{"id":90360,"date":"2025-08-17T21:08:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T21:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/90360\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T21:08:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T21:08:03","slug":"bella-thorne-sparks-backlash-for-proposing-to-fiance-mark-emms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/90360\/","title":{"rendered":"Bella Thorne sparks backlash for proposing to fianc\u00e9 Mark Emms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bella Thorne sparked backlash after she proposed to her fianc\u00e9, Mark Emms \u2014 despite them already being engaged.<\/p>\n<p>The Disney alum <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DNbP8eeupc8\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">took to Instagram<\/a> Saturday to share clips of herself getting down on one knee while surrounded by candles, flowers and red heart-shaped balloons.<\/p>\n<p>Emms wasn\u2019t initially aware of what Thorne was doing until he knelt to meet her at eye level.<\/p>\n<p>Bella Thorne received backlash after she proposed to her fianc\u00e9, Mark Emms.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cBlended\u201d star shared clips of herself getting down on one knee via Instagram Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>He then widened his eyes and mouth as the actress pulled out a ring box.<\/p>\n<p>The couple tenderly kissed and hugged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c3 years ago we met, 1 year later he proposed, Now 1 year later so did I \ud83e\udd74\u2764\ufe0f,\u201d Thorne, 27, captioned the videos.<\/p>\n<p>The businessman tenderly touched the actress\u2019s cheeks.<\/p>\n<p>Emms then leaned down to meet Thorne at eye level.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cBlended\u201d star received mixed reactions from fans in the comments, with one writing, \u201cIf he already proposed why did you do it lol I\u2019m confused.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOk ladies let\u2019s not normalise this, okay?\u201d another added, as a third quipped, \u201cGirls in 2025: he said yeeesss \ud83e\udd79\ud83d\udc8d.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d rather have my nails ripped off with a tenacity before I do that,\u201d a fourth chimed in, as a critic sarcastically said they \u201cwould rather swallow glass.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>His mouth dropped open when he saw the ring box.<\/p>\n<p>Emms covered his mouth in shock.<\/p>\n<p>Others, however, gushed over the sweet moment, as a fan wrote, \u201cI don\u2019t understand why everyone\u2019s hating. It\u2019s cute \ud83d\ude2d.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201ccomments failed. girl power i love you for this,\u201d a second agreed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cthe cutest thing i saw today!!\ud83e\udd79\ud83e\udd79,\u201d another added.<\/p>\n<p>The couple shared a warm kiss.<\/p>\n<p>Emms proposed to Thorne last year.<\/p>\n<p>Thorne, meanwhile, took to her Instagram Stories to share a response to the comments, writing, \u201cThe comments on my post are hilarious!! <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTotally split down the middle. Half of u are like let\u2019s not normalize proposing to your partner \u2014 other half is like f\u2013k yeah girl power this is the sweetest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The OnlyFans creator and Emms <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2023\/02\/16\/bella-thorne-boyfriend-mark-emms-are-instagram-official\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">took their romance public<\/a> in February 2023 after she <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2022\/06\/02\/bella-thorne-and-benjamin-mascolo-call-off-engagement\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">broke off her engagement<\/a> to Benjamin Mascolo.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bella Thorne sparked backlash after she proposed to her fianc\u00e9, Mark Emms \u2014 despite them already being engaged.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[4031,236,2865,2866,7485,91,94,88,4136,206,92],"class_list":["post-90360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-bella-thorne","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity-couples","tag-celebrity-dating","tag-celebrity-engagements","tag-celebrity-news","tag-celebrity-social-media","tag-entertainment","tag-instagram","tag-movies","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}