CNN Tonight anchor Don Lemon has announced his engagement to boyfriend, Tim Malone, after the real estate agent popped the question while celebrating his birthday.

Lemon, 53, took to Instagram to share the good news with an adorable photograph of the couple's two poodles, Boomer and Barkley, wearing matching bow tie-shaped dog tags that read, 'Daddy will you marry Papa?'

'He gave me a present on his birthday. How could I say no?' Lemon wrote, showing off both the couple's ring.

CNN Tonight anchor Don Lemon has announced his engagement to boyfriend, Tim Malone, after the real estate agent popped the question while celebrating his birthday

Lemon, 53, took to Instagram to share the good news with an adorable photograph of the couple's two poodles, Boomer and Barkley, wearing matching bow tie-shaped dog tags that read, 'Daddy will you marry Papa?'

Malone proposed to Lemon after the two celebrated his 35th birthday with friends.

He also confirmed the engagement by sharing the same photo on his Instagram with the caption: 'He said Yes!'

Lemon and Malone have been dating since 2016, even sharing an on-screen kiss during a live broadcast of during CNN's New Year's Eve broadcast last year.

The anchor revealed that the pair met in a restaurant in New York City and hit it off right away.

The anchor revealed that the pair met in a bar in New York City and hit it off right away

Lemon came out in his book Transparent, published in 2011, where he wrote: 'I think it would be great if everybody could be out. But it's such a personal choice.'

Lemon told Metrosource magazine last year about how the couple met: 'He was seeing someone, and I was playing the field. They broke up, and we got together, but we knew each other as friends for a year and a half.'

He added: 'I'm never sure why people are interested in me. Is it because of me? Is it because of what I do? Is it because they think they're gonna get some sort of fame, or… I have no idea.

'So in that sense, dating was a bit difficult. And it's probably why I was single for so long, 'cause I was just so focused on my career and probably not so trusting of people wanting to get into a relationship with me.'