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Eminem‘s daughter Hailie Jade is engaged! On Feb. 6, the 27-year-old “Just a Little Shady” podcast host introduced on Instagram that her longtime boyfriend Evan McClintock popped the query. Alongside images from the candy proposal, taken by Erika Christine Photography, Jade wrote, “informal weekend recap… 😭💗 2.4.23 💍 i like you @evanmcclintock11.”
Almost instantly after posting, Jade’s family members chimed in with congratulatory messages within the feedback. Jade’s sister, Alaina Marie Scott, expressed her pleasure over the milestone, writing, “😭😭😭 could not be happier for the 2 of you🍾cannot wait do that chapter of life with you guys❤️.”
Weeks later, within the Feb. 24 episode of her podcast, McClintock made a visitor look to spill all the small print — and chaos — that went into pulling off his engagement shock with out a hitch, together with how he requested her father, aka Eminem, for his blessing.
“Over the vacations, I used to be in search of a chance to not make it too apparent,” McClintock stated about plotting his dialogue with Slim Shady himself (Jade’s birthday is on Christmas). “I noticed your dad go downstairs, and I’m like, ‘I gotta do it proper now, or I’m not doing it at this time, and I’m gonna need to schedule one other time.’ So I simply adopted him downstairs and, fortunately, he was simply down there getting your cake, and made it occur.”
Once McClintock received the rap legend’s approval, planning the engagement grew to become sophisticated. He had their shut buddies invite them out for dinner at a restaurant they frequent, and he knew he needed to get her to the restaurant on time, however Jade was hyperfocused on one thing else that weekend. “You dedicated to the plans on a Monday . . . and I’d type of convey it up all through the week, and I might simply let you know have been simply enthusiastic about this new studio,” he stated, referencing Jade’s new podcast studio.
Jade received the keys to her new spot the day earlier than McClintock deliberate to pop the query, so she missed all of the indicators about what would occur. “I can not have that a lot on my head without delay,” she defined at one level. “I’m not good at multitasking, so if I’m centered on one factor, the remainder goes over my head.”
Jade realized so many hints after the proposal that she did not earlier than, like when McClintock fortunately accompanied her to Target to buy her new studio’s decor. “I ought to have identified proper then and there that one thing was up,” Jade stated. Jade and McClintock’s conflicting objectives for the evening additionally prompted some stress since McClintock stored attempting to hurry her out of Target as a result of they needed to go “get drinks” with their buddies. “I used to be like, ‘All you care about is getting drinks. Like, actually?’ I used to be getting pissed. I’m like, ‘I wanna furnish this studio. There’s no likelihood.’ I used to be getting so mad,” Jade recalled.
Adding insult to harm, once they returned to their home, McClintock started primping for his or her dinner that evening as a substitute of serving to her pack up their automobile with all of the furnishings she needed to convey to the studio after dinner. “I’m like, ‘Why aren’t you serving to me pack up the automobile?’ . . . He’s, like, steaming a shirt. And I’m like, ‘Bro! Start packing up the automobile. What are you considering? We’re going to the studio after dinner.'”
Luckily, McClintock was in a position to persuade Jade to decorate up. “I’m like, ‘Should I be getting dressed good?'” Jade recounts. “And he is like, ‘No, it is as much as you. I imply, we simply by no means actually exit on the weekends anymore. Like, I type of need to gown good.'” His sentiment satisfied her to get a bit extra dolled up (however McClintock packed a backup outfit simply in case, courtesy of Jade’s youthful sister).
The closing straw got here when, on the restaurant, McClintock — who’s often a “Ladies first” kind of man — walked in entrance of Jade into the restaurant. “I’m like, ‘Why is he getting into entrance of me?’ . . . You’re often, like, a gentleman. I’m like, ‘This man is de facto simply grinding my gears at this time.'”
It wasn’t till Jade peeped McClintock’s engagement shock of flowers and Champagne that every one the clues clicked into place. “And you then stroll outdoors on the patio the place it was, and I see the desk. . . . All I might say was the F-word.” After realizing what was occurring, Jade felt unhealthy about her temper all through the day. “I used to be like, ‘Oh f*ck, I’m such an asshole.'”
Still, ultimately, McClintock’s proposal went off with out a hitch within the grand scheme of issues! Jade leads a reasonably personal life, so her new episode of “Just a Little Shady” might be essentially the most we have realized about her and McClintock’s relationship, in addition to the truth that they have been relationship since school. Jade first gave followers a glimpse of her romance with McClintock on Instagram in December 2016.
Watch Jade and McClintock inform their engagement story themselves beneath.