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Cecily Strong is getting married!
The “Saturday Night Live!” alum shared the happy news with Seth Meyers, revealing that her boyfriend Jack popped the question after three years together.
She told Seth on Late Night that she was “engaged,” adding, “You always said, ‘Nobody’s going to love you, you’re never going to get married,’ and you were wrong! ” he joked.
Jack, who has been away from the spotlight, proposed in December and Cecily said she saw it coming.
“It wasn’t a surprise, but I’m kind of a detective,” she explained. “We were talking about marriage, and one day he said, ‘Look at this, I’m getting a lot of emails and texts,’ and he showed me his phone. The first text. The message was from a friend and said: How was it? Sound off emoji.”
She remembered Jack asking, “Did you see that?” And he told Seth: She said, “I thought, ‘I could have lied so hard.'” But – so I knew. ”
Strong continued, “I was like, ‘Whenever I want to do it, it’s going to be a surprise.'” And when I had a bit of a rough night in December, I thought, “Can I wear my ring now?” So we ended up getting engaged. ”
When I finally put the ring on…it didn’t fit.
“I don’t know my ring size. I wear rings of all sizes,” she said. “So he picked one up and it was five sizes too big. I had it on my index finger for a long time, not as a statement, but just about to fall off. ”
In 2020, she told Vulture that she met Jack at a Christmas party in 2019 and felt he was a gift from her cousin Owen Strong, who had died of brain cancer.
“At first I thought it was very difficult to meet someone when you’ve lost someone you love so much. I knew he had to be patient with me. I said, ‘Think of you as Owen’s gift to me.’ And I like to think of it that way.”
