It was love at first chunk.
Steven Krueger and Candice King first met in 2013 whereas filming “The Vampire Diaries” spinoff “The Originals,” and now they’re engaged.
Not solely is Krueger, 35, marrying King, 38, however he’s gaining two step-daughters, because the “Kingshighway” actress is mother to daughters Florence, 9, and Josephine, 4, with ex-husband Joe King.
“It’s amazing. They are the sweetest children,” Krueger gushed completely to The Put up at a fundraiser for the Widows, Orphans & Disabled Firefighter’s Fund placed on by the Tv Academy Basis final Sunday. (The actress filed for divorce from the Fray guitarist in April 2022 after almost seven years of marriage.)
“I have two nieces, so I’ve been around young girls before, but they are truly the most wonderful human beings ever, and we have such a great relationship. It’s very sweet I get to take them on as well.”
After going Instagram official in 2023, the “Yellowjackets” star and the “Supernatural” alum have been inseparable, so popping the query was inevitable.
“I think it’s been a long time coming,” Krueger admitted. “We’ve been together for a couple of years now, and it’s something I’ve been thinking about for a while. She has kids, so we wanted to make sure they were ready as well.”
The day of the proposal got here as a shock to Candice, although.
“I think she knew at some point,” he continued, “but it was definitely a surprise on the day when it happened.”
Proper now, the pair are sinking their tooth into engaged life.
“We are starting to have conversations,” stated Krueger about marriage ceremony planning. “I think, for the moment, we are enjoying the engagement; we’re not going to rush it. We want to see how work stuff goes over the next year. But we are starting to toss around some ideas about where we want to do it [and] exactly what we want to do. There’s a lot of possibilities.”
The actor shared that “right now, we are really debating if we want a big, traditional, fancy wedding or if we do a smaller thing with family and friends somewhere exotic.”
“I think once we settle on one of those, then we’ll have some things to bite into.”
Candice starred as Caroline Forbes within the CW drama and later the spinoff, whereas Krueger got here into the universe as Josh Rosza. The supernatural world additionally included Nina Dobrev, Ian Somerhalder, Paul Wesley, Zach Roerig, Kat Graham, Michael Trevino, Joseph Morgan and Daniel Gillies.
The TV household will all the time be certain by blood, a lot in order that the solid will rating invitations to the upcoming nuptials.
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“I would assume most of them,” Krueger confirmed. “We are going to our friend Michael Trevino’s wedding, who is also on ‘Vampire Diaries,’ in a few weeks. So there will be a lot of the cast there, and we’ll have most of the people at ours.”
“We have a bunch of group chats,” famous Krueger. “Little ones going and then these fan conventions all the time. It’s so fun because a few times a year, we all get together and reminisce about old times and just catch up with each other, and we don’t see each other all that much outside of it.”
Whereas all of the gamers in “The Vampire Diaries” universe have branched out to separate tasks, the actor would like to get again on the display screen together with his real-life fiancée.
“I think that’s in the cards,” he teased. “I think if we could star in some sort of rom-com together, that would be amazing. That’s where we’re heading.”
“I was this close to being a lawyer and almost went to law school,” he defined, “and took a sharp left turn and ended up doing this instead. So I’ve always said at some point, it will come full circle, and I will get to play a lawyer on TV. So I think that’s in the future. You can never have too many [legal dramas].”
He might need extra free time to tackle a prestigious lawyer now that his character, Coach Ben Scott, died in Season 3 of the Showtime thriller “Yellowjackets.”
Regardless of enjoying the soccer crew’s mentor, Krueger understood why Coach Scott needed to go.
“[The showrunners] said, ‘Hey, this season is going to be the end for Coach Ben,’ which I kind of had an inkling,” he recalled to The Put up earlier this month. “We had discussed it kind of informally at the very beginning of the show. So, I kind of knew Season 3 was about the time range.”
Krueger’s co-stars shared that his demise was the toughest for them to come back to phrases with — a sentiment the star appreciated together with being advised his impending demise was coming.
“I’ve never been given like the courtesy of being told well, in advance, you know,” expressed Krueger. “This was, like, four months before we ever started filming. So truly everything was done in such a kind way, and it allowed me to kind of also prepare for exactly what I needed to do for kind of the overall arc of the season.”
