“90 Day Fiancé” star Ed “Big Ed” Brown says it was “love at first sight” with now-fiancée Porscha Raemond, whom he proposed to 24 hours after meeting in Plantation, Fla., last Friday.
“So I’m there carrying out these big sandwiches with sparklers. It’s crazy. And in walks this beautiful Italian dish. Her name is Porscha,” he exclusively tells Page Six host Astra of their first encounter.
“She comes up, gives me the warmest hug. … She gives me a big kiss on the cheek.”
Brown immediately “hit it off” with his “dream girl” Raemond after she arrived the sandwich shop Capriotti’s specifically to him.
“We felt the sparks,” he fondly remembers.
Brown — who rose to fame on Season 4 of TLC’s “90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days” — says he asked her to dinner at YOLO in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., with his friends the following night. It was at that dinner that he decided he wanted to marry her.
Though he did not have a ring, his pal encouraged him to pop the question.
“I get down on one knee and everyone goes crazy. The restaurant was freaking out,” Brown, 59, recalls.
“I said, ‘Look I never want to let you go. I think I met the one. I want to marry you.’ And she said, ‘Yes,’ and we hugged and we kissed.”
“[We were] kissing and smooching the whole night,” the reality star adds. “I’m in love.”
While Brown confirms that he proposed with a paperclip ring made by the restaurant manager, he tells Page Six he’s eventually going to purchase a sparkler that will match the quality of Tiffany & Co.
He also says he plans to take the engagement “slow” — revealing that the two have not even consummated the relationship.
“No, [we haven’t done anything], other than kissing, French kissing, which is a big deal,” Brown says. “If you’re kissing somebody with tongue it’s pretty important, right?”
And although his family believes the proposal was for “publicity,” he assures Page Six that this is the real deal for him.
“For me, this was the realest thing ever. For [my family], everybody is freaking out, including my daughter,” Brown says. “But in my heart … I can’t wait.”
The reality TV star shares his adult daughter, Tiffany, with his ex-wife, Sandra Heckman. They split in 1992 due to his infidelity.
He later got engaged to Rosemarie “Rose” Vega on “90 Day Fiancé” in 2020. Following their breakup, he got engaged again to Liz Woods while filming “90 Day: The Single Life” in 2021.
However, they had a rocky relationship after the show and split in April of this year.
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