Mean Girls star Jonathan Bennett ‘ugly cried’ when boyfriend Jaymes Vaughan popped the question

He made his name as Aaron Samuels in the 2004 movie Mean Girls.

And on Monday, actor Jonathan Bennett confirmed he is engaged to boyfriend Jaymes Vaughan.

‘I said yes!’ Bennett posted on his Instagram alongside a montage of photos of the proposal. 

Bennett, 39, admitted that he ‘ugly cried like a crazy person’ when Vaughan got down on one knee to pop the question.

Vaughan, a former Amazing Race contestant turned TV host, had custom rings made for the couple and also serenaded Bennett with a song he had written specially for the occasion.  

Describing the proposal to People, Bennett recalled: ‘When I saw Jaymes take a knee, I was so excited. I just started hysterically screaming because I didn’t know how to express myself properly.’

He went on: ‘There was a moment when you feel like ‘Oh, this is forever, I understand it.’ I screamed ‘Yes’ immediately. Actually it was, ‘Yes! Of course!”

The actor told the outlet that he ‘can’t wait’ to be married and said he knew from the first moment he met Vaughan that they were meant to be together.

‘What we have is really special. It’s the thing people make movies about or, I guess in this case, write songs about,’ he said.

‘I think we’ve both known since the day we met on set at Jaymes’s show that we were going to be each other’s person. It feels like family being with him. I feel like there’s nothing in the world we can’t accomplish when we are together.’

The news comes a week after the premiere of Bennett’s Hallmark Channel movie The Christmas House, in which he stars as the network’s first gay male lead in an original film.