Valerie Bertinelli’s boyfriend, Mike Goodnough, has the approval of 1 crucial person in her life—her cat, Batman!
On Friday, April 26, Goodnough shared an Instagram picture of the feline sleeping gently inside his arms whereas stress-free in mattress collectively.
“‘To inhabit a land, one should quiet its dogs. To be its king, one should befriend its cats.’ — both Confucius or one thing I simply made up. I’m now in league with Batman,” started Goodnough in his prolonged caption.
He quipped that Bertinelli’s 5 different cats —Henry, Bubba, Tigger, Beau, and Nelson — will quickly “all come aboard” and “the prophecy might be full.”
“A ‘Man of the Cats’ will seem unexpectedly and convey peace to the restive village. I’m a Leo. We do stuff like that,” continued Goodnough.
While Bertinelli, 64, revealed that she was relationship somebody new in an interview with USA TODAY in March, she and Goodnough did not go public till earlier this month.
In an April 20 Instagram submit, the Indulge cookbook creator shared a photograph of the 2 smiling from ear to ear, quoting lyrics from Taylor Swift’s new music “So High School,” off her just lately launched eleventh studio album The Tortured Poets Department, within the caption.
“🎶 I’ll drink what you suppose and I’m excessive from smokin’ your jokes all rattling night time 🎶,” Bertinelli wrote.
Goodnough additionally made it official by sharing the information in a Substack submit titled “Rumors, Rumors, Rumors.”
“I am Valerie Bertinelli’s boyfriend… and that may well be among the most surreal sentences I’ve ever pecked out. But it’s true… and nothing about our actual relationship seems surreal. It just seems… good… lucky… a gift,” wrote Goodnough.
“Life is loopy, children. It simply is. It’ll rain hellfire down on you for years and convey you to your knees… after which it’ll open the skies to deep blue and love and calling somebody ‘Honey’ since you simply love absolutely the hell out of her and really feel so very grateful for the reward of that feeling, the reward of her,” he continued.
“So, the little rumor going round, take into account it fortunately confirmed,” Goodnough wrote. “I simply adore her. I’m so glad we’re collectively.”
The former Food Network host, who finalized her divorce from her second husband, Tom Vitale, in November 2022, echoed comparable sentiments whereas gracing the quilt of PEOPLE earlier this month.
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While she did not reveal the identify of her boyfriend on the time, she informed PEOPLE, “I’m in love. It’s a seesaw of feelings as a result of I used to be adamant I used to be by no means falling in love once more.”