- Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino proposed to longtime girlfriend and college sweetheart Lauren Pesce.
- The pair announced their engagement — after many years of dating — through a series of Instagram pictures.
- A "Jersey Shore: Family Vacation" episode of the proposal is forthcoming.
We’ve got a situation on our hands: Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino is officially off the market.
The 35-year-old reality star who had once famously warned the world to "Lock up your daughters, handcuff your wives" announced on social media Thursday that he’d popped the question to longtime girlfriend Lauren Pesce — and she said yes!
Us Weekly was first to report the news.
"I have always dreamed of proposing on Jersey Shore, the show that introduced me to the world," Sorrentino told the magazine. "I’m currently living the dream and proposed to my college sweetheart, Lauren Pesce, amongst my best friends on the biggest reality show in the country"
"We are so proud and excited to share this chapter of our story with the world."
The Situation’s Instagram caption situation was decidedly more...Situation-like.
"GYM TAN WE’RE ENGAGED!!" he wrote underneath a photo of the couple on a carousel.
"THE FUTURE MR & MRS SITUATION," he captioned a photo of himself on one knee.
"SHE SAID YES !!! 🙏🏻❤"
Pesce shared the news to her own Instagram via selfie and a close-up of her baller ring. "I said YES 💍 love you forever."
So what's the back story with the soon-to-be Mr. and Mrs. Situation? The couple dated in college, split up before Sorrentino’s appearance on Jersey Shore, and rekindled their romance in 2012. Pesce stood by her man’s side throughout prescription drug addiction (he’s now 28 months sober!) and pleading guilty to tax evasion (he’s awaiting sentencing.)
"She is the one for sure. She's been through you know good times and bad times, the ups and downs," he said to ET in March. "She saw me at my worst and she deserves me at my best."
We’ll be impatiently waiting for this proposal to air on "Jersey Shore: Family Vacation."
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