It’s official – “Stranger Things” star Millie Bobby Brown and Jake Bongiovi have tied the knot. Bongiovi’s father, rocker Jon Bon Jovi, confirmed the two wed last weekend in an interview with CBS News partner BBC.
Rumors have been swirling in recent days that Brown and Bongiovi had officially married, and when Bon Jovi went onto the BBC’s The One Show on Tuesday, he shed some light on the situation.
“They’re great, they’re absolutely fantastic,” the “Livin’ On a Prayer” singer said. “It was a very small family wedding and the bride looked gorgeous and Jake is as happy as can be. And yeah, it’s true.”
Brown, 20, and Bongiovi, 22, were engaged last year and have been together since 2021. The couple has yet to confirm the wedding themselves.
A source told the tabloid The Sun that parents for both of the newlyweds were in attendance and that they are planning to have a bigger ceremony later in the year. Photos obtained by People Magazine show the couple out shopping in the Hamptons on May 24, seemingly with wedding bands on. Brown had previously said that she wouldn’t want a highly-publicized ceremony.
“There are only so many moments in life that you get only once,” she told WWD last August. “And to have everyone’s opinions and eyes looking at that just feels unnatural to me.”
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Millie Bobby Brown‘s on-screen ‘Papa,’ actor Matthew Modine, said he will officiate the star’s wedding to her fiancé Jake Bongiovi.
Modine, who plays antagonist Dr. Martin Brenner in the Netflix hit Stranger Things, told Access Daily he’s already written wedding vows for the ceremony.
“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,” the 65-year-old actor explained.
Modine said the Brown, 20, and Bongiovi, 21, “loved” the vows he created.
He told Access Daily hosts Kit Hoover and Mario Lopez that he’s officiated one other wedding before this.
“It’s such a beautiful thing to be able to join two people in holy matrimony,” Modine gushed.
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“I’ve been married 44 years. It’s amazing when it works.”
Modine is married to Caridad Rivera, a makeup and wardrobe stylist. They have two children.
Brown and Bongiovi, who is the son of Jon Bon Jovi, first teased news of their engagement in April 2023. Brown uploaded a photo of the two actors embracing on the beach while she wore a diamond ring on her fourth finger.
“I’ve loved you three summers now, honey, I want ’em all,” she captioned the post, a reference to the Taylor Swift song Lover.
The engaged couple first began dating in 2021.
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The date of their pending nuptials has not been made public.
In February, Brown recounted the proposal in an interview with Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show.
Brown said Bongiovi proposed while the pair were on vacation. Since the couple love diving, and obtained their diving licences together, Brown said her fiancé popped the question while underwater.
On the special day, Bongiovi informed an unsuspecting Brown that they were scheduled for an 8 a.m. dive.
While “many metres” underwater, Brown said Bongiovi handed her a shell that had a ring hidden underneath. Unable to speak in the water, the couple bubbled and signed at one another before Bongiovi put the ring on Brown’s finger.
“He puts the ring on my hand, and as I go to show him, the ring falls off my finger,” Brown recalled. “It plummets so fast; it was like a cinematic movie.”
Bongiovi dove for the ring, Brown said, and saved it.
When they surfaced, Bongiovi formally asked Brown to marry him.
Brown skyrocketed to international fame as a child after starring as Eleven in Stranger Things. The smash hit TV series will return one last time for its upcoming fifth season.
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Bongiovi, also an actor, is set to star in Rockbottom, an upcoming comedy about a rock ‘n’ roll ’80s hair metal band called CougarSnake.
Millie Bobby Brown on her new dark fantasy film ‘Damsel’
Being that Millie Bobby Brown has, thus far, been known for her discernment when it comes to choosing roles in her still germinal career, Damsel has proven to be a noticeable disappointment in her filmography (not that her Godzilla forays are for everyone). Directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (whose most major work is 28 Weeks Later, not even 28 Days Later), the problem isn’t as much in the flat style of the film, but its script, written by Dan Mazeau, who is known for directing more male-oriented movies like Wrath of the Titans and Fast X. In tapping Mazeau to write the script, perhaps Netflix was hoping to bring a dash of “laddishness” to the “strong” and “willful” character played by Brown, Elodie. In fact, all we really know about Elodie is that she is strong and willful…for a girl. That usual backhanded caveat that materializes when women can prove themselves to have the same qualities as men. Or rather, the same qualities that men are supposed to embody based on societal expectations.
Damsel is all about expectations, even if not really societal ones. Instead, the expectations are unique to the fictional milieu of Aurea. A place briefly shown (albeit in a cave) during the first few moments of the film when a king and his soldiers come face to face with a fire-breathing dragon that’s about to kill them all. Before we can find out if or how the king is spared, Fresnadillo cuts to the title card: “CENTURIES LATER…IN A FARAWAY LAND.” The viewer is then introduced to Elodie in a way that establishes what a “special” and “unusual” girl she is (in the same way as Belle from Beauty and the Beast—another role one could see Brown playing if Emma Watson hadn’t already done it for the live action version). Because—gasp!—she’s chopping wood. So hardcore! So self-sufficient! And she has to be, because she lives in a barren land where her people are starving. Not yet a queen, her father, Lord Bayford (Ray Winstone, more than slightly out of place in a movie like this), remains the rather incompetent king married to Elodie’s stepmother, Lady Bayford (Angela Bassett, who apparently needed a paycheck as well). This union between a white man and a Black woman goes unacknowledged in terms of being anything “unusual” for that epoch, as it seems to be the Netflix way to employ revisionist histories (à la Bridgerton).
