--- title: Simone Biles Gets Food Seasoned by Salt Bae: Video description: Internet sensation Salt Bae showed up to Simone Biles' Valentine's Day meal just in time to demonstrate his now legendary salt sprinkling. canonical: https://time.com/4671829/simone-biles-salt-bae-video/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-15T17:42:13.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:41:09.557Z og:title: Simone Biles Is the Latest Star to Get the Salt Bae Treatment og:description: Her food was #blessed og:url: https://time.com/4671829/simone-biles-salt-bae-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Simone Biles Is the Latest Star to Get the Salt Bae Treatment twitter:description: Her food was #blessed twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Simone Biles Just Became the Latest Star to Get a Taste of the Salt Bae Treatment > Sponsored content. 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The olympic gymnast shared a video on Twitter Tuesday of the moment Salt Bae — whose real name is Nusret Gökçe — blessed her dinner with his signature showering of salt flakes as she watched on laughing. “Got my food salted by the one & only,” she captioned the video. 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