National Hockey League star Mike Modano is engaged to “Dancing With the Stars” alumna Willa Ford. Modano, 36, a center for the Dallas Stars, gave Ford, 25, a ring, but Ford says her fiance had the jeweler redesign the bauble three times before proposing because he was nervous about having it “˜’just right.”
“We were out to dinner the other night, and I think he had it with him the entire night,” Ford said Thursday night at the Arby’s Action Sports Awards in Los Angeles. “˜’He was really nervous. Then right before we went to sleep he asked me and I said, “˜Yes!”’
The pop singer said that the couple, who met at an event for the hockey star’s charitable foundation, has been dating on and off for more than four years in a mostly long distance relationship. Ford, who lives in LA, plans to marry Modano after his hockey season ends.