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• Josh is the actor’s fiancé.
• The previous Obama White Home staffer has by no means disclosed a final title for his life accomplice.
• Kal has been extraordinarily personal about crucial relationship in his life.

Kal Penn has been along with his accomplice Josh since 2010, and so they’ve been engaged extra lately. However the political activist and American Horror Story actor, 45, revealed to PEOPLE Journal final yr whereas discussing his ebook, You Can’t Be Serious, that he’s solely lately found his personal sexuality. “I found my very own sexuality comparatively late in life in comparison with many different folks,” he mentioned. “There’s no timeline on these items. Individuals determine their s— out at completely different occasions of their lives, so I’m glad I did once I did.” Be taught extra about Kal and his lengthy historical past with Josh under!

Josh & Kal are engaged.

It’s not identified for precisely how lengthy, however whereas Kal was selling his ebook in October 2021, he revealed that he’s engaged to Josh. “Clearly I’m engaged to a person and our households will probably be there for the marriage,” he informed PEOPLE. “The large disagreement now could be whether or not it’s an enormous marriage ceremony or a tiny marriage ceremony. I need the large a** Indian marriage ceremony. Josh hates consideration, [has said], ‘Or we may simply do fast 20-minute factor with our households and that’s it.’ So now we have to fulfill midway within the center.”

They go all the best way again to 2010.

Whereas Kal’s announcement was comparatively new, the connection most actually is just not. Per Parade, Kal met Josh when he was working for former President Barack Obama whereas he was in workplace. And through an look on CBS Sunday Morning in 2021, he reportedly mentioned that he was celebrating his eleventh anniversary in October — that means they’ve been collectively since, or no less than met, in October of 2010.

“I imply, you already know, Josh and I’ve been collectively for 11 years,” he mentioned. “We had our eleventh anniversary in October. So, for me and writing about it, I believe the tough factor was, you’re proper, it’s very matter-of-fact in our lives, and if you’re the son of Indian immigrants who says that you just need to be an actor, the chaos that that creates in your loved ones and your group, will trump the rest, all the time.”

Kal is extraordinarily personal about Josh.

Throughout his expansive PEOPLE interview, Kal opened up — just a bit — about why he’s so personal about his longtime love. And he hinted that it’s out of respect for his fiancé’s sensibilities. “I’ve all the time been very public with all people I’ve personally interacted with,” he mentioned. “Whether or not it’s any individual that I meet at a bar, if Josh and I are out or we’re speaking to mates. I’m actually excited to share our relationship with readers. However Josh, my accomplice, my mother and father, and my brother, 4 individuals who I’m closest to within the household, are pretty quiet. They don’t love consideration and shrink back from the limelight.”

A photograph circulated of Kal on the Knicks/Pistons recreation in New York in March of 2018, which you’ll be able to see here via Parade, is believed to be of Josh and Kal collectively; nonetheless, neither have ever confirmed if that is so.

Josh is a NASCAR fan.

In his ebook, Josh reportedly recounted his first date with Josh, and be greatly surprised that he arrived to his house with an 18 pack of Coors Mild and a plan to observe NASCAR.

“I assumed, ‘This clearly is just not going to work out,” Kal mentioned. “I’ve sooner or later off from The White Home and this dude is unironically watching vehicles go round and make left turns?’” Kal then hilariously admitted that it had turn out to be part of their routine. “Subsequent factor you already know, it’s been a pair months and we’re watching NASCAR each Sunday. I’m like, ‘What is going on?’ I wished the reader to benefit from the love and the humor by way of all of these tales,” he defined.