{"id":175698,"date":"2018-08-08T05:25:15","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T09:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=175698"},"modified":"2018-08-08T05:25:15","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T09:25:15","slug":"gina-rodriguez-engaged-really-cool-partner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/08\/08\/gina-rodriguez-engaged-really-cool-partner\/","title":{"rendered":"Gina Rodriguez is engaged to ‘a really cool partner’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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She is now engaged to Joe LoCicero, who she met when he guest-starred in an episode of the show in 2016. (Photo<\/a>: Gina Rodriguez\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

NEW YORK — Gina Rodriguez credits \u201cJane the Virgin\u201d with many things: changing her career (she won a Golden Globe for her work on The CW series in 2015), giving her a platform for activism and humanitarian work, and leading her to the love of her life.<\/p>\n

She is now engaged to Joe LoCicero, who she met when he guest-starred in an episode of the show in 2016.<\/p>\n

\u201cI never was the girl that dreamt about my wedding,\u201d said Rodriguez, 34, in an interview Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI did always pray that I would meet a really cool partner, whether it was going to be male or female, that I was going to have somebody that was going to uplift me and support me and want me to shine and not want to take away from that but want to shine as well in their own right and I found it in Joe, and I found it on the set of ‘Jane.\u201d’<\/p>\n

Rodriguez revealed details of their relationship while on a media tour for the feminine products company Always. The brand wants to bring awareness to what’s known as \u201cperiod poverty,\u201d where American girls from low income families miss school because they don’t have access to menstrual products.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt devastates me. It breaks my heart,\u201d said the actress.<\/p>\n

Rodriguez is returning to work on \u201cJane the Virgin\u201d this week. She’ll direct the first episode of the upcoming fifth and final season.<\/p>\n

She said she knows how the series will end but doesn’t know exactly how the writers will get there. She also said fans of the show are \u201cnot getting gypped\u201d by its ending because the creator, Jennie Snyder Urman, always imagined it as a story told in five chapters.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs much as people are saddened that the show is going to be done after season five … you’re getting the gift of the whole thing. Everything Jennie ever thought of.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rodriguez already has a number of other projects in the works, including a live action \u201cCarmen Sandiego\u201d film for Netflix. She has also remade the Mexican movie \u201cMiss Bala,\u201d about a beauty contest winner forced to work for the mob after she witnesses a murder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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