The wedding was in sight and seemed imminent, but what no one knew was that it would be a surprise. Millie Bobby Brown, 20, and Jake Bongiovi, 22, secretly married this past weekend, as the magazine exclusively announced People this Friday, May 24.
The actress, known worldwide for her role as Thirteen in the Netflix science fiction series Stranger Things, and the actor and model, son of singer Jon Bon Jovi, got married in a small private ceremony. Both their parents were present. According to the American publication, “it was a romantic and discreet ceremony in which his closest relatives were present.” It is not known where it took place nor, at the moment, are there any images of it. The two protagonists have not shared anything about the news for now either.
This would only be their first wedding, according to the magazine, as they plan another larger ceremony a little later. The young people met through Instagram and friendship first arose. They have been dating for just over two years and, although it is unknown when their romance began, the first images of the two together date back to mid-2021. They decided to make it official through a pose on the red carpet at the Bafta Awards in London, in March 2022. They spent that Christmas together, at Brown’s house. Shortly after, in April 2023, they announced their engagement through their social networks. She, next to a large diamond ring, wrote: “I’ve loved you three summers now, honey, but I want ’em all (“I’ve been loving you for three summers, now, darling, I love you all”, in Spanish, the lyrics of the song lover, by Taylor Swift). He posted pictures of them on a beach next to the word foreverforever.
Brown has had exponential and instant fame since she became one of the leading girls in Stranger Things in 2016, when he was just 12 years old. Thanks to her role and her charisma she quickly became one of the central faces of the series, and in fact she became the highest paid among the actors in the children’s cast. She began to attend events and catwalks, to star in advertising campaigns and to be a style icon and an influential name. In fact, in 2018 she was chosen among the most influential of the year by the magazine time; she was the youngest on the list.
She herself has said in several interviews that, beyond filming, during her childhood she had few friends and studied at home, and that she suffered bullying at school. After leaving the series, the British actress born in Marbella has starred in titles such as Enola Holmes and Damseldirected by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, something that made her become the second highest-paid actress in Hollywood last year, only behind Margot Robbie in Barbie.
Like his career, his life has been very exposed, even more than those of his co-stars; so much so that last year, when she had barely come of age, she released his first book. She now accumulates more than 63 million followers on Instagram, but in her adolescence she decided to cut off social networks and temporarily disappear. At just 14 years old, she met her first love relationship, with the singer Jacob Sartorius.
Bongiovi’s life has been known since the cradle, but it has been more discreet than that of his current wife. He is a well-known character in the Hollywood world, but rather for being a nepobabya son of. He is the third of the four children (after Stephanie and Jesse and before Romeo) of billionaire singer Jon Bon Jovi and his wife Dorothea. He studied for a year at the university and this year he landed a role in the musical film rockbottom. With 1.4 million followers on Instagram, Jake defines himself in his bio on the social network as “actor/producer/cool guy out there.” Her famous father blessed her union shortly after her engagement, saying that the young woman was “great” and that with her her son was “very, very happy.” “I don’t know if age matters,” commented the musician given the youth of both. “If you find the right partner and grow together… My advice is that growing together is wise. “I think all my kids have found people they think they can grow up with and we like them all.”
