Riz Ahmed had an adorably cheesy proposal for his wife, Fatima Farheen Mirza.
Ahmed detailed his proposal plans to Jimmy Kimmel on Monday’s episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic limited the actor’s options so he went with an oldie but a goodie.
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“We went out to the park — one of the few things we could do at that point in lockdown — and we kind of had a little picnic and you know, I popped the question,” Ahmed told host Jimmy Kimmel. “And she looked up and was like, ‘You’re joking.’
“Maybe the way I proposed didn’t help because she’s a novelist, she’s amazing with words,” he continued. “She loves a bit of Scrabble. So we were actually playing Scrabble and I did that corny thing where I stole all the correct letters up and spelled out ‘Will you marry me?'”
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Ahmed and Mirza kept their wedding small.
“It was kind of interesting doing it with COVID and everything going on,” the Oscar-nominated Best Actor (“Sound of Metal”) revealed. “Obviously kept it super intimate and socially distant.”
