Gabby Windey and Robby Hoffman are married.
The couple secretly tied the knot in a 20-minute ceremony in Las Vegas earlier this year, Windey confirmed to Cosmopolitan in an interview published on Wednesday, March 5.
“We had just evacuated from the fires. Literally cue Rihanna, ‘We found love in a hopeless place,’” Windey, 34, told the publication. “What better time to get married than right now? Because if the world is ending, we want to be with each other.”
Windey announced on January 8 that she and Hoffman, 35, evacuated their L.A. home due to the Pacific Palisades wildfires. The couple headed to Las Vegas and checked into a hotel that looked like a wedding suite — which is what planted the seed. Hoffman already had plans “to propose in six months,” Windey explained, so this just sped things up.
Gabby Windey and Robby Hoffman Courtesy of Gabby Windey/Instagram
“Gabby turned to me and she went, ‘Should we get married?’ And look: I’ve been proposing since the day I met her,” Hoffman explained. “We got to this room and it’s like out of a mafia movie, 12-foot ceilings, a separate bedroom from the living room, that type of hotel. And we were like, ‘Whoa.’ And then Gabby floated getting married.”
Windey added, “It was nice, it being my idea. Robby was literally ready to propose three weeks in and I’m always the one pumping the breaks, but when something feels right, it just feels right. I think it was better for the both of us that it was my idea.”
Hoffman explained that it “felt right” having a private wedding after living their relationship in the public eye. And yes, Hoffman did propose in a crossword puzzle before they walked down the aisle.
The former Bachelorette revealed in August 2023 that she had been dating the comedian for the past three months before going public with their relationship.
“[I’m] in a relationship like I feel like I’ve never had before,” Windey said in an Instagram Story video at the time. “But I wanted to tell you guys because I always just want to live my life honestly and have you all along with me.”
Prior to her relationship with Hoffman, Windey appeared on Clayton Echard’s season 26 of The Bachelor in 2022 and starred alongside Rachel Recchia as the co-lead for season 19 of The Bachelorette later that year. Windey got engaged to Erich Schwer on The Bachelorette, but the two split less than two months after his proposal aired.
Earlier that day, Windey broke the news about her relationship status during an August 2023 appearance on The View, sharing that she’d previously felt a “whisper” about being attracted to other women but it got “louder and louder” in recent years. Windey added that she could “see the future” with Hoffman in a way she hadn’t been able to in previous relationships.
“She is so special. She makes me feel so safe, so loved,” she raved. “Like, a love that I always wanted going on these dating shows, so now it’s like, ‘Yeah, exactly.’”
Windey told Us Weekly exclusively in October 2023 that she did want to marry Hoffman one day.
“I do want to get married. I think it’s another level of commitment to bring two people closer,” she said. “Whether I want to do it [again] right away — I think I’m just now getting on my feet, getting accustomed to this new life, really finding myself processing all the big change that’s happened in a couple of years. So I kind of want to revel in that and I don’t want to rush a relationship. I want to be in the beginning. I want things to look forward to.”
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