What also goes unacknowledged as viewers watch the plot unfold is the idea that there isn’t really any need for all the pomp and circumstance surrounding the Aurean tradition of sacrificing a bride to the dragon that the Aurean king from the intro struck a deal with all those centuries ago. Mainly because, if the whole means of tricking the dragon into believing that the Aurean royals are sacrificing their own “daughters” as recompense for the three baby dragons the Aurean soldiers brutally murdered is as simple as slicing open any girl’s palm and slapping it with an Aurean royal’s sliced-open palm, then, honestly, why bother with a wedding? Or searching far and wide for a girl to fit the bill when, clearly, as viewers will see by the end of act two, when Elodie’s younger sister, Floria (Brooke Carter), is taken captive as a “replacement” for Elodie once she achieves the formerly impossible by escaping from the dragon’s lair, any human with a vagina can suffice. What’s more, the Aurean royals could have simply indoctrinated their “common people” with the rhetoric that being a sacrifice to the dragon was the ultimate “good deed” they could do for their king and queen. Problem solved…and any expenses on a wedding spared.
Queen Isabelle (Robin Wright, who has fallen far from the gritty grandeur of The Princess Bride in this outing), the “queen bee” of the royals who arranged these nuptials in the first place, is certainly not happy about the revelation regarding Elodie’s escape (sounding kind of like a Scooby-Doo villain when she says, “I knew that girl was going to be trouble!”). Thus, she leverages Floria as bait, knowing full well that someone as “brave” and “morally upstanding” as Elodie will be foolish enough to come back for her. Plucking her from the ship that her father and stepmother kept waiting after Lord Bayford developed a guilty conscience and tried to go back and rescue his daughter (to no avail), Floria is taken to the same cave. It is there that Elodie’s not so princely husband, Henry (Nick Robinson), reaches his breaking point (apparently, a girl being too childlike is enough for him to miraculously develop a conscience). And so, when he decides to refuse his mother’s demands to toss Floria in the hole, too, she snaps, “A prince protects his kingdom. Without hesitation or complaint. Give me your hand” (sounds like what “King” Charles might have said to Prince William before posting the doctored photo of Kate Middleton). Henry replies, “I cannot do this. She’s just a child.” Irritated by his flickers of humanity, Queen Isabelle spits back, “You’re weak” before then approaching Floria herself to perform the blood oath. With all the pretense cast aside in a moment of “desperation,” the viewer has it officially confirmed that this entire movie is built on an extremely flimsy pretext.
A pretext that doesn’t even lead to something all that worthwhile filmically, unless one enjoys watching Elodie wander blindly through a cave for the majority of the movie. And yes, there are pervs who might particularly enjoy it when she stands beneath a dripping portion of the “orifice” with her mouth agape, full-on blow job-style. Or perhaps one might find the dragon’s incessant gabbing (voiced by Shohreh Aghdashloo) a source of “charming amusement” when all else fails.
Considering the casting of Robin Wright, it’s obvious the creators were hoping for some kind of “update” to 1987’s The Princess Bride—for it’s in that same realm of the fantastical, medieval genre (adventure fantasy, if you prefer). These types of movies being far more pervasive in the 1980s perhaps because things had become too modern for people. If there’s a resurgence of the genre now, then it’s likely for the same reason. Unfortunately, 1) they just don’t make such movies the way they used to and 2) in order to make this kind of movie in the present, the new requirement is that there needs to be a gimmick. In this case, the one about how Elodie is no damsel in distress, taking that word and its association and slaying it with as much vitriol as she does the dragon. Except, oh wait, the other twist/“modern update” to how one tells a medieval story is that she does not slay the dragon. Instead sparing it because it has its own empathetic backstory. And to drive home the point that women themselves have more empathy for others than men.
While “passable” for those who don’t know any better, one imagines that Brown and others working on the project hoped Damsel would offer some grand message about female independence (this heightened by the overt marketing ploy of releasing it on March 8th, International Women’s Day), and that any other actual plot holes (apart from just the hole Elodie is thrown into) could easily go ignored thanks to an aura of empowerment. Alas, not so much. And if you’re looking to watch a movie with the word “damsel” in its title, you might be better off trying Whit Stillman’s Damsels in Distress.
Eleven might be her name on Stranger Things, but we’re certain that Millie Bobby Brown’s net worth is a much larger number than that today. Up ahead, we’re diving into everything there is to know about the Netflix star’s salary and earnings—so keep on reading below to find out Millie Bobby Brown‘s net worth and more!
Millie was born February 19, 2004, in Marbella, Spain, as the third of four children to English parents Kelly and Robert Brown. As a baby, Millie was partially deaf in her left ear, and within years, she would eventually lose all of her hearing in that ear. But the young star never let her hearing loss get in the way of pursuing a career as an actress. After initially relocating to Bournemouth, England at the age of four, Millie and her family settled down across the pond in Orlando, Florida when she was eight years old, where she began to follow her dream of stardom.
Her first foray into film and television came when she was only nine years old, when she booked a guest-starring role in the ABC fantasy drama Once Upon a Time in Wonderland, a spin-off of Once Upon a Time, in 2013. The following year, Millie landed another starring role in the BBC America series, Intruders, where she starred in the role of Madison O’Donnell. Around the same time, Millie was steadily securing guest appearances in TV shows like ABC’s Modern Family, Grey’s Anatomy and NCIS on CBS. Of course, things really started to take off for the young star when she was cast in what’s easily her more popular role to date yet as Eleven in Netflix’s Stranger Things.
Since then, Millie has continued to carve out a space for herself outside of her role as Stranger Things’ Eleven, starring in blockbusters like 2019’s Godzilla: King of the Monsters, with a character she went on to reprise in the 2021 sequel, Godzilla vs. Kong. She has also maintained a positive working relationship with Netflix throughout the years, starring in the streaming giant’s 2020 mystery film, Enola Holmes. For everything we know about how much Millie Bobby Brown has made from these films—along with her Stranger Things salary and more—just keep on reading below.
How much does Millie Bobby Brown make from Stranger Things?
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How much does Millie Bobby Brown make from Stranger Things? According to Celebrity Net Worth, Brown made $10,000 per episode for season one of Stranger Things, which paid her a total of $80,000. She received a raise for Stranger Things season 2, which paid her $30,000 per episode, according to Deadline. By season three, the young actress was reportedly bumped up to somewhere between $200,000 and $250,000 per episode. While it’s unknown precisely how much Millie Bobby Brown has earned for Stranger Things season four, it is believed she currently earns roughly $300,000 per episode.
