Why Millie Bobby Brown has two engagement rings after Jake Bongiovi’s near-disaster proposal

Millie Bobby Brown has shared the dramatic story of how her fiancé, Jake Bongiovi proposed – and why she now has two engagement rings. 

The Stranger Things actress, 20, appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Thursday and recalled the near-disaster proposal for the primary time. 

Millie revealed that the couple had been vacationing with Jake’s dad and mom – Bon Jovi frontman, Jon Bon Jovi and his spouse, Dorothea Hurley – after they went for a solo dive as unbeknownst to Millie, Jake had deliberate an underwater proposal. 

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“Basically, Jake and I bonded over diving. We love diving, we got our diving licenses together,” she instructed Jimmy. 

After an early morning wakeup, the couple went to their normal spot and after diving “many meters down”, Jake introduced Millie with a shell. 

“He gives me like a shell, and I like, turn it over and it’s a ring,” she recalled, earlier than recreating Jake’s facial expressions and mumbling as they had been underwater.

Millie then raised her thumb, explaining: “Because this means, ‘I wanna go up,’ so that technically would mean like, ‘No, I don’t want to marry you, I want to go up.’ 

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“So, I was like ‘Okay'”, gesturing together with her hand that her reply was, ‘Yes’. She added: “I think it was underwhelming, but we freaked out.”

However, after they obtained to the floor, catastrophe struck as her engagement ring slipped off her finger and plummeted by way of the water. Listen to what occurred subsequent within the video beneath. 

Millie admitted that Jake’s actions over the ring felt like “a reflection of who he is, and I feel like we’re always going to have each other’s back. And if anyone drops the ball, we got it”. 

However, the ring that Jake popped the query with is not the big, cushion-cut diamond set amidst a cushion-shaped halo on a pavé band that Millie now wears. 

The blinding engagement ring that may typically be seen on her finger as soon as belonged to her mom, who refused to let Jake suggest with it underwater in case he misplaced it. 

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“He was like, ‘You know, I bought you this ring because your mom wouldn’t let me take her ring,’ Which is the one I’m wearing this is my mom’s ring,” Millie mentioned. 

“And my mum was like, ‘Absolutely not, Jake. You’re not taking my ring down there. I know you’ll drop it,’ and sure enough, he did,” she joked. 

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Millie added: “She was right so when we got up on the boat, he was like, ‘This is your mom’s ring, and I got it from your parents.’ And it was very magical. And his parents were there, and we just looked so disheveled coming out from a dive. 

“We had been like, ‘We’re engaged, but in addition now we have to inform you this loopy story that simply occurred.'” 

Millie and Jake got engaged in April 2023, but the actress had no intention of becoming a wife until she met her fiancé. 

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“That was never my intention, to be a wife,” she defined to Glamour UK. “But after meeting Jake and seeing, ‘Oh, I don’t have to be this stereotypical wife for him’. He doesn’t want me to be that either.” 

She defined: “He wants me to go and do my thing and live my life, and he will hold my hand in the process of that. I was like, ‘Oh, I do want this’.”

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