Two-time 'Survivor' Contestant Zeke Smith and 'Superstore' Actor Nico Santos are Married

Emell Adolphus READ TIME: 2 MIN.

The two-time "Survivor" contestant Zeke Smith and "Superstore" actor Nico Santos are officially married. The couple, who got engaged during the 2022 GLAAD Media Awards, tied the knot over the weekend at the Parker Hotel in Palm Springs, California, reported People.

"For us, we've been together for almost six years. We own a home together, have a joint bank account. We're each other's emergency contacts. By all sorts of usual metrics we are married," Smith said to People ahead of the nuptials.

Smith added, "But actually having the ceremony, making it legal, it's about becoming a family. We're in it forever. Through thick and thin and easy and hard. We're going to be the person that's there for the other one."

For Santos, "Weddings and getting married, I never thought this would be part of my life."

Smith noted, "[marriage] wasn't a reality for us until less than 10 years ago. It wasn't something really, once we understood ourselves to be queer, we thought was part of our timeline."

But now things have changed, " and the meaning and the significance of the day is dawning upon us, I'm just really excited," said Smith.

The couple had an electric color theme with neon decor incorporated with natural wood elements, rattan, fringe and woven grass.

The couple admits that they come from distinctly different places, with Santos from the Philippines and Smith from Oklahoma, but they have built a home together.

"It's a big gay wedding," Santos adds. "A lot of our guests are queer as well, so we thought let's just stick to the date and have it during Pride weekend. So it'll be extra gay."

Read their complete love story in People.


by Emell Adolphus

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