Since joining the Stranger Things cast in 2016, Millie has received endless praise for her performance, along with a number of awards nominations and wins. In 2017, Millie was nominated for Oustanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series and Oustanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series at the Primetime Emmy Awards and Screen Actors Guild Awards, respectively. She ended up taking home a SAG Award that year alongside the rest of her cast, who were nominated for Oustanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series. She went on to earn another two SAG award nominations in 2018 and 2020 with her cast, as well as another nomination for her own role in the series. In 2018, she was also up for the Primetime Emmy Award for Oustanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, but ultimately lost out to Thandiwe Newton for her performance as Maeve Millay in HBO’s Westworld.
In an interview with The New York Times following her 2017 Emmy nomination, Millie, who was 13 at the time, couldn’t help but gush about the moment when she found out the news. “My dad was watching the announcement, and the guy on the live stream was like, “Oh, we’re finished with this.” The live stream stopped, and my dad had three different electronic devices on, like, “Come on! Come on!” trying to find the full list,” she said of the nominees. “And then finally my publicist called me and told me. I was just in shock. I thought she was going to call saying, “Ah, better luck next time,” or something like that. But she said congratulations.” The young actress went on to add of Stranger Things, “I’m so happy for the show. The show completely deserves it. The show is 10 times more amazing than my nomination.”
What is Millie Bobby Brown’s Enola Holmes salary?
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How much does Millie Bobby Brown make from Enola Holmes? Millie has starred as Enola Holmes, the teenage sister of the already-famous Sherlock Holmes, in two Enola Holmes movies: 2020’s Enola Holmes and 2022’s Enola Holmes 2. She was also an executive producer on both movies. According to Celebrity Net Worth, Millie made $6.1 million for the first Enola Holmes movie, with an additional $500,000 as an executive producer and $800,000 in bonuses based on streaming performance. Variety reported in 2022 that Millie made a flat $10 million for Enola Holmes 2.
In an interview with Deadline in 2022, Millie explained how her relationship with Henry Cavill in Enola Holmes 2 differed from her relationship with Stranger Things co-stars like Noah Schnapp and Charlie Heaton. “It’s different because I grew up with Noah and Charlie. I met them when I was 10. So, for me, it does feel like your schoolmates. And with Henry, it feels like a real adult relationship. Like a really good friendship, a really healthy one,” she said. “One that we have terms and conditions. I know Henry. He has terms and conditions with me. I’m not allowed to ask about his personal life. It’s like, ‘Millie, shut up. No.’ And I’m like ‘Understood.’ Whereas with the Stranger Things kids, it’s different. There’s no boundaries because it’s like we’re all siblings. But with Henry, he’s very strict with me, which I appreciate.”
She also told the magazine about how she relates to Enola’s feeling about being “undermined” in her career. “I think we are progressing slowly as a united front. But I think the industry can easily have its faults and its great accomplishments. This is one of them. Yes, of course I’ve been undermined in the past, but we don’t focus on those things. We focus on the positives, and I have not been undermined in this situation. I was given an opportunity to be a female lead in a film. And that is a step forward,” she said. Millie further opened up about what she’s learned from the Enola Holmes franchise, which was her first time in a leading role. “The dedication to the film is unlike all of us put together. So yes, it does come down to performance, but it also very much comes down to directing and being able to have a connection with your director,” she said. “It’s a dream come true.As for me, I learned many things, because I’m an upcoming young woman and that is a real learning curve for me. This is a very big pivotal moment within my career and my life. This is the first role I’ve really led.”
What is Millie Bobby Brown’s net worth?
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So, what’s Millie Bobby Brown’s net worth? According to Celebrity Net Worth, Millie Bobby Brown’s net worth is $14 million as of 2024. In addition to her Stranger Things salary, Millie Bobby Brown’s net worth can be credited to her starring roles in blockbusters like Godzilla: King of the Monsters in 2019 and Godzilla vs. Kong in 2021, along with Netflix originals Enola Holmes and The Girls I’ve Been.
In 2019, Millie also launched her own cosmetics line, Florence by Mills. In an exclusive interview with STYLECASTER in 2021, Millie opened up about the inspiration for her product line, telling us that she crafted her brand with teenage customers in mind. “I wasn’t happy with my makeup, or my skincare really, because a lot of the benefits that I was seeing were for anti-aging, which someone at my age doesn’t really need to be concerned with,” she shared at the time. “I wanted to make products for my generation, that make us look good and feel good, and let us just be ourselves,” the actress added.
Millie’s brand, along with her ad campaigns with big companies like Samsung, Converse, Vogue Eyewear, EA Games and more, have all contributed to her net worth’s massive growth since its earliest reported figure of $6.8 million in 2017.
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Millie Bobby Brown is taking the coquette trend out of the house and to the beach. The Stranger Things star just put her personal spin on the super-girly aesthetic in a cherry-print bikini from celeb fave Frankies Bikinis.
Brown shared a few pics from a recent beach vacation wearing the cutest black triangle bikini covered in an itty-bitty cherry print. The strings of the top are the same red as the cherries, as is the piping on the high-cut bottom. “Cherry lips, crystal skies,” Brown captioned her photos. The suit in question is the Lumia Triangle Bralette Bikini and Dove Classic Bikini Bottom in the Cherry Hearts print; the bottoms retail for £98 and the top for £87.
Lumia Triangle Bralette Bikini Top
Dove Classic Bikini Bottom
The actor upped the coquette factor by styling her very cute and flirty two-piece with a bow necklace, plus a pair of oversized hoop earrings. The suit fits in perfectly with the trending aesthetic, but it also has major Y2K vibes — cherries were a super popular motif during the ’00s too.
