'Ted Lasso' Star Brendan Hunt Announces Engagement to Longtime Girlfriend Shannon Nelson

Coach Beard is getting married!

On Thursday (June 29), Ted Lasso co-creator, writer, and star Brendan Hunt announced that he recently proposed to longtime girlfriend Shannon Nelson.

“The majestic @snoopshann, so rarely photographed in her natural habitat, captured here in the act of saying ‘yes,’” Brendan, 51, wrote on Instagram along with a photo of Shannon showing off her engagement ring.

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Shannon shared the same photo on her own Instagram, along with a selfie of she and Brendan, and wrote, “We are a family. A beautiful wonderful family and will be for always. Some folks have assumed we had already done this, but truth be told we had other priorities in becoming a family. Now it feels right. I get to marry this beautiful man. I get to call him my husband and to be his wife and I am the luckiest.❤️”

Brendan and Shannon are already parents to 2-year-old son Sean.

In a recent interview, Brendan teased the possibility of more Ted Lasso in the future.

Congrats Brendan and Shannon!