Alex Cooper and Matt Kaplan.Photo: Aaron Idelson
Alex Cooper is engaged!
Page Sixwas first to report the rumored engagement on April 20.
Cooper said Kaplan popped the question on March 3 at their home in Los Angeles after being lured out of the house for a fake photoshoot. The podcast star returned home later that evening to find candles, music and a special scavenger hunt that led her into the arms of her now-fiancé.
“I like, blacked out,” Cooper toldW, recalling the moment Kaplan officially popped the question. “I think I said yes at first. It was very surreal.”
Kaplan and Cooper met on a Zoom call in 2020. He was nicknamed “Mr. Sexy Zoom Man” on Cooper’s podcast to keep his true identity a secret.
Marriage was something Cooper wasn’t necessarily sure she wanted at first. But during a November 2022 date night at the restaurant Giorgio Baldi, she let Kaplan know he could propose “whenever he wanted.”
“He was beaming, because he had accepted that maybe we wouldn’t get married,” she recalled toW.
Alex Cooper and Matt Kaplan.Aaron Idelson
“He talked about our relationship and his love for me, and then he asked me to open the card sitting there and to follow the scavenger hunt around the house,” she said in her interview withW.
“You’re my soulmate, the love of my life,” Kaplan said, according to Cooper. “You make me a better man. Please do me the honor of marrying me.”
Alex Cooper.Rodin Eckenroth/Getty
Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.
Elsewhere in her interview, Cooper toldWMagazine that Kaplan has been “so supportive of my career,” which she said was intimidating to men she had dated in the past.
source: people.com