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Spring break season is just around the corner, so if you’ve got a tropical trip on the horizon, take a page from Brown’s book and get a little coquettish with your swimwear. Frankies Bikinis is a longtime celeb fave, after all. Over the years, the brand has collaborated with stars like Gigi Hadid and Sydney Sweeney – and its cute, trendy suits are perfect for a beach vacation. It’s a match made in heaven, as Brown is a big bikini fan. She’s even turned swimwear into an outfit, as she did with a blue gingham top paired with denim shorts. Over the summer, she channeled her bride-to-be status in a sweet white suit paired with cherry red nails. Which aesthetic will she take on next? 2024 has just begun, so we can’t wait to see what Millie Bobby Brown pulls out of her swimwear closet in the future.
Millie Bobby Brown is fighting for her life against a dragon and a kingdom’s insidious plans in the first teaser trailer for Netflix‘s upcoming film, Damsel.
Directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo and written by Dan Mazeau, the film follows Brown’s “dutiful” Damsel after she’s selected to and agrees to marry a handsome prince. But her magical future turns into a nightmare present after she learns she’s being used by the royal family as a sacrifice to pay an ancient debt — leaving her to defend herself against a treacherous threat.
“For generations, it has been our task to protect our people. So tonight, you join a long line of women who have helped to build this kingdom,” Robin Wright‘s queen can be heard saying. “The price is dear, but so too the reward.”
Set to Timber Timbre’s “Run From Me,” the new teaser promises a harrowing trial, which will see Brown’s “princess” fighting for her life with mostly the clothes on her back. Seen navigating a series of deadly trials, she dashes through the woods to avoid a hideous lurking creature, climbs a cavern of sharp, crystal spikes within a mountain high above, and narrowly escapes a dragon’s fire and burning embers as they rain down on her.
Alongside that are clips of the kingdom and its leaders — Wright and Nick Robinson — along with, presumably, the kingdom’s subjects, including Angela Bassett. The trailer also teases a group dressed in dark robes and golden masks, along with a cave wall etched with the names of countless women.
The film also stars Ray Winstone, Brooke Carter and Shohreh Aghdashloo. Mazeau also produces with Joe Roth and Chris Castaldi, with Emily Wolfe as co-producer. Brown serves as an EP, as does Robert Brown and Zack Roth.
Women can be many things (as a staircase at the awards declared) and sometimes the thing they are is incredibly stylish. Some of those stylish women from the night below.
As I was getting older, I started reading a variety of the things people were saying about me and felt that same feeling of rejection, like when I didn’t get an acting job. I felt alone in that feeling, like no one else knew what I was going through. The influence of social media and the press had a negative effect on my mental health and anxiety is still a huge battle I am dealing with today. Luckily with the love and support from my friends, animals and family, I feel strong enough to censor and protect my world. I do not feel alone anymore.
But with that, I am very aware of other child actors and young people simply living in today’s world with that same feeling of loneliness, rejection and insecurity. Social media is detrimental to the minds of my generation and the ones that come after. Mental health is not a taboo topic, it’s a necessary one. Talk to one another. Be kind to one another. Understand and empathise with another. Remember, we are human beings, and we are just being.
For eight years I wanted to sparkle, flourish and break out of the boxes everyone tried putting me in. I decided to be quiet when taking interviews and not say anything that could be twisted, because I was scared. But that fire and free spirit in me was bursting to come out.
And it didn’t take long for me to finally realise, I didn’t care. That who I was, was enough. That I could choose the kind of life I wanted to live and the world I wanted to live in.
Instead of talking about what I’m wearing, how much I weigh, who I’m friends with, or what restaurants I eat at, let’s talk about how the Lionesses played in the Women’s World Cup this year for England, or how Coco Gauff won the US Open.
Or how Brooke Shields released her documentary this year, and spoke out about her struggles of growing up in the spotlight.
I want to thank GLAMOUR for honouring me with this and holding this event so that women all over the world are acknowledged for their skills, abilities and achievements.
I share this award with young girls all over the world watching. If I can ask you to do anything, remember these rules:
Millie Bobby Brown dazzled fans everywhere with her performance in “Enola Holmes 2,” which premiered on Netflix on Nov. 4, 2022. Still, the movie left fans with one major question: will there be an “Enola Holmes 3”? It seems like the odds are pretty good, because on Nov. 7, Collider reported that a screenplay for a third installment was in the works.
The news came via an interview with the head of Netflix Film, Scott Stuber, who also praised Brown’s performance. “You know, she’s such a great homegrown star for us,” he told Collider of Brown. “I mean, obviously, ‘Stranger Things’ is huge for us in that, and watching her grow as an actress . . .” He also hinted at a possible third Enola Holmes movie. “The Holmes IP is weirdly elastic. Obviously, Warner Bros. did an incredible job with Downey and Jude Law, so this idea that we can extend that IP with her is exciting,” he said, referring to Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law’s “Sherlock Holmes.” “So, we’re working once again on a screenplay to try to get that. But yes, aspiration,” he continued. “I’d like to do another one.”
The Enola Holmes movies are based on The Enola Holmes Mysteries, a series of seven books written by Nancy Springer. The original six books were published between 2007 and 2010, with a seventh book released in 2021. The first Enola Holmes movie, which debuted in 2020, along with the second, adapt parts of the first two books in the series, “The Case of the Missing Marquess” and “The Case of the Left-Handed Lady.” “The Case of the Bizarre Bouquets” is the third book in the series. That means there’s lots of material to adapt for future movies, and Brown said she’s definitely interested in doing more.
In an interview with ScreenRant published in November 2022, she said, “I would love to be a part of another one.” Brown explained, “I would love to see [Enola] do more cases, be put under pressure, be put in crazy situations, make her feel vulnerable again. I absolutely love seeing her back at work.”
The most mysterious part of another Enola Holmes movie is whether Henry Cavill would return as Sherlock Holmes, Enola’s older brother. In 2022, the actor announced that he was leaving his lead role in Netflix’s “The Witcher” after season three dropped in June 2023. It’s not clear if Cavill leaving “The Witcher” means he won’t appear in any more Netflix projects, or if he’ll be open to appearing in any more Enola Holmes films. “The Witcher” replaced Cavill with Liam Hemsworth, so if it did come to that, Netflix might choose to recast Cavill in the Enola Holmes film series, too.
