Sophie Turner Explains Why She 'Hated' The Jonas Brothers While Growing Up

By Hayden Brooks

March 3, 2020

Sophie Turner is reportedly expecting her first child with Joe Jonas, but the couple's whirlwind road to family didn't originate on the best note.

In the April cover story for Elle, the actress, 24, admitted that she her friends were never fans of the Jonas Brothers while growing up. "There was this band in the U.K. called Busted. They had a hit called ‘Year 3000," she told the mag. "It was amazing, and we were huge Busted fans. Then the Jonas Brothers covered the song and made it massive. And Busted broke up. We thought it was all the Jonas Brothers’ fault. So we hated them."

Turner took another trip down memory lane, admitting that she didn't have a good impression of her now-husband prior to meeting him. "I expected him to show up with security and everything. I thought he would be such a d**k," Turner confessed. "I took all my guy friends with me to meet him because in the back of my mind I was worried he could be a catfish, or… I don’t know what. I just wanted my guy friends with me. I had my rugby boys. I was safe."

For the first date, the two opted for a bar in Camden, U.K. and the outing was the complete opposite of what she anticipated. "The best thing was that he didn’t bring security. He brought a friend and they drank just as hard as the rest of us," the actress explained. "I remember us two spending only a couple of minutes on the dance floor, and then we found a space in the far corner and we just talked. We talked for hours, and hours, and hours. And I wasn’t bored. It wasn’t contrived, it wasn’t small talk – it was just so easy. Soon, we were inseparable. And then I went on tour with him."

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With a buzzy new role on Quibi and a rumored pregnancy with husband Joe Jonas, @sophiet has a clear place in Hollywood’s new royal court. “The second I finished Game of Thrones, I wanted to go straight back to some form of television,” she told ELLE for our April issue. “Now that I’m out of it, I’m only starting to realize how incredible it was, what a revelation it was for television. When it’s happening, you don’t realize you’re among greatness: The people I was around. The atmosphere. The way they worked. I was spoiled by that show completely. And I’ll never have anything like it again. Nothing will be the same. And only now am I realizing that.” Link in bio for the full cover story.⁣ ⁣ Editor-in-Chief: @ninagarcia⁣ Cover star: @sophiet⁣ Photographer: @arthurelgort⁣ Stylist: @bethfenton_⁣ Writer: @therealsager⁣ Hair: @cwoodhair ⁣ Makeup: @lisastoreymakeup⁣ Manicure: @traceymattinglyagency

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@sophiet on @joejonas and the J Sisters: “He’s so handsome, talented, funny, charismatic. I’m really lucky to be with him and have someone like him want to be around me and spend time with me. It’s also nice to have built-in girlfriends who are actually really cool, who I can hang out with and we can really talk to each other about, like, how crazy the boys’ lives are. We can relate on so many different levels. It’s like, thank God, because you never know [about your in-laws].” Link in bio for the full cover story.⁣ ⁣ Editor-in-Chief: @ninagarcia⁣ Cover star: @sophiet⁣ Photographer: @arthurelgort⁣ Stylist: @bethfenton_⁣ Writer: @therealsager⁣ Hair: @cwoodhair ⁣ Makeup: @lisastoreymakeup⁣ Manicure: @traceymattinglyagency

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