Vanessa Williams: 'I Got Engaged!'
Is Vanessa Williams saving the best beau for last?
The former Ugly Betty star announced Friday that she's ready to get married for the third time to newly minted fiancé Jim Skrip.
Williams shared the happy news during an appearance on The Queen Latifah Show recorded Friday and set to air Tuesday. Williams appeared to promote the Los Angeles engagement of her Broadway play, The Trip to Bountiful, co-starring Cicely Tyson and Blair Underwood, both of whom accompanied her to the taping.
"Vanessa, I have been trying to have a conversation with you ladies and gents, but I am blinded by the light coming from that bling ring on your finger," Latifah said. "Is there something that we need to know about around here?"
"Oh, sorry, darling, I got engaged," Williams shared. "I have had a lot of good things happen — I turned 50 when we were in rehearsal on Broadway, I just got engaged a couple of weeks ago. It has been a lot of blessings on this trip."
Williams spoke briefly last February about Skrip — a former real estate agent and accountant —with the Philadelphia Inquirer.
"He's a guy I met a year and a half ago when I was on vacation with my daughter in Egypt," Williams said. "You go across the world to find somebody who's six hours away."
She also referred to the Buffalo native as "just a nice, regular, gorgeous guy," noting at the time that he was her Valentine this year.
The former Miss America winner has been twice married: first to PR exec Ramon Hervey II, with whom she has two daughters, Melanie, 27, and Jillian, 25, and one son, Devin, 21.
Her second marriage was to former NBA player Rick Fox. They have one daughter together, Sasha, 14.
After a tumultuous reign as Miss America in 1984, Williams has kept busy on stage and screen. Her roles include Kiss of the Spider Woman (1994) and Into the Woods (2002) on Broadway, along with such TV series as Desperate Housewives and the short-lived 666 Park Avenue, both on ABC.
She also has had a successful singing career, hitting No. 1 in 1991 with "Save the Best for Last."
