When Halle Berry decided to ring in the new year with a dreamy Instagram photo of herself nuzzling her boyfriend Van Hunt in what appeared to be a tropical wedding chapel, folks were bound to get suspicious. She even captioned the photo “well…IT’S OFFICIAL” to tease her followers. Celebrities like Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Octavia Spencer, Ava DuVernay, and Taraji P. Henson even sent their congratulations. But if those followers swiped into the next photo in the carousel, they may have realized that Berry was pranking them all.
She followed up later on Instagram with a post explaining that she thought followers would swipe to the next slide — a selfie of her and Hunt with the caption, “IT’S 2022!” — and realize she was talking about the new year. “We were just having some New Year’s Day fun! People clearly don’t swipe as much as we thought they did,” she wrote, including the laughing-crying emoji. “thank you for the well wishes, tho, it really touched our hearts! Now it’s OFFICIAL, the internet is no longer undefeated.”
Although Berry isn’t actually married again, she did gush over her musician boyfriend while accepting her Career Achievement Award at the 4th Annual Celebration of Black Cinema & Television in December, per People: “You know I finally found love this year everybody. … I found the love of my life and I know it’s true.”