We’re still waiting for “Enola Holmes 3” to get the official green light, but we’re optimistic it’ll happen soon.
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Millie Bobby Brown looks like a real-life Disney princess in her latest date-night dress. On Aug. 4, the “Stranger Things” star posed for a photo with her fiancé, Jake Bongiovi, on Instagram while wearing a yellow dress from Reformation that gives off major Belle from “Beauty and the Beast” vibes.
The dreamy outfit is perfect for a summer evening out or a wedding, but it comes with a medium price tag: the Reya Dress retails for $298 on Reformation and is available in sizes 0-12. The style comes in three other colors and prints: green floral print, newspaper print, and a bright mustard.
As seen on Brown, the flowy garment features an asymmetrical neckline with adjustable straps. The off-the-shoulder dress is all about the details. In addition to being form-fitting, one sleeve drapes beautifully as it flows into the material at the neckline, while the second sleeve is a spaghetti strap. Brown accessorized her outfit with simple silver hoop earrings and a small gold pendant. She completed her look with a soft updo and a subtle red lip.
Brown has been embracing both glam and dressed-down looks this summer. In June, she channeled her inner ’90s girl and wore a leopard and lace slip dress for a date night with Bongiovi in New York City. Then, in July, she wore a stunning red crochet top that was similar to the top she wore to her engagement party earlier in the summer.
Shop Brown’s off-the-shoulder Reformation dress ahead, and if you’re searching for something more affordable, you can re-create Brown’s look on a budget with similar dresses from Amazon and Nordstrom.
If you’re one of Millie Bobby Brown‘s 63 million Instagram followers, you might have noticed her cute crochet top in her newest selfie. The post has only been up for one day but has already garnered over 3.8 million likes. How impressive is that?
Well, the search is over because I found Bobby Brown’s exact top. It’s Cider’s Solid Cut Out Knit Short Sleeve Tee. The best part is that it’s only $22. With Millie’s stamp of approval coupled with the reasonable price tag, it’s only a matter of time before this top sells out. Scroll down to shop Bobby Brown’s red crochet top, plus other trendy crochet pieces for your summer wardrobe.
Millie Bobby Brown has been spending time with her fiancé Jake Bongiovi in New York City. On Thursday, June 29, the newly-engaged couple was spotted dining out with Brown’s parents and “Stranger Things” costar Noah Schnapp. The occasion called for a romantic leopard slip dress, trimmed with black lace at the bust, and teamed with brown block-heel sandals. Brown wore gold hoops and her short hair down with a part at the center. Her makeup was glowy and natural for a warm evening in the city. While the “Enola Holmes” star was definitely dressed on the fancier side, the rest of her crew looked relatively casual, with Bongiovi in a white polo and Schnapp in a baseball hat. Schnapp and Brown could be seen embracing in a hug outside of the restaurant.
While this look can be classified as off-duty, Brown definitely plays to a theme when she needs to, slipping into a gemstone-embellished red Western outfit replete with cowboy boots for the Osaka Comic Con in Japan on May 5.
Millie Bobby Brown and Jake Bongiovi were spotted on a casual dog-walking outing in New York City, unsurprisingly making for a stylish moment captured by the paparazzi. The newly engaged couple showed off their signature “’90s-cool-kid” aesthetic, with the “Stranger Things” star sporting a pair of cropped, baggy cargos with distressed hems and pinstripe patches. Brown, 19, teamed the low-slung pants with a white semi-sheer ribbed tank top, slipper-like flats (which she also owns in gray), oversize animal print sunglasses, and gold hoop earrings. Nostalgic accessories came in the form of a large claw clip and scrunchie on her wrist, and she was presumably also flaunting the solitaire diamond engagement ring that she first debuted on Instagram back in April. Meanwhile, Bongiovi, 21, matched her tune in dark-wash denim, a white graphic tee, simple white sneakers, and a blue baseball cap. Brown’s beloved dog, Winnie the Pooh, wore a yellow-and-white harness and leash.
Brown and Bongiovi have been exhibiting their carefully coordinated couple style for a while now. The pair enjoyed a tropical vacation ahead of the new year, opting for neutral swimsuits with Brown in a white bikini and, later, a green floral print two-piece with a belly chain. At their engagement party, Brown wore a beautiful white lace set from Giambattista Valli — consisting of a cropped bralette and slitted skirt with an intricately woven trim — while Bongiovi chose a sleek green suit. The “Enola Holmes” actress also showed off a fire engine-red gemstone-studded Western outfit with hot pants and cowboy boots at the Osaka Comic Con in Japan on May 5, proving she pulls out all the stops for occasion dressing. Surely, she won’t disappoint on her wedding day either, though it’s unclear how long we’ll have to wait to see Brown debut even more bridal looks.
The “Stranger Things” cast will be sitting this one out this year.
Actor Dacre Montogomery is the lone representative for “Stranger Things” at this year’s Emmys awards submissions due to restrictive guidelines for the award show voting period.
Despite the electrifying success of Season 4 Vol. 2 of the ’80s sci-fi adventure series last summer, which saw the “Stranger Things” cast fighting the sinister powers of dark entity Vecna, most of the show’s stand-out stars aren’t eligible for the ballot at this year’s awards ceremony.
The new rule occurred in June 2022 when the TV Academy eliminated the “hangover episode rule”, which gave grace to a series that premieres current-season episodes after the May 31 eligibility deadline but before the commencement of nomination round-voting.
The fourth season of the Netflix behemoth was divided into two parts. Vol 1, consisting of seven episodes, debuted on May 27, 2022, and was eligible for the 2022 Emmys, where it competed for 13 noms and took home five wins, most notably for stunt coordination, sound editing, and prosthetic makeup.
