The Actual Housewives of New Jersey star Dolores Catania is engaged to boyfriend Paulie Connell after almost 5 years collectively.
“I'm ecstatic!” Catania, 54, gushed to People in an interview printed Wednesday, November 12. “You realize whenever you really feel that happiness down in your intestine? That's the place this pleasure stems from for me. I really feel so blessed, I nearly really feel responsible! Like I don't need to be beloved this fashion.”
Connell, for his half, stated Catania deserves “a lot extra” than she thinks. “She's an unimaginable girl,” he added. “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 impression she has on everyone round her. She's one in one million.”
The 51-year-old bought down on one knee on Monday, November 10, on the Apple Retailer in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey, the place their love story started.
“I didn't need something over-the-top and staged as a result of we're a humble couple,” Connell defined. “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.”
Paulie Connell and Dolores Catania. Mike Coppola/Getty Photographs for MTV
Catania confirmed she “had not a clue” {that a} proposal was coming. “Actually, I believed I used to be going to must name an ambulance for him!” she teased. “He was sweating so dangerous, his T-shirt was soaked, his face was beet pink. And you understand how individuals say bizarre issues once they're having a stroke? He began saying these candy, stunning issues to me out of nowhere, and I used to be like, ‘Paul, are you OK?'”
Bravo followers have lengthy questioned when the couple would take the following step since Us Weekly broke the information of their relationship in 2021. Based on Catania, the timing couldn't be extra good.
Dolores Catania and Paulie Connell. Courtesy of Dolores Catania/Instagram
“I've by no means been so certain of one thing ever,” she informed Individuals. “You realize, endurance is an enormous factor for us. … As a pair, we have been in a position to naturally progress. So this engagement means extra to us than it could if it was simply one thing we have been doing only for the sake of doing it.”
The fact star was beforehand married to ex-husband Frank Catania, with whom she shares daughter Gabby and son Frankie. Her relationship with ex-boyfriend David Principe was well-documented on RHONJ from 2017 to 2021 earlier than she moved on with Connell.
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 […]
Dolores isn't the one member of the household with wedding ceremony bells in her future. Frankie, 26, proposed to girlfriend Nicole Perricho in February.
“Can't discover the phrases to depict how a lot pleasure we're all feeling since yesterday,” Dolores gushed through Instagram on the time alongside photographs from the romantic second. “My little Frankie, with a coronary heart full of affection and a lifetime of recollections forward of him, proposed to his wonderful girlfriend Nicole and we couldn't be happier!! … Right here's to without end, Frankie and Nicole!”
As information of Dolores' engagement made headlines on Wednesday, a number of fellow Housewives shared their well-wishes for the completely satisfied couple through Instagram.
RHONJ‘s Danielle Cabral commented “Yasssss! Our Dolo is getting married!!!!!” whereas Actual Housewives of Orange County star Tamra Choose added, “So completely satisfied for you each! ❤️.”
