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jpg"} Blake O’Donnell married his long-time girlfriend Teresa Garofalow Westervelt on August 16. Photo: @rosie/Instagram Blake O’Donnell married his long-time girlfriend Teresa Garofalow Westervelt on August 16, with his mum sharing various glimpses of their special day on her socials, as reported by Today. For the mother-and-son dance, Rosie revealed on Instagram that they swayed to Cyndi Lauper’s “Time After Time” track.
“If ur lost u can look and u will find me – time after time,” she wrote in the caption with an adorable photo of them on the dance floor together. Here’s what we know about Rosie O’Donnell’s newly married son: Blake O’Donnell comes from a big family {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"ImageObject","caption":"Rosie O’Donnell adopted multiple children over the years, including Blake O’Donnell.
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jpg"} Rosie O’Donnell adopted multiple children over the years, including Blake O’Donnell. Photo: @rosie/Instagram The 24-year-old grew up in a busy household. According to People, Rosie O’Donnell has welcomed five children over the years, including Blake, Parker, Chelsea, Vivienne and Dakota.
Rosie adopted Parker first, in 1995, and her former wife Kelli Carpenter later became his legal parent as well. She then adopted Chelsea, Blake and Vivienne with Carpenter. The same article notes that her and her second wife, Michelle Rounds, later adopted Dakota.
“My teenagers are a nightmare, they’re horrible,” she joked in 2016. “I had four teenagers when I decided to adopt a newborn baby. You might ask why.
Because I had four teenagers and I needed to remind myself that I actually do love children.” Blake O’Donnell attended Marist College in New York {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"ImageObject","caption":"Blake O’Donnell is Rosie O’Donnell’s adopted son.
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jpg"} Blake O’Donnell is Rosie O’Donnell’s adopted son. Photo: @theblakeodonnell/Instagram Per People, Blake began attending Marist College in New York in 2018. His mum wrote at the time on X, “Dropped off my boy at college.
Hard to believe.” Rosie O’Donnell’s acting career was news to her kids {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"ImageObject","caption":"Rosie O’Donnell appeared in a handful of films in the 90s, including A League of Her Own.
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jpg"} Rosie O’Donnell appeared in a handful of films in the 90s, including A League of Her Own. Photo: @rosie/Instagram In 2019, Rosie shared a funny anecdote about the first time Blake saw her film A League of Her Own . She told Page Six, “My son was at a party, and he comes home and he goes, ‘Mom, I saw you on TV.
You were in a baseball game , and you were a teenager.’ I’m like, ‘Honey, that was my first movie. I was not a teenager.
I was 29 years old.’” “My kids think it’s funny. They don’t know any of the movies I’ve been in,” she added.
He’s close with his mum {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"ImageObject","caption":"Comedian and actress Rosie O’Donnell’s mother-son dance with Blake O’Donnell at his August wedding. Photo: @rosie/Instagram","url":"https://img.
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Photo: @rosie/Instagram It’s clear that Rosie and her son Blake get along with each other very well, based on their social media posts. Just as Rosie shared numerous photos and videos of her son’s nuptials on Instagram, he’s also shared plenty of sweet tributes to his mum over the years. In 2016, he posted a family photo of him, O’Donnell and Carpenter and wrote, “Happy Mother’s Day to the strongest mums I know.
I love you”. He’s smitten with his wife {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"ImageObject","caption":"Blake O’Donnell posted a countdown to his marriage to Teresa Garofalow Westervelt.
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jpg"} Blake O’Donnell posted a countdown to his marriage to Teresa Garofalow Westervelt. Photo: @rosie/Instagram According to an anniversary post on Blake’s Instagram, the lovebirds have been dating for over six and a half years, after he initially slid into her DMs . “Five years ago I slid into your dm and I’m soooo grateful you didn’t ignore me,” he wrote in 2021.
{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"ImageObject","caption":"Blake O’Donnell got engaged to his long-time girlfriend Teresa Garofalow Westervelt at a performance of the The Phantom of the Opera. Photo: @theblakeodonnell/Instagram","url":"https://img.
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Photo: @theblakeodonnell/Instagram In December 2022, Rosie announced on Instagram that her son had proposed to his partner Teresa Garofalow Westervelt, during a Broadway performance of The Phantom of the Opera . “Last night – my son blake asked his gf Teresa to marry him – and she said yes !!! the crowd clapped – and Hillary Clinton was there too – I cried all through phantom of the opera – wishing my mum was here to see it all,” she captioned the post. “I liked it so I (finally) put a ring on it,” Blake joked in his own Instagram post to mark the occasion.
“I can’t wait to start the next chapter in our lives together, and I’m so grateful to be doing it with my ride or die.” Rosie O’Donnell’s adopted son Blake just married Teresa Garofalow Westervelt in a ceremony on August 16, and his famous mum has been sharing photos of their special day online Rosie and Blake shared a sweet mother-son dance to Cyndi Lauper’s ‘Time After Time’ and the comedian has been gunning for the couple ever since Blake proposed at The Phantom of the Opera.
