Luke Grimes has something planned for his wife, and he refuses to say what it is. He brought it up on an October 2026 episode of Live with Kelly and Mark. The Yellowstone actor told the hosts he had a surprise lined up for Bianca Rodrigues Grimes ahead of their next wedding anniversary.
He kept the details locked down. “I can’t tell you then my wife will find out,” he said.
Luke Grimes’ Special Anniversary Plans
Nobody got more out of him than that. He told the hosts “I got some plans” and called the surprise something special, according to People. The date itself goes unnamed in the reporting. What matters is the count. The couple married in November 2019, which puts them at nearly seven years.
Seven years is a real number for a man who rarely talks about his marriage at all.
Low-key is how he has kept the relationship for most of it. People describes him as someone who keeps much of his private life out of the spotlight. So when he goes on a morning show and openly teases a surprise, with his wife presumably able to watch, that is a choice. He is telling her something is coming without spoiling it. The anticipation is part of the gift.
Surprises like this work because of who is planning them. A big gesture from someone who announces everything is noise. A hint from someone who guards his privacy reads as effort. He put the plan on the record, kept the contents secret, and left her guessing.
From Dating App to Marriage in Four Months
Raya is where it started. Luke Grimes explained on The Drew Barrymore Show in March 2026 that he met Bianca on the dating app, and he sounded almost embarrassed by it.
“I never thought I’d be on a dating app to begin with,” he said.
He did not stay on it long. By his own account, Bianca was the first person he went out with. “My wife was my first date, and we were married in four months,” he told Barrymore. The wedding came in November 2019.
Four months from first date to marriage. Most people take longer than that to decide on a couch.
Grimes told Barrymore he hadn’t thought there was any chance of something like this. Since meeting her, he said, everything else in his life had sort of right-sized. He described finding the thing he didn’t know he was looking for, with the rest of his life feeling like a cherry on top. Later, on Live with Kelly and Mark, he joked that signing up for the app was the “best $20 I ever spent.”
Bianca is a Brazilian model. Her Instagram has featured modeling shots over the years, including a beach photo and a studio image styled after classic Hollywood glamour. She lives in Montana while Luke Grimes films the Yellowstone spinoff Marshals in Utah, according to People. The couple later welcomed their first child, a son.
What Luke Says About His Wife
Luke Grimes saves his most open words for her. In a July 2023 interview with USA TODAY, he described himself as a very married person and said, “I love my wife to death. We’ll be together forever.”
Then he turned the credit around. He said there was no way he earned her and that he does his best, before calling himself a flawed, big, weird man. “She’s the real angel here,” he told the outlet.
Bianca uses the same word for him. People reports that she often posts photos with her husband and their son, and calls him “anjo,” the Portuguese word for angel.
Two people, each insisting the other is the angel. That detail says more about the marriage than any red carpet photo could. Neither one is keeping score of who got the better deal. Both are arguing they did.
Grimes framed the anniversary tease the same way he framed the USA TODAY interview. He is the one doing the work to keep up, and he seems happy about it. A surprise teased on live television, from a man who guards his marriage closely, fits the pattern of someone who still thinks he got lucky.
What he actually has planned is still a secret. He made sure of that on air.
Sources: Just Jared
