One of the little advantages of being an Olympic professional athlete—besides the countless inescapable TikTok fans—is rubbing shoulders with celebs you have actually constantly appreciated.
That appears to have actually held true for U.S. rugby gamer Ilona Maher. She has actually not just made 800,000 TikTok fans that enjoyed her contend in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, however she likewise scored a desired shoutout from none besides Jennifer Lopez.
“That was just cool,” Ilona, 24, informs E! News in an unique interview. “We were like, ‘Maybe we should just make a fun video of her, but she’ll probably never see it, but it will be just fun.’ We made this video, and then I woke up seeing that she’d seen it.”
What was her response to getting observed by one half of Bennifer? “I was like, ‘That’s awesome, because anyone can use—probably even J.Lo goes through some hard times of self-doubt, so let me just show her I think she is absolutely amazing,'” Ilona gushes. “So, I am really happy that she saw that.”
