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Darius Rucker is engaged to girlfriend Emily Deahl, he announced on Wednesday morning (October 8).
“Thank you for showing me a level of happiness I have never known. The day I met you I knew I didn’t want to go another one without you. Now I don’t have to,” Rucker, 59, wrote in his caption as he posted a snapshot by photographer Travis Dew of the moment he proposed on Instagram. The post also included a selfie of the newly-engaged couple, with Rucker kissing his fiancée on the cheek while she smiles, wearing the stunning engagement ring.
Deahl, 33, said as she shared the engagement photo on her Instagram story that she “never intended on keeping this part of my life from you guys for so long, but somewhere along the way of loving him I discovered how sacred love is to me. And all I wanted to do was protect it.” She added, though, that she's “glad I don’t have to spend the time photoshopping him out of every photo now.”
Rucker publicly confirmed his relationship with Deahl in an Instagram post last month. He posted a selfie that Deahl took of the couple standing outside the Sphere, an immersive venue in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Hootie & the Blowfish star said he attended the Wizard of Oz Sphere show “with my love & my boys,” he said in his caption. “1000/10!!!!!”