Ted Lasso star Brendan Hunt is a married man! The 53-year-old revealed that he and his longtime girlfriend, Drop Dead Gorgeous star Shannon Nelson, wed in Ireland last month following a two-year engagement. And Jason Sudekis, his co-star on the Apple TV+ series, was even on hand to officiate the nuptials.
Hunt shared the happy news in an Instagram gallery post on Wednesday, Oct. 8, featuring a photo of the invitation to the wedding, which took place on Sept. 20, 2025. The invite stated that the couple’s two sons, Sean, 4, and Archibald, 20 months, requested the honor of the guests’ presence, noting that cocktail attire and “bright colors and bold patterns” were encouraged.
Other photos showed the couple enjoying their big day, as well as one shot of Sudekis presiding over the ceremony.
“Oh wait! I totally forgot to mention—me and [Shannon Nelson] got married in Ireland a couple weeks ago. NBD,” Hunt wrote in the caption of the post, adding that the festivities kicked off with “way less lead time than you’re supposed to give, and way fewer guests than we would have liked to have under normal circumstances.”
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“And we’re pretty sure the dude who married us was only pretending to be a priest,” he quipped, referring to Sudekis. “But we just about pulled it off. The bride was stunning, while the groom cleaned up reasonably well. It was all quite lovely, and best of all our little boys got to see it. Shout out to all the young-at-heart lovers out there.”
“In the words of my aunt Ellen, ‘It’s so much better to have a teammate,’” Hunt added.
The couple first announced their engagement in dual Instagram posts on June 29, 2023. “The majestic [Shannon Nelson], so rarely photographed in her natural habitat, captured here in the act of saying ‘yes,’” Hunt shared in his post, along with a blurry photo of Nelson wearing a diamond engagement ring.
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“We are a family. A beautiful wonderful family and will be for always,” Nelson stated in her own post. “Some folks have assumed we had already done this, but truth be told we had other priorities in becoming a family. Now it feels right. I get to marry this beautiful man. I get to call him my husband and to be his wife and I am the luckiest.”
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It seems as though it’s been a busy year for Hunt. In addition to getting married, production started on season 4 of Ted Lasso back in July, which is expected to premiere sometime next year. All the more reason to pop the champagne!
