Patrick Schwarzenegger Postponed Marriage ceremony with Abby Champion to Movie ‘The White Lotus’

Touchdown a coveted TV function brought about Patrick Schwarzenegger to postpone strolling down the aisle.

Throughout his look on The Drew Barrymore Present on Tuesday, March 25, the actor, 31, defined to host Drew Barrymore that filming season 3 of The White Lotus delayed his marriage ceremony to fiancée Abby Champion.

The couple of practically 10 years have “been collectively without end” and introduced their engagement by way of a joint Instagram submit in December 2023. Barrymore, 50, requested Patrick whether or not or not it was true that he and Champion would have been married already had he not nabbed his function as Saxon Ratliff — the eldest son of Timothy (Jason Isaacs) and Victoria (Par­ker Posey) — in The White Lotus.

“Sure,” Patrick answered.

He defined that he received the half shortly after popping the query on the seaside.

“Lastly, a 12 months and a half in the past we received engaged. And it was our second, it was this great point,” he mentioned. “And some days later, I booked White Lotus, and I used to be like, ‘Abby, I do know we’re on this excessive of engagement, and we’re gonna get married this 12 months. However we’ll need to push it. I received White Lotus, and I will movie for the following seven months in Thailand.’ ”

Whereas some brides-to-be may view a marriage postponement as a nightmare, Champion, 28, knew that attending to star in Mike White’s hit HBO collection was a dream come true for Patrick.

“She was so glad,” the Gen V alum recalled. “She was ecstatic as a result of she was an enormous fan.”

Patrick’s household was equally as thrilled for him. He and Champion broke the casting information to his mother Maria Shriver and sister Katherine Schwarzenegger over lunch someday, as seen in a video of the emotional second shared by Patrick on Instagram on Feb. 16. 

Patrick beforehand informed PEOPLE for February’s digital cowl that discovering out he secured a essential solid function on The White Lotus “was the best day in historical past for me.” Because the present premiered, he is made headlines for his character’s nude scenes and incestuous relationship together with his youthful brother Lochlan (Sam Nivola).

Now that filming is over, Patrick seems to have refocused his consideration on marriage ceremony planning. He informed Barrymore that he is not married but however that his large day is “arising.”

“We’re getting married this summer season,” he mentioned.

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The actor additionally mirrored on the primary time he met Champion in 2015.

“We met via… She was really on a date with one other good friend of mine, and I went to the date,” he mentioned, which prompted Barrymore to ask, “Was your good friend like, ‘Nice?’ ”

“It was a first-time date so, sure,” he continued. “Every little thing was kosher per se. And at first, she blew me off for some time, after which lastly we received to go on a date.” 

Patrick gushed over his fiancée — whom he just lately posed with for a risqué SKIMS advert — to PEOPLE in February.

“Over the course of the years, I simply constantly fell in love together with her increasingly, with the form of human that she was changing into and that the connection was changing into,” he mentioned.