{"id":202803,"date":"2025-10-10T14:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T14:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/202803\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T14:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T14:03:09","slug":"rocker-59-engaged-to-influencer-girlfriend-33-after-a-year-of-dating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/202803\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocker, 59, Engaged to Influencer Girlfriend, 33, After a Year of Dating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hootie &amp; the Blowfish frontman Darius Rucker announced his engagement to influencer Emily Deahl after a year of dating. The 59-year-old rocker announced the news on Instagram with a picture of him down on one knee. A second snap had the 33-year-old influencer showing off a golden ring on her finger. \u201cThank you for showing me a level of happiness I have never known,\u201d Rucker wrote in a caption accompanying the post, which Deahl reposted on her own Instagram Stories with a caption explaining her decision to stay quiet about her romance with the three-time Grammy winner. \u201cI never intended on keeping this part of my life from you guys for so long,\u2019 Deahl wrote, stating that she wanted to \u201cprotect\u201d their relationship, and expressed relief that she would no longer have to edit him out of pictures. Rucker previously went public with his relationship back on Sept. 9, which saw him receive a slew of kind words and support from fans. Deahl, meanwhile, has fended off comments about the couple\u2019s age gap, writing, \u201cMy frontal lobe has been developed for years, but thanks, guys.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"read-it-at-btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-15175921\/darius-rucker-engaged-influencer-emily-deahl.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Read it at Daily Mail<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hootie &amp; the Blowfish frontman Darius Rucker announced his engagement to influencer Emily Deahl after a year of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75,341],"class_list":{"0":"post-202803","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}