Valerie Bertinelli. Robin Marchant/Getty Photographs for NYCWFF
Valerie Bertinelli is using her new romance to the subsequent amount.
The actress, 63, manufactured it Instagram official with boyfriend Mike Goodnough on Saturday, April 20, putting up a photo of the couple carrying matching black-rimmed glasses.
Bertinelli shared lyrics from Taylor Swift’s Travis Kelce-impressed The Tortured Poets Section tune, “So Large University,” to commemorate the exclusive situation.
“🎶 I’ll consume what you feel and I’m superior from smokin’ your jokes all damn night 🎶♥️ @therealhoarse,” Bertinelli wrote together with the sweet snap.
“They search pleased, all those two,” Goodnough replied through Instagram remark.
The East Coast-based author a short while ago posted about his relationship with Bertinelli on his Substack, “Hoarse Whisperings,” on April 17, admitting — in a humorous way — that the awareness is a little jarring.
“There is seemingly a rumor circulating alleging that Valerie Bertinelli and I are romantically concerned somehow… that we are dating or are a pair even. Valerie Bertinelli! Star of the lengthy-jogging strike series’ 1 Day at a Time and Warm in Cleveland,” he cheekily wrote. “The individual who has received two Emmys and two Golden Globe Awards and hosted her personal cooking demonstrate for fourteen seasons. The won who has written 6 textbooks together with a #1 New York Occasions very best vendor. That 1.”
He continued, “Valerie Bertinelli… dating… me!?! I know. Ludicrous. How would that even f—king occur to come about in genuine everyday living?”
Perfectly, in accordance to Bertinelli, the two reconnected on Instagram following getting to be welcoming on the social media system a few a long time ago. She’s been healing following her 2022 divorce from Tom Vitale and the dying of her to start with husband, Eddie Van Halen — who died of throat cancer at 65 in 2020 — and her vibe with Goodnough “felt familiar,” she explained to Persons previously this thirty day period.
The pair began talking on the phone, which is when factors took a intimate turn. “It’s outrageous the comfort and ease level,” Bertinelli, who shared son Wolfgang, 33, with the late Van Halen, added. “It feels very appropriate. … I uncovered pleasure very first, and then a gentleman entered my daily life.”
Bertinelli admitted she’s in really like and joked that she was “supposed to die with my six cats and my doggy and incredibly happily reside the relaxation of my decades on your own — I’m superior by itself.”
Luckily for us, Goodnough likes cats. He shared a picture of himself posing with Bertinelli’s feline close friends, Henry and Bubba, on his Substack and wrote:
“I am Valerie Bertinelli’s boyfriend… and that could very well be amongst the most surreal sentences I have at any time pecked out. But it is true… and almost nothing about our true partnership seems surreal,” he wrote on Substack. “It just seems… good… lucky… a present. Existence is insane, little ones. It just is. It’ll rain hellfire down on you for years and convey you to your knees… and then it’ll open the skies to deep blue and love and contacting a person ‘Honey’ mainly because you just appreciate the complete hell out of her and experience so very thankful for the present of that emotion, the present of her.”
Goodnough, who shares a teenage son with his ex-wife, also poked entertaining at currently being Bertinelli’s mystery boyfriend for a although.
On Instagram, he posted a movie of himself looking at an Enjoyment Tonight phase about their romance, with the title: “When you like remaining the ‘anonymous boyfriend’ but the press finds your socials.”
“Welp, so much for the remaining anonymous point,” he captioned the video clip. “So, uh, hi… I guess. 👋.”
