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Jersey Shore's Angelina Upstages Fashion Week With Engagement, Sends Message to Former Pals

Former MTV star Angelina Pivarnick says yes after boyfriend gets down on knee during red carpet event

By Marianne Garvey Feb 16, 2011 11:24 PMTags
David Kovaks, Angelina PivarnickJerritt Clark/Getty Images

Angelina Pivarnick got engaged today in the spot she loves the most—in front of a million cameras.

The Jersey Shore's feisty castoff was at the Style 360 lounge at the Metropolitan Pavilion for the Sachika fashion show when boyfriend David Kovacs popped the question with a 2.5 carat ring.

"It was so surreal," she tells E! News of the big moment. "The ring is huge. So big."

So how'd this all go down? Here are the exclusive detais from Angelina herself...

Apparently he had been planning the moment for some time—and Angelina tells us she knew right away he was the one.

"It was crazy, we were both living on Staten Island we were both Island natives, but I didn't know him before ths show," Angelina says. "He's the sweetest guy I've ever met in my life. He treats me with respect, he's like a real gentleman. He doesn't treat me like s--t, like so many people have treated me in the past."

Even though this all went down about, uh, five minutes ago, the reality star says she's been dreaming of a wedding all her life.

"As a little girl I was always thinking about wedding, my big day. I want a big huge wedding with family and friends," she says.

How Kovacs managed to hide the planning from her had her shocked. The couple live together in Manhattan and she says he did such a good job with the secret she was truly shocked.

"He was nervous too because dropped the ring on the floor," she says, laughing. "All I thought in the moment basiclly was OMG. OMG. I thought the way he did it was ballsy."

And as for that huge ring, she loves it.

"I'm not materialistic, it's what means to me is what's special,"she said. "It's from the heart and he knew my style."

The first person she called after he put a ring on it was her mom, who started crying.

"She loves him, my family loves him," says Angelina.

These days the ex-Shore denizen is working on her music.

"I have two hot singles coming out, one's a club hit here one's going to be crazy overseas," she says. "That first song that came out was, like, practice. This time I showed all I can give."

And we had to ask, has she been watching her old pals on the Jersey Shore this season?

"I'm not watching, no," she says. "I'm happy that way, I'm happy I don't know what's happening."

She does wish the best for her former tormentors though.

"I wish everything to them in their lives," she says. "I wish we could be friends in the future, especially with Sammi, but I text her every holiday and she doesn't care. In life you can only try so much. I cant keep going with it, I'm a good person and they can go on."