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Academy Award nominated actress and singer Hailee Steinfeld revealed a "bad omen" she and Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen overcame in their relationship when they accidentally gave each other the exact same Christmas gifts last year.
Steinfeld revealed that she and Allen coincidentally purchased the same $430 Miyabi Kaizen chef's knife for each other in a recent edition of her Beau Society newsletter, Sports Illustrated reported.
“I got this knife for Josh last year for Christmas because cooking is something we love to do together. For Christmas he got me…the same one in a different colorway!” Steinfeld wrote.
“After we exchanged our knives lol, he told me there’s an old wive’s tale that if you gift your significant other a knife you have to pay for it, otherwise it signifies the severing of a relationship. So we exchanged quarters so we didn’t have that bad omen,” she added.
“Anyway, oh my God, I love this knife! I don’t know much about a chef’s knife but it is just so nice and makes me feel official,” Steinfeld continued.
Allen publicly confirmed his relationship with Steinfeld, who he'd been linked to since 2023, in a carousel of Instagram photos, several of which showed Steinfeld, including one showing the couple looking at the Eiffel Tower in Paris and another that appears to be at a family event, this past summer. The quarterback later smiled while being referred to as 'Mr. Hard Launch' by Up & Adams host Kay Adams and admitted that he's "seen a few episodes" of Steinfeld's show Dickinson before adding, "we love love."
The couple was initially spotted together in New York City in photos exclusively obtained and shared by the New York Post in May 2023, which was believed to be the first time they were photographed together publicly.
A source close to Steinfeld later told PEOPLE Magazine that the two had been "hanging out for a few weeks."
Photos shared by TMZ Sports in July 2023 showed Allen and Steinfeld at a resort pool in Mexico during a "romantic getaway." The 'True Grit' actress was later seen attending several Bills games and included in photos taken in the Buffalo area, which included one with Allen's mother, Lavonne, alongside Lindsey Vega, the founder of the Bills-inspired boutique Leveled Up Buffalo, in a post shared by the store's Instagram account in September, as well as several others shared by teammates' wives and girlfriends during regular season and playoff games.