Gina Rodriguez Just Confirmed She's Engaged to Joe LoCicero
It’s official, people: Gina Rodriguez is engaged.
The Jane the Virgin actress confirmed to Us Weekly on Tuesday (August 7) that she and actor Joe LoCicero are planning to tie the knot. “I have a very, very special man in my life. I am engaged. You’re the first people that I’ve told,” Rodriguez told the magazine. “It’s wonderful blessings like that, that make me realize that if I have an opportunity to help someone else, I want to.”
She continued, “I am marrying a feminist. I am marrying a man that is incredible and loving and understanding and kind and patient. I’m marrying a really incredible human being. That what it is. I met a human that like, knows he’s a human.”
Us Weekly first reported on July 30 that Rodriguez and LoCicero are engaged; however, neither of them has said anything until now. Rumors of their engagement sparked, though, last month when Rodriguez uploaded a photo of herself rocking what looked like a diamond ring on that finger. The same ring is on display in the photo, below:
Rodriguez and LoCicero met on the set of Jane the Virgin. “He thought I was being nice to him because I am nice to everyone that comes on the show,” she said in May 2017 on Live With Kelly and Ryan. “So he thought I was just being super sweet to him and I thought he was just being sweet on me because I’m the lead.” Their relationship bloomed six months after that, however, when they bumped into each other at the gym.
Congrats, you two!
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