Peter Facinelli Didn’t Know ‘Twilight’ Costar Kristen Stewart Is Engaged

It’s late. Peter FacinelliHe was a former student. TwilightCostar Kristen Stewart‘s engagement to Dylan MeyerNearly one year has passed since the event.

“I didn’t know Kristen was engaged. Fantastic,” Facinelli, 48, told E! NewsInterview posted Monday, October 3. “But I just saw Taylor [Lautner] and his lovely fiancée [Taylor Dome] recently and they’re very cute.”

TheNurse Jackie alum, who played Carlisle in the hit vampire franchise, said he wasn’t sure if he would be receiving an invitation to Lautner’s wedding. “Maybe, I don’t know, we’ll see,” he added, before joking about the couple’s same first names. “I was like, that’s going to get really confusing when you get mail to the house.”

Facinelli’s insight on Stewart’s personal life comes nearly one year since the actress, 32, confirmed her engagement. “I wanted to be proposed to, so I think I very distinctly carved out what I wanted and she nailed it,” the Panic Room star revealed on The Howard Stern ShowIn November 2021. “We’re marrying, it’s happening.”

After having worked together on a number of years, the pair were reunited for the first time in August 2019.

“I‘ve known her for, like, six years, but we only started seeing each other [romantically]. Two weeks in, it was literally, like, the day that I met her, all bets were off,” Stewart, who portrayed Bella in Twilight, gushed The Howard Stern ShowNovember 2019. “I met her years ago on a movie. I hadn’t seen her in, like, two years and she had just walked up to a friend’s birthday party and I was just, like, ‘Where have you been and how have I not known you?’”

The time was the The Happiest Season star noted she couldn’t “f–king wait” to get engaged to her then-girlfriend. “I want to be somewhat reasonable about it, but I think good things happen fast,” she continued. “I have a couple of plans that I know would be the coolest thing to do, that I think would be pretty undeniable.”

Facinelli, for his part, recently celebrated a major milestone after welcoming his first son with fiancée Lily Anne Harrison.

“Happy ‘Labor’ Day, @lilyanneharrison ❤️ Sept 5th, 2022 🍼👶🏼,” the actor captioned a black and white Instagram photo of his baby boy grabbing his finger last month.

The New York native also shares three daughters, one with her ex-wife Jennie Garth, opened up about his plans to “eventually” tie the knot. “Other than the paperwork, it’s a formality,” he explained on Monday. “We’ll get to celebrate it when COVID dies down a little bit and the baby is a little bit older.”