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Toure Show

Don Lemon–I Am CNN

Toure Show

DCP Entertainment

Society & Culture, Arts, Performing Arts

4.8880 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Don Lemon was let go by CNN recently after an amazing 17 year run there, so let’s throwback to our interview from 2021 where we talk broadcasting, Trump, America and how his fiancé proposed to him. Original Air Date: April 21, 2021 Toure Show Ep 237: I Am CNN Please fill out our listener survey. We’d love to hear from you! https://forms.gle/jFWcyk3qp4Wfi7YF7 Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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And the Tim is your fiance who proposed to who?

0:20.0

He proposed to me so I had been thinking about doing it. I was going to do it for his

0:26.7

birthday and so I had been getting trying to get in touch with this jeweler who I met at

0:31.3

a party. I met this jeweler at like an Oscar party that

0:34.2

Elton John and he had on this ring and I was like damn every that. Wow look at

0:39.3

that. I'm like I can never afford that but whatever and so he said no it's not that expensive

0:45.1

let me tell you and I do it in Canada and whatever and you know so I can get you and I can get

0:48.3

you diamonds at wholesale and I'm like okay that's a lot fine all right. And so I've been trying to get in touch with him

0:54.0

because I was going to propose to Tim,

0:57.0

and then he wouldn't return my call.

0:59.0

I'm like, I'm Don Lemon, why don't you return my call?

1:02.0

And so on his birthday

1:07.0

he proposed to me.

1:10.0

He came into the room with the rings and he said, oh it's my birthday I want to go I want to do manicures and I want to do all these things and I want to go to brunch and I'm like okay fine okay fine fine fine fine fine it's your birthday because I hate getting out of bed like until

1:23.6

to the crack of, I'm out the crack of noon,

1:25.3

that's when I get up.

1:27.4

So he comes in with the dogs,

1:31.2

and he said, have you seen the new dog tags? And I said, no, and we had two dogs.

1:36.0

And on the tag it said, daddy, will you marry Papa?

1:40.0

Because to the dogs, I'm daddy and he's Papa like we have to make it the sinks in and I look and I'm like what?

1:48.0

And I said that are you serious and then his lips started trembling and he got down on one knee and he had the ring boxes and I'm like oh shit you're serious.

1:58.1

Whoa that was just like whoa whoa this is weird. You know, the whole like, nervous,

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