Influencer, podcaster, and advocate Drew Afualo recently got engaged to her longtime boyfriend, fitness and lifestyle coach Pili Tanuvasa. The 28-year-old shared the update with her fans via an Instagram post on September 2, with a carousel of images, flaunting her diamond engagement ring and rose bouquet.
“Oh my f*cking god!!!!!!!! Ima marry tf out of you big dawg, @ptanuvasa (I cried so hard & for an hour straight. Y’all I’m so deeply in love & happy it’s actually insane BYE) #SPEECHLESSSTAGRAM,” she captioned her post.
Likewise, Pili Tanuvasa also took to Instagram and shared a similar post announcing his engagement to Drew Afualo. He wrote in his caption:
“GOT ‘EM. From saying no to going to prom w/ me 13 years ago to now, jokes on you love lmaooooo.”
In response, she wrote in his post’s comment section, “U GOT MY A*S FR!!!!! I love you more than anything in this world, my person always.”
Previously, during a Q&A session with her TikTok followers, Drew Afualo claimed that they had been dating for seven years, but waited to get married until they were both ready.
She also mentioned that her partner bought her a ring for her birthday last year and claimed it would remain for her “wedding stack.”
Drew Afualo is a model and podcaster
Drew Afualo is a content creator, social media influencer, comedian, model, author, and podcaster. She was born and raised in Inland Empire, California in September 1995 in a family of Samoan descent. She has an older sister Deison and a younger brother Donovan.
She is best known for her podcasts The Comment Section and Two Idiot Girls, which she co-hosts with Deison.
So far, she has interviewed fellow internet personalities including close friend Brittany Broski, Kamie Crawford, Chappell Roan, and Trixie Mattel, among others.
Drew Afualo has also been a guest on podcasts such as Triple J’s The Hook Up, Christy Carlson Romano’s Vulnerable, and Emily Ratajkowski’s High Low: Talk Back. However, she rose to fame after she began calling out people on TikTok in 2020 and advocated against body-shaming and misogyny among other social issues.
Since then, she has been regarded for her feminist views, sense of humor, and signature laughter. She has over eight million followers on the platform and 1.1 million on Instagram.
Drew became a published author last year after her book Loud: Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve was released.
She is represented by Viral National Talent agency. Besides, she hosts events in real life from VidCon shows to red-carpet premieres of movies such as Black Adam, during which she interviewed actor Dwayne Johnson.
Often dubbed as the Queen of the Roasts, Afualo has also appeared in the music video of Meghan Trainor’s Made You Look alongside JoJo Siwa, Scott Hoying, and Chris Olsen.
Drew Afualo hosted the pre-show on the red carpet of the 95th Academy Awards in March 2023 alongside fellow TikTokers Khaby Lame and Reece Feldman as well as YouTuber Lilly Singh. There, she once again crossed paths with Johnson and also interviewed Jamie Lee Curtis.
The Southern Californian was also featured on eTalk Daily’s TV special Influenced alongside fellow influencers Alex Cooper, Megan Stalter, and Donte Colley, among others.
Originally, Drew Afualo wanted to pursue sports journalism and be “the next Bob Costas” and even studied communications degree in the same field from the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
At the time, she even served as a content creator and digital media coordinator for the NFL.