American actress and comedian, Yvette Nicole Brown has become engaged.
The 52-year-old Community star disclosed her engagement to actor Anthony Davis while co-hosting The View on Tuesday.
‘I have some news, and I heard that The View is the place to announce things like this. I’m engaged,’ she excitedly revealed.
‘And he’s here! He’s here! That’s Tony,’ she pointed out her fiancé, who was seated in the audience.
Co-host Sunny Hostin remarked, ‘You are one lucky man,’ before inquiring how the couple met.
Brown shared that they had known each other since their 20s when they attended an acting class at church. They reconnected recently, and that’s when their romance blossomed.
‘We’ve known each other since we were in our 20s,’ Brown said. ‘We were in an acting class together at church years ago. He’s an amazing actor, by the way. Anthony Davis, everybody. He was married at the time, and we were platonic friends, and then we lost touch for a few years.’
Brown also shared that Davis reached out to her in 2021 after her mother’s passing. ‘Then he found me,’ she said, adding: ‘After he divorced.’
She feels like her late mother guided Anthony to her. ‘I feel like my mom and his mom kind of did it,’ she explained. ‘He’s just wonderful… he’s a nice man, you guys. He’s a nice, kind, loving man.’
Brown also revealed the clever way Davis proposed. They were celebrating her high school Warrensville Heights High School renaming its auditorium after her, and Davis gave her a lottery scratch card with the message “Will you marry me?”
‘I thought I was going to win some money and I won a man,’ she joked.
