DJ Qualls Reveals Engagement to Partner: 'He Supports Me and Loves Me Unconditionally'

Qualls and Ty Olsson met on the set of 'Supernatural' years ago.

By Michael Hein

Actors DJ Qualls and Ty Olsson are engaged! Qualls broke the news last month on his Locked and Probably Loaded podcast, and fans are overjoyed for the duo. The actors met on the set of Supernatural, bringing the tight-knit fandom together to celebrate this union.

Qualls explained how he and Olsson ended up together on his podcast for fans who may not have kept up with their personal lives. The two met in 2013 when Olsson joined the cast of Supernatural as Benny Lafitte. He and Qualls were both recurring characters on the show but they didn't make frequent appearances. He recalled: "Ty and I became inseparable at the very beginning, just immediately. And over the last 10 years our relationship evolved to what it is today, and now we're getting married."

Qualls was cast on Supernatural in 2011 as the werewolf Garth Fitzgerald. Both actors came back to the show infrequently but for many years. From 2011 to 2020 Qualls was in six episodes of the show, while Olsson was in 10 episodes from 2013 to 2019. Qualls said that the first time they were on set together, they "didn't know each other at all."

"We maybe said three words together at the Supernatural convention, and then we went to London for four or five days afterward," he recalled. "And then I was going to Turkey with a friend – and he is such a pure, awesome guy. He came up to us – we all went out as a group – and he was like, 'Can I come on your trip with you?' And I'm like, 'That's so ballsy!' I could never invite myself on somebody's trip. 'Cause I'd be afraid they would begrudgingly tell me yes and then not want me there. But it was just so pure and awesome, and that's who he is. I didn't know him, and it was the beginning of our friendship."

After that, Qualls said he quickly realized how great his friendship with Olsson was, and it evolved fast. He said: "It's just so crazy that this person who was just my friend, now I think about all the time and he sends the best messages, and he supports me and loves me unconditionally in the right way."

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"Ty was the first person in my entire life, my entire life that [I] ever had that with," he went on. "I say just a friend. [He is] the best friend I ever had, and now we're going to be old men together, which is so crazy."

After the news broke on the podcast, fans posted their congratulations and well wishes to the two actors on social media. Olsson responded in a post afterward, writing: "Thank you everyone for all the love and support and kindness today [smile emotion] sending you all some love and hugs."

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