Sara Bareilles kicked off 2023 with a particular announcement: she’s engaged to her boyfriend of 5 years, Joe Tippett. The “Girls5eva” star shared the information in an Instagram publish early on Sunday morning. The publish includes a image of Bareilles and Tippett grinning at each other whereas the Grammy Award winner casually reveals off her easy gold band.
The “Winter Tune” singer used the caption to gush about her new fiancé. “Sure to marrying this man,” she wrote. “It is a simple, earned, relaxed YES. @joetipps you might be precisely who I need. The extra I do know you the extra I do know I like you . . . and you’ve got launched me to elements of myself I used to be afraid to like. And now I like ME extra due to you. So actually that is all about me. Simply kidding. What a present you might be. Let the video games start. Onward into completely all the things with you.”
Bareilles’s feedback shortly stuffed with congratulations from her pals. Vanessa Carlton wrote, “Yay!!!! Such superb information. Congratulations sweeties!!!!!!!!!!” And Rita Wilson added, “What completely happy completely happy information!!! So overjoyed for you each!” Bareilles’s “Girls5eva” costar Busy Philipps was so overwhelmed with happiness she simply left a string of emojis (“❤️😭❤️😭❤️😭❤️😭❤️”), whereas Jennifer Nettles commented, “Congratulations attractive Loves!!!! Onward certainly in all issues!!!”
For Bareilles and Tippett, this engagement has been a very long time coming. The couple first met in 2015 after they each had been engaged on the musical adaptation of the 2007 movie “Waitress.” Previous to the present shifting to Broadway, Tippett performed the principle character’s husband. In 2017, the duo made their first purple carpet appearances, confirming they had been a pair.
In 2020, Bareilles spoke with Folks about how she was initially involved her happiness would have a detrimental have an effect on on her music — and the way completely happy she was to be confirmed incorrect. “The a part of myself that I do not assume is at risk is the half that may all the time be wandering and questioning,” she mentioned. “I had a worry that if I used to be completely happy and content material in a relationship that I’d cease writing music. However now I’m looking for and wandering in partnership.”
