Joey King is truly having a moment thanks to (a) starring in Bullet Train (b) starring in Taylor Swift’s music video, (c) nailing every single red carpet outfit she’s worn, and (d) getting engaged to her fiancé Steven Piet—who also happens to be a director. Basically, she’s in the opposite of a flop era, and the time has come to dive into her relationship because it’s extremely sweet. Like, even the most die-hard Joey and Jacob fans (friends…it’s time to move on) will be on board with these two. So how did they meet? Join us as we travel back to October 2018, a simpler time before the word “pandemic” was part of our day-to-day. 🙃
October 2018
Filming begins on Hulu’s buzzy new show The Act, starring Joey King as Gypsy Rose Blanchard. And whomst is hired as a director? That’d be Steven, who was all kinds of impressed by Joey. As he told Vanity Fair, “I felt like my job was to step back as much as I could and just have the camera in the right place and let these amazing actors do what they do best.…At times, I was so lost in their performances that I was forgetting to say ‘Cut.’”
(Note: Joey was dating Jacob Elordi while filming The Act, but they broke up circa November 2018.)
September 3, 2019
E! News reports that Joey and Steven are dating after they’re spotted watching Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Like, if your first date isn’t this nerdy, I simply don’t want to hear about it!
“They were very affectionate and were with her two sisters sitting watching the movie together. Joey and Steven cuddled the entire time and looked very happy together,” a source says. “They had snacks and drinks and were laughing with her sisters.”
FYI, Joey posted photos from this night, but Steven hadn’t been hard-launched yet.
September 22, 2019
Joey and Steven make their first red carpet appearance together at an Emmys party. But technically it’s a group pic, so:
November 19, 2019
Then they go Insta official, though again, technically it’s on the swipe:
February 14, 2020
Are you even doing your job making everyone jealous if you don’t post a cute Valentine’s Day pic?!
February 29, 2020
Joey and Steven hit up Paris Fashion Week together and are photographed holding hands under a table. Cuuuuute.
We also get this Insta of them full of bread and constipated, apparently.
April 19, 2020
Joey and Steven make it clear they’re quarantining together during the pandemic. They also turn into that couple that matches, and I don’t hate it!
February 14, 2021
It’s V-Day again, so naturally this:
March 14, 2021
Joey and Steven go on a couples’ road trip together which looks pretty perfect.
May 19, 2021
It’s Steven’s birthday, so Joey treats everyone to a lil photo dump!
July 30, 2021
And then Steven celebrates Joey’s birthday with this sweetness:
February 2, 2022
Steven proposes! And Joey’s caption says it all: “I never knew happiness could be so powerful that it can take the air from your lungs.”
February 8, 2022
The couple gets pap’d in NYC following their engagement, as ya do.
May 19, 2022
Joey wishes Steven happy birthday and calls him the most wonderful person she’s ever met.
July 2, 2022
Joey shares an inside look at her life with Steven on TikTok. Word of warning: it’s extremely cute, might cause you to have a meltdown, etc.
July 28, 2022
Joey tells Allure that she loves working with Steven, saying, “We work really well together. We also just really love spending time together. So getting to do something where we’re both doing what we love and we get to hang out with each other, [that’s] the best. I think he’s so talented. He thinks the same about me. We really love just being able to put our minds together.”
July 30, 2022
It’s Joey’s birthday again, and you know what that means:
August 1, 2022
Joey and Steven show up looking indisputably amazing at the Los Angeles Bullet Train premiere.
And yerp, they have a PDA moment!
May 19, 2023
Joey celebrates Steven’s birthday with the most gushing and heart-warming post maybe ever, putting the rest of us to shame:
July 22, 2023
Joey’s Bachelorette party goes DOWN.
August 27, 2023
Just in case you’re wondering, these two remain obsessed:
September 2
Joey and Steven get married! According to People they make things official in Spain “surrounded by their closest family and friends.” Pics to come (finger’s crossed!).
That’s it, but we’ll be updating this, obviously, so stay tuned.
Mehera Bonner is a celebrity and entertainment news writer who enjoys Bravo and Antiques Roadshow with equal enthusiasm, She was previously entertainment editor at Marie Claire and has covered pop culture for over a decade.