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Sep 16, 2020 · The couple met on the set of the Backstreet Boys' music video for their 1997 hit, "As Long as You Love Me." Brian remembers every little detail and calls the moment one of his most...
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She's "The One!" On Sept. 2, Brian Littrell and his wife Leighanne hit a sweet milestone: two decades of marriage. And according to the couple — who met in 1997 on the set of the Backstreet...
She played Donna in "As Long As You Love Me," where she met her husband Brian Littrell and appeared in the US version of the Backstreet Boys music video "I'll Never Break Your Heart" as her then-boyfriend's love interest in 1997.
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Feb 17, 2019 · The singer actually met his wife, Leighanne, on the set of the "As Long as You Love Me" music video in 1997. Just like the song goes, "it seems like [they were] meant to be" because...
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Brian Thomas and Leighanne Reena (Wallace) Littrell are the second Backstreet Boys couple. They have been married for almost 24 years. They dated for two years after getting together in June 1997. After nine months of engagement, they married on 2nd Sept 2000. They have one son, Baylee Thomas Wylee, 21.
Littrell's encounter with Wallace in June 1997 was a twist of fate. She was an extra on the L.A. set of the Boys' video "As Long as You Love Me," Sent over by a casting director as just another face in another pop video. Neither of them was seeking love, but it found them most unexpectedly. "I had no clue who the Boys were," Wallace reminisces, adding to the charm of their serendipitous meeting.
In the video, the boys act out scenes where they are auditioning girls - and Leighanne, then 27, was one of those girls.
The first day of that video shoot was the 15th of June 1997. We were out in Los Angeles shooting a video for a single that was coming out; I was heading to the shoot, and I had a stack of the headshots for some of the young ladies that were going to be in the video, so I started thumbing through them, and the last one I came to was Leighanne Wallace, and I was like, "Wow, she's pretty. I have to remember that (her) name," because she was just stunning. We got to the video shoot, and I was already, you know, had makeup and wardrobe and all that stuff, and we had been filming, and she was nowhere to be found. Finally, about five after 9, she shows up running about two hours late. She's prettier than the picture, like The Weekend song, [Sings] "Cause you look even better than the photo." Whenever I hear that line, I'm like, "Man, you're reading my mind. That's what I thought about my wife. I should've written that song!" [Laughs.]
How did you and Brian meet?
It was on the set of As Long As You Love Me video in 1997 as I was one of the models in it. I was always taught in my acting classes to introduce myself to everyone, especially the stars, So I walked straight up to Brian, introduced myself at the video shoot, and said, "Hello." So that was how it started.
She came over to me, and I had a basketball and a cup of coffee, and she bumped rumps into me, and she said, "Hello, my name is Leighanne," and I said, "I know." "You know?" "Well, yeah, I took the liberty of seeing your headshot on the way here." So she said, "Oh, well, since you know my name already, I guess I owe you one."
The engagement: Brian chose a truly sentimental location for his proposal to Leighanne. It was on a magical Christmas night in 1999 at Leighanne's family home in suburban Atlanta, where she and her two sisters had grown up. The house, nestled in the heart of Marietta, Ga., was the perfect backdrop for their love story. And while the couple had kept their engagement a secret until now, the memory of that special night still shines bright.
After dating since 1997, Brian finally decided Leighanne was the one for him and took the plunge. “There’s a right time for everything, I guess,” he says. “It’s like the jumpstart on getting on with life, so I’m looking forward to it.”
The Backstreet Boys star, known for his romantic gestures, pulled off a surprise proposal for Leighanne on Christmas last year. He convinced her to join him for a winter picnic, a seemingly innocent plan that started their forever. With a multi-million dollar diamond ring in hand, Brian asked the question that would change their lives. Like his cousin, fellow Backstreet Boy Kevin, Brian Littrell, 25, also sought permission from the mother of his intended, actress Leighanne Wallace, 30.
"One of the things I love most about Brian is his big heart, and that was what attracted me when we first met," says the Southern belle. The couple's love story began when they first met on a Backstreet Boys video set three years ago. "It was love at first sight," she reveals, continuing, "Brian is a romance king. He proposed at Christmas in my mom's back garden. It was 30 degrees, and he wanted to have a picnic." Their journey to this moment was filled with love, laughter, and a touch of Brian's signature romance.
How did Brian propose?
