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Ria Atayde, Zanjoe Marudo are now engaged

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Nikka Avegail Sabio

<p>Celebrity couple Ria Atayde and Zanjoe Marudo are now engaged after two years of dating.</p><p>In an Instagram post, Ria announced their engagement with a photo of herself and Zanjoe together and another photo of her hand wearing the engagement ring.</p><p>“Forever sounds good 🤍💍,” the Nag-aapoy na Damdamin star wrote.</p><div><iframe class="instagram-media instagram-media-rendered" id="instagram-embed-0" src="https://www.instagram.com/p/C3jey6ovtIX/embed/?cr=1&amp;v=14&amp;wp=506&amp;rd=https%3A%2F%2Fent-workbench-web.abs-cbn.com&amp;rp=%2F#%7B%22ci%22%3A0%2C%22os%22%3A586352.5%2C%22ls%22%3A585703.7000000002%2C%22le%22%3A586218.5%7D" allowtransparency="true" allowfullscreen="" frameBorder="0" height="880" data-instgrm-payload-id="instagram-media-payload-0" scrolling="no" style="background:white;max-width:540px;width:calc(100% - 2px);border-radius:3px;border:1px solid rgb(219, 219, 219);box-shadow:none;display:block;margin:0px 0px 12px;min-width:326px;padding:0px"></iframe></div><script async="" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script><p>Zanjoe then commented, “And tastes even better ❤.”</p><p>The actor also posted a photo of himself kissing Ria while showing her engagement ring in his Instagram story.</p><p>“HI FIANCE (waving hands emoji),” Zanjoe wrote in the caption.</p><p>sss</p><p>Celebrity friends and family expressed their excitement for the couple&#x27;s news as they embark on a new chapter in their lives.</p><p>“Ily both!!! 💗💗💗💗💗💗 congrats and best wishes z and riri!!!! 🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷,” Dirty Linen actress Janine Gutierrez commented.</p><p>“OMG!!!!! My heartfelt congratulations go out to the both of you!!!!! God bless you (Ria Atayde) (Zanjoe Marudo) 🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍,” Gary Valenciano remarked.</p><p>Zanjoe’s sister also posted her message. Ria’s brother Arjo Atayde and his wife Maine Mendoza also sent their congratulations to the couple.</p><p>“❤❤❤ congrats my kuya (Zanjoe Marudo) and my future sis in law!!! Love you both (Ria Atayde) 😍😍😍😘😘😘,” Zaniejean Marudo stated.</p><div style="text-align:center"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/Ria-Atayde-Zanjoe-Marudo-are-now-engaged_.jpg" style="width:400px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt="Ria Atayde, Zanjoe Marudo are now engaged"/></div><p>“Yaaaay love you guys! ❤,” actress and host Maine Mendoza said.</p><p>“Love you two!” The Bag Man star Arjo Atayde also commented.</p><p>Joshua Garcia, Angelica Panganiban, Maja Salvador, Enchong Dee, Jolina Magdangal, Arisse De Santos, Trina Guytingco, Maris Racal, Lovi Poe, Kaila Estrada, Darren Espanto, Denise Laurel, and LA Tenorio were among other personalities who expressed their happiness over Ria and Zanjoe’s engagement.</p><p>The couple have known each other since working together on the ABS-CBN drama My Dear Heart in 2017.</p><div><iframe class="instagram-media instagram-media-rendered" id="instagram-embed-1" src="https://www.instagram.com/p/C3U0y7_vkJE/embed/?cr=1&amp;v=14&amp;wp=506&amp;rd=https%3A%2F%2Fent-workbench-web.abs-cbn.com&amp;rp=%2F#%7B%22ci%22%3A1%2C%22os%22%3A586366.7999999998%2C%22ls%22%3A585703.7000000002%2C%22le%22%3A586218.5%7D" allowtransparency="true" allowfullscreen="" frameBorder="0" height="880" data-instgrm-payload-id="instagram-media-payload-1" scrolling="no" style="background:white;max-width:540px;width:calc(100% - 2px);border-radius:3px;border:1px solid rgb(219, 219, 219);box-shadow:none;display:block;margin:0px 0px 12px;min-width:326px;padding:0px"></iframe></div><script async="" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script><p>They became good friends and later on confirmed that they were dating following months of romance rumors surrounding the two in January 2023.</p><p>“Yes, parang it’s out in the open naman na, so yes,” Zanjoe said during an interview on ANC’s Headstart with Karen Davila.</p><p>Ria also said in an interview with ABS-CBN News that she is happy with her current relationship with the actor whom she referred to as her best friend.</p><p>“I am very happy right now. I am in a relationship where I feel valued and where there’s so much mutual respect, mutual admiration. Very much [like part of the family], I’d say,” she said.</p><div><a href="https://push-web.abs-cbn.com/2023/7/24/ria-atayde-wishes-zanjoe-marudo-happy-birthday-1028"><strong>READ: Ria Atayde wishes Zanjoe Marudo happy birthday<br/></strong></a></div><p>She went on: “We’ve been friends kasi for so long. Siguro last year, [we made it official in] 2022 for sure.”</p><p>The actress also admitted that she considered Zanjoe &quot;the one.&quot;</p><p>“I feel like you don’t enter into a relationship unless you feel like there’s a chance they should be the one,” she remarked.</p><div><a href="https://push.abs-cbn.com/2023/1/17/ria-atayde-on-new-relationship-with-zanjoe-marudo-925"><strong>READ: Ria Atayde on her new relationship with Zanjoe Marudo: ‘We started from friends talaga’ <br/></strong></a></div><p>“Love life is meant to be something that makes you happy and I’m so glad that’s exactly what it is,” Ria added.</p>

<p>Celebrities express excitement over Ria Atayde and Zanjoe Marudo's engagement.</p>

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Ria Atayde and Zanjoe Marudo are now engaged

Nikka Sabio

Published February 20, 2024 01:23 PM PHT

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