Justin Bieber initiated his whirlwind romance with his wife Hailey Baldwin after seeing her open a beer bottle with her teeth on TV.
While they briefly dated in 2016, the relationship that resulted in their marriage only began two years later right after she made an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
Hailey, 23, was on the show again this week and revealed that Justin called her the morning after her 2018 talk show shot.
Secret’s out: Justin Bieber initiated his whirlwind romance with his wife Hailey Baldwin after seeing her open a beer bottle on TV, she told Jimmy Fallon this week
History: They briefly dated in 2016 but the relationship that resulted in their marriage began two years later; Justin and Hailey are pictured this Valentine’s Day
She recalled ‘that last time I was here we did this little party trick where I opened a Corona bottle with my teeth, and the next morning after the interview had aired, I got a certain phone call from a certain someone.’
The niece of Alec Baldwin shared that ‘it was a little like: “Hey, how are you? I saw you on Jimmy Fallon last night. You were looking really good. I loved that trick that you did. I had no idea that you could do that. It was so cool.”‘
Hailey dished: ‘Cut to, I’m now married to that person. Yeah, so, I feel like Jimmy gets a little credit for helping re-spark the romance, okay?’
‘You’d think I’d be invited to the wedding,’ Jimmy said, before profusely assuring his guest that he was only kidding.
Legs for days: Hailey, 23, was on the show again this week and revealed that Justin called her the morning after her 2018 talk show shot
Dropping hints: She said of her 2018 shot that ‘the next morning after the interview had aired, I got a certain phone call from a certain someone’
Gracious: Hailey dished: ‘Cut to, I’m now married to that person,’ adding: ‘Yeah, so, I feel like Jimmy gets a little credit for helping re-spark the romance, okay?’
He later brought up that Hailey was only 13, and accompanied by her father Stephen Baldwin, when she was introduced to Justin for the first time.
‘I know, sounds like this weird arranged marriage situation, but we met because my dad – he brought me to the Today show when Justin performed there. He was no more than 15, I think,’ she dished.
Hailey insisted that ‘he was so new that I didn’t really know a lot about him yet,’ and ‘his mom and my dad kind of just connected as friends, and we invited them over to our house the next day, so him and his mom just came over for family dinner with me and my family, and we went bowling!’
In a backstage video Today have posted to YouTube, Stephen can be seen introducing Justin and a slightly sullen Hailey in 2009.
Just joshing: ‘You’d think I’d be invited to the wedding,’ Jimmy said, before profusely assuring his guest that he was only kidding
History: He later brought up that Hailey was only 13, and accompanied by her father Stephen Baldwin, when she was introduced to Justin for the first time
During her 2018 Tonight Show interview Hailey told Jimmy the ‘story behind’ her ability to open beer bottles with her teeth.
‘I was in the Bahamas shooting with a bunch of people, and we were on a boat and we didn’t have a bottle opener,’ she said.
‘And I didn’t want everybody to not have fun, so I was like: “Oh, you know what? Lemme just try something.” And I cracked it open with my tooth,’ she went on.
The look: Hailey oozed showbiz glamour in a sequined strapless LBD that featured a fashionable frilly cowl
Goofing around: During her latest chat show appearance she played one of Jimmy’s games with her fellow guest Norman Reedus of The Walking Dead fame
By the way: At one point Hailey was joined by Jet Rivers of the Harlem Globetrotters – whereas Norman was accompanied by people dressed as zombies
‘And then I ended up realizing that I could do this cool thing and I cracked 16 of them in one go, so…,’ she said, demonstrating with two Corona bottles on air.
Justin proposed to Hailey in the Bahamas that summer, presenting her with a $500,000 Tiffany engagement ring.
The committed Christians had an impromptu courthouse wedding in New York that September, followed by a religious ceremony last November in South Carolina.
Chitchat: During her 2018 Tonight Show interview Hailey told Jimmy the ‘story behind’ her ability to open beer bottles with her teeth
Necessity is the mother of invention: ‘I was in the Bahamas shooting with a bunch of people, and we were on a boat and we didn’t have a bottle opener,’ she said
There it is: ‘And then I ended up realizing that I could do this cool thing and I cracked 16 of them in one go, so…,’ she said, demonstrating with two Corona bottles on air