Valerie Bertinelli is engaged! The former One Day at a Time star, now 50, and her boyfriend of nearly six years — Tom Vitale — will be married in a ceremony set for later this year.
“After Ed (ex-husband Eddie Van Halen) and I separated, I thought, ‘I’ll finish raising my son, and I’ll go away, have about 40 cats, and just get nice and fat.’ I thought I would be alone for the rest of my life, because I didn’t want the responsibility. Relationships are too hard.”
“We’d talked about getting married,” Bertinelli tells the July/August issue of AARP The Magazine. “But I was still shocked. It was sweet when he asked me, because he was so scared. I was like, ‘Are you kidding me?’”
The slimmed-down Jenny Craig spokesmodel is letting Tom plan the nuptials, which are set for this fall.
“He already knows the different kinds of bells he wants to go off during the ceremony,” she says.
There’s more on Val’s upcoming wedding in the new issue of AARP The Magazine, on newsstands May 24.
Check out Valerie on the new TV Land sitcom Hot In Cleveland, premiering next month.