Ted Lasso star Brendan Hunt will get engaged to longtime girlfriend Shannon Nelson

Simply weeks after his hit Apple TV Plus collection Ted Lasso wrapped up its third and apparently ultimate season, co-creator and star Brendan Hunt is getting engaged.

The 50-year-old actor and author, who performed Coach Beard on the collection which he co-created with star Jason Sudeikis, Invoice Lawrence and Joe Kelly, took to Instagram on Thursday night to disclose the information that he popped the query to girlfriend Shannon Nelson.

Hunt – who was featured in a picture shared by Apple TV Plus that has followers hoping for a Ted Lasso spin-off – shared a snap of Nelson exhibiting off her engagement ring, including within the caption, ‘The majestic @snoopshann, so hardly ever photographed in her pure habitat, captured right here within the act of claiming “sure.”‘

Nelson shared the identical snap plus one other of her and Hunt exhibiting off the rock, with a heartfelt caption.

‘We’re a household. A phenomenal fantastic household and will likely be for all the time,’ Nelson started, referring to the two-year-old son they share, Sean Theodore Nelson Hunt. 

Brendan and Shannon: Simply weeks after his hit Apple TV Plus collection Ted Lasso wrapped up its third and apparently ultimate season, co-creator and star Brendan Hunt is getting engaged

Engagement: Hunt – who was featured in a picture shared by Apple TV Plus that has followers hoping for a Ted Lasso spin-off – shared a snap of Nelson exhibiting off her engagement ring, including within the caption, ‘The majestic @snoopshann, so hardly ever photographed in her pure habitat, captured right here within the act of claiming “sure”‘

‘Some of us have assumed we had already accomplished this, however fact be instructed we had different priorities in changing into a household,’ she admitted.

‘Now it feels proper. I get to marry this lovely man. I get to name him my husband and to be his spouse and I’m the luckiest,’ she concluded with a purple coronary heart emoji.

Whereas it is unclear how lengthy they’ve been collectively, the couple steadily share candy snaps and messages on social media of their son.

Again in June 2021, for Hunt’s first ever Father’s Day, she shared a candy snap addressed to Hunt.

‘I’m so excited to look at Sean uncover day-after-day what a jackpot he received getting you to be his Dad,’ she started.

‘Right here’s to a lifetime of Father’s Days and a few which will even permit you extra sleep. We love you a lot!’ she concluded.

When Hunt’s hit present Ted Lasso got here to an finish final month, she shared extra snaps of her household from the set plus one other heartfelt message.

‘Our household is so grateful for each a part of this Ted Lasso journey. To say goals got here true through the course of this present is a gross understatement,’ she started.

Extra snaps: Nelson shared the identical snap plus one other of her and Hunt exhibiting off the rock, with a heartfelt caption

Marry: ‘Now it feels proper. I get to marry this lovely man. I get to name him my husband and to be his spouse and I’m the luckiest,’ she concluded with a purple coronary heart emoji

Unclear: Whereas it is unclear how lengthy they’ve been collectively, the couple steadily share candy snaps and messages on social media of their son

‘Lasso Child #2 will all the time know a world with Ted and his mates in it and that could be a superb, superb factor,’ she added.

‘Congratulations to this whole solid and crew and to all of our new mates made on this journey and everybody in Barnes and Richmond and London who welcomed us with open arms,’ she continued.

‘Particular like to our Beard who creates magic in all places he goes. TL#2 and his Mommy are so pleased with you and what you helped make. Tonight/tomorrow we are saying goodbye to Nelson Rd. and we are able to’t watch for what comes subsequent,’ she concluded.

Hunt additionally wrote for the upcoming TV collection Animals starring Jane Lynch.