“I wrote the wedding vows”: Millie Bobby Brown Asks Her Stranger Things “Papa” to Officiate Wedding to Jake Bongiovi
British actor Millie Bobby Brown rose to phenomenal fame with Netflix’s sci-fi series Stranger Things. Her terrific performance as Eleven in the widely watched series even earned her a SAG award in 2017 alongside her Stranger Things co-stars in the
Actor Matthew Modine has played the character of Millie Bobby Brown’s twisted father figure in the Stranger Things. Not many people know that Millie Bobby Brown asked her on-screen father figure Matthew Modine to officiate her wedding to Jake Bongiovi.
Millie Bobby Brown Wants Her Stranger Things “Papa” To Officiate Her Wedding to Jake Bongiovi
During a recent appearance on Access Daily, Matthew Modine spoke about his reel-life daughter Millie Bobby Brown. The show hosts Kit Hoover and Mario Lopez asked whether the rumors around Modine officiating the wedding of Millie Bobby Brown and Jake Bongiovi held any weight or not. Matthew Modine replied-
“I have one of those licenses to get people married and Millie thought it’d be great, and then Jake said it would be a great idea, so I wrote the wedding vows and they loved what I wrote for them to join hands and to become husband and wife.”
On being asked if he has ever done this before, Modine said-
“I’ve done this one time before during Covid. In upstate New York, it was an outdoor wedding and it was weird, but It’s such a beautiful thing to be able to join two people in holy matrimony. I’ve been married for 44 years.”
Matthew Modine has been married to Caridad Rivera for over four decades. The 65-year-old actor is quite popular as the mysterious government scientist Dr. Martin Brenner. He shares a complicated relationship with Millie Bonny Brown’s Eleven who refers to him as Papa. Matthew Modine and Millie Bobby Brown have shared the screen in the 1,2 and 4 seasons of Stranger Things.
Relationship Timeline Of Millie Bobby Brown And Jake Bongiovi
Millie Bobby Brown and Jake Bongiovi are the cutest couples in the tinsel town. They sparked dating rumors back in June 2021 and engaged in April 2023. From their underwater engagement to their cute pictures on social media, the couple proves that they are a match made in heaven. During an interview for WIRED in 2023, Brown revealed that social media played a cupid in her relationship with Jake Bongiovi. She said-
“We met on Instagram, and we were friends for a bit, and then, what can I say?”
The couple announced their engagement on Instagram in 2023 April with a black and white picture captioned as-
“I’ve loved you three summers now, honey, I want ’em all,”
During an interview with Andy Cohen in May 2023, legendary musician Jon Bon Jovi was asked if he has ever watched Stranger Things, while responding to the question he said-
“I’ve seen it of course. Millie is wonderful. Her whole family is great. Jake is very, very happy.”
While talking about his son getting engaged at the age of 20, he said-
“I don’t know if age matters. If you find the right partner and you grow together … my advice really is growing together is wise. I think that all of my kids have found people that they think they can grow together with and we like them all. That would be my advice really,” he continued. “Growing together is wise. I think that all of my kids have found people that they think they can grow together with and we like them all.”
Millie Bobby Brown fans are desperately waiting to see her tying the knot with the love of her life, but as of now, there has been no update on their wedding.
