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 option to Mykonos however I did not need to do it on the prime as a result of I felt prefer it was corny,” he informed ESSENCE. “I did not need to do it out the bathe as a result of I assumed that was corny, and I used to be like, ‘Do I need to do it at dinner?’ I used to be like, ‘I do not need to do it at dinner both.'”
Elie ultimately discovered the proper second to suggest when the 2 have been having fun with drinks and fireworks unexpectedly began going off over the ocean. “I stated, that is lovely. It may well’t be something higher than this,” he recalled. “I stated, ‘There’s a variety of issues I need in life, and proper now the one factor I need is you. Will you marry me?’ She stated sure, after which she was like, ‘That is f*cking actually occurring!’ I stated, ‘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 seaside, I flip round and he walks by us. He is like, ‘It is best to eliminate that man, he appears like a loser,'” Bailey recounted. “Then he walks to the identical celebration 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 night time, 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 bought chilly ft,” he defined. “However once we broke up, I continually saved fascinated by her.”
Finally, 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 will have some griot, lambi, tassot. We will have the entire gamut of Haitian meals,” he stated. “We will have Haitian music taking part in . . . My household likes to celebration. So we’re positively going to have a variety of that in our wedding ceremony.”
