Millie Bobby Brown and Jake Bongiovi engagement: Young celebrity couples from Beckham to Attenborough

It’s a sign of the changing times that a celebrity engagement at the young ages of 19 and 20 has caused quite such a stir.

Stranger Things actor Millie Bobby Brown and Jake Bongiovi, also an actor and the son of Jon Bon Jovi, announced their engagement via Instagram, after two-and-a-half years together.

The couple have been the subject of abuse online, but people have come to their defence, often pointing out that many of our grandparents and parents were married at such a young age.

And they’re right – they’re hardly the first people, let alone the first celebrities, to get married relatively young.

Here are just some of glamorous young couples, both recent and from further back.

Victoria (25) and David Beckham (24)

The Spice Girl star turned fashion designer, Victoria Beckham, married the Manchester United footballer, David Beckham, in July 1999, after meeting in the Man-U players’ lounge two years earlier. They are still apparently happily married and have had four children together.

Brooklyn Beckham (23) and Nicola Peltz (27)

Speaking of which, Brooklyn Beckham, son of David and Victoria, married the American actress Nicola Peltz when he was just 23. Despite a rumoured feud between Nicola and her mother-in-law Victoria, the young couple are still together and recently celebrated their one-year wedding anniversary.

Amy Winehouse (23) and Blake Fielder-Civil (35)

The pair met in a pub in 2005, had a whirlwind, and tumultuous, romance, and eloped in Miami in 2007. Although the marriage was fraught with problems - and Winehouse would meet a tragic end - Fielder-Civil is said to be the inspiration for Back to Black, so we can thank him for that.

Sophie Turner (23) and Joe Jonas (29)

Game of Thrones Star Sophie Turner and musician Joe Jonas tied the knot in 2019 and now have two children together. In true, modern-romance style, the pair hit it off after Joe slid into Sophie’s Instagram DMs.

Colleen and Wayne Rooney (22)

This couple have recently been in the news following Colleen’s Wagatha Christie dispute with Rebekah Vardy. But the start of their romance was very much out of the spotlight. They met when they were both 12, starting dating officially at 16, and married in 2008 when they were 22.

David Attenborough (24) and Jane Ebsworth Oriel (23)

David Attenborough, national treasure, married Jane Ebsworth Oriel in 1950. The pair were married for 47 years, until Jane passed away in 1997. On her passing, Attenborough wrote in his 2010 memoir Life on Air: “The focus of my life, the anchor had gone… now I was lost.”