Maine Mendoza and Arjo Atayde share engagement news by Arjo proposing nine years after iconic “Arjo cutie” tweet by Maine.
Celebrity couple actress and 'Eat Bulaga' host Maine Mendoza and actor-congressman Arjo Atayde announced their engagement on social media Friday, July 28.
The proposal itself was enough to make fans swoon as Maine posted on her Instagram and Twitter accounts randomly a picture of the two of them at the Outdoor Field surrounded by white roses, and the actress showing her hand with a diamond ring on her finger.
“Wait, whaaaat??? We're engaged?!” the caption read.
Little did the non-diehard fans know that the date was actually significant to the pair.
Atayde proposed to Mendoza exactly nine years after she posted the iconic "Arjo cutie" tweet that has become a meme for manifesting.
Maine tweeted way back July 28, 2013, attracting the almost impossible chance to date the then actor, but then when she eventually ended up dating Arjo in 2018, “cutie” has been used in the internet world to manifest material things to intangible wishes.
"My turn, I will marry you cutie," he said on Instagram and with the date on the caption.
The couple was rumored to start dating after they met and co-starred in the movie ‘Jack Em Popoy: The Puliscredibles’ in December 2018, but only admitted their relationship status in January 2019 with Arjo saying that he and Maine are exclusively dating.
Maine and Arjo would then post pictures on their accounts since going public and recently shared their romantic sunset date on a yacht on December 21, 2021, marking their third anniversary.
The pair was also comfortable enough to talk about their relationship in public as in an October 2021 interview with broadcaster Julius Babao, Atayde even admitted that talks about marriage have come up between the couple.
Arjo’s sister, actress Ria Atayde, was quick to congratulate her brother and her soon-to-be sister-in-law on her Instagram account, posting a series of stories dedicated to the couple.
In one post she wrote: “…we gained a new sister” along with a picture of them with Maine.
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