Jussie Smollett is headed down the aisle!
On Friday, the 43-year-old actor revealed in an Instagram submit that he proposed to his boyfriend, actor Jabari Redd, who promptly accepted.
“I’ll be spending my birthday with my Fiancé… He mentioned YES. 💍,” Smollett, who additionally celebrated his forty third birthday on Saturday, June 21, wrote within the caption of the submit that contained a sequence of frame-by-frame images from the massive second.
Within the first slide, Smollett will get down on one knee on a avenue nook by a restaurant as he presents an open ring field to Redd. Extra pictures reveal Redd’s shock, pleasure, and as he’s moved to tears when accepting the proposal. The fifth picture exhibits Smollett grinning from ear to ear as Redd cries tears of pleasure.
“Screaming with tears of pleasure! My entire coronary heart loves each of you @jussiesmollett. Welcome to the household @jabariredd. ❤️❤️,” Smollett’s youthful sister, actress Jurnee Smollett, wrote within the feedback.
His different sister, Jazz Smollett, added, “😝🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾I used to be WAITINGGGGGG!!!!!!😩😩🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️🤭🤭🤭🤭 congratulations you 2‼️‼️ I pray blessings cowl you as you’ve coated one another 🥹🥹🥹🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾😘😘😘😘😘.”
Whereas Smollett and Redd have largely stored their relationship out of the general public eye, they’ve been romantically linked since at the least 2023. The 2 star collectively as a married couple alongside Vivica Fox in Smollett’s second directorial function, 2024’s “The Misplaced Vacation.”
The information arrives only one month after Smollett settled a lawsuit in Chicago stemming from an alleged hoax assault in 2019. On the time, Smollett claimed to have been attacked in a possible hate crime. Finally, prosecutors and authorities started to suspect the assault was a staged hoax or a publicity stunt. In Could, Smollett agreed to donate $50,000 to Constructing Brighter Futures Middle for the Arts to lastly shut the chapter he claims “left a stain on his character.”
“Over six years in the past, after it was reported I had been jumped, Metropolis officers in Chicago got down to persuade the general public that I willfully set an assault in opposition to myself. This false narrative has left a stain on my character that won’t quickly disappear,” the “Empire” star wrote in a press release on Instagram. “The officers wished my cash and wished my confessions for one thing I didn’t do. At present it needs to be clear, they’ve acquired neither.”
