A representative for Ribisi confirmed the news on Thursday evening: ‘Agyness Deyn and Giovanni Ribisi quietly married in Los Angeles over the weekend.’

We probably wouldn’t know anything about Deyn’s new marital status if an employee of the Crown City News, a local news website in California, hadn’t been standing in front of the couple as they queued to apply for a marriage license in East LA last Friday.

The reporter recognised Ribisi (still best known as Phoebe Buffay’s brother Frank from Friends) ‘passionately kissing’ a woman with an English accent in the queue. Then this happened:

When I realized who he was, I asked him if he was Giovanni Ribisi. He was very friendly, and said yes he was, and I told him I enjoyed his work. He thanked me and then asked me if I was getting married today, and I said no, we had waited too long and that it was finally time to get our child’s birth certificate. I asked him and the blond woman if they were getting married today and they quietly said yes, in a shy kind of way.

Deyn and Ribisi told Tami DeVine they had dated for ‘awhile’ before letting her snap a quick iPhone photo.

It’s a super-sweet pairing made all the more winsome by the fact that we never saw it coming. Congratulations to the lovebirds.

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