Vol. 2 dropped towards the beginning of this year’s eligibility period, beginning on June 1, 2022. The episodes, including the epic “Chapter Eight: Papa” and “Chapter Nine: The Piggyback”, were seen as orphan episodes by the Academy, which prevented the series from submitting nominations for the drama series category.
The new rule is a blow to actors Millie Bobby Brown and Joseph Quinn, who achieved rave reviews for their performances in the episodes.
Due to Montgomery’s appearance at the end of the “Piggyback” episode, the actor, who played the deceased Bobby Hargrove in the series, is the only star obtaining a nomination submission this year, where he’s competing against submissions from “The Last of Us” and “Succession”.
The remaining nomination slots for the series are for technical aspects, including period costumes and music composition.
A picture of Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown and her boyfriend Jake Bongiovi has set the internet ablaze for one reason: the diamond on her ring finger.
Brown, 19, seemingly announced her engagement to Bongiovi, 20, in an Instagram post on Tuesday.
In the black and white photo, the two actors are seen embracing on the beach. Brown, whose hands are visible, wears a diamond ring on her fourth finger.
“I’ve loved you three summers now, honey, I want ’em all,” she wrote, a reference to the Taylor Swift song Lover.
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Bongiovi, the son of rock legend Jon Bon Jovi, also shared two photos that appear to have been taken on the same day.
In the first photo, the couple is captured from behind, standing with Bongiovi’s arms around Brown. In the second, Bongiovi and Brown are locked in intense eye contact in front of a picturesque, blue beach.
He captioned the post simply, “Forever.”
Neither Brown nor Bongiovi has publicly confirmed or denied if they are engaged. However, Brown’s friends celebrated the news in the comments of her Instagram post.
Noah Schnapp, Brown’s best friend and fellow Stranger Things star, commented, “OH MY GOD CONGRATS.”
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Actors Aaron Paul, Ashley Tisdale and Madison Bailey also offered congratulations.
Brown and Bongiovi first alluded to the fact that they were dating in 2021. Brown posted an Instagram photo of her and Bongiovi kissing as they rode the London Eye.
“Here’s to another year with you and the wonderful people and animals around us,” she wrote. “Let’s do it again but better!”
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Minute at the Movies: April 7
Brown skyrocketed to international fame after starring as Eleven in Stranger Things. Since then, Brown has also starred as the titular character in Enola Holmes and Enola Holmes 2.
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Bongiovi, also an actor, is one of four children to Jon Bon Jovi and restauranteur Dorothea Hurley.
Congratulations appear to be in order for Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown and her partner since 2021, Jon Bon Jovi’s son Jake Bongiovi. News broke of the couple’s alleged engagement when the 19-year-old actress posted a black-and-white photo on Instagram on Tuesday morning that showed an elated Bongiovi hugging an engagement ring–clad Bobby Brown on the beach. The caption that accompanied the single photo was taken from Taylor Swift’s song “Lover” and reads: “I’ve loved you three summers now, honey, I want ’em all.” At the same time, Bongiovi posted two photos from the same occasion on his own page with the caption “Forever,” with a white heart.
Though neither have confirmed that they are indeed en route down the aisle, the rock on Bobby Brown’s left ring finger—which appears to be a cushion-cut, solitaire diamond ring surrounded by a halo—combined with the rhetoric used in both of their Instagram captions, paints a clear picture of their future wedding plans. Ahead, investigate all the photos released from the couple’s special day.
Millie Bobby Brown is turning into a published author! Yes, that’s right. The Stranger Things actor took to her social media space yesterday, and shared the wonderful news with her fans and followers.
Millie Bobby Brown’s debut novel Nineteen Steps gets published on September 12
Millie posted a video to make the special announcement as she shared the date of her book’s release, and gave a rough idea regarding what it is about. The 19-year-old actor said, “I’m thrilled to be announcing my debut novel, Nineteen Steps, which will be publishing on 12th September 2023. Nineteen Steps is a historical novel about an amazing, courageous 18-year-old woman called Nellie Morris, who lives with her family in Bethnal Green, in London’s East End, while the second world war rages on around them. When a tragic accident occurs during an air raid one night, the consequences are catastrophic – and life will never be the same again for Nellie,”
She elaborated further and shared that writing the novel has been a ‘special’ project for her. Writing Nineteen Steps has been a really special project for me. As per the Enola Holmes actress, the book is inspired by true events and her own family history. Ending the video, she said that she hopes that her fans will find the ‘true spirit of love and strength’ in her novel and that she cannot wait to share it with people. Millie’s book is available to pre-order now.
Fans react to Millie Bobby Brown’s book announcement
As soon as Millie dropped the video, fans, and followers went gaga over her post. Her Stranger Things co-actor Noah Schnapp commented, “Millie this is sick”. One fan’s comment read, “WHAT CAN U NOT DO IS THE REAL QUESTION.” Yet another fan’s comment read, “our little eleven has grown so much that she’s publishing books now (crying emoji) so proud of you (heart emoji)”.
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Being that Lindsay Lohan was the same age as Millie Bobby Brown when her career was reaching a zenith, it seems somewhat fitting (or at least cyclical) that both should have a movie out on Netflix at the same time. While the former’s “film” (a schlock-y Hallmark wannabe) is further proof that she made a career out of simply being “teenaged,” the latter’s proves that she has more enduring staying power. And, to be frank, more talent and acting range. Both qualities have been shown in the short length of her career, which is starting to expand more heavily into film with the end of Stranger Things on the horizon—Enola Holmes and Enola Holmes 2 being part of that steady segue.
And yes, Brown, like Lohan, seems to understand the value of clinging to the Netflix tit for work, even amid cries of the online film and TV giant “not being what it once was.” Sort of like Lohan herself, whose steady stream of hits only flowed when she was a youth, mainly as a result of sucking on Disney’s tit instead of Netflix’s (then still mailing out DVDs to subscribers). This included a succession of “feel-good” movies that started with The Parent Trap in 1998 and continued at the dawn of the 00s with Life-Size, Get A Clue, Freaky Friday and Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen. All, of course, Disney-backed endeavors that complicated things when Lohan opted to embark upon the requisite Disney teen star “gone bad” route. Right around the time she decided to reteam with the juggernaut for the production of Herbie: Fully Loaded (after Paramount released Mean Girls in ’04).
