Gabby Windey is truly having the week of her life.
The Traitors and ex-Bachelor Nation star is the most viral celebrity of the moment, following her epic monologue on the Peacock series and all her past iconic quotes resurfacing. And now, as she just revealed on her Instagram, she’s a married lady. Windey revealed that she tied the knot with her girlfriend Robby Hoffman, a comedian and writer, in a secret wedding in Las Vegas in January.
“Husband and wife!!” Windey wrote in the caption for a post that included a series of photos and videos that gave her fans a behind-the-scenes look at the ceremony.
And from the looks of it, the ceremony had everything you would expect to see from a wedding involving Windey.
There’s a slinky white dress, a bored-sounding minister, and the iconic choice to walk down the aisle to Chappell Roan’s “Hot to Go,” because Hoffman is taking Windey “hot to go.” Get it?
While their Las Vegas elopement is undoubtedly a cause for celebration, the idea for the happy occasion originated from a rather unexpected and tragic event—the Los Angeles fires, a series of devastating wildfires that broke out in early January and destroyed entire neighborhoods in the city.
In an interview with Cosmopolitan, Windey described fleeing Los Angeles with Hoffman after the pair woke up to the smell of smoke and ashes in their house. But after calling and failing to find hotels near the city with any availability, Windey got the brilliant idea to drive to Las Vegas.
“I was like, ‘What place has hotels 24/7 no matter what? Vegas!’” Windey said.
After arriving in Vegas, the pair checked into their hotel room, and only moments later, Windey proposed to Hoffman, claiming that if they were already in Vegas, they might as well get married.
“It’s giving Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey when they divorced and came back together after 9/11,” Windey said. “They were like, ‘No, actually, we do want to be together because the world is ending.’”
Windey’s runaway wedding comes on the heels of one of the most viral weeks in the star’s reality TV career thus far, thanks in large part to the most recent episode of The Traitors, where Windey delivered what some are calling one of reality TV’s all-time great speeches.
For those unfamiliar with the show, The Traitors is a reality competition series hosted by Scottish actor Alan Cumming, which follows a format like the party game Mafia. In the show, a group of contestants are secretly “Traitors,” whose entire goal is to eliminate the “Faithfuls” to win the show’s grand money prize. Meanwhile, the “Faithfuls” must discover the identities of the “Traitors” to win the prize.
Following each “mission,” the contestants gather around the Roundtable, like knights from the Arthurian legend, to discuss their suspicions, level accusations against each other, and ultimately, vote out the contestant they believe is the “Traitor.”
It is at this Roundtable where Windey gave the iconic “I’m not saying I’m dumb” monologue after another contestant accused her of being the traitor. Windey delivered the speech in her signature flat, Elle Woods-sounding intonation that many fans liken to Jennifer Coolidge’s iconic drawl, even terming Windey the Jennifer Coolidge of Gen Z.
“This was the moment for me. Gabby literally laying out the traitors' plan to get her banished,” one fan wrote on X. “I can’t help but stan. A new mother has emerged. This was Emmy (nom) worthy.”
After the “I’m not saying I’m dumb” monologue went viral, fans began to circulate a clip from Windey’s podcast, Long Winded with Gabby Windey, where she talks about her annoyance when people call her outside of business hours, which for her, ends at 3 p.m.
“No, I have business hours. What are you doing calling me after 3 p.m.? I’ve lost all my confidence. I’ve just had lunch. I’m lethargiccccc,” Windey says in the clip.
Soon, the clip began to go viral on TikTok, which saw users lip-synch to the audio while at the office or working from home.
Even Drag Queens started performing to Windey’s “business hours” audio during their shows, a sign which my Daily Beast colleague informed me that Windey has officially reached icon status in pop culture.
