Yellow Sapphires Make Happy Brides, Just ask Jenny McCarthy

On April 16, 'The View' watchers, and their hosts, were surprised suddenly when co-host Jenny McCarthy made her big reveal. It began as an update on the "Date My Dad" episode. She reported that her dad was very happy, having made a love match with the final woman he dated from the show. "...e's very happy, because he's happy for me, because..." She flashes her left hand front and center, her face taut with pent-up excitement, and announces, "...I just got ENGAGED!!!!!!" Screams peel through the audience, as her co-hosts share their raw astonishment, all except Whoopi Goldberg, who seems to have known something was up. After dancing around and hugging her co-hosts, and lots and lots of shouting, Ms. McCarthy succeeds in calming everyone down just enough so she can share "how it happened." Over the weekend, she and boyfriend, Donnie Wahlberg, sat on the couch whispering sweet nothings. At one point, Donnie left the room. Soon after, Jenny's son, Evan, appeared and handed her a card with the word 'Will' on it. Confused, she watched him run back out of the room. A few moments later he returned with another card which read, 'you'. "He ran away, and I knew what was happening, and I just started crying," the happy star said. Her son ran away and returned again with a card that read, 'Mary' (yes, spelled with one 'R'). After departing one last time, Evan returned with Donnie, who wore a t-shirt with the word 'Me?' printed on it, holding the ring. "...and he got down on his knee and he said...'Will you marry me?'....and in that moment Evan yelled, 'I have another dad!" she said, tearing up again. As she shares their very private moment, the audience erupts in squeals again as Donnie comes sneaking through the back to take hold of her from behind in a loving embrace, planting several romantic, but somewhat awkward kisses upon her lips. The couple first met on Andy Cohen's "Watch What Happens Live," in 2012. Nearly a year later, Jenny told Bethenny Frankel that she thought Donnie was married when they first met and decided not to approach him. "It wasn't until he did my talk show," she said. She was preparing to interview him on air on March 29, 2013, and asked her crew if he was attached. When she found out he wasn't, she took the plunge. After enticing him to spill all his dirty secrets on VH1, she slipped him her phone number. "I didn't call," Donnie told Jenny's co-hosts on 'The View' six months later. After two weeks, they got together for their first date and talked for six hours. "I got to see who she really is, and she's a wonderful woman. She's very smart, she's very intelligent, she's a great mom," he said. After scoring 100% on their Newlywed-style game, their fate was sealed. Now, she's wearing a gorgeous halo-style engagement ring complete with a knockout square-shaped yellow sapphire surrounded by diamonds. The shank of her platinum (or possibly white gold) band also glitters with diamonds, much like the sparkle in her cornflower blue eyes as she talks about her lover. Congratulations to the happy couple!