Millie Bobby Brown Corrects Pap Who Called Jake Bongiovi Her ‘Boyfriend’

Millie Bobby Brown is proud to be Mrs. Bongiovi!

The Stranger Things star, 21, dutifully shut down a photographer who mistakenly called her husband, Jake Bongiovi, 22, her “boyfriend” as they posed for pictures at the red carpet premiere of her new movie, The Electric State, in Los Angeles on Monday, February 24.

“He’s not my boyfriend,” Brown is heard correcting the photographer in video footage shared via X by The Hollywood Reporter. In the vid, Brown is posing for solo photos on the red carpet and then gestures for Bongiovi to join her.

Monday’s outing comes 10 months after the couple wed in May 2024. For the red carpet occasion, Brown wore a metallic gown that boasted delicate embroidery and dramatic draping, which she accessorized with a short jacket in matching fabric, a gold beaded choker necklace and diamond drop earrings. The actress’ golden blond hair was swept into an updo, and she flaunted a shimmery silver shadow on her eyelids.

Last May, Bongiovi’s dad, rock star Jon Bon Jovi, confirmed that the young couple had tied the knot.

“They’re great, they’re absolutely fantastic, it was a very small family wedding and the bride looked gorgeous and Jake is happy as can be,” he said on BBC’s The One Show.

Since getting married, Brown and Bongiovi have embraced a quiet life — opting to live on a farm in Georgia. Brown recently denied that she’s doing it for the “aesthetic.”

“I’m not doing it for the aesthetic,” Brown told Vanity Fair in an interview published on February 12. “I’m doing it because I love it.”

Brown explained in the interview that she does not buy into the “trad wife” concept, which rejects the idea of a modern feminist and glorifies an old-fashioned lifestyle with a “traditional” housewife.

“There are maybe some trad wives out there doing it because it seems wholesome, but it is not,” Brown said. “If you’re not picking up horse shit or washing a cow with your bare hands, then that life is not made for you. At all.”

The actress — who barely checks her phone and lets others handle her social media, but is in the loop about what content will be published — noted that she feels her happiest while on her farm.

“I don’t have many friends, because of who I am,” she said. “I didn’t go to school, so I don’t have the best social skills when it comes to people my own age and friendships. I struggle with that quite a bit. I missed out on a few things. But I’m working through them.”