PEOPLE
Former Bachelor and Dancing With the Stars contestant Melissa Rycroft is finally headed down the aisle, proving she may be lucky in love after all.
Rycroft got engaged to Dallas insurance agent Tye Strickland on June 26 after they dated on and off for more than two years, PEOPLE has learned.
"He's my best friend," Rycroft, 26, gushed to PEOPLE last April about the 28-year-old agent.
The twosome rekindled their romance after Rycroft's engagement to The Bachelor's Jason Mesnick ended via a televised breakup on the After The Final Rose special on March 2.
Strickland, who was a frequent audience member during Rycroft's season eight Dancing stint, popped the question to the Dallas beauty at White's Chapel in Southlake, Texas. The couple later joined their respective parents for a celebratory meal at the Brio Tuscan Grille before heading out later in the evening to a reception with more family and close friends. No wedding date has been set.
"He is a great home-town boy," Rycroft's DWTS partner Dovolani told PEOPLE of Strickland. "He will love her endlessly."
Rycroft finished second runner-up on the DWTS season finale, but she came out smelling like a rose by landing a summer reporting gig with Good Morning America.
Melissa Rycroft Is Engaged!
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Posts: 31786 (06/29/2009 8:36 PM) Best Celeb Scoop '06, '08, & '09
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CheerMonica15 |
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Posts: 14350 (06/29/2009 8:37 PM) |
Good for her! I always liked her.
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cheriestars |
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Posts: 33638 (06/29/2009 8:39 PM) |
awww yay!
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Posts: 22800 (06/29/2009 8:40 PM) |
Oy. Can she go away? She is trying way to hard to send the message that she is over what happen to her. Her best revenge would have been fading into obscurity
and living a quiet life.
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Posts: 26595 (06/29/2009 8:43 PM) JJB Fashionista '09
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I don't understand why she'd do this.
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Posts: 20310 (06/29/2009 8:43 PM) |
who knows if she is really happy or just wants to be engaged/married.
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Posts: 24337 (06/29/2009 8:44 PM) |
I'm sure that'll last
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Posts: 22801 (06/29/2009 8:44 PM) |
BlackStilettos wrote:Because she is an attention whore. |
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Posts: 29088 (06/29/2009 8:46 PM) |
How is she an attention whore? She didn't give the magazine an interview. Someone close to her spilled about her personal life. She's allowed to move
on. If it doesn't end well, it doesn't. But its no different than any other relationship.
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Posts: 22802 (06/29/2009 8:47 PM) |
Lideem wrote:I am starting to think that she knew that she was about to dumped on TV because she is totally milking it. I don't know who is the bigger pathetic attention whore: her or Kendra. |
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Posts: 22803 (06/29/2009 8:49 PM) |
99thdegree wrote:Move on from what? The dumping on TV that was most likely faked and she was in on? Even if she was not in on, it is still what she gets for being so desperate for a man at only 26 that she had to go on a lame ass TV show to find a man. |
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Posts: 29089 (06/29/2009 8:52 PM) |
dawn9476 wrote:The whole board gets you don't like her. Its very clear in the other 3-4 posts in a thread of 12 or 13. Calm yourself. People can have other opinions of her. |
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Posts: 14393 (06/29/2009 8:59 PM) |
Strickland, who was a frequent audience member during Rycroft's season eight Dancing stint, popped the question to the Dallas beauty at White's Chapel in Southlake, Texas.I thought that said "White Castle." I was like "...Whaaa?"
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Posts: 203 (06/29/2009 9:06 PM) |
She's so damn annoying. Go Away!
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Posts: 25302 (06/29/2009 9:08 PM) |
Congrats to her.
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Posts: 1767 (06/29/2009 9:11 PM) |
can't stand her
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Posts: 52 (06/29/2009 10:29 PM) |
Congratters to Melissa. I think she's great. I wish her much success and happiness.
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Posts: 2151 (06/29/2009 10:33 PM) |
Good for her, but it seems a bit soon, y/y?
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Posts: 3415 (06/29/2009 10:34 PM) |
Aww I love her. Congrats to them.
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Posts: 338 (06/29/2009 10:40 PM) |
For some strange reason she reminds me of Jessica Simpson?
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Posts: 76642 (06/30/2009 12:11 AM) JJBer of the Year '01
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Funny how they couldn't make it for 2 years and after she gets some minor celebrity he wants to marry here?!
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