Just ten months after the death of his wife Beth, Duane “Dog The Bounty Hunter” Chapman is engaged to his new girlfriend Francie Frane.

“They’re very happy and looking forward to a long life together,” a spokesman for Dog said, according to E News.

Dog, 68, told The Sun that he wants to have the “biggest wedding there’s ever been” open to all his fans, adding that it will be “one hell of a party.”

When asked about the proposal, Frane said, “I wasn’t expecting it at all.

“I think I had gone to pick up some food and then when I came back he had all the lights turned down with just a few lights on and a bunch of candles lit,” said Frane, 51. “So when I came in I was like, ‘Wow, this is awesome’. Then he said, ‘Come in, sit down because I need to talk to you.'”

“So I put all the food in the kitchen and I came in and he said, ‘I know that God brought you into my life and I don’t want to spend one moment of it without you,'” she added.

Frane then began to tear up as she recalled the special moment.

“And he got down on one knee and he opened the ring box and he said, ‘Will you marry me and spend the rest of our lives together?'” Frane recounted. “Who can say no to that? It was wonderful.”

Dog and Frane plan to wait until after lockdown ends to get married, and when they do, they plan to make it a wedding to remember.

“I’ve had so many fans ask ‘When you marry Francie, are you going to let your fans come?'” Dog explained. “So we’re word negotiating right now because I want to open it up. I would love to have the biggest wedding there’s ever been. I’m sorry but that’s just me. I hope I can talk Francie into it and open it to my fans, the ‘Dog Pound,’ to everybody. It would be one hell of a party and it’s just what people need right now. I told Francie, people they need a little love after being locked down. I love the idea of that.”

Beth Chapman passed away last June after a battle with throat and lung cancer, and Frane’s husband Bob died just before that as well. They acknowledge that some people are going to say they moved on too quickly from their deceased spouses.

“And you know there’s always going to be haters, and I probably arrested half of them,” Dog said, with Frane adding, “I think too that there’s always going to be people who say we did this wrong or we did that wrong or we’ve moved on too quickly or too fast.”

“But the truth is that both of us have spent three years walking alongside our spouses sick and we know that God brought us together and that’s why we don’t believe that it’s too soon,” she continued. “And because we both have done our share of screaming and crying and asking why. Then for us to come together the way that we did and build this friendship because of what we’ve been through, that turned into a love story. We don’t believe that it’s too soon.”

Dog’s family has been in full support of his relationship with Frane, and his daughter Bonnie recently spoke out to send a message to the haters who are against the relationship.

“Everyone who’s judging my father should sure pray that they never have to lose their loved one and get judged for trying to fill the void,” she said. “Your opinion is invalid. My mother would’ve wanted him to be happy.”