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Will Forterecently became new dad to10-month-old daughter Zoe, but he’s also got another new title: husband!
TheSaturday Night Livealum, 51, married his fiancée Olivia Modling on July 31 in a surprise ceremony, PEOPLE can exclusively announce.
“We were in New Mexico, makingMacGruber,” Forte tells PEOPLE in this week’s issue of the upcoming comedy series,based on hisMacGyver parody character fromSNL, which premieres Dec. 16 on Peacock.
But just weeks before a planned visit from family earlier this summer, Forte and Modling decided they had waited long enough and started planning their surprise nuptials.
“We realized, ‘Oh, all the people that we would want to be here are going to be here,'” says Forte. “Most of them, because a lot of my closest friends work onMacGruberwith me. They were already in Albuquerque, so we just decided very last minute, ‘Let’s just have this wedding, surprise my parents.’ They didn’t even know until they pulled into the parking lot. And we just had this really fun, delightful wedding, pretty small, in the back of Jorma Taccone’s house.” (Taccone is one of the three mainMacGrubercreators.)
“It was just a delightful day,” says Forte. “My parents were totally surprised. It was so stressful, the two weeks where we were planning. I can’t imagine having a year or more to stew over wedding plans.”
Forte says he’s enjoying married life — especially being able to call Modling his “wife.”
“It’s fun to say, ‘Wife,'” he says. “I’ve never worn any jewelry in my life and it’s fun to wear a wedding ring. It already felt like we were married before. It doesn’t feel a lot different, but it’s still fun and exciting to say, ‘Wife.’ She’s great. I needed to find somebody who was a very patient person and she’s the most patient, understanding woman in the world. I’m feeling very happy and very lucky these days.”
MacGruberpremieres Dec. 16 on Peacock.
For more from Will Forte, pick up the latest issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands everywhere Friday.
source: people.com
