After a year of playing coy about her relationship status with Cass Bird, Jenna Lyons confirmed that the giant diamond on her ring finger is, in fact, an engagement ring. The Real Housewives of New York City star announced that the couple are planning a wedding during an appearance on Sherri with her new co-star, Racquel Chevremont, earlier this week.
Host Sherri Shepherd was talking to Chevremont about her own enormous engagement ring when she turned the spotlight on Lyons. “I think I saw an engagement ring in the [RHONY] trailer,” Shepherd said to Lyons. “How could you miss that?” Chevremont joked. Lyons said that her ring paled in comparison to Chevremont’s, but Shepherd insisted that Bird had done well.
“When we were in the store I was like, ‘That one’s not big enough,’” Lyons said of her experience ring shopping. The fashion icon defended the size of her ring by exclaiming, “I’m six-feet tall!”
Lyons and Bird have been together since last year and sparked engagement rumors just a few months after making their relationship public. In an Instagram post from last September, Lyons was wearing a ring that looked a lot like her current engagement ring. At the time, a source told People, “She’s not engaged. She’s had that ring forever, and though it does look like an engagement ring, it’s not.”
However, when Lyons went on Watch What Happens Live that October, she didn’t explicitly deny the engagement rumors. “So, basically, here’s the story: My girlfriend, who I adore, kept telling me that I had to button my shirt, and I said, ‘If you want me to button my shirt, you have to put a ring on it,’” she told Andy Cohen. “We’re just really happy, and she gave me the ring that I wanted.”
Cut to a year later, and these two have gone public with their engagement — but don’t expect a wedding anytime soon. Lyons told Shepherd that, while she and Bird are “working on” setting a date for their wedding, nothing is set in stone yet. When Chevremont said she and her fiancée were hoping for a June wedding, Lyons said, “I don’t know if we’re that close. But it’s happening.”