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Millie Bobby Brown Keeps Slipping Olivia Rodrigo Lyrics into Enola Holmes Interviews While Sitting Next to Olivia’s Ex, Louis Partridge

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The theory: Millie’s picked a side in Louis and Olivia’s breakup, and she’s doing it in his face on camera. She called his hair “floppy,” played along when he said he wanted to go to Japan, and named her next character “Bee.” Every one of those tracks back to an Olivia Rodrigo song.

A young man in a navy suit and striped tie with black sunglasses sits beside a young woman in a red gingham dress with small red sunglasses at Wimbledon.
Two spectators wearing sunglasses — he in a navy suit with a striped tie, she in a red gingham dress — watch the action from the stands at Wimbledon on July 2, 2025. Photo by MEGA.

Olivia Rodrigo dated Louis Partridge from 2023 until a rumored split late in 2025, then released “You Seem Pretty Sad For a Girl So in Love,” an album widely read as being about him. Enola Holmes 3 dropped July 1 on Netflix, and promo is running now with Louis seated next to Millie Bobby Brown at every stop.

Fans keep clipping the same pattern out of those stops. She called his hair “floppy” on one interview, which opens Rodrigo’s “u + me = <3.” On Travel + Leisure, Louis said he wanted to visit Japan and Millie answered with a line from “Drop Dead,” a song built around “Have you ever been to Japan?” He shot back that he’d never been, a little fast.

Olivia Rodrigo outside the Chloé show at Paris Fashion Week
Olivia Rodrigo spotted outside the Chloé Fall/Winter 2026–2027 runway show during Paris Fashion Week on March 5, 2026. Photo by Laurent Hou / AFP via Getty Images.

A Food & Wine sit-down stacked three at once: “That is so American” (the GUTS track confirmed to be about Louis), a long focus on Cadbury packaging (a lyric from “u + me = <3”), and the pet name “Honeybee,” which is also a song on the new album. In a separate Vogue-style bit introducing her next role, she landed on “Bee. Her name is Bee Brooks. Bee.”

Millie Bobby Brown at the Enola Holmes 3 premiere in New York City
At the New York City premiere of Enola Holmes 3 on June 25, 2026, Millie Bobby Brown makes an appearance. Photo by Roy Rochlin / Getty Images.

Neither Millie nor Louis has confirmed any of it. Millie has been open for years about loving Rodrigo’s music, which is the innocent read. The other read, going around online, is that she’s “on her apology tour for ST5.”

Millie Bobby Brown at the Stranger Things 5 UK special screening at Odeon Luxe Leicester Square in London
At London’s Odeon Luxe Leicester Square on November 13, 2025, Millie Bobby Brown attends the Stranger Things 5 UK special screening. Photo by Gareth Cattermole / Getty Images.

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January Nelson is a writer, editor, and dreamer. She writes about astrology, games, love, relationships, and entertainment. January graduated with an English and Literature degree from Columbia University.