Why Melanie Lynskey Says Jason Ritter's Proposal Was "So Confusing"

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Jason Ritter Didn't Think He "Deserved" Melanie Lynskey

Melanie Lynskey may person heard the wilderness, but she didn't rather perceive Jason Ritter's matrimony proposal.

In fact, the Yellowjackets star had nary thought she was engaged to the Parenthood alum until helium announced it to their families 3 days later. Describing Jason's 2016 connection arsenic "so confusing," Melanie admittedly "didn't cognize what was happening" erstwhile he popped the question.

"The time before, I had been looking astatine rings and I tried 1 connected and I was similar 'Oh, benignant of looks similar an engagement ringing almost. I don't deliberation I'm going to get it,'" she explained during her April 29 appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. "So then, helium got maine this ring, truthful I was like, 'Oh, thanks!'"

The 46-year-old said "it didn't transverse my mind" that Jason, 44, was really proposing, truthful she unknowingly glossed implicit what the histrion said to her erstwhile helium presented the ringing arsenic immoderate benignant of "strange speech."

"We were conscionable benignant of sitting there," Melanie recalled to big Jimmy Fallon. "And I was like, 'We're not breaking up?'"

After Jason assured her that helium had nary intentions of calling it quits, the Last of Us actress remembered telling him, "'Well, convey you. Lovely. Good chat!'"

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And since the archetypal connection didn't spell arsenic planned, the couple—who tied the knot successful 2020—had a "very cute" do-over during a caller travel to Slovakia.

"He's been proposing to maine implicit and over," Melanie shared of Jason, with whom she shares a 5-year-old daughter, "which is precise sweet."

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Millie Bobby Brown and Jake Bongiovi

The Stranger Things prima revealed that fiancé Jake Bongiovi popped the question while scuba diving connected vacation.

"So we spell nether and we're like, galore meters down and helium gives maine a ammunition and I crook it implicit and it's a ring," Millie explained connected The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. "And I looked astatine him, and helium was similar ‘Blurgh?'"

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Logan Lerman and Ana Corrigan

The Perks of Being a Wallflower prima proposed to longtime girlfriend Ana Corrigan successful 2023 during a time retired successful Central Park, though it didn’t spell arsenic expected.

“My fiancée pointed retired the rowboats and I was like, 'Oh, let's bash it,” Logan explained connected The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. “I was unspeakable astatine it. So she ended up rowing the boat. I'm conscionable sitting back. I'm thinking, 'Oh God, present radical are looking astatine america and pointing and laughing astatine me.'"

After Ana rowed the 2 to a quiescent portion of the lake, Logan proposed, and arsenic helium enactment it, “It was great. It went truly well.”

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John Stamos and Caitlin McHugh

Bob Iger—only the CEO of the Walt Disney Company astatine the time—emailed Johnt aft noticing however large of a Disney fanatic Caitlin seemed to be, going by her Instagram. His suspicions were confirmed and Iger gave his blessing to person John' animator pal Paul Briggs splice unneurotic each of the astir romanticist Disney and Pixar movie moments for the Full House star's proposal.

Obviously, John took Caitlin to Disneyland, wherever they watched the finished merchandise and helium some popped the question and kissed the girl.

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Gabrielle Union and Dwayne Wade

It was a household matter erstwhile Wade projected to the Bring It On star successful 2013. 

"We were conscionable spending what I thought to beryllium a amusive time with the kids, having a small prime time," Gabrielle shared connected Good Morning America in 2014. After brunch, they went to circuit their location that was nether renovation astatine the time.

"They were like, 'We wanna bash a presumption for you,'" Gabrielle said. "They similar to bash skits and songs and stuff, truthful we crook around, and they're like, 'Okay, we're ready!' and I crook backmost astir and [the kids] were holding up signs that said, 'Will you wed us?'"

Then she turned astir and Dwyane was down connected 1 knee.

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Tara Lipinski and Todd Kapostasy

In clip for Christmas successful 2015, Todd commissioned a coating of himself proposing to his champion fig skater woman successful beforehand of her location successful California and had it acceptable up wrong a show model astatine the Plaza Hotel successful New York. 

Perfect scores crossed the committee for programme components and method difficulty.

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Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka

These longtime loves some did the honors, with David offering up a ringing archetypal successful 2007 connected the New York thoroughfare country wherever they archetypal met—Ninth Avenue betwixt 44th and 45th.

"I thought helium wanted to get immoderate booze oregon something," NPH recalled to Out successful 2012, remembering however David had their car propulsion implicit abruptly erstwhile they were connected their mode to a casino. "And past helium got connected 1 genu and proposed, and I was truthful freaked retired by it that I said, 'Yes,' but I didn't cognize what it meant. Then I got the ringing and loved it, and a twelvemonth later, connected Valentine's Day, I projected to him successful Santa Monica."

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Sofía Vergara and Joe Manganiello

Joe prepared his connection successful his Colombian-born girlfriend's autochthonal Spanish and popped the question connected Christmas Eve 2014 successful Kauai. 

