Millie Bobby Brown, the actress the general public first met when she was 12 years old in the primary season of Stranger Things is now 19 years old (!) and has been dating boyfriend Jake Bongiovi for years.
The 2 were first linked in June of 2021, after being seen holding hands in Recent York City. They were each masked on the time, and Bongiovi carried Brown’s dog, a poodle named Winnie, in a tote bag. Brown travels with Winnie to assist ease her anxiety while she travels.
“About two years ago, I just began having really bad panic attacks, like, really bad anxiety and I struggled with it really bad,” she said on an episode of Miley Cyrus’s Vivid Minded. “And, in the future I used to be just talking, and I used to be like, ‘Possibly I should get a therapy dog,’ you understand, something to comfort me once I am really stressed.’”
Through the years, Brown has been linked to YouTube star and musician Jacob Sartorius and Romeo Beckham, the son of Victoria and David.
Since those early days, they’ve turn into quite public about their relationship. But Bongiovi, it seems, is used to the highlight, very like Brown. Bongiovi, born Jacob Hurley Bongiovi, is certainly one of Jon Bon Jovi’s 4 children.
You would possibly have seen him in photos along with his father and the remainder of the fam, but here’s what to learn about him and his relationship with Brown.
He’s 20 years old.
Bongiovi was born in May 2002, in response to a Facebook fan group for his father. He’s the youngest of his three siblings, who include Romeo, Stephanie, and Jesse.
That is Jesse:
His mother is Dorothea Hurley.
Bongiovi’s parents have been married since April 1989 but have had a romance longer than that. They met in highschool.
“Mutual respect,” Jon told People last yr of what has helped their relationship last. “Having grown up together and grown together. And we actually like one another. We would like to hang around.”
Dorothea said: “I at all times said I used to be good at spotting potential, too. I even have a present.”
Jon continued: “We work hard at it, but we enjoy one another and we never fell for the trimmings of what celebrity can do. We’ve witnessed that occur through the years to those that were near us and those that we knew from afar. It’s just what I do, it is not who I’m. I write songs. I occur to be superb at performing them. That’s it.”
He was an athlete in highschool in Brooklyn.
Bongiovi attended Poly Prep Country Day School and played football. He’s listed on the roster as a Poly Prep “Blue Devil” for the 2019-2020 school yr.
He has referred to Brown as his BFF.
“bff <3,” he wrote.
It looks like they were obviously already greater than friends.
He’s friends together with her friends.
Brown’s real life bestie is Stranger Things co-star Noah Schnapp, who attended a Harry Styles concert with the couple this summer. Scnhapp shared some shots of he and Bongiovi fooling around within the stadium with Styles within the background.
Brown also shared a pic from the night of her and Bongiovi sharing a romantic moment.
How did Brown and Bongiovi meet?
In an interview promoting Netflix’s Enola Holmes 2, Brown discovered that probably the most Googled searches under her name is “how did millie bobby brown and jake bongiovi meet.”
“We met on Instagram, and we were friends for a bit, after which, what can I say?” she said.
They’ve made their red carpet debut.
They first appeared together on the red carpet on the EE British Academy Film Awards 2022 at Royal Albert Hall in March.
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And in May, Bongiovi was Brown’s date on the premiere of the most recent season of Stranger Things.
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He also accompanied her to the premiere of Enola Holmes 2.
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They were together for Thanksgiving 2022 and decorated a Christmas tree together.
Bongiovi shared he was very thankful for Brown during Thanksgiving.
And that very same month they appeared to be decorating a shared Christmas tree together, posting a clip to “All I Want For Christmas Is You,” while wearing coordinating Disney PJs. It looked like on the tree, there have been matching “M” and “J” ornaments, too.
The couple celebrated Christmas 2022 together.
On December 22, 2022, Brown showed off her boyfriend on Instagram Stories, sharing a shot of her kissing him on the cheek at Taylor Swift’s “Maroon” played within the background.
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“I selected u!” she captioned the post. In a second black and white video, Bongiovi is singing karaoke to Mulan’s “I’ll Make a Man Out of You.”
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“Disney songs? Key to my heart,” Brown editorialized. Earlier within the month, she shared a photograph on her timeline of the 2 of them having fun with a gorgeous day on a sandy beach, hugging of their bathing suits.
“sunny one so true, i like you,” she wrote.
Bongiovi shared his POV of the identical trip, through which he and Brown are walking down the beach holding hands.
Brown has said he’s her “partner for all times.”
To have fun her 2022, Brown shared a carousel of photos of the previous twelve months, saying she was “endlessly in love with the yr” she had. The photos included quite a lot of pictures from Brown together with her pets, her friends, traveling, and on set. And it included quite a number of pictures of her boyfriend.
One photo featured a strip of photo-booth images through which they’re kissing, one other through which they’re hugging within the automobile, and one where he appears to be grabbing her waist by a Christmas tree and she or he pretends to be surprised.
In the remainder of the caption, Brown said she was “grateful for my friends, family, donkey (bernard), my doggies, my puppies teeth, and my partner for all times.”
She added, “here’s to a different yr with you and the wonderful people and animals around us let’s do it again but higher!”
“Your yr babe love you a lot,” Bongiovi commented on the post, adding a red heart emoji.
Bongiovi celebrated Brown’s nineteenth birthday with a loving Instagram tribute in February 2023.
Bongiovi gave the general public an intimate look into their love story when he shared an Instagram post celebrating Brown’s nineteenth birthday. “One other yr across the sun together pleased nineteenth to the girl of my dreams,” he wrote. “I like you greater than words can describe. All the things about you is golden all the way down to the core ❤️”
The 2 were also photographed celebrating her birthday out together on Sunday, February 19, at Los Angeles’ Tao restaurant.
A month later, on Friday, March 24, they were seen in London on the members only club and hotel Chiltern Firehouse. Brown was wearing white zebra-print bell-bottom pants by Alessandra Wealthy paired with a white top and a big black jacket with quilted lining. Her hair was slicked back in a bun and on her feet were strappy heels with a white pedicure.
Bongiovi wore a big white button down with the collar open to disclose a series necklace and a baggy pair of lightwash jeans with white sneakers.
Hilary Weaver is a contract author based in Recent York who writes about politics, queer issues, Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, and each woman the Queen has ever made a dame. I saw Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again thrice in theaters, and that is just about all you could know.
