Halle Berry seems to have fooled a few of her well-known associates after joking about getting married to her boyfriend Van Hunt.
The 55-year-old Oscar winner posted a sequence of images to Instagram on New Yr's Day that made it seem that she and Hunt had simply taken a stroll down the aisle, earlier than she revealed it was all a ruse.
However the joke was so near the actual factor that stars together with Dwayne Johnson and Octavia Spencer had been seemingly fooled by it.
Halle had a number of of her followers fooled after she posted a photograph of herself and Van in what seemed to be a church within the tropical paradise the 2 have been vacationing in all through the vacations.
They stood in entrance of a curving A-shaped window looking on beautiful inexperienced clear water, seashores dotted with palm timber and thatched huts, whereas mist coated mountains loomed even farther away.
The small room seemed to be a church primarily based on rows of benches on both aspect of the room that had been organized like pews.
Halle wore a flower crown and a darkish gown as she stood on her tip toes to kiss Van in entrance of the window.
'properly...IT'S OFFICIAL!' she gushed in her caption.
However the second picture in her put up revealed that she was simply joking, as she captioned a cute closeup of her and Van with 'It is 2022!'
She confirmed off a beautiful smooth smile whereas revealing a little bit of her flowers and her lengthy caramel-colored hair.
Van, who sported a salt-and-pepper beard, confirmed some enamel and gazed immediately into the digicam.
She initially appended the hashtag '#Gotcha,' however she appeared to have edited it out of her put up in some unspecified time in the future, making it even tougher for her followers to inform that she was joking.
Not everybody who noticed the put up appeared to get the joke, or maybe they did not swipe to see the punchline.
Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson commented with a number of clapping emojis and wrote, 'congrats you two!!! Lovely!!'
Octavia Spencer joined him, commenting, 'Congratulations!!!!!'
Tia Mowry commented on Halle's put up with a string of coronary heart emojis, whereas her twin sister Tamera Mowry added a line of love-struck emojis.
'CONGRATULATIONS QUEEN,' gushed actress Meagan Good, whereas director Ava DuVernay wrote, 'Blessings, Queen! Wonderfulllll!!!!'
The actress Lesley-Ann Brandt added, '[Heart] The [heart]. Congratulations.'
The Details Of Life star Kim Fields additionally fell for Halle's joke. She wrote, 'CONGRATS GUYS!!!' together with a string of hearts, kissing faces and champagne flutes.
Ruth E. Carter, the Oscar-winning costume designer who has collaborated with Spike Lee, Steven Spielberg and designed the costumes for Black Panther, commented, '[Heart] I am so completely satisfied for you two [lovestruck emoji].'
The DJ D-Good, who carried out at Dick Clark's New Yr's Rockin' Eve from Los Angeles the night time earlier than, additionally wrote, 'Congrats!!!'
Halle, who has been married 3 times prior to now, first teased her relationship with Van in an Instagram put up from August 2020 that confirmed their toes entwined with out revealing his identification.
She later teased that she was in a brand new relationship, but it surely wasn't till September that Halle posted a photograph of Van's face to substantiate he was her boyfriend.
Since then, the musician has turn out to be increasingly more of a fixture on her social media pages, they usually made their purple carpet debut in April.
Van is an R&B and soul singer and guitarist, although he additionally performs a number of different devices.
He is stayed out of the highlight in the course of the tropical vacation trip, although he did pose for a cute picture by which he and his love poked their heads out of a door on Christmas.
'Merry Christmas from our dwelling to yours!' Halle captioned the picture.
The Monster's Ball actress was first married to former skilled baseball participant David Justice, whom she tied the knot with in 1993 after first seeing him play on tv the yr earlier than.
The couple separated in 1996, and their divorce was finalized the next yr.
She started a relationship in 1999 with singer-songwriter Eric Benét, they usually married in 2001.
The tumultuous marriage was quick lived. Benét sought therapy for a intercourse dependancy in 2002, they usually separated the next yr.
Halle started a relationship with the French-Canadian mannequin Gabriel Aubry in 2005, and the went on to welcome their daughter Nahla, now 13, in 2008. The connection fizzled out in 2010.
The actress engaged in a fierce custody battle with Aubry over her plans to relocate to France in 2012 together with her future husband Olivier Martinez.
Aubury and Martinez ended up getting in a bodily altercation at her dwelling after a decide denied Halle permission to maneuver to France with Nahla.
She and Martinez received engaged later in 2012 and married the next yr, and he or she welcomed their son Maceo, now eight, in October 2013.
The couple introduced their plans to divorce in 2015.
