Jon Bon Jovi has no doubts that his son Jake Bongiovi and Millie Bobby Brown will make it work — regardless of being so younger.
“I’ve gotten to know her within the final 12 months, she works actually onerous, and she or he and Jake will develop collectively in their very own means,” Bon Jovi, 62, shared in an interview with U.Ok.’s The Occasions, printed on Saturday, April 13. “It’s an accelerated model of what I went by way of 40 years in the past and I feel, with the help of household round them, they’re gonna be nice collectively.”
Bon Jovi was, after all, referring to his relationship with spouse, Dorothea Hurley Bongiovi, with whom he shares 4 kids. The couple met whereas they had been in highschool and tied the knot in 1989.
His son Jake, 21, proposed to Brown, 20, in April 2023, after greater than two years collectively. Whereas critics have raised eyebrows about their ages, Bon Jovi is absolutely on board along with his son’s determination to marry.
“They’re rising together,” he instructed E! Information throughout an interview final February. “They’re head over heels in love, and we love them each for that. It’s an thrilling journey.”
Whereas marriage ceremony particulars have been stored beneath wraps, Bon Jovi did joke that he’s prepared to take the stage and carry out for Brown and Jake’s nuptials. (Except for Jake, his eldest son, Jesse Bongiovi, is engaged to girlfriend Jesse Gentle.)
“It might be a pleasant strategy to recoup a number of the cash that it’s costing me for one, two, three weddings this 12 months,” the singer quipped. “They’ve all bought nice companions and we’re trying ahead to it.”
When requested about Jake and Brown’s ages in a separate interview, Bon Jovi was fast to sing their praises — as a result of age is only a quantity.
“I don’t know if age issues. You realize, in the event you discover the appropriate associate and also you develop collectively,” the musician shared on SiriusXM’s “Andy Cohen Reside” in Might 2023. “I feel that will be my recommendation actually, is rising collectively is smart. Rising collectively and so I feel that every one of my youngsters have discovered the folks that they suppose they’ll develop along with and we like ’em all.”
Through the early days of their relationship, Brown stored issues with Jake fairly low-key. Now, the Stranger Issues star has no qualms about gushing over her man.
“It’s such an incredible a part of my life up to now,” she shared on Good Morning America in September 2023, when discussing marriage ceremony planning. “And simply having the ability to do it with somebody makes it even higher.”