Hailee Steinfeld & Josh Allen Are Engaged After One Year of Dating
Hailee Steinfeld Gets Engaged to Buffalo Bills Quarterback Josh Allen!
Josh Allen didn’t fumble this major play.
While the Buffalo Bills didn’t have a game during Thanksgiving week, he still scored a major win by popping the question to Hailee Steinfeld. Indeed, the duo confirmed they are teammates for life after getting engaged on Nov. 22.
In a joint Instagram post, they shared a glimpse inside the romantic moment overlooking the water, which saw Josh, 28, on one knee in the grass front of an arch of pink flowers with Hailee, 27, leaning in to kiss him. Dozens of candles scattered around the grass in front of them completed the picture-perfect proposal. The duo captioned the photo with infinity emojis on either side of their engagement date.
Josh and Hailee’s engagement comes more than a year after the pair first sparked romance rumors with a May 2023 dinner date in NYC. However, amid dates and PDA-filled trips, they tried to keep their romance out of the public eye.
And as Josh noted at the time, not only was he baffled that people cared about their relationship, but also the lengths some paparazzi would go to capture his and Hailee’s private moments.
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“The fact anybody cares about that still blows my mind,” the NFL star explained in an August 2023 episode of the Pardon My Take podcast. “They were on a boat. I saw it and I just felt this gross feeling. The insecurity, no privacy. I was like, ‘What’s wrong with you?’”
So when he and Hailee took their romance public, they did it on their own terms. This includes when they made a sweet cameo in a TikTok guessing the sex of his then-pregnant sister Nicala Madden’s new baby. (They both correctly guessed she was expecting a baby boy.) And sweet glimpses at their life together on social media.
Plus, Hailee proved she’s an aca-awesome addition to Josh’s NFL family, cheering him on at several games. And this past Halloween, she and Josh hosted a circus-themed party at his Buffalo home, where they dressed up as ringleaders and celebrated with his teammates and their significant others.
His teammates have also made it no secret how they feel about the romance with tight end Dalton Kincaid giving them his seal of approval. As he succinctly put it on the Up & Adams show in August, “Hailee’s awesome.”
For more on how Hailee and Josh took their touchdown-worthy romance from the sidelines and onto the field, keep reading.
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May 2023: Romance Rumors
Following Josh Allen’s breakup with longtime girlfriend Brittany Williams, the Buffalo Bills quarterback stepped out for dinner in NYC with Hailee Steinfeld.
Two months later, the duo confirmed their relationship while kissing on vacation in Mexico.
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March 2024: Surprise Appearance
Nearly a year after the duo first sparked romance rumors, the athlete and the actress made a rare social media appearance while helping his sister, Nicala Madden, reveal the sex of her baby in an adorable Tiktok video.
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March 2024: Très Romantique
The Edge of Seventeen star and the NFL player went on a romantic outing in matching khaki outfits during Paris Fashion Week.
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July 2024: The City of Love
The NFL star made the couple’s romance Instagram official, posting a photo of the couple posing in front of the Eiffel Tower in his July 23 photo dump.
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July 2024: Part Of the Family
Posted in that same photo dump, the “Starving” singer squeezed in for a photo with Josh’s family.
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August 2024: Mr. Hard Launch
“Mr. Hard Launch,” as reporter Kay Adams called him on her Up & Adams show, bashfully admitted “we love love” when asked about his and Hailee’s relationship.
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November 2024: Engagement
Hailee and Josh confirmed they were engaged in a November 29 Instagram post showing the athlete getting down on one knee as the Oscar nominee leaned in to give him a kiss. They captioned the post with the date of their major milestone: 11-22-24.
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