After getting engaged last summer, Ted Lasso star Jodi Balfour and A League of Their Own Creator star Abbi Jacobson rocked their rings during a casual walk in Los Angeles on Tuesday.
The South African 36-year-old showed off her toned stomach in a beige T-shirt and baggy black shorts, while the Pennsylvania-born 39-year-old sported a ‘Flowers of Maine’ T-shirt and black Orassini baseball cap.
At one point, Jodi lovingly planted a kiss on the hand of her fiancé Abbi, who publicly came out as bisexual in 2018. Vanity purse interview.
Balfour didn’t publicly address her own “queerness” until an Instagram post on June 30.
On this last day of Pride month, I am stepping away from my sense of inadequacy, my fear of taking up space not meant for me, and my need to do this right, to say how undeniably liberating it is been to finally embrace and discover my strangeness,” the For All Mankind actress – who has 68,000 followers – wrote.
It’s still going well! After getting engaged last summer, Ted Lasso star Jodi Balfour (R) and A League of Their Own creator star Abbi Jacobson (L) rocked their rings during a casual walk in Los Angeles on Tuesday
Belly bared: The South African 36-year-old (R) showed off her toned stomach in a beige T-shirt and baggy black shorts, while the Pennsylvania-born 39-year-old (L) wore a ‘Flowers of Maine’ T shirt and a black Orassini baseball cap
How inundated I feel with gratitude for how easy it has been for me to share this with my community (I am deeply aware that so many people have fought to make it this way, and how many people are still not getting this experience); and that although it took me a long time to get here, it feels like coming home to myself in a way that life bursts open completely.’
Jodi and Jacobson were already wearing engagement rings when they made their official red carpet debut on Aug. 4 at the LA premiere of A League of Their Own.
Balfour and the four-time Emmy nominee – who met on private dating app Raya – went Instagram official on October 24, 2021; that was their one year anniversary of dating.
Things are much more uncertain for The Crown alum’s Ted Lasso character – venture capitalist Jack Danvers – who broke up with ad agency owner Keeley Jones (Juno Temple) after she refused to formally apologize for her masturbation ‘porn’ video which leaked online.
‘I would like to see an attempt at a solution. There’s a version of these two people that can learn a lot from each other,” Jodi shared THR on May 3.
‘[But] I’m not sure… I don’t have high expectations though. But you know, are we still debating the future of Ted Lasso? We’ll see about that later.’
Balfour — whose boss character could now land funding for Keeley’s company — admitted that the final scene she shot with the 33-year-old Emmy nominee was the “high point” of her four-episode arc, even deeming it ” horrible and devastating’ to behold. watch like a fan.
PDA: At one point, Jodi lovingly planted a kiss on the hand of her fiancé Abbi, who publicly came out as bisexual in a 2018 Vanity Fair interview
Engaged: Balfour — who came out as “queer” on June 30 — and Jacobson were already wearing engagement rings when they made their official red carpet debut as a couple at the LA premiere of A League of Their Own on Aug. 4
‘I don’t know how I got so lucky’: The For All Mankind actress (R) and the four-time Emmy nominee (L) – who met through private dating app Raya – became Instagram official on Oct. 24, 2021; that was their one year anniversary of dating
Divide! Things are much more uncertain for Jodi’s Ted Lasso character – venture capitalist Jack Danvers – who broke up with ad agency owner Keeley Jones (left, Juno Temple) after she refused to formally apologize for her masturbation “porn” video that leaked online
Balfour told THR on May 3, “I would like to see an attempted solution. There is a version of these two people who can learn a lot from each other. [But] I’m not sure… I don’t have high expectations though. But you know, are we still debating the future of Ted Lasso? We’ll see that later’
Available soon! The Crown alum will next play real-life psychoanalyst Dorothy Burlingham in Matt Brown’s 1939 drama Freud’s Last Session, co-starring Anthony Hopkins (L) and Matthew Goode, which will be distributed by Sony Pictures Classics
“We’re bringing the team back together!” Meanwhile, Abbi will complete her role as lesbian catcher Carson Shaw in the upcoming four-episode second (and final) season of Amazon’s critically acclaimed spin-off, A League of Their Own.
The co-owner of the Nelson the Seagull Cafe will next play real-life psychoanalyst Dorothy Burlingham in Matt Brown’s 1939 drama Freud’s Last Session, co-starring Anthony Hopkins and Matthew Goode, which will be distributed by Sony Pictures Classics.
Freud’s Last Session is based on Mark St. Germain’s 2009 play, an adaptation of Armand Nicholi’s 2002 book The Question of God.
Jodi will also reprise her role as astronaut-turned-POTUS Ellen Wilson in the upcoming fourth season of the Apple TV+ alternative history sci-fi drama, For All Mankind.
Meanwhile, Abbi will complete her role as lesbian catcher Carson Shaw in the upcoming four-episode second (and final) season of Amazon’s widely acclaimed spin-off, its own league.