While Millie Bobby Brown may be best known for her role as Eleven on Stranger Things, she is no longer a child. Find out what she said after several users criticized her current appearance.
Millie Bobby Brown wants to remind people she’s no longer eleven.
Years old, that is. After the actress, who was that age when she first played the powerful character of the same name on Netflix’s Stranger Things, faced some criticism on social media over her current appearance in a Dec. 29 mirror selfie, the now-20-year-old firmly pushed back at her detractors.
“Women grow!!” Millie wrote on her Instagram Stories Jan. 1. “Not sorry about it :)”
But amid the remarks about her appearance, the Enola Holmes star, who will turn 21 in February, her husband, Jake Bongiovi showered her with love in the comments, posting a series of white heart emojis.
While she started 2025 with a defiant message, 2024 was quite a year for Millie as she tied the knot with Jon Bon Jovi’s son, 22, in May after three years of dating.
“It was a very small family wedding,” the Bon Jovi frontman said on BBC’s The One Show that month. “The bride looked gorgeous, and Jake is happy as can be.”
Months after their intimate nuptials, the duo tied the knot in a larger ceremony in Italy. While reflecting on her year in a New Year’s Eve post, Millie shared footage of herself and her husband holding hands at their wedding ceremony. She captioned her year-in-review Instagram post, “The year of mrs bongiovi,” adding a white heart emoji.
But amid that beginning, 2024 also marked the end of an era for Millie as Stranger Things wrapped production Dec. 20 after five seasons.
That day, the actress shared a series of throwback pics of herself in character on the set of the show on Instagram, along with the caption, “With love, El.”
She also shared a glimpse at the heartfelt speech she gave the Stranger Things cast and crew on set.
“Isn’t graduation supposed to bring relief, like you’re glad to leave behind the teachers and classmates? Not me,” she told them. “I am nowhere near ready to leave you guys. I love each and every one of you and I’ll forever carry the memories and bonds we’ve created together, as a family. I love you. Thank you.”
Read on for more info on the upcoming fifth and final season of Stranger Things, which is set to debut later this year…
While Max’s fate is still up in the air, Matt and Ross Duffer told the Happy Sad Confused podcast that Dr. Brenner (Matthew Modine) is dead “for real this time.” As they said, “He’s toast.”
Same goes for Eddie (Joseph Quinn), who sacrificed himself to the Demobats to buy time for the rest of the kids fighting. Joseph told E! News he’s still hoping to reappear in the show, saying, “I’d be very up for it. But yeah, let’s see.”
As for Max (Sadie Sink), the brothers aren’t giving up on her just yet. “She’s brain dead, but yeah, she’s alive,” they said. “She’s blind and all of her bones are broken.”
While Max is technically still alive, there’s no knowing if she’ll ever wake up from her coma. “I have no idea what’s coming in five and what that looks like,” Sadie said in an interview with Deadline. “Max’s storyline is very up in the air, ’cause obviously she’s in a coma and Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) can’t find her in the void. So who knows where she is and what state she’s in.”
Even Natalia Dyer is confused about who Nancy belongs with. On one hand, she thinks Nancy and Jonathan (Charlie Heaton) are a good match, but she also sees that Steve (Joe Keery) has grown up. And there’s a part of her that thinks Nancy shouldn’t be with either one of them. “It’s really tough,” she told Variety. “I don’t know. It feels like she’s been in a relationship for a while so maybe she needs some self discovery time.”
She continued, “Whatever happens, I would hope that she does it with integrity. I personally had some crunchy feelings about how the whole Jonathan thing started sort of behind Steve’s back. I can’t believe she did that. I mean, I can.”
In the season finale, Will (Noah Schnapp) confirmed he and Vecna are still connected after they were linked to each other in season two. When asked if fans will see the two characters interact in season five, Jamie Campbell Bower told E! News, “We all know by now that Vecna and Will have history. So it would be a joy to to get back in there, as I’ll gently put it.”
In fact, Jamie remained secretive throughout the entire interview, but promised the Duffers have got it all thought out. “My lips are sealed,” he said. “You’ll have to wait and see. I think Matt and Ross got something beautiful cooking and they’ll let us know in good time.”
While Joyce (Winona Ryder), Will (Noah Schnapp), Jonathan (Charlie Heaton) and Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) initially sought to start anew in California, it seems the Byers family is missing Hawkins and their hometown friends. So, they’re leaving their California home and returning to Indiana, alongside Hopper and Eleven, in season five.
“It’s mostly in Hawkins, and there’s a lot obviously in the Upside Down,” Matt Duffer told Collider about their season five plans. “But this is about everyone finally coming back. Coming back together, coming back to Hawkins.
The Duffer Brothers have mostly planned out season five, the final installment, but there’s no knowing when filming will begin.
“This last season took two years in total, so who knows how long season five will take,” Sadie Sink told Deadline. “The Duffers definitely know the fans will be eagerly awaiting a fifth season, but I don’t think they’re gonna rush it. They wanna make the best final season that they could possibly make.”
They may not rush the process, but it seems they’re cutting down on the amount of scenes in the final season. The Duffer Brothers promised the upcoming episodes will be slightly shorter, though they anticipate the finale is going to be another feature-length episode.
“The only reason we don’t expect to be as long is, this season, if you look at it, it’s almost a two-hour ramp up before our kids really get drawn into a supernatural mystery,” Matt Duffer told the Happy Sad Confused podcast. “You get to know them, you get to see them in their lives, they’re struggling with adapting to high school and so forth, Steve’s trying to find a date, all of that. None of that is obviously going to be occurring [in season 5].”
Production is Officially Underway
On Jan. 8, Netflix confirmed that production on the fifth and final season of Stranger Things is underway by sharing a sweet group photo of the Hawkins crew.
“THIS IS A CODE RED,” the streaming service announced on social media. “STRANGER THINGS 5 production has officially begun!!!”
In an exclusive interview with E! News, Stranger Things executive producer Shawn Levy promised that season five “will answer all remaining questions,” adding, “we are in the business of satisfying viewers.”
On Nov. 6, fondly known as Stranger Things Day, Netflix revealed that the first episode of the final season will be titled, “Chapter One: The Crawl.”
It appears that Will Byers will be the key to how Stranger Things wraps up its run on Netflix. On what fans can expect from the final season, star Noah Schnapp teased to Forbes, “I think they did a great job with Will’s character this season, and beautifully addressed everything they needed to. The way they closed the show is just perfect—the story started with Will, and it’ll end with Will.”
It’ll Be Very Long
Maya Hawke recently revealed the upcoming series is “basically eight movies.”
As she explained on Penn Badgley’s Podcrushed in June 2024, “The episodes are very long.”
Source: www.eonline.com