Eric Stonestreetproves to be a comedian both on and off screen!
In an interview from his20th appearanceonThe EllenDeGeneres Show, airing Tuesday, theModern Familyalum revealed that his fiancée, Lindsay Schweitzer, initially thought his proposal was a joke.
Stonestreet, 50, admitted to hostEllen DeGeneresthat he had pranked her “a lot” in the past, and she has been “very patient” with him.
The actor shared a clip from the proposal, which involved a sweet set-up from Schweitzer’s twin sons. Stonestreet said that he had told his then-girlfriend that a production company was interested in have them do a social media post together.
“So that she would do her hair and make and look as beautiful as she wanted to look for this moment,” he explained.
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She eventually said, “Yes,” before the couple embraced each other at the end of the footage.
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In his chat with DeGeneres, the Kansas native expressed gratitude for his romance with Schweitzer.
“You know I’ve won a lot in life … but I definitely win with Lindsay,” he confessed. “She is an amazing person, and I am so thankful that we met five years ago.”
“We’ve been together for a long time, and I just knew I wasn’t going to find a better partner in life than Lindsay,” Stonestreet said while speaking about theNational Pork Board’s pig farming myth-busting campaign. “So it just made the most sense. And I’d taken my sweet old time.”
“Everybody else — let me put it this way — that knows Lindsay was like, ‘What are you waiting for?’ So, it was time,” he added.
PEOPLE broke the news ofStonestreet and Schweitzer’s relationshipin 2017. The pair met a year before at the Big Slick charity weekend in Stonestreet’s hometown of Kansas City, Kansas.
source: people.com