The True Blood prima aboriginal said helium wanted to suggest connected the beach, but the paparazzi were everywhere, truthful helium settled for wrong the luxurious St. Regis Hotel, wherever they were staying. And it sufficed.

"We had this large bay window, and the prima was going down pinkish implicit the mountains and implicit the bay, and I had this ring," helium told Haute Living. "I had looked astatine each ringing successful the world, and this is the ringing that I wanted. I had a full code prepared successful Spanish. I projected to her connected 1 genu successful Spanish with the prima going down. It was awesome."

The mates tied the knot successful 2015, but divided astir 8 years later. Joe filed for divorcement successful July 2023, citing "irreconcilable differences," according to documents obtained by E! News. 

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Emmy Rossum and Sam Esmail

The Shameless prima had a contented of speechmaking the New York Times' "Modern Love" file to the Mr. Robot creator each weekend, adjacent if it had to beryllium implicit the phone. After they skipped a Sunday, Sam insisted Emmy work the file the pursuing Friday—which, suffering from a backache, she begrudgingly said she'd bash from the bathtub. 

"I didn't announcement immoderate benignant of ringing successful his pocket, and I began to work the article, and the communicative is astir a manager who falls successful emotion with an actress, and I started to think: Huh, that's strange," Rossum told the communicative to Vogue. "And past I realized that it was our emotion story. At first, I freaked retired due to the fact that I thought possibly helium had really enactment it successful the insubstantial and I hadn't seen it, and everyone knew it but me. And then, I benignant of scanned to the extremity and it said, 'Love, your Sam.' And I realized that helium had gone done this full process of penning this full story."

Sam called successful a favour astatine the Times to person his essay printed to look similar a legit leafage successful the paper, featuring a Ralph Lauren advertisement astatine the bottommost and everything.

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Pink and Carey Hart

The "Raise Your Glass" vocalist took the bull by the horns and projected to her motocross-racing beau erstwhile helium was mid-lap successful scenic Mammoth Lakes, Calif., successful June 2005. As Carey passed, Pink held up a motion reading, "WILL U MARRY ME?" And connected the adjacent turn: "SERIOUS!"

He pulled implicit and said yes.

"I said, 'Well, yea of course,'" Carey recalled successful a Supercross 2014 interview, "and she said, 'Well, get your ass backmost connected the track. I don't wed losers.'"

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Kim Kardashian and Kanye West

Of course, Kanye went each retired to popular the question successful October 2013, renting retired the San Francisco Giants' house, AT&T Park, and imploring Kim to wed him via the jumbotron portion a 50-piece orchestra played Lana Del Rey's "Young and Beautiful," followed by Keri Hilson, Ne-Yo and Kanye's "Knock You Down."

Not surprisingly, determination were literal fireworks.

The mates tied the knot successful 2014, and Kim yet filed for divorce successful 2021, according to documents obtained by E! News. The "Donda" vocalist joined exemplary Bianca Censori successful 2022.

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Shawn Johnson and Andrew East

The Olympic golden medalist had conscionable thrown retired the archetypal transportation at Wrigley Field with teammate Alicia Sacramone when her fellow got down connected 1 knee in June 2015.

Beau Clark and Stassi Schroeder

Knowing however overmuch Stassi loves existent crime and the macabre, Beau popped the question astatine Hollywood Forever Cemetery successful July 2019.

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Don Lemon and Tim Malone

In April 2019, Tim had peculiar tags engraved and sent the couple's poodle mixes, Boomer and Barkley, implicit to their different dada with a special question.

"He gave maine a contiguous connected his birthday," Don wrote connected Instagram. "How could I accidental no?"

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Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom

On Valentine's Day successful 2019, aft meal astatine an Italian edifice successful New York, Orlando projected during a chopper ride. He gave Katy a emotion enactment ostensibly to distract her portion helium pulled the ring box retired of his pocket, and the champagne sloshed astir a bit, but overall, it was "really sweet," the vocalist said.

The nighttime lone got amended when, upon landing, Orlando had arranged for 30 friends and household members to beryllium waiting for them to observe their engagement.

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Lee Loechler and Sthuthi David

Lee's January 2020 proposal rightly made them celebrities for a quality rhythm erstwhile helium took Sthuthi—his precocious schoolhouse sweetheart—to a screening of Sleeping Beauty (in cahoots with Sthuthi's mom), and the changeable of Prince Phillip waking Aurora up from her cursed slumber with a buss was edited to look similar cartoon versions of Lee and Sthuthi, courtesy of illustrator Kayla Coombs. And past his cartoon aforesaid made arsenic if helium was tossing Lee the ringing to springiness to his beloved and urges him to get to it.

"She was benignant of expecting the connection astir this clip truthful I knew I had to beryllium beauteous sneaky if I wanted to springiness her a bully surprise, due to the fact that she is precise astute, nary pun intended, and you cognize she's a doc truthful she is precise smart, precise cerebral," Lee told E! News aft the video of his cautiously laid program panning retired went viral.

Good happening Sthuthi's a cardiologist because... beryllium inactive our hearts!

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