Saturday, September 27

Vanessa Williams Announces She's Getting Married The Third Time On The Queen Latifah Show.



Vanessa Williams  announced Friday that she's ready to get married for the third time to new  fiancé Jim Skrip.

Williams shared the  news during an appearance on The Queen Latifah Show recorded Friday and set to air Tuesday. Williams appeared to promote the Los Angeles engagement of her Broadway play, The Trip to Bountiful, co-starring Cicely Tyson and Blair Underwood, both of whom accompanied her to the taping.

"Vanessa, I have been trying to have a conversation with you ladies and gents, but I am blinded by the light coming from that bling ring on your finger," Latifah said. "Is there something that we need to know about around here?"

"Oh, sorry, darling, I got engaged," Williams shared. "I have had a lot of good things happen — I turned 50 when we were in rehearsal on Broadway, I just got engaged a couple of weeks ago. It has been a lot of blessings on this trip."

Williams spoke briefly last February about Skrip — a former real estate agent and accountant —with the Philadelphia Inquirer.

"He's a guy I met a year and a half ago when I was on vacation with my daughter in Egypt," Williams said. "You go across the world to find somebody who's six hours away."

She also referred to the Buffalo native as "just a nice, regular, gorgeous guy," noting at the time that he was her Valentine this year.

The former Miss America winner has been twice married: first to PR exec Ramon Hervey II, with whom she has two daughters, Melanie, 27, and Jillian, 25, and one son, Devin, 21.

Her second marriage was to former NBA player Rick Fox. They have one daughter together, Sasha, 14. Culled

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