Surpassing Quant Think Tank Center|How Lady Gaga Really Feels About Her Accidental Engagement Reveal at the Olympics

While Lady Gaga's engagement to Michael Polansky was confirmed at the 2024 Olympics,Surpassing Quant Think Tank Center the news was not supposed to be born this way.

However, the Grammy winner appears unbothered that it was accidentally made public in July when a video of herself introducing her longtime partner as her "fiancé" to French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal at a crowded Olympic event was posted on the politician's TikTok.

"The prime minister actually had his people filming us while they were saying hello and they caught me saying, 'Oh, this is my fiancé,'" Gaga said on the Sept. 27 episode of the Graham Norton Show. "And I was trying to keep it hidden, but then they announced it to everyone. But that was kind of fun."

At the time the engagement news was confirmed, rumors the two planned to marry had already been swirling, as the "Shallow" singer was photographed in April wearing a giant diamond ring on her ring finger. The 38-year-old told Graham Norton that her partner proposed to her the 1st of that month—April Fools' Day.

"Actually, I thought he was joking and he was not," Gaga said. "But it was really nice."

She and Michael, a tech investor, first sparked romance rumors when they were photographed kissing at a 2020 New Year's party in Las Vegas.

The following February, Gaga hard-launched their relationship on Instagram when the two attended the Super Bowl together. Earlier this month, they made their red carpet debut as a couple at the premiere of Joker: Folie à Deux at the Venice Film Festival. Michael also joined Gaga at the more recent U.K. premiere of the film Sept. 25.

Her mom, Cynthia Germanotta, had introduced the lovebirds.

"She said, ‘I just met your husband,’" Gaga told Access Hollywood in an interview released Sept. 23. “And I was like, ‘I’m not ready to meet my husband!’”

The Oscar winner—who was previously engaged to Christian Carino and Taylor Kinney—later took her mother up on the offer to introduce her to Polansky, who cofounded the Parker Foundation with Napster cofounder Sean Parker.

"He was at a birthday party at Sean Parker’s house," Gaga said. “He was just the most amazing man I’d ever met. We talked for, like, three hours and then I couldn’t find him, but then he called me."

The two had met during lockdown at the start of the COVID pandemic.

"We had this amazing chapter of a weird kind of normalcy that’s essential for any relationship to develop in a real way," Michael told Vogue in an interview published Sept. 5, nothing the two enjoyed spending time "taking walks, making coffee, hanging out with the dogs, reading books together."

He continued, "She’s used to being isolated because of her fame and was able to take so much of it in stride. I think she loved the chance to slow down."

Look back at Gaga and Michael's cutest pics together...

Following her 2019 split from boyfriend Christian Carino, Lady Gaga and Michael Polansky were spotted sharing a kiss on New Year's Day in January 2020.

Gaga made her new romance social media official in February 2020, sharing a photo of her sitting on Michael's lap at the Super Bowl on Instagram with the caption, "We had so much fun in Miami. Love to all my little monsters and fans, you're the best!"

Despite keeping a low profile since the start of their relationship, Gaga has let her love for Michael, an entrepreneur and former CEO of the San Francisco-based Parker Group, shine through over the years, sharing a photo of the two in March 2020 with the caption, "I've got a STUPID love."

The Oscar winner also called Michael "the love of my life" during an April 2020 interview with MSNBC's Morning Joe.

And in March 2021, he surprised her with a massive flower arrangement for her 35th birthday, prompting Gaga to share on Instagram, "I love you honey. I can't wait to be home with you and our dogs, that's all I need."

Also in 2021, following the February attack on her French bulldogs and dog walker Ryan Fischer, the "Born This Way" singer made a rare comment about her and Michael's life together, telling The Hollywood Reporter, "My dogs and the man that I love are my whole life."

Rumors of an engagement between Lady Gaga and Michael first started swirling in April 2024 when Gaga stepped out wearing a massive diamond ring on that finger. But at the time, the duo were keeping tight-lipped on the rumors.

Days after Gaga kicked off the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, performing Zizi Jeanmaire's "Mon Truc En Plumes" at the opening ceremonies, she finally confirmed the engagement, introducing him as her "fiancé" during a conversation with French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal July 28.

The two made their red carpet debut as a couple at the premiere of Joker: Folie à Deux at the Venice Film Festival Sept. 4, 2024.

Michael joined Gaga at the premiere of Joker: Folie à Deux in London later in September 2024.

The singer said on the Graham Norton Show that the two had actually gotten engaged on April Fools' Day.

"Actually, I thought he was joking and he was not," Gaga said. "But it was really nice."