Hailee Steinfeld Opens Up About Josh Allen Engagement & Singing In Front of Elton John

While on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Thursday (April 3), Hailee Steinfeld opened up about her engagement to Josh Allen and played a game of Password with Elton John — in front of whom, as she recalled on the show, the Sinners star once sang as part of his Grammy salute in 2018.

After teaming up with Brandi Carlile to face off against Fallon and Sir Elton for Password — which the comedian and rock legend ended up winning after a hilarious “Crocodile Rock” clue moment — Steinfeld recalled the “craziest” experience of performing alongside Sam Smith, SZA, Shawn Mendes and more for 2018’s I’m Still Standing – A Grammy Salute. When Fallon asked whether it was a lot of pressure to perform in front of the icon, she replied, “Uh, yeah! Oh my god, are you kidding?”

“But no, because he has such a wonderful, calming energy and welcoming energy,” she continued. “Just the craziest thing to be in his presence.”

Fallon went on to congratulate Steinfeld on her recent engagement to the Buffalo Bills quarterback, which the couple announced in November after more than a year and a half of dating. Of her new home in Buffalo, NY, the “Starving” singer said, smiling, “I have been given a very warm welcome.”

“The people are incredible, it’s such a wonderful, wonderful place,” she added. “I love it so much.”

After Steinfeld and Allen shared news of their engagement, posting an adorable photo of the football star down on one knee as the Edge of Seventeen star covered her mouth with shock, the city of Buffalo erected a billboard reading: “The Queen City has a new queen. Congratulations, Josh and Hailee.”

Looking at a photo of the sweet gesture, Steinfeld told Fallon, “That is one of the cooler billboards.”

This year, the Bills had an excellent season, making it all the way to the AFC Championship before the Kansas City Chiefs bested them on their way to the Super Bowl. Steinfeld is a passionate champion of her fiancé’s team, and in February, she hilariously threw shade at their rivals when she was asked to name the four AFC teams in a Who What Wear interview. “You got the Buffalo Bills and the Bills’ three sons,” she replied pointedly at the time.

Even so, Steinfeld did manage to find some nice things to say about the Chiefs when she was challenged to do so in a new Hot Ones Versus episode posted the day prior to her Fallon interview. “I can find nice things to say about anybody, even if I don’t like them — even if we don’t like them,” she said while facing off against her Sinners costar Michael B. Jordan, though it proved to be more difficult than she thought.

“Yellow and red really complement them all pretty well,” she said to avoid eating a spicy wing, struggling to think of more things to say as Jordan laughed at her. “They are very loud … it’s great you want that from a fanbase. And third, they go hard for their team.”

See Steinfeld’s interview with Fallon above and watch them play Password with John and Carlile below.