Zac Brown has a brilliant future! The nation star, 44, is engaged to mannequin and actress Kelly Yazdi, 31, and has been earlier this 12 months, PEOPLE confirmed on Thursday, December 8. According to the outlet, it was a romantic second, carried out within the tropical locale of Hawaii. “He proposed in Hawaii a while ago,” an insider informed the publication. “It was very intimate and the couple has kept it very private.”
It doesn’t come as a whole shock to sure eagle-eyed followers, nonetheless. In a July 31 Instagram video posted to the Zac Brown Band’s account, Kelly may very well be seen including her left hand — with a diamond engagement ring — to a bunch huddle as they sang “Happy Birthday” to the beaming musician earlier than a present.
The Ride Wild founder is a self-described “born adventurer, events producer, SAG-AFTRA actress, stuntwoman, and professional model,” per her private web site. As an actress, she’s been seen within the documentary Herb Ritts: L.A. Style and sequence together with Hawaii Five-O.
The beloved nation icon’s engagement comes 4 years after he break up from ex-wife Shelly, 38, with whom he shares 5 kids — a son, Alexander, 8, and daughters Joni, 11, Georgia, 12, Lucy, 14, and Justice, 15. The Zac Brown Band entrance man and Shelly have been married for twelve years, with the union ending in 2018.
“We feel blessed to be on such an incredible journey in life and sometimes the journey begins to lead in different directions,” the previous longtime couple stated in a joint assertion to People in October of 2018. “It is with deep love and respect that we announce we are separating as a couple. We have led a whirlwind life together growing into a beautiful family with five amazing children and while life will be rearranging a bit, our love and commitment to our family will always be there,” they continued.
“This was a difficult decision, but we’ve done plenty of tough things together and this is our next venture — love, mutual respect, and care for each other are what we are moving forward with. Family comes in all different forms,” they wrote. “We would like to ask that rather than commenting or spending any energy towards this, that you take this moment to send love to your family, in honor of ours.”
Just two years earlier in 2016, Zac and Shelly endured an unlucky incident that noticed Zac concerned in a drug raid at a Four Seasons Hotel in Florida. According to TMZ on the time, there have been additionally three strippers current in the course of the raid, although Zac wasn’t one of many 4 folks arrested within the incident.