WWE’s Sonya Deville gets engaged to girlfriend Toni Cassano

  • Ian Carey
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Sonya Deville is engaged. 

The 29-year-old SmackDown wrestler proposed to her girlfriend, fitness model Toni Cassano, on February 15 at a wine cellar cave in Towaco, New Jersey, the couple told PEOPLE.   

The two met last April when Deville invited Cassano to a WWE show. 

Deville said:

“I got her a front-row ticket to my show, and I was going to take her out to dinner after. But I didn’t have time to meet her before the show, so the first time I ever saw Toni was when I was coming out doing my entrance ready to wrestle and I looked into the crowd,” she recalls.

Deville would continue to say that after she proposed, Cassano presented her with an engagement ring of her own. 

“I proposed, then Toni’s like, ‘Grab my purse.’ And she pulls out a freaking ring box, and she’s like, ‘I’ve been carrying this around in my purse for four months. So whenever you proposed, I could give you a ring immediately back.’ “

Deville also reflected on her journey over the last seven, or eight years as a gay female in WWE. 

“It’s so cool to me to be in this position right now, to be engaged as a gay female in the WWE, and to have proposed to my fiancée. Because I look back at seven years ago, eight years ago when I wasn’t even openly out yet, and I was hiding relationships, and I was still trying to figure out my comfortability with being gay and who I was,” she says.

Cassano has two daughters, aged 7 and 11, who were included in Deville’s proposal. 

 “I wanted to make it something that they were super involved in,” she says. “But I also wanted them to be surprised because I wanted them to have a memorable moment too.”

Deville has been with WWE since joining the cast of Tough Enough’s sixth season in 2015. She made her main roster debut in late 2017 as a member of Absolution.