterated that the couple have been nonetheless heading in the right direction.
“They’re head over heels in love and we love them each for that,” he told E! News’ Keltie Knight. “It is an thrilling journey.”
Each Jake and Millie are the third of 4 siblings—”His household are great individuals who welcomed me with open arms,” Millie instructed The Instances—and Jake’s brother Jesse, 29, went forward and proposed to his girlfriend of 4 years, Jesse Mild, in July 2022. (They tied the knot May 7 on the similar Las Vegas chapel the place the groom’s dad and mom stated “I do” in 1989.)
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However although her father-in-law’s band actually has a monitor known as “Marriage ceremony Day,” Millie stated that she and Jake weren’t going to make the Rock and Roll Corridor of Famer be the leisure at their reception.
“I really feel like that is asking me to go and do a full-on play for everybody,” Millie defined to Jenna Bush Hager and Hoda Kotb on TODAY in September. “He wants a break.”
Whereas that definitely does not preclude a heartfelt efficiency for the newlyweds once they do rejoice with household and buddies, ought to Jon be so inclined, the bride wasn’t anxious about that element—or any element.
“It has not been worrying in any respect for me,” Millie stated of wedding ceremony planning. “Jake could be very concerned, he is very useful throughout the entire course of. I’ve by no means felt alone in it, which I believe is very nice…However finally it is only a very intimate day for the each of us and we’re actually each very excited.”
And Millie’s dad and mom definitely approve, Jake having deliberate his proposal with a key help: one of her mother’s rings.
“I’ve all the time cherished that ring,” Millie instructed The Instances of the gleaming diamond. “It is all the time caught out to me, so she gave it to Jake. They have been in cahoots about the entire proposal. I really like that I can all the time hold a bit of my mum with me.”
Of their make-up tutorial, Jake quipped that there have been “many various elements” that went into him popping the query “that have been really life-threatening, that in the event that they went awry, it might have been detrimental to your life. However fortunately for you, it was wonderful.” (They did appear to be on the seashore, and nature can all the time produce other plans.)
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The couple did not say when precisely they’d be part of fingers and vow to make it, they swear, however they have been greater than midway there.
This yr they paid tribute to one another on Valentine’s Day and have been spotted strolling in Manhattan, their rom-com turning into an epic.
And Jake wasn’t mendacity when, whereas wishing his “stunning fiancée” a contented twentieth birthday Feb. 19, he promised, “Massive yr forward.”
Extra life-affirming highlights from Millie Bobby Brown and Jake Bongiovi’s romance are simply forward, so hold swooning, er, studying:
(Initially revealed Oct. 15, 2023, at 8 a.m. PT)
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