Dylan Sprouse Reveals How Sea Otters Played a Role in His Proposal to Barbara Palvin (Exclusive)

Dylan Sprouse is sharing new details about his romantic proposal to Barbara Palvin, and how it involved a shirt walk and a curious sea otter.

Supermodel, 30 and Zack and Cody’s apartment life The alum, 31, tied the knot in Hungary in July 2023, with the ceremony taking place at a church outside Budapest.

In an exclusive clip from the Monday, February 12 episode Tamron Hall Show shared with PEOPLE, Sprouse said both he and his now-wife love sea otters and revealed how he managed to include one of the animals in his 2022 proposal.

Dylan Sprouse, Tamron Hall.

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“Big Sur is an immensely beautiful place … and I knew I wanted to do it there,” Sprouse tells Hall in the clip above.

One of the cliffs in Big Sur, he added, is known as “one of the most populated sea otter zones in California.”

“So I said, ‘Okay, we’re going to kneel down, there’s going to be tons of sea otters everywhere… and as soon as we got into the wildlife park, one of the rangers came up and said, ‘Hey, just to let you know, we haven’t seen any sea otters here. otters for months,’ he continued.

Dylan Sprouse, Tamron Hall.

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Still, Sprouse thrived. “I said, okay, we’re here anyway, and I’m already unzipped for a hike.” ”

After a two-mile hike in the aforementioned drop-in trail, Sprouse said he “got down on one knee over a beautiful view, did the thing, said yes, luckily, and right after that, we see a little head tilt out of the water.”

The sea otter, he added, arrived just in time.

“And he turns on his back and looks at us,” Sprouse continued.

Dylan Sprouse, Tamron Hall.

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“The sea otter was there to help us,” Hall said.

“He was, it was meant to be because he came as soon as she said yes,” Sprouse said, adding that it was the first sighting of one of the animals in the area “in months.”

Dylan Sprouse and Barbara Palvin Relationship Timeline

Dylan Sprouse, Barbara Palvin.

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The couple went on their first date in 2018 and got engaged in September 2022, waiting almost a year to share the big news.

The couple confirmed the news Magazine V the interview was conducted by Sprouse’s twin Cole.

“We didn’t necessarily feel the need to be completely transparent with the public about that aspect of our involvement,” Sprouse explained to the publication. “What we wanted to do with Stephen [Gan] and Team V did something that was kind of a rant about the nature of private versus public. We play with the idea of ​​perception.”

Palvin said the couple wanted to “do it in our time,” but admitted that the engagement leaks made that difficult.

“When some people broke the news that we were engaged, our PR team said, ‘Hey, maybe you should write a post about it or talk to this magazine or talk to that magazine,'” she recalled. “It really annoyed me because I knew we were building this story. So I’m very happy that we ended up the way we did.”

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