Simone Biles 'can't wait to spend forever' with Jonathan Owens as she confirms engagement
express.co.ukThe Valentine's Day proposal came after a courtship of almost two years.The happy couple first met after Jonathan caught Simone's eye - and, taking a modern approach to finding romance, she readily admits that she "slid into his DMs".She revealed to the Wall Street Journal: " I was like, 'Oh, he's pretty cute,' so I said hi … and then I saw that he was in the Houston area, so we started chatting a little bit, and then we went to hang out a week or two later."He admitted to having been totally clueless about who the medallist was when she originally contacted him, telling Texas Monthly: "I didn't know!"However, perhaps tiring of social media adulation, Simone was glad to be able to pursue a date anonymously."I just hadn’t heard of her, and when I told her that, that’s one of the things she liked," Jonathan explained."[We ended up] hanging out right before the pandemic."It was one of the few times in her life where everything was just shut off and she couldn't do anything, so we used [the lockdown] to get to know each other — really get to know each other.
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