Saturday Night Live veteran Cecily Strong is engaged!

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Cecily Strong has revealed that she got engaged late last year.

During an appearance on Late Night With Seth Meyers on Wednesday, the 40-year-old former Saturday Night Live star shared her happy news and detailed the hilarious way her fiancé nearly ruined the proposal.

Although the Schmigadoon actress seemed excited to share her engagement story, she has kept her fiancé's identity secret and has only referred to him as 'Jack' in the past.

'I got engaged,' she shared with her former colleague Seth, though she made sure to rib him in the process.

'I know, you always said, "No one will ever love you, and you will never get married." You were wrong!' she joked.




Cecily Strong, 40, revealed she is engaged on Wednesday's episode of Late Night With Seth Meyers; seen February 28 in NYC





Her fiancé, whom she has only ever identified as Jack, had his surprise spoiled after Cecily saw a text message from a friend asking if she liked the ring he was going to give her

'I am eating my words,' Seth said as he played along. 'Did he pull it off well? Was it a surprise?'

Unfortunately, her fiancé Jack's plans didn't go off as he intended, partially because Cecily was too much of a 'detective.'

She admitted that the two had had discussions about getting engaged in the past, so she was already keeping an eye out for any hints of a proposal.

'One day he was like, "I'm so inundated with emails and texts, look at this,"' she explained. 'And he showed me his phone, and the first text was from a friend that said, "How did it go?! Ring emoji." And then, I was like. "Oh no, should I?" 

'And he went, "Did you see that?" And light novel I was like, "I could try very hard to lie, but…"' she added.

But Cecily wanted to still leave Jack with an option to surprise her.

'I was like, "Whenever you want to do it, that'll be the surprise,"' she recalled saying.

But Cecily admitted that she 'still then took that from him' when she wasn't willing to wait any longer.




Although she said he could wait and surprise her later, she eventually couldn't wait any longer. 'I had kind of a rough night in December, and I was like, "Can I just wear the damn ring now?"' she said. 'So, that's how we got engaged'





She also joked that she had to wear the ring on her index finger for a time because she doesn't know her ring size and it ended up being five sizes too big; pictured in November in NYC

'I had kind of a rough night in December, and I was like, "Can I just wear the damn ring now?"' she said. 'So, that's how we got engaged.'

But even after getting the proposal out of the way, the comic star had other issues with her engagement ring.

'I don't know my ring size — I wear like every size ring,' she admitted.

'So, he took one of those, and it was five sizes too big. I was wearing it on my index finger for a long time — not as a statement; it just would've fallen off,' she explained.

Cecily previously wrote about how she and Jack met in her 2020 memoir This Will All Be Over Soon.

She shared that she met Jack at a Christmas party in 2019, but it came at an inopportune time, as she was still grieving the then-recent death of her cousin Owen.

'At first I thought it was so difficult to meet someone right as I was losing someone I loved so much. I knew he'd have to be patient with me,' she wrote in an excerpt published by Vulture, via Entertainment Weekly.

But Jack ended up being exactly as supportive as Cecily needed him to be at that difficult time. 

'He'd have to let me grieve. It would be easier not to even try during that process,' she continued. 'But grieving for Owen was like nothing I'd ever experienced, and I promised Owen and myself to continue to let all that love be there along with the sadness.




In her 2020 memoir This Will All Be Over Soon, Strong wrote about meeting Jack at a 2019 Christmas Party as she was grieving the death of her cousin Owen; seen with Lizzo and Austin Butler in 2022 on SNL





Cecily starred on SNL from 2012 to 2022, the longest run for a female cast member; seen on SNL in 2022

'So when Jack leaves that night, after the talk, I say, "I think you were a gift to me from Owen." And I like thinking of it that way,' she wrote.

Cecily is best known for stint as an SNL cast member from 2012 to 2022, which made her the longest-running woman in the cast.

Following her departure, she joined Keegan-Michael Key on the Apple TV+ series Schmigadoon, which was a parody of classic musical films.

Apple announced in January that it would not renew the series for a third season, though the show's creators have said they are trying to shop it around to other networks and streamers to continue. 


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