By Michelle McGahan
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Fifteen years after his tumultuous divorce from ex-wife Kate Gosselin, Jon Gosselin is getting married again.
The Jon & Kate Plus 8 alum, 47, is engaged to Stephanie Lebo, his girlfriend of three years, Jon announced in a joint post with Entertainment Tonight on Thursday, November 28 — Thanksgiving Day.
The outlet revealed the details and the first photos from the pair's engagement, which happened when Jon popped the question to Lebo at her "favorite restaurant" on November 23.
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Jon "completely surpris[ed] Stephanie with a private and sweet proposal at the soon-to-be bride's favorite restaurant, Willoughby's on Park in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania," according to Entertainment Tonight. (For Swifties reading along, Wyomissing is also where Taylor Swift grew up.) "Following the dinner, Jon dropped to one knee in front of both of their parents in a private dining area, professed his love and put the ring on her finger."
Lebo's father was particularly touched by Jon's proposal, the outlet noted. Her dad "cried his heart out and whispered in her ear."
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"You don't know how long I waited for this day for you, and there was a time where I thought it was never going to happen for you. I'm so very happy for you and Jon," Lubo's father said, adding his own advice: "Never stop being in love. Love comes first."
The couple originally met in 2021 at a "backyard barbecue at a mutual friend Dean's house," Jon told The Sun in 2023, adding it was a few months following his split from longtime girlfriend Colleen Conrad.
"It was a hillbilly thing, we let fireworks off, it was fun," Jon continued. "I had been single for a few months after Colleen and I broke up."
Prior to his romances with Lebo and Conrad, Jon was married to ex-wife Kate from 1999 to 2009. The exes are parents of eight children: twins Mady and Cara, 24, and sextuplets Collin, Hannah, Alexis, Aaden, Leah and Joel, all 20.
Though the family famously starred on their own TLC series in the early 2000s, the Gosselin clan publicly fractured following Jon and Kate's 2009 divorce — with Collin and Hannah choosing to live with dad Jon as teenagers while the rest of the sextuplets stayed with mom Kate.
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