Kathy Griffin reclaimed her New Year’s Eve spotlight with a surprise wedding ceremony officiated by actress Lily Tomlin.
With just hours left in the decade Tuesday, the comedian announced she was engaged to her longtime boyfriend Randy Bick.
“Surprise, we’re getting married! Tonight! After midnight!” Griffin, 59, said in a playful video posted on her social media accounts shortly before the ball dropped in Times Square.
“She said yes!” Bick beamed as he stood beside her in a suit and tie.
Griffin urged her fans to check her feeds after midnight on the West Coast to witness a “very atypical, very fun” ceremony.
The couple then said “I do” in an archway at their home with Tomlin standing between them, as seen in video posted on Facebook and Twitter.
“What was supposed to be a shallow, ‘toot it and boot it’ one night stand has grown and flourished into something far more meaningful,” Tomlin said as the bride and groom stared loving at one another.
“They stayed together. Then they couldn’t stay away from one another,” the “Grace and Frankie” star, 80, said.
Griffin wore a long, pearly white gown she let Bick choose for the memorable occasion. She revealed in another post it was the same dress she wore on their first formal date in 2011.
“Romance is hotttt again,” she tweeted, referring to the dress selection.
Griffin and Bick, a 41-year-old marketing executive, began dating in 2011, briefly split in 2018 and reunited last spring.
The former “My Life on the D-List” star has a long, public history with the holiday that will now mark her wedding anniversary.
She co-hosted CNN’s New Year’s Eve broadcast with Anderson Cooper from 2009 through 2017 but was unceremoniously terminated after she posed for a viral photo holding a mask of President Trump covered in ketchup.
The image generated intense backlash, leading Griffin to issue a public apology and appear at a press conference at her lawyer’s office.
Her subsequent documentary, “Kathy Griffin: A Hell of a Story,” chronicled the far-reaching photo fallout, her ridiculous addition to the federal “No Fly List” and her decision to fight back and be a voice for free speech.
