Jon Gosselin gets ENGAGED to Stephanie Lebo... as Jon & Kate Plus 8 star reveals romantic proposal
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Jon Gosselin is engaged to longtime partner Stephanie Lebo after a three year romance.
The former Jon & Kate Plus 8 star, 47 popped the question on Saturday November 23 at his 36-year-old love's favorite restaurant, Willoughby's on Park in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania per Entertainment Tonight.
Lebo's dad told her after the proposal: 'You don't know how long I waited for this day for you, and there was a time where I thought it was never going to happen for you.
'I'm so very happy for you and Jon. My best advice is never stop being in love. Love comes first.'
Last year the pair spoke to The Sun about their romance after meeting at a mutual friend's backyard barbecue.
The reality star said he 'had been single for a few months' when he and Lebo crossed paths.
Jon Gosselin is engaged to longtime partner Stephanie Lebo after a three year romance
Gosselin found fame with ex-wife Kate Gosselin, 49, on the TLC show Jon & Kate Plus 8, which ran from from 2007 to 2017 for a total of 11 seasons. They were wed for 10 years prior to her filing for divorce in 2009
Prior to that, he had been in a seven-year romance with Colleen Conrad, 53, prior to their amicable parting in August of 2021.
Gosselin said of meeting Lebo, 'It was a hillbilly thing we let fireworks off, it was fun. I had been single for a few months after Colleen and I broke up.'
Lebo explained to the outlet, 'It was a graduation party and birthday party for our mutual friend’s nephew’s birthday, but he knew it was my birthday too so he got me a special lotus candle so when it spun around it opened up.
'Afterwards I got tagged in a post about it on Instagram and Jon wrote, "That was a super cool candle" and I wrote, "It was super cool to meet you."'
They continued to speak via text, and Gosselin said he reached out to their mutual friend Dean, who was host of the party, about a potential relationship.
'I called Dean because he is like Steph's brother and I said, "Did you ever hook up with Stephanie?" and he said, "No man she's like my sister,"' Gosselin said. 'And then I called Stephanie and asked her the same she said, "No way he's like my brother."'
He continued, 'So I called Dean back and said, "Do you mind if I ask Steph out?" And he said, "No I don't mind, but if you hurt her I'll kill you, I'll snap you in half." And he's a big guy!'"
Gosselin found fame with ex-wife Kate Gosselin, 49, on the TLC show Jon & Kate Plus 8, which ran from from 2007 to 2017 for a total of 11 seasons.
The former Jon & Kate Plus 8 star, 47 popped the question on Saturday November 23 at his 36-year-old love's favorite restaurant, Willoughby's on Park in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania per Entertainment Tonight
Gosselin and Kate only communicate through their attorneys following the end of their acrimonious decade-long marriage
The former TGI Fridays waiter was granted full custody of daughter Hannah in 2016 followed by their son Collin in 2018
Collin claims he was locked in a 'specially built basement room' which had a bed and cameras 'multiple times' - which watched him for an entire day or part of a day - pictured 2007 with his siblings
Kate's lawyer Richard Puleo said he did not believe she'd done anything to 'intentionally harm Collin and added 'she did what she did to protect herself and her family' from alleged 'troubled behavior' from Collin
They were wed for 10 years prior to her filing for divorce in 2009, at the height of the family's reality TV fame.
They are parents to eight children: twins Mady and Cara, both 23, and sextuplets Collin, Hannah, Alexis, Aaden, Leah and Joel, who are 20. Gosselin and Kate only communicate through their attorneys following the end of their acrimonious decade-long marriage.
The former TGI Fridays waiter was granted full custody of daughter Hannah in 2016 followed by their son Collin in 2018.
Jon remains estranged from his other children as well as his daughters Madelyn and Cara in New York.
The outing comes weeks after Jon's son Collin levelled shock abuse claims at his estranged mother Kate amid his starring role on 2000's reality show, Jon & Kate Plus 8.
Collin, now aged 20, who previously alleged his estranged mom sent him away at age 12 to stop him revealing her 'abuse', says his mother 'zip tied his arms and legs' and 'locked him in a basement' when he was a child during a campaign of alleged physical and emotional abuse.
He said from the age of 'eight or nine' he was treated differently from his seven other siblings by Kate and added that he 'never had a childhood' in an interview with The Sun.
