The Actual Housewives of New Jersey star Dolores Catania's ex-husband, Frank Catania, is thrilled about her engagement to Paulie Connell.
“Congratulations 🎉🎈,” Frank, 60, commented on People's Instagram put up saying the information on Wednesday, November 12. “We're so comfortable for you guys and may't wait to have a good time. Love you guys.”
Dolores, 54, and Frank have been married from 1994 to 1998. The previous spouses have maintained a friendship and coparenting relationship by the years as they raised their children, Gabrielle, 30, and Frankie, 26.
Gabrielle additionally reacted to the engagement information by way of her Instagram Story, writing, “Screaming congratulations to my good mommis and Paulie P. Our household is so fortunate to have you ever and yours.”
Dolores and Connell, 51, received engaged on the Apple Retailer in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey, on Monday, November 10, the couple shared with Individuals on Wednesday. Whereas it could seem to be an unconventional place to pop the query, the shop holds particular which means to Dolores and Connell, because it's the place their love story started in 2021.
“I didn't need something over-the-top and staged as a result of we're a humble couple,” Connell advised the outlet. “I needed it to really feel grounded and pure and natural. Plus, I needed the component of shock. And imagine me, I had the component of shock.”
Dolores stated she had “no clue” the proposal was coming and joked that she thought she may “need to name an ambulance” for her now-fiancé.
“He was sweating so unhealthy, his T-shirt was soaked, his face was beet pink. And you understand how folks say bizarre issues after they're having a stroke? He began saying these candy, lovely issues to me out of nowhere, and I used to be like, ‘Paul, are you OK?'” she defined.
Dolores Catania, Paul Connell Craig Barritt/Getty Photographs for Meals Financial institution For New York Metropolis
Dolores additionally stated she is “ecstatic” to be taking the following step in her romance with Connell, including that she's “by no means been so certain of one thing ever.”
“You realize once you really feel that happiness down in your intestine? That's the place this pleasure stems from for me,” she added. “I really feel so blessed, I virtually really feel responsible! Like I don't should be cherished this manner.”
In the meantime, Connell stated Dolores deserves “a lot extra” than she thinks.
The Actual Housewives of New Jersey star Frank Catania and his fiancée, Brittany Mattesich, secretly tied the knot. “We're married,” Catania, 60, stated on the Thursday, March 6, episode of PodcastOne's “On Show With Melissa Gorga” podcast, noting that the ceremony came about “again in November” of 2024. Frank — who was beforehand married […]
“She's an unimaginable girl,” he stated. “And after I was proposing to her, I used to be in a position to articulate to her every part I see that she is, and every part I see that she does, and the affect she has on all people round her. She's one in 1,000,000.”
Us Weekly broke the information of Dolores and Connell's relationship in 2021. {The electrical} contractor later made his debut on RHONJ in February 2023.
“Kudos to him for being such a superb sport about it,” Dolores advised Us about Connell's look in season 13. “However once more, now he has to stay this. And a number of conversations revolve round our relationship, and I haven't seen them but. So, I don't understand how Paul's gonna deal with 'em. I'm a really easygoing individual. I let a number of issues roll off my again, however I can't say that for everybody.”
