Patton Oswalt and Meredith Salenger Are Engaged!
Patton Oswalt is engaged!
A source confirms to PEOPLE that the comedian and actress Meredith Salenger are headed down the aisle. Salenger confirmed it by posting photos from the proposal, which included Oswalt’s daughter Alice. “It’s official. I’m the luckiest happiest girl in the universe!!!!,” she wrote. “I love you @pattonoswalt I love you Alice Oswalt! #YesYesYes.”
A post shared by Meredith Salenger (@meredithsalenger) on Jul 6, 2017 at 9:26am PDT
She’d earlier referenced the news by reposting a photo of herself and Oswalt snuggling, this time with a picture of Dwayne Johnson photoshopped onto her hand and the caption, “I don’t wanna brag… but check out the size of The Rock on my finger! Hahahah (photoshop via @edwardderuiter).”
A post shared by Meredith Salenger (@meredithsalenger) on Jul 6, 2017 at 8:29am PDT
Oswalt, 48, and Salenger, 47, went public with their budding romance last month at the Los Angeles premiere of the movie Baby Driver.
The couple’s happy news comes just 15 months after Oswalt’s wife Michelle McNamara died unexpectedly in her sleep in April 2016, leaving the comedian to care for their 8-year-old daughter, Alice Rigney.
Oswalt has been open and honest about the grief he’s experienced since, but judging by the happy posts on both his and Salenger’s Twitter and Instagram feeds, their relationship seems to have had a very positive impact on them both.
Although they have been dating only a few months, they are not shy about showing their affection for one another in Instagram posts and frequent interactions on Twitter.
A source close to the couple told PEOPLE their romance was “new and they’re very happy.”
“They met through mutual friend Martha Plimpton,” the insider said. “They started chatting as friends and it blossomed from there.”
Salenger is an actress, a Harvard grad, and a mediator for the Agency for Dispute Resolution in Beverly Hills, Calif. And she loves kids (Oswalt is dad to 8-year-old Alice), often posting about her auntie duties on Instagram.
We are at "Dorky Disney T-shirt Relationship Level", from which no one returns. GREAT CTHULHU WHAT HAVE WE DONE?!? https://t.co/kv1eGX5IV2
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) June 18, 2017
❤️The love of my life – my funny hunny.
A post shared by Meredith Salenger (@meredithsalenger) on Jul 3, 2017 at 6:21pm PDT
I prefer "clown who's down" but whatever. https://t.co/scQQj1b5so
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) July 4, 2017
The couple has been sending signals about their intentions in the last week, with Oswalt quipping over the weekend, “Aw, it’s like we’re already married!” after Salenger razzed him on Twitter.
Aw, it's like we're already married! https://t.co/pgeF869i88
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) July 4, 2017
And Salenger hinted at their engagement on Instagram Wednesday, writing, “Once upon a time… in 2008… at my friend’s wedding… I caught the bouquet… #fairytalesdoexist.” Friend Yvette Nicole Brown commented on Salenger’s sly throwback pic, “So. Very. Happy. For. YOU!!!”
Once upon a time… in 2008… at my friend's wedding… I caught the bouquet… #fairytalesdoexist
A post shared by Meredith Salenger (@meredithsalenger) on Jul 5, 2017 at 12:28pm PDT
The bride-to-be is a Harvard-educated actress whose first big break came at age 15 in Disney’s The Journey of Natty Gan. She has credits in a bevy of TV and films including Lake Placid, Hollywood Heights and voiceover work for cartoons like Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
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