Darius Rucker and girlfriend Emily Deahl are engaged after multiple 12 months of relationship.
Rucker, 59, shared the information through Instagram on Wednesday, October 8, posting photographs of himself getting down on one knee and popping the query to Deahl, 33.
“Thanks for displaying me a stage of happiness I’ve by no means recognized,” the musician wrote in a caption. “The day I met you I knew I didn’t need to go one other one with out you. Now I don’t must.”
Rucker shared two pictures alongside the announcement: one of many proposal, in black-and-white, and the opposite in colour of him smiling together with his bride-to-be, who confirmed off a big diamond ring with a gold band.
After Rucker revealed the engagement, a wave of well-wishes inundated the feedback part of his publish.
“Congrats!” wrote Miranda Lambert, whereas singer Parson James remarked, “Yayyyyy. Pub drinks in London to have fun soooon! Congrats my angel x.”
Deahl, a social-media influencer, recurrently references Rucker on Instagram, the place she’s posted movies from their date night time to a Woman Gaga live performance and referenced chatter about their vital age hole.
“After I’m working from the feedback after which I see them say ‘she’s gotta be in her 20s,’” she joked in a September clip, including, “My frontal lobe has been absolutely developed for a few years however thanks guys.”
Rucker was beforehand married to Beth Leonard from 2000 till their 2020 divorce.
He grew to become well-known 30 years in the past because the frontman for the rock band Hootie & the Blowfish and later pursued a rustic music profession. Final 12 months, Rucker launched his memoir, titled Life’s Too Brief, which detailed his relationship with Leonard, whom he met at an occasion within the late Nineties earlier than they grew to become associates. Ultimately he requested her out on a date, and following their first night time out, Rucker knew he would marry her.
“Beth and I marry on December 9, 2000, on the seaside in Bermuda,” he wrote. “Ultimately, we keep married for twenty years, a testomony to her in each means: to her energy, her resolve, and her dedication to our children and to me. Sadly, we uncouple in 2020.”
The exes share daughter Daniela, 24, and son Jack, 20. Rucker can also be father to daughter Carolyn, 30, from a earlier relationship.
“My 50-something self is much more forgiving than the mid-20-something self,” Rucker shared in a 2023 interview on Apple Music’s “At present’s Nation Radio With Kelleigh Bannen,” reflecting on his break up from Leonard. “You need to, as a result of life goes on.”
He continued: “Your children are nonetheless your children, and you’ve got a life, and also you attempt to make the most effective of it. Like I all the time say, [Beth’s] a saint, she’s an incredible human being, and she or he’s an incredible mother. And we get by way of life.”