A title that, obviously, left plenty of room for the tabloids to jestingly riff off of as Lohan was hospitalized for “exhaustion” and, oh yeah, an infected kidney. At the same time filming was going on, her partying (a.k.a. going out to clubs back when they were still bankable due to people actually being sentient, sexual creatures) was coming under more scrutiny. After all, she had just turned eighteen and was far more prone to wanting to sow the oats that being a highly-paid actress permitted (see: her being on the cover of a May ’04 Us Weekly with the headline, “Teens Gone Wild: Older men, all-night partying, extreme PDA…”). Plus, just as Britney and the Olsen twins before her, the obsession with Lohan “being legal” was part of the Nabokovian bread and butter that sold magazines in the late 90s and 00s. Lohan even appeared on an issue of Rolling Stone the year she turned eighteen with the headline, “Lindsay Lohan: Hot, Ready and Legal!”
In the decade when Millie Bobby Brown would come of age in her fame, the nascent #MeToo movement bubbled to the surface in 2017, when Brown was thirteen years old and one year into her stint as Eleven on Stranger Things. By 2020, the year of her sixteenth birthday (in addition to Miss Rona’s havoc), Brown had had enough of the overt sexualization of her body despite being a child. Something that Billie Eilish avoided full-stop by covering her own in baggy clothing that spoke to her being the twenty-first century ideal of a sexless pop star. Brown wasn’t exactly “flashing it” either, least of all à la Britney or even Lindsay—usually while they were out drinking and drugging to the tabloids’ (and TMZ’s) delight.
Brown did none of these things, and was not nearly as ridiculed or hounded as someone such as Lohan. Yet Brown grew up in an era where so much less is “tolerated.” Including the acceptance of men fetishizing underage girls in this way no longer being so “welcomed” by the media. Hence, the freedom of Brown being able to declare on her Instagram (a tool that 00s teen stars didn’t have the luxury to access), “There are moments I get frustrated from the inaccuracy, inappropriate comments, sexualization, and unnecessary insults that ultimately have resulted in pain and insecurity for me.”
On one level, somebody like Lohan would probably want to say, “Bitch, you don’t know from inaccuracy, inappropriate comments, sexualization or unnecessary insults.” On another, maybe Lohan can take comfort in having paved the way for subsequent teen stars to have far less of a hard time (all while narcissistically assuming it’s still “so hard”). Brown, too, wants to offer that courtesy to subsequent generations of famous teen girls, as made clear when she added to her sixteenth birthday comment, “I feel like change needs to happen for not only this generation but the next. Our world needs kindness and support in order for us children to grow and succeed.”
Alas, it appears as though the bullying nature of tabloid journalism (parading as newsworthy events) has only transferred with more unmitigated vengeance to the online landscape. The germinal example of this being Perez Hilton’s illustrious blog (that was, let’s be honest, far more deliciously cunty in the 00s). An entity that came full-circle when both Perez and Lindsay, at one of her many nadirs in 2012, decided to use one another to their respective advantage by cameo’ing on an episode of Glee called “Nationals.” And, speaking of gays, Brown’s closest brush with intense online bullying was when a series of memes attributing her with homophobic quotes that she never said bombarded her Twitter account. Then just fourteen, Brown decided to quit the medium (long before it was chic to do so in 2022). Lohan, simultaneously loving and hating celebrity, likely wouldn’t have “quit” being present in magazines had it even been an option.
Brown and Lohan’s divergence when it comes to romantic prudence is also markedly different. For while Lohan was dating Wilmer Valderrama—undoubtedly before she turned eighteen—a notorious player with a penchant for courting women with age gaps (though not to the same extent as Leonardo DiCaprio or Jake Gyllenhaal), Brown has kept it decidedly staid and age-appropriate with her current boyfriend, Jake Bongiovi (the spelling of which is somehow supposed to make us forget he’s Jon Bon Jovi’s son). Lohan’s mistake with her first high-profile romance at the apex of her career didn’t account for how Valderrama would, just a year after the breakup, describe, among other details to Howard Stern, that Lindsay was “a big fan of waxing.” So yeah, exactly the type of sleaze someone should be dating when they’re tabloid fodder already. That Brown is taken more seriously as an actress than Lohan ever was has also contributed to the “safe space” form of her celebrity. Less laughingstock, more tissue box stock (that’s a tear reference, not a cum one).
However, going back to the similarities between Lohan and Brown, the ages at which each actress was when they got their first major start also eerily align, for Brown was twelve when Stranger Things debuted, and so was Lohan when The Parent Trap arrived in theaters. What’s more, when Lohan was seventeen and eighteen, her two biggest movies came out—Freaky Friday (2003) and Mean Girls (2004), respectively. Brown has also released her two biggest movies (so far) around the same age, being sixteen when Enola Holmes came out and eighteen upon the arrival of Enola Holmes 2.
In noticeable contrast to Lohan, Brown’s future beyond teen stardom seems far brighter (more like Emma Watson’s post-Harry Potter…at least Serious Roles-wise). Not just because she has that arcane aura of “British dignity” (ironic considering how undignified that country is), but because she’s grown up in a generation that has proven itself to be the antithesis of millennial youth values: drinking and clubbing. To boot, Brown also has the advantage of “setting the record straight” on social media that no millennial star ever had.
When last we left Enola Holmes (Millie Bobby Brown) in 2020, she had been effectively abandoned by her mother, Eudoria (Helena Bonham Carter). Yet it was hard to begrudge this freedom fighter the “abandonment” of her child when it was all in the name of the feminist cause. Even if that cause required a bit of explosive violence to get the job done. For, as Eudoria declared to Enola in a letter she left behind with some cash, “Our future is up to us.” Would that the same could be said for women of the working class, which is the demographic that Jack Thorne’s script (Thorne also penned the one for Enola Holmes) focuses on the most. Indeed, it’s the match girls who work in horrific factory conditions that drive the majority of the plot.
