Actors DJ Qualls & Ty Olsson announce they’re engaged… and they have their fans to thank!
Supernatural, with Qualls playing Garth and Olsson playing Benny. They never shared screen time together and first met at a fan convention several years ago.Qualls co-hosts the Locked and Probably Loaded podcast with Kelly Blackheart.
On last Wednesday’s episode, he revealed that after meeting at the convention, he and Olsson became friends. Only later did they begin dating.
This progressed to engagement.“At the convention, we didn’t know each other at all — we maybe said three words together at the Supernatural convention, and then we went to London for four or five days afterward,” Qualls said. “And then I was going to Turkey with a friend, and [Olsson] is such a pure, awesome guy, he came up to us — we all went out as a group — and he was like, ‘Can I come on your trip with you?'”Subscribe to our newsletter for a refreshing cocktail (or mocktail) of LGBTQ+ entertainment and pop culture, served up with a side of eye-candy.If it hadn’t have been for Supernatural’s diehard fanbase, the guys might have never actually met.Qualls said he was impressed by Olsson’s bold request to join them.“I could never invite myself on somebody’s trip, ’cause I’d be afraid they would begrudgingly tell me yes and then not want me there,” Qualls said. “But it was just so pure and awesome, and that’s who he is.
I didn’t know him, and it was the beginning of our friendship.”“Over the last 10 years, our relationship evolved to what it is today, and now we’re getting married,” Qualls continued. “It’s just so crazy that this person who was just my friend now I think about all the time and he sends the best messages, and he supports me and loves me unconditionally in the right ways.
