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Serena Williams Engaged to Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian – and Announces on Reddit!

Wedding bells are ringing for Serena Williams!  
Serena Williams is Engaged!
Sylvain Gaboury
By Char Adams · Updated October 26, 2020

This article was originally posted on PEOPLE.

Serena Williams has announced that she is engaged to Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, 33. Fittingly, she broke the news on Reddit in the form of a poem.

“I came home. A little late. Someone had a bag packed for me. And a carriage waited. Destination: Rome,” Williams, 35, wrote on her verified Reddit account.

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“To escort me to my very own ‘charming.’ Back to where our stars first collided. And now it was full circle. At the same table we first met by chance.”

She continued: “But by choice. Down on knee. He said 4 words. And I said yes.” Ohanian shared the Reddit post on Facebook, simply writing, “She said yes.”

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The engagement comes as a surprise to many – Williams and Ohanian have kept their love off of social media.

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A photo posted by Serena Williams (@serenawilliams) on Nov 28, 2016 at 6:14pm PST

 

 

TOPICS:  Serena Williams