’Drag Race’ Star Announces Engagement to Longtime Partner

Everybody say Love! 2025 has been a big year for celebrity couples, with plenty of former reality stars announcing that they’re preparing to tie the know. Among the stars who’ve announced their engagements in 2025 are the likes “Dancing With the Stars” alum Lacey Schwimmer and her partner Frankie Moreno,”Southern Hospitality” co-stars Emmy Sharrett and Will Kulp, and “Bachelor in Paradise” alum Tyler Norris, who announced that he’d popped the question to former “The Voice” contestant, Alyssa Sheridan, in May. 

More recently, a former “RuPaul’s Drag Race” alum became the latest reality star to announce their engagement in 2025. 

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Season 17’s Lexi Love Shares Heartwarming Engagement Snaps

Lexi Love, who appeared on Season 17 of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” earlier this year, announced her engagement to her longtime partner, Jay Groff. Love, who made it all the way to the finale of Season 17 before being eliminated in 3rd/4th place, took to Instagram to announce the news on June 18, sharing a few heartwarming snaps of the couple.

In one photo, a large bridal veil – that Love handcrafted for a Betsey Jonhson-inspired design challenge on Season 17 – is draped over the couple as they stand in an open field, dressed all in white. 

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“We got ENGAGED!” announced the queen and her fiance in the joint Instagram post, adding, “I could write a book about my love for you but I’ll just say this: I promise to love you to my fullest capacity everyday for as long as we both live.”

Since sharing the major life update, Love and Groff has received an outpouring of support and congratulations from the “Drag Race” community, including comments from former contestants like “All Stars 6” winner, Kylie Sonique Love, who wrote, “Congratulations love.”

“OMGGGG,” added Love’s Season 17 co-star Suzie Toot. “CONGRATS BABY.”

Also from the Season 17 cast, Jewels Sparkles and Lana Ja’Rae similarly took to the comments to celebrate Love’s engagement. 

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Lexi Opens Up About how Sobriety Saved her Relationship

The news follows just weeks after the 34-year-old drag artist told fans that was taking a “step back” from drag to focus on her “mental, [physical], and emotional health.” Since making her “Drag Race” debut, the queen has been transparent about her difficult past, particularly concerning her young adult years spent living as a homeless trans teenager in Kentucky. 

On Season 17, Lexi addressed her youth, telling “Drag Race” audiences: “I was a homeless drug addict.” The queen later revealed that her addiction has followed her into adulthood as she began touring the world as “Kentucky’s Roller-Derby Doll.”

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After becoming a Ru-Girl earlier this year, that queen revealed that the problem only escalated with her new-found fame: “It was a little problem, let’s say, in the background, and once the full-fledged reality of touring, and I think just like the success overnight, really kind of carried me away into that lifestyle to where it was just everyday, and I had no control whatsoever.”

In May, following the finale of her season, Love announced that she would be entering a 30-day treatment center to address her ongoing substance abuse issues. 

A few weeks later, Love returned to social media to inform fans that, while she had to leave the rehab facility early due to “unforeseen circumstances,” she was, at the time, celebrating 19 days of sobriety. 

Following her engagement to Groff, Lexi spoke candidly about how, in the past, her sobriety had put the couple’s relationship at risk, and had even briefly ended before Love entered rehab. 

“We talked about getting together and marrying each other, but he was very adamant that he wanted to take a lot more time, or that I had to prove myself and my love for him, or [my] dedication to sobriety before he would even consider something so serious,” Lexi told PRIDE. 

Now sober, Love revealed that the couple plan on tying the knot next Pride Month, not only marking their one-year engagement anniversary, but also Love’s first year of sobriety. Already planning ahead, the “Drag Race” star added that she’s dreaming of a lavish wedding, attended by her Season 17 co-stars, and officiated by Season 15 champion, Sasha Colby. 

“Life is so beautiful,” concluded the newly-engaged queen. “I forget that and I think that ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ was brought into my life, not for the fame or the success, but it was actually brought into my life to give me a reason to get clean and stay clean and actually enjoy what real life is and just to have somebody that gets me and sees me.”