Holly Burt and Emre Okay.Photo:Holly Burt
Holly Burt
After a long day of work, this dedicated husband doesn’t wait until he’s home to start brightening up his wife’s night.
“I married a golden retriever,” she jokingly wrote in the caption of the post.
Emre Okay and Holly Burt.Elsie Goodman
Elsie Goodman
For the uninitiated, a “golden retriever boyfriend” refers to “a significant other that is easygoing and makes it fairly simple to maintain a happy and fulfilling relationship” — at least according toUrban Dictionary. The trendy term took off on TikTok in 2023, with couples discovering new ways that they can consider their partners “golden retrievers.”
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“The greenest of flags,” one commenter wrote.
“You need to record as many as you can and make a montage,” another TikTok user recommended to Burt. “Imagine watching that when you’re both 80!”
Holly Burt and Emre Okay.Holly Burt
Burt tells PEOPLE that her husband is exactly as charming as the video suggests.
She adds that Okay — who is originally from Turkey — is currently traveling in Germany and doesn’t use TikTok, so he’s not fully aware of the video’s widespread popularity online.
“He’s calling me every three hours or so like, ‘What’s the number up to?’ ” she says. “I think it’s funny because I’ve been in the limelight before, and Emre is not on social media [and] doesn’t really understand what’s going on.”
Burt’s experience in the limelight started well before she gained notoriety on platforms like TikTok andInstagram, where she has thousands of followers. In fact, her unusual bout with fame also helped launch her relationship with Okay.
They met on the dating app Bumble while they were both living in New York City. Okay was fresh out of Harvard Business School and working on Wall Street, while Burt was working as a waitress and making her way through art school.
Standing at 6-ft., 5-in., Burt and her 49-and-½ inch legs nabbed a spot in theTLCdocumentaryTallest Teens(even though she 21 at the time). Though she was only set to film for three weeks, Burt says that the project’s producers “wanted a romance aspect to the show.”
After only two dates with Okay, who is only two inches shorter than Burt, she looked to him for a possible solution.
Since then, her romance with Okay never stopped growing. They eventually left New York to travel around Europe and finally settled down in London, where they can express their love every night with waves between windows.
“That is his personality," she adds. “He has so much energy.”
source: people.com