One match girl in particular, Bessie (Serrana Su-Ling Bliss), is the force that manages to prevent Enola from hanging up her detective’s hat entirely. For that’s just what she’s about to do when Bessie timidly walks into Enola’s erstwhile office. Which she can no longer afford as there are no clients willing to hire her, either because of misogyny (“Am I addressing the secretary?”) or ageism. As to the latter, she suffers the same kind of commentary as Doogie Howser might endure, with comments like, “You’re how old?” and “Stone the crows, you’re young.” In effect, no one trusts her or takes her seriously the way they do her overburdened-with-cases brother, Sherlock (Henry Cavill). Just another bane to living in 1800s-era London. Not to mention being in the thick of the Industrial Revolution’s after-effects. This including treating the worker like shit in the name of profit. Something the match girls know all about, as we see them subject themselves to the “new fever” called typhus in service to the work. Basically what happened during the onset of COVID-19, when some people got to stay at home and others didn’t have the same luxury of “staying safe” due to their class station.
Enola, who feels it must be kismet that Bessie found a months-old ad of hers floating around on the street, agrees to assist in the search for her “sister,” Sarah Chapman (Hannah Dodd), a seasoned match girl that’s taken Bessie in as though she’s family at the ramshackle where she also lives with another factory employee named Mae (Abbie Hern). Upon seeing Enola in her abode, Mae snaps, “We don’t need help from people like you,” alluding to the overt signs of Enola’s class. Despite the lack of a warm reception to her presence, Enola goes even deeper into the case by infiltrating the factory as a match girl. Working next to Bessie, she creates a diversion to get into the manager’s office whereupon she discovers missing pages ripped from a ledger. Enola is also quick to notice that Lyon’s matches have only recently turned from red tips to white ones. Surely not a coincidence. And while she feels she’s close to grasping at something, like Sherlock with his own current case, the puzzle pieces simply haven’t come together.
It doesn’t help matters that Enola still finds herself preoccupied with Lord Tewkesbury (Louis Partridge), who was at the center of the caper in the first film. The two continue to awkwardly flirt and semi-court, but it’s clear Enola is the one holding things back in the relationship thanks to the echoes of and flashbacks to the “independent woman”-oriented aphorisms her mother instilled within her.
Regarding the Tewkesbury romance, although some of the movie posters make Enola Holmes 2 come across as just another Jane Austen or Bridgerton knockoff, the majority of the movie speaks to the oppression of the worker. And yes, Sarah Chapman was a real person, even if not quite so model-esque as Hannah Dodd. Much like the Reform Bill featured in Enola Holmes was based on a real bill called the Third Reform Act. Director Harry Bradbeer (who also worked on the first film) and screenwriter Thorne are sure to use revisionist history to their advantage (though not so freely as someone like Ryan Murphy) in this edition of the Enola Holmes saga as well, with Chapman being at the center of a class war made all the more complex by the fact that she has secretly been dating William Lyon (Gabriel Tierney), the son of Lyon’s owner, Henry (David Westhead). But the web of deceit will turn out to be even more convoluted when Sherlock’s adversary in a battle of wits, Moriarty, enters into the equation.
Meanwhile, in the midst of her investigation, Enola has managed to get herself caught red-handed in the very manner from which the phrase originated: with blood all over her hands. This resulting in an arrest from the extremely smarmy Superintendent Grail (David Thewlis), who has no qualms choking Enola to attempt extracting the location of Sarah. When Enola insists she doesn’t know where Sarah is, Grail threatens, “Well if I can’t find it out from you, I’ll find it out from someone else. Like her sister, little Bessie.” Taking his meaning for the threat that it is, Enola replies, “She’s just a little girl.” Grail screams, “Oh, but that’s how it starts, Enola Holmes! With little girls like her, and you, and Sarah Chapman. Asking questions. Doubting those in charge, not seeing their protection for what it is, trying to tear it down.” Enola appears as though she might cry, but maintains a stiff upper lip (what all women must do if they want to “play by the rules” in a “man’s game”) as Grail continues, “Well it only takes one little flame to start a fire and my job is to keep crushing those bloody flames out.” Spoken like a beacon of upper management. And also a demagogue/dictator in the vein of Trump or Putin.
The question is later asked by a certain woman (who shall go unnamed to prevent from unveiling the mystery), “Why shouldn’t I be rewarded for what I can do? Where is my place in this…society?” Many women are still asking that question. Particularly those who must slave away as both a mother and a “paid employee” (as though the slog of motherhood isn’t worth something far more than the type of labor capitalism values). It is this dual role that catches the match girls of Enola Holmes 2 afraid to take a stand against their abuse in the final minutes of the film. An abuse so grotesque that they should automatically walk out without needing any convincing from Sarah.
But they do. Not just because the manager, a mouthpiece for the “seduction” of regular weekly earnings, shouts, “Think of your families, don’t do it girls. It’s not worth the risk.” And “the risk” he doesn’t want them to take is marching right out of the factory when Sarah urges them to protest with her against the dire conditions she’s unearthed. Informing them, as someone who has finally seen the light about the power of the worker, “It’s time for us to use the only thing we have: ourselves. It’s time for us to refuse to work. It’s time for us to tell ‘em no… I know you’re scared. I am too, but it’s the only power we have!” So here the viewer is given the expected, uplifting Act Three visualization of how “it only takes one little flame to start a fire” (to use that aforementioned match girl pun).
These, of course, are very pleasant thoughts to console oneself with as Iran arrests and/or puts to death the female protesters who have been called to action in the wake of Mahsa Amini’s own death at the hands of Iran’s “morality police” back in September. Suffice it to say, Enola Holmes 2 won’t be much welcomed in that country. Or really, any other. For they’re all mostly patriarchies that prefer to treat women and the worker like caged animals.
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