Jean Elie and his longtime girlfriend, Randall Bailey, are engaged. The “Insecure” actor lately confirmed the thrilling information to ESSENCE, revealing that he popped the query throughout a visit to Greece on the finish of June. “I used to be sweating bullets all day as a result of I knew I needed to suggest on our technique to Mykonos however I did not wish to do it on the prime as a result of I felt prefer it was corny,” he informed ESSENCE. “I did not wish to do it out the bathe as a result of I believed that was corny, and I used to be like, ‘Do I wish to do it at dinner?’ I used to be like, ‘I do not wish to do it at dinner both.'”
Elie ultimately discovered the right second to suggest when the 2 have been having fun with drinks and fireworks unexpectedly began going off over the ocean. “I mentioned, that is lovely. It will possibly’t be something higher than this,” he recalled. “I mentioned, ‘There’s quite a lot of issues I would like in life, and proper now the one factor I would like is you. Will you marry me?’ She mentioned sure, after which she was like, ‘That is f*cking actually taking place!’ I mentioned, ‘Sure, the f*ck it’s.'”
Elie and Bailey first met at a bonfire at LA’s Dockweiler Seashore in 2015. Based on ESSENCE, Bailey had simply gotten out of relationship and was nonetheless reeling from the breakup. “We get to the seashore, I flip round and he walks by us. He is like, ‘It is best to eliminate that man, he feels like a loser,'” Bailey recounted. “Then he walks to the identical social gathering I used to be going to. I am like, ‘Oh my God, he’s so cute.'”
Elie did not find yourself asking Bailey for her quantity that evening, however after discovering him on social media and sliding into his DMs, she invited him out for drinks. Nonetheless, Elie was extra centered on his profession on the time. “I received chilly toes,” he defined. “However once we broke up, I consistently stored excited about her.”
Ultimately, Elie and Bailey discovered their means again to one another, and now they’re getting married. “I will go to the courthouse,” Bailey informed ESSENCE. “I do not care. I do not want any of the pomp and circumstance.” Nonetheless, Elie has different plans in thoughts. “We’ll have some griot, lambi, tassot. We’ll have the entire gamut of Haitian meals,” he mentioned. “We’ll have Haitian music enjoying . . . My household likes to social gathering. So we’re undoubtedly going to have quite a lot of that in our marriage ceremony.”
