Dane Cook, 50, is finally ready to settle down. The comedian popped the question to his longtime girlfriend, Kelsi Taylor, 23, after spending five years together. Kelsi excitedly made the big announcement via her Instagram account by saying, “Fiancé has a nice ring to it”.
The fitness instructor shared photos of Dane kneeling down and asking for her hand in marriage. “The secret’s out! @danecook and I are engaged. A couple weeks ago, Dane got on one knee and asked me to be his wife and I couldn’t have asked for a more perfect moment. I love this man and love spending my life with him. I can’t wait for what’s to come,” she wrote.
Dane Cook Gets Engaged To Much Younger Girlfriend Kelsi Taylor After 5 Years Of Dating
Dane seems equally as enthusiastic about spending his life with Kelsi, revealing, “I was so ready to ask her. I was completely zen about it”. Cook described the special occasion, admitting, “The evening of the proposal was incredibly beautiful, the weather was perfect, sunset was spectacular, and I was just quite simply very happy.”
The Good Luck Chuck star went on to gush about his future bride. “I was asking my best friend, the woman who I’ve shared some of the greatest times of my life with, to marry me so we can start the next chapter of our of lives together. I was also thinking of how absolutely stunning she looked.”
According to Dane’s fiancé, she was stunned by his proposal. “The second he began to reach for his back pocket, my stomach flipped. I couldn’t have asked for the moment to have been more perfect. All that was going through my brain was, ‘Wait, is this actually happening right now? Is he proposing?” I was also just really focused on what he was saying to me because I was trying desperately to etch the words into my brain,” she continues. “They were so beautiful, I really wanted to soak it in.”
While Cook and Taylor have been in a relationship since early 2018, their romance has raised some eyebrows due to their significant age gap. Cook is a whopping 27 years older than Taylor, and they first began dating when she was only 18-years-old.
Cook is very aware that getting entangled with a literal teenager would make him the subject of criticism, and he too has joked about how much older he is than Kelsi. During a past appearance on The Tonight Show, Cook revealed to host Jimmy Fallon, “I’m 47, she’s 20,” while the audience awkwardly laughed. “That was the best laugh of approval I’ve ever heard, heh-heh-heh,” Dane quipped.
“Here’s the thing about it: I look at her, she’s the kindest, sweetest; I love her. Every once in a while I’ll be like, ‘I don’t deserve this girl. And then once in a while I’ll say to myself: Where have you been all of my life? And then I realize she wasn’t alive for the first 28 years of it”.
