Jake Portello, is a senior at Haddonfield Memorial High School in Camden NJ on the outskirts of Philly. Their senior prom is June 14th and he really wanted to ask Giulia Lionetta, but these days you need a promprosal..
How could Jake make a big deal out of asking Giulia? She's a huge Phillies baseball fan so he started thinking about what it would take to get the mascot "Phillie Phanatic" to come ask her. Then he remembered one of his friends told him one day while they were driving in an amazing neighborhood that Bryce Harper lives in that house. Sure enough searching for Bryce Harpers house brings up 511 Westminster Ave Haddonfield NJ. Bryce built that 14,000 sq foot home in 2017. So Jake figured he had nothing to lose and went back to the house and knocked on the front door.
Bryce himself opened the front door. Jake was a little shocked but managed to explain his hope that Bryce would come over to Giulia's house with him and ask her to the prom on Jake's behalf. Bryce said "let me get your email address and we can sort of plan this out". After writing it out Jake was leaving and as he made his way down the driveway Bryce yelled out "Can we just go ahead and do it now"?
He called one of his friends to meet him a Giulia's house to record this epic promprosal. A few minutes later she's opening her door and the MLB MVP of her favorite team is standing there. "Jake wants to ask you to the prom so I thought I'd help him out. So will you go to prom with him?"
She is overwhelmed and blurts out yes before hugging Bryce and then Jake. That video posted to his Instagram went viral with millions of views in just a few days.
Jake said. "I wasn't expecting this, I thought it'd be something cool among my friends and people in my town and stuff. I didn't even expect [Harper] to open the door in the first place."