Last Christmas, Brian said he wanted to have a picnic in my mom's garden. "He took me outside, wearing his coat, late in the afternoon and proposed to me surrounded by candles and wine." In addition, she says, "He picked Christmas because it was a time that my family was all in town, and he wanted them to be part of it. He's very thoughtful that way." Leighanne beams: 'It was such a surprise. He said he wanted to go and get a picnic hamper and set it up in my mom's back garden. I thought he was mad - but it seemed like a lovely, romantic idea.' "It was freezing, and so he had loads of blankets. He picked me up, took me downstairs, and carried me into the garden with a blindfold. I know it might sound crazy, but I still had no idea. I just thought: "What a sweetie, he wants to give me a surprise picnic." She admits the rest of the romantic picnic proposal remains in a daze because as soon as she looks into Brian's eyes, she knows exactly what is on his mind. Then, wiping a happy tear away from her eyes, the blushing bride says: "Then he took off the blindfold, and I saw Brian's mouth move, and he started talking, but I was in complete shock, and I can't remember what he said to me."
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He's one of Pop's number-one pin-up boys, and she's the all-American girl on the verge of movie stardom. As one of the five stars of the world's biggest-selling boy band, the Backstreet Boys, Brian Littrell is used to big occasions, but even huge concerts and the adoration of the masses couldn't prepare him for his big day - his wedding to actress Leighanne Wallace.
Brian Littrell is a fortunate man - and doesn't he know it? As well as being one of the five men who make up the global pop phenomenon, the Backstreet Boys (their last album, Millennium, has sold a staggering 30 million copies worldwide), he is marrying actress Leighanne Wallace next month.
After two years of physical and emotional heartache, the happy day marked a new start for the singer fans known as B-Rok.
'Just two years ago, the singer was battling for his life after he underwent open-heart surgery to correct a hole-in-the-heart defect he had had since birth. And then, only a few months later, his beloved grandfather died. But meeting Leighanne on the set of the Backstreet Boys video, As Long As You Love Me, three years ago, has been enough to help Brian through his darkest days. He still refers to their first meeting as 'the day I met the rest of my life.'
But Brian came very close to losing all of this. In November 1997, doctors discovered that a congenital hole in Brian's heart had enlarged to dangerous proportions. Leighanne threatened to leave the Backstreet Boy after twice postponing a life-saving open-heart surgery operation to repair a hole in his heart for six months. Instead, he went on tour with the band to meet his group's touring commitments. Finally, Leighanne gave Brian the ultimatum: 'Have surgery or lose me and your health.'
•They've dated for two years
•Like his cousin Kevin, Brian became a Georgia Bulldogs fan thanks to Leighanne whose family is from Marietta Georgia and Atlanta Braves fan as well
•brian and leighanne 've shared a lot of things in common besides being blonde, fairskinned and blue eyes:
•They were on the tennis team in high school but their high school experiences were different: Brian began performing at weddings and other events after Barry Turner, his late choir teacher, in 7th grade advised him that he could make money from singing at social events, also did school plays, including a part of the school production of Grease as Roger at Tates Creek High School (1990-1994), (which didn't impress his school friends, as he was just another one of the guys in the classroom until his junior year of high school when he became a heartthrob after singing a duet of a spiritual song called "Another Time, Another Place" with a ex-girlfriend in a Tates Creek High School talent show that made his classmates - and Brian himself - realize the extent of his natural talent. Brian's vocals singing his part caused the female members of the crowd to scream and cheer so much that he couldn't hear himself), had aspirations to become a basketball player at 15, but at 5 feet 7 inches (170 cm) he struggled with his height which was hard on his self-esteem, and was seldom selected for high school tournaments, though he was the top star player on his church team which earned him the nicknames "Seaver" and "BRok", but did some wrestling and was on the tennis team while Leighanne was the manager for the basketball and tennis teams, voted on the Homecoming Court, participated in Upstage Risk, Marietta's High School Drama Club, which develop her interest in the Arts (They do five to seven productions a year, including two musicals and the contest play. One of these productions is a night of senior-directed one-acts.), a member of the cheerleading squad for basketball and the Powder Puff football team for two years (this is a team which participates in a special game which is held once a year - the girls play football while the boys are the cheerleaders!), the Flag Corps and Student Council at Marietta High School (1983-1987)
•they both scottishirish but also mutts (mixed): brian is English (20%), Scottish, some German like his cousin but in 2019, a DNA heritage test revealed he's also Finnish (7.1%), Scandinavian (2.1%), and Irish, and Welsh (70.1%) descent while leighanne is Scottish, Cherokee Indian, Irish, and Swedish
•Growing up, they taken up tennisa but also did a lot of sports, being were active kids: Brian played basketball, tennis from his aunt, and Little League and the Babe Ruth League while Leighanne done jazz dance, gymnastics, and enjoy all outdoor activities such as swimming, golf, tennis, and softball until she suffered a broken nose in 7th grade
Sep 21, 2020 · Brian and his wife Leighanne Wallace met in 1997 on the set of the " Backstreet Boys" music video for their hit song, "As Long as You Love Me" and the singer described the moment as one of his most treasured memories of their relationship.
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