CNN Tonight anchor Don Lemon is officially engaged. His boyfriend, real estate agent Tim Malone, proposed — by having their two dogs, Boomer and Barkley, wear collars with tags that read, “Daddy Will You Marry Papa?” Lemon revealed this on Instagram with a caption that reads, “He gave me a present on his birthday. How could I say no?”
Malone proposed after he and Lemon celebrated Malone’s birthday on Friday at a Manhattan restaurant. They have been together since 2016 and famously shared an on-air New Years’ Eve kiss to ring in 2018 as part of CNN’s coverage.
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Fin Leary is an award-winning editor and journalist. He is currently the Communications Manager of the nonprofit We Need Diverse Books and on the faculty of Emerson College. Leary was the senior editor for Equally Wed Magazine from August 2018 to March 2020. His work has been published in New York Times, Washington Post, Refinery29, Healthline, Teen Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Boston Globe Magazine, and more. In 2017, he was awarded a Bookbuilders of Boston scholarship for his dedication to amplifying marginalized voices and advocating for an equitable publishing and media industry. You can find Fin on Instagram @finleary.
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