Kevin Smith’s daughter Harley Quinn Smith was surprised by her boyfriend Austin Zajur during a seemingly average visit to her favorite place – Farm Sanctuary in Acton, CA – by popping the question with a ruby engagement ring on Sunday.
‘We’re motherf***ing engaged!’ the 25-year-old nepo baby gushed on Instagram.
‘And it happened at the @farmsanctuary next to Dixon the cow. I’m so in love with you Austin Zajur.’
Harley and the 29-year-old groom-to-be later celebrated with her parents by digging into two ‘yummy’ vegan cakes from Sweet Lady Jane.
Smith affectionately calls Austin her ‘Puff’ and the road-tripping couple reportedly began dating in September 2019.
‘I’m udderly excited,’ the 54-year-old filmmaker – who boasts 8.9M social media followers – gushed.
Kevin Smith’s daughter Harley Quinn Smith was surprised by her boyfriend Austin Zajur during a seemingly average visit to her favorite place – Farm Sanctuary in Acton, CA – by popping the question with a ruby engagement ring on Sunday
‘Not to milk a moo-etaphor, but when @jenschwalbach and I found out, we just about jumped over the moon with joy! However nobody in our family’s more elated right now than Harley and Austin! Congratulations, Kids! Mom and Dad love you a ton and couldn’t be happier for you both! Be each other’s best friends forever and everything else will always work itself out!’
Indeed, Kevin and his wife Jennifer Schwalbach – whom he first met when she interviewed him for USA Today in 1997 – will impressively celebrate their 26th wedding anniversary on April 25.
Last year, Smith cast Zajur as the 1986 version of himself in his semi-autobiographical film The 4:30 Movie, which also featured a cameo of Harley as Sister Sugar Walls.
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‘He’s got a lot of soul, this kid. And, honestly, he was more Kevin Smith than Kevin Smith. He took me on a journey,’ the two-time Cannes Award winner told THR last October.
‘He was the perfect, perfect choice. Now I’m sure it’s adversely affecting my daughter’s sex life (laughs). Why would you want to sleep with a f***ing guy who played a young version of your dad? I’m sure that’s going to play with her mind and she’ll be dealing with that in therapy forever, but my movie is all the better for it.’
Harley has acted in several of her famous father’s films – Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001), Clerks II (2006), Tusk (2014), Holidays (2016), Yoga Hosers (2016), Jay and Silent Bob Reboot (2019), and Clerks III (2022).
On March 14, Smith released a music video for her band Cinnamon’s new single Star.
Meanwhile, Austin will next reprise his role as Chuck Steinberg in André Øvredal’s upcoming horror sequel Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark 2.
After Kevin suffered a near-fatal heart attack in 2018, it was his daughter and his cardiologist who encouraged him to go vegan, start hiking, and get serious about his health.
The 25-year-old nepo baby gushed on Instagram: ‘We’re motherf***ing engaged! And it happened at the @farmsanctuary next to Dixon the cow. I’m so in love with you Austin Zajur’ (pictured August 24)
Harley and the 29-year-old groom-to-be later celebrated with her parents by digging into two ‘yummy’ vegan cakes from Sweet Lady Jane
Smith affectionately calls Austin her ‘Puff’ and the road-tripping couple reportedly began dating in September 2019 (pictured in 2022)
The 54-year-old filmmaker (R, pictured November 5) gushed: ‘When @jenschwalbach and I found out, we just about jumped over the moon with joy! However nobody in our family’s more elated right now than Harley and Austin! Congratulations, Kids! Mom and Dad love you a ton and couldn’t be happier for you both! Be each other’s best friends forever’
Indeed, Kevin and his wife Jennifer Schwalbach (L, pictured August 24) – whom he first met when she interviewed him for USA Today in 1997 – will impressively celebrate their 26th wedding anniversary on April 25
Last year, Smith cast Zajur as the 1986 version of himself in his semi-autobiographical film The 4:30 Movie, which also featured a cameo of Harley as Sister Sugar Walls (pictured August 24)
On March 14, Harley released a music video for her band Cinnamon’s new single Star
After Kevin suffered a near-fatal heart attack in 2018, it was his daughter and his cardiologist who encouraged him to go vegan, start hiking, and get serious about his health (pictured in 2018 at Farm Sanctuary)
Smith – who once topped the scales at 330lbs – famously shrank his 5ft9in frame and became an official Weight Watchers ambassador eight years after being booted off a Southwest Airlines for being ‘too fat too fly’ in 2010.
In 2023, the New Jersey-born director quit marijuana after ‘suffering a mental health crisis’ which led to a rehab stint at Sierra Tucson in Arizona for childhood sex abuse and fat shaming.
Kevin’s next project in development is Twilight of the Mallrats – a long-gestating sequel to his 1995 comedy Mallrats – which will serve as a memorial tribute to the late Shannen Doherty.
Smith originally launched his career after shooting Clerks for $27,575 in the convenience/video stores where he worked, and the raunchy b&w comedy amassed $3.2M at the box office.