Simone Biles is trending online after her husband revealed in an interview that he had no idea who she was when they met—and people are incredibly unimpressed.
Biles, the most decorated gymnast in history and widely considered the greatest of all time, is married to Green Bay Packers safety Jonathan Owens. The pair started dating in 2020 after they met on the celebrity dating app Raya.
On a recent appearance on The Pivot Podcast, Owens revealed he had never paid attention to gymnastics and when Biles made the first move, he had never heard of the four-time Olympic gold medalist before.
Angering people even further, when host Ryan Clark asked Owens if he considered himself “the catch” in their relationship, Owens quickly agreed that he did. He revealed he had also been “afraid to commit.”
Simone Biles and husband Jonathan Owens
Jonathan Owens on October 9, 2023, in Las Vegas, Nevada, and Simone Biles at the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships-Antwerp 2023 on October 8, 2023, in Antwerp, Belgium. The pair tied the knot earlier this year. IAN MAULE/TIM CLAYTON/GETTY IMAGES/CORBIS VIA GETTY IMAGES
“Literally had been on the app for a couple of days, man, and it’s like she pops up and, I’m like ‘Let me see who this is.’ I had never really paid attention to gymnastics, so it piqued my curiosity,” he said.
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“I go do my workout, and I come back and I had some likes on my Instagram. I still waited and then I come back to my phone, and then she messaged me on the app like, ‘Hey.'”
He added: “I didn’t know who she was at the time, but the first thing that I saw was that she just had a bunch of followers so in my mind, I’m like, ‘OK, she got to be good.'”