Vanessa Williams is Engaged!

There’s a wedding in Vanessa Williams’ future, and she’s got a big, beautiful ring to prove it. The actress and former Miss America made her announcement while visiting Queen Latifah’s talk show, and she’s going into detail about her new engagement, her wedding and her life in general. Not only did the gorgeous actress recently celebrate her 50th birthday, she’s engaged to a man by the name of Jim Skrip, hailing from Buffalo.

“Vanessa, I have been trying to have a conversation with you ladies and gents, but I am blinded by the light coming from that bling ring on your finger,” said Latifah to Williams.

“Oh, sorry darling. I got engaged. I have had a lot of good things happen…I turned 50 when we were in rehearsal on Broadway, I just got engaged a couple of weeks ago. It has been a lot of blessings,” Williams told Latifah.

She’s the mother of four and she’s been divorced twice, but that hasn’t stopped her from believing in true love and a happy ending. She’s currently in the process of starring in The Trip to Bountiful, a touring revival of the hit. Cicely Tyson and Blair Underwood are her costars, and the show opened over the weekend in Los Angeles.

Williams’ engagement must be the favorite subject to discuss on the set of their rehearsals given the look that Blair Underwood got when Latifah and Williams began talking about her upcoming wedding. He’s obviously heard more than his fair share of the story based on his look of resignation. Girl talk, apparently, is not for this particular gentleman. Since Williams is busy with her play, she’s probably not going to dive right into wedding plans, but there’s plenty of time for that when her role in the production ends and she’s got a little more free time.

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