He put a ring on it!
Madison LeCroy announced her engagement to boyfriend Brett on Thursday.
“I am engaged! And I’m so excited because I honestly had no clue at the time,” the “Southern Charm” star, 31, exclaimed on Amazon Live on Thursday. “It was a very special moment for my family. We traveled a good bit around the world, and I kinda thought it would possibly happen then, but I think it happens when you least expect it.”
She added, “He involved my son [Hudson, who] is a huge part of my life, and we’ve been crying for the last week because we’ve been overwhelmed with the excitement.”
LeCroy said she didn’t hesitate to accept when Brett popped the question over dinner on Oct. 8. She added that Brett had asked for Hudson’s permission, which the 8-year-old happily gave as long as he could be a part of the special moment.
LeCroy has kept her relationship with Brett fairly private, but she shared photos and videos from the big night. On Friday evening, she posted a dress that her now-fiancé bought for her to wear.
A few hours later, LeCroy took a video of herself in the gorgeous champagne-colored gown while sitting in a limo with Hudson. Her son wore a white button-down and slacks while holding two bottles of champagne for the couple.
“You guys, I am so shocked,” she said in an Instagram Story while showing off the dress. “They are up to something. I’m very excited.”
Brett then appeared in the next Story, also wearing a white button-down and tan pants. The couple toasted each other, and LeCroy captioned the video, “Surprise date with my two favorites.”
Her man then took the mother-son duo for a special date night on Kiawah Island in South Carolina.
The salon owner went Instagram-official with Brett in June. At the time, she kept his identity private but revealed that he was over 6 feet tall, 35 years old and lived in another state.
The two met in the spring while LeCroy was in Scottsdale, Ariz., for a friend’s party.
“I did not know him at this time, but I go into this bar and we immediately lock eyes from across the room,” LeCroy told Us Weekly in June. “It was, like, instant. And I mean you really can’t miss him. … He’s absolutely stunning.”
They went on their first date a few days later, and the two “fell in love instantly,” she said. “We had been together pretty much non-stop since then.”
“[It’s] going very, very well, and even my ex-husband [Josh Hughes] approves,” she told the mag. “My son’s father knows a lot about him through my son and my son saying that I seem happy and ‘He’s really nice to Mom’ and all these things.”
LeCroy made headlines earlier this year when she found herself at the center of Alex Rodriguez and Jennifer Lopez’s breakup. As Page Six exclusively reported, the former couple split because Lopez, 52, was “embarrassed” by the fact that the former baseball star, 46, allegedly cheated on her with LeCroy.
“The Madison LeCroy scandal was the reason they finally broke up,” a source told Page Six. “There were already problems, but Jennifer was really embarrassed by it.”
LeCroy, for her part, maintained that they only FaceTimed.
“He’s never physically cheated on his fiancée with me,” she told Page Six, adding, “I don’t want anything bad for his family, or for mine. We are definitely innocent in this.”
“Southern Charm” airs on Bravo and is currently filming for Season 8.
Shamea Morton and Porsha Williams’ rock-solid friendship appears to be crumbling on The Real Housewives of Atlanta — but there’s still hope for the childhood besties.
Revealing the status of their relationship after RHOA Season 16 in an exclusive interview with The Daily Dish, Shamea had nothing but praise for Porsha’s evolution over the years.
“We’ve all grown quite a bit and matured, but I love the fact that she still has a fun youthful heart,” Shamea gushed. “She still enjoys having fun, being out, and I’m excited to see what her next thing in life is.”
Even as Porsha navigates her ongoing divorce from Simon Guobadia, Shamea believes “God is working with her and through her,” adding, “Some of the changes might hurt right now, but they’re for the best for her.”
Ultimately, she trusts that a higher power will guide them in the future.
“We just say that God’s will be done in our lives,” Shamea summed up. “And I think that is the case with her. She’ll continue to evolve and she’ll continue to come out on top.”
During RHOA Season 16, Episode 10, several long-brewing issues between the two finally bubbled to the surface. As Angela Oakley spilled about their so-called “lopsided friendship,” Shamea felt that Porsha “didn’t want her to be” a full-time Housewife and was “afraid” to open up about not wanting to be “looked at as Porsha’s lapdog.”
What’s more, Shamea apparently had some lingering hurt feelings about Porsha skipping her 2017 wedding to Gerald Mwangi in Kenya.
Meanwhile, both were incensed that each was discussing their beef behind the other’s back, especially given their long history.
On The Real Housewives of Atlanta After Show, Shamea tackled the issue of Porsha’s “hurtful” absence from her wedding, head-on. She shared that though Porsha did attend her traditional Kenyan Kikuyu ruracio ceremony, which she explained is when a groom’s family pays a dowry for his bride, she skipped out on the actual nuptials in Africa.
During the May 11 episode, Porsha herself revealed, “I did not go to Shamea’s wedding in Kenya because a couple months or a month or two prior to her actual wedding, we were not speaking.”
That apparently came as news to Shamea, however.
“I didn’t know that that’s the reason why you didn’t come,” she claimed on the RHOA After Show. “You told me that you were sick. Who knew?!”
Shamea went on to say that Porsha had also given her “three other excuses” for why she couldn’t fly to Kenya.
“Well, which one is it? I’m very much like, let’s get to the bottom of it and move forward,” Shamea concluded.