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Jon Gosselin is getting married!
The 48-year-old former reality star and father of eight married girlfriend Stephanie Lebo on Sunday, Nov. 23, Entertainment Tonight reported, sharing a video of the wedding on YouTube.
The couple had an intimate ceremony at The Barn at Silverstone in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, surrounded by 180 loved ones, including two of John’s eight children, Hannah and Colin, both 21, and Lebo’s daughter Juliana. Colin served as one of his father’s attendants.
“Until I met you, I never knew what it felt like to look at someone and smile for no reason,” John told Lebo during the ceremony, according to ET. “I feel like the luckiest man in the world because I get to grow old with my best friend and the love of my life.”
The bride walked down the aisle wearing Tasha Wedding Dress by Eddie K.
According to ET, the newlyweds are planning a Caribbean cruise for their honeymoon next year.
The Jon & Kate Plus 8 alum first met Lebo at a mutual friend’s backyard barbecue in August 2021, shortly after he split from ex Colleen Conrad. The two soon began dating quietly and went public with their relationship in August 2023, revealing the origins of their romance in an exclusive interview with US Sun.
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After meeting at the rally, Lebo, a former hairdresser and research analyst, said, “I got tagged in a post about it on Instagram, and John wrote, ‘That was a really cool candle,’ and I wrote, ‘So cool to meet you.'” ”
That was “basically” all it took for the two to become a couple, she told the magazine. “We started DMing each other and we couldn’t stop talking after that.”
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At the time, the now-married couple also opened up about how their past experiences brought them closer together. “We have a lot in common because we’ve both been around people who weren’t the best for us,” Lebo told The Sun.
Lebo also said she “knew about his past” but didn’t treat him any differently because of it, and Gosselin recalled the moment they first talked about their children.
“She told me, ‘I have kids,’ and I just said, ‘Kids? Who cares, I have eight!'” he told the outlet. “We’re really happy and in love. We’re very comfortable with each other and it’s a perfect fit.”
“I feel like it took me 19 years to find Steph,” he added. “After all the trials and tribulations, heartbreaks, fights and worrying about who was going to tell the press about me, I finally met Steph.”
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Gosselin proposed to Lebo in November 2024, but Gosselin had begun considering an engagement to the research analyst months earlier.
In April 2024, the former reality star revealed to PEOPLE that she was “the one” and said she would “definitely” pop the question within a year.
“I’m with her. She really supports me,” he said, explaining how Lebo has been there for him outside of the spotlight. “She doesn’t really want to go out in public, so she doesn’t come to red carpet events or anything like that.”
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And while Gosselin has married again – previously to his Jon & Kate Plus 8 co-star Kate Gosselin for 10 years from 1999 to 2009 – he has dropped the idea of having more children. (The former couple have twins Maddie and Carla, sextuplets Alexis, Hannah, Arden, Colin, Leah and Joel, and Lebo has a daughter.)
“That’s not going to happen because we’re both healing,” he told PEOPLE at the time. “We can’t reverse it. We’ve been annoying enough to fix it, so we’re not going to go down that path.”
“I’m 47 years old. She’s 36,” he added. “We just want to enjoy life.”
