Generally speaking, a good reporter tries to make the story about anything but themselves.
But one local reporter in Green Bay, Wisconsin revealed his “story” Tuesday night was an elaborate set-up, one which ended with him surprising his longtime girlfriend at work to “pop the question.”
WFRV-TV reporter Evan Kruegel started off his report innocuously enough, with anchors Erin Davisson and Tom Zalaski throwing to a live shot of Kruegel reporting on a “developing story out of Appleton.”
“The story has been developing for a number of years: A boy and a girl who fell in love, and tonight that boy has something he wants to ask her,” Evan begins his report. “It is a story that might be easier to show you rather than to tell you.”
WATCH: Reporter left speechless as boyfriend proposes live on the air
With that, Kuregel runs off camera, as a video montage begins showing him buying flowers before driving to Pinot’s Palette, where his longtime girlfriend Rachel was teaching a painting class.
The jig is clearly up as soon as Evan enters the room followed by a news camera, with the class oohing and awing as he gets down on one knee in front of Rachel.
“Rachel, you made me promise to you that I would never propose to you on a jumbotron at a sporting event, but you never said anything about live TV,” Kruegel jokes, before asking for her hand in marriage.
Luckily for Evan and for viewers, Rachel says yes.
“I hate you,” she jokes as the two embrace amidst the applause of the art class students.
Like a true professional, Kruegel even throws back to his anchors after getting his yes, and Davisson even has to wipe a tear from her eye following the impressive proposal.
The couple first met in high school in Boulder, Colorado, and begun dating six years ago in college.
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