Kristen Dout goes to the altar with Luke Broderick.
RadarOnline.com can reveal the reality star, 41, was stunned when her boyfriend of two years popped the question during a romantic boat trip in Hawaii.
Doute confirmed the news with a photo on Instagram showing Broderick down on one knee against a tropical sunset background. She wrote in the caption: “[I]I’m wrapped around your finger just like this ring [I]I bear… out of all the fish in the sea you chose me.”
Broderick told Doute to keep an eye out for dolphins before presenting a “4.27 carat emerald cut diamond, plus half a carat of diamonds on the band and a hidden halo.” We weekly reported.
In her post, Doute thanked her jewelry designer friend Kyle Chan for “making the most beautiful ring”.
Tellingly, she admitted she couldn’t help but respond with expletives before saying “yes.” Us: “It was a total surprise.”
The stars of The Valley met at a wedding where Broderick was a groomsman in June 2022 and hit it off immediately.
Doute said, “I knew from the moment we met that Luke was my person. I am so excited to continue this journey together, now as fiancés.”
However, she admitted that there were a few things that gave her doubts in the early days of their romance: the eight-year age difference between them, Broderick’s hunting hobby and the fact that he lived in Colorado while Doute lived in Los Angeles.
The bride-to-be explained to her new fiancé, “I had a hard time being your person. I love you so much, but just the thought of being someone’s girlfriend again messed me up because I want a woman and I want to become a mother.
“The most important thing is that I just want to be a mother and a partner. And I was so tired of being a friend for a few years and then falling apart.”
Broderick interjected, “You tried really hard not to fall in love with me and not let this happen because of my age, because of the distance, because of these factors: if you think about it logically, like, how is that possible? this work?”
Bravo fans got to know Broderick in the first season of The Valleywhich followed the couple’s failed attempts to conceive a child after suffering a miscarriage.
Season two, which began filming this summer, will show the couple moving into a house together, they said.
Doute became famous while dating Tom Sandoval about the first two seasons of Vanderpump Rules, but their relationship fell apart after she accused Sandoval of cheating on her Ariana Madix. She had another fleeting relationship with James Kennedy before you get fired from the show in 2020.
