Hailee Steinfeld and Josh Allen are engaged!
On Friday, Nov. 29, the Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse star, 27, and the Buffalo Bills quarterback, 28, announced that they’ll be tying the knot after getting engaged last week.
The couple shared a romantic photo on Instagram together of Allen down on one knee in front of Steinfeld, with both surrounded by an arch of pink and red roses in front of a body of water. Thet captioned the post with just a simple date: Nov. 22.
The comments soon filled with well wishes from friends and fan alike, including several of Allen’s Bills teammates of past and present and fellow football peers, including Taiwan Jones, Isaiah Mckenzie and Trevor Lawrence.
“Congrats brother!!!” actor Chad Michael Murray, who grew up in the Buffalo area, commented under the post.
The Bills organization also congratulated its star QB on his engagement, with the team’s official Instagram account commenting, “LET’S GOOOOOO!! ❤️💙”
“❤️💙❤️💙 Congratulations to @JoshAllenQB and @HaileeSteinfeld on their engagement,” the Bills wrote on X (formerly Twitter) alongside the same image.
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A source close to the couple tells PEOPLE that their families are excited about the engagement news. “They’ve been head over heels from the start,” the source says. “Their families are thrilled.”
Steinfeld and Allen were first linked in May 2023 shortly after rumors circulated that the NFL star had called it quits with then-girlfriend Brittany Williams. A source later confirmed their relationship to PEOPLE in May 2023, sharing at the time that the new couple was “having fun.”
In August 2023, Allen appeared on the Pardon My Take podcast, where he obliquely talked about some of the challenges the couple was facing after their relationship went public. During the conversation, he was asked if he had seen headlines about him “making out with his girlfriend.”
“The fact that anybody cares about that still blows my mind,” Allen responded, adding that some photographers had been invasive in trying to take photos of the pair. He recalled a specific instance where he spotted a photographer “on a boat” trying to snap a shot of him and Steinfeld.
Allen said it was a “gross feeling” and created a feeling of “insecurity” for the couple.
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In October 2023, the couple made their first public appearance together at an NHL game at the KeyBank Center in Buffalo. At the game, Steinfeld and Allen were snapped in the stands in what appeared to be a suite as they watched the season opener.
That same month, Steinfeld was also spotted spending some time with Allen’s mother, as the pair picked up some items at the Leveled Up Buffalo shop in East Aurora, N.Y.
The pair took a big step in their relationship by going Instagram official in July 2024, when the quarterback posted a wholesome snap of himself and Steinfeld embracing in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
Just last month, the actress opened up about her and Allen’s relationship in her newsletter “Beau Society” (as reported by Sports Illustrated at the time), when she revealed that the duo had to figure out how to avoid a “bad omen” in their relationship after buying each other the same Christmas gift.
As she explained, they bought each other the same cooking knife, in a “different colorway,” since they “love” to cook together.
“After we exchanged our knives lol, he told me there’s an old wive’s tale that if you gift your significant other a knife you have to pay for it, otherwise it signifies the severing of a relationship,” she wrote. “So we exchanged quarters so we didn’t have that bad omen.”
The “Most Girls” singer added, “Anyway, oh my God, I love this knife! I don’t know much about a chef’s knife, but it is just so nice and makes me feel official.”
