(ew.com February 14, 2025)
Cobra Kai may be ending, but it's just the beginning for costars Mary Mouser and Tanner Buchanan.
The actors announced that they're engaged to be married in joint Instagram post Thursday, adding, "This is such a special moment in our lives, the closing of one chapter and celebrating the continuation of another. We're so grateful for the love and support, and though we're partial to having our private moments, we're excited to share this check-in to our world."
The announcement confirmed fan speculation that has been raging for years over the pair's offscreen relationship. Mouser, 28, and Buchanan, 26, have been castmates on all six seasons of Cobra Kai. Their characters in the Karate Kid sequel series — Sam "Bonsai Badass" LaRusso and martial arts prodigy Robby Keene — started dating in season 2 but subsequently broke up. Meanwhile, the actors have been spotted in public together on several occasions.
In 2022, Buchanan and Mouser shared photos from Disneyland Paris in which they donned matching outfits. But they waited until this week to publicly confirm their relationship.
Buchanan told PEOPLE at a series finale event Wednesday that Mouser was "a hundred percent" his closest confidante on the series, adding, "But to be honest, literally everybody… There's not one person that we don't hang out with and have fun with, and we truly keep saying that we're going to be around in each other's lives forever."
Cobra Kai premiered on YouTube Red in 2018 and later moved to Netflix. When the show was renewed for a sixth season in 2023, the streamer announced it would be the swan song.
Creators Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz, and Hayden Schlossberg wrote in a letter to fans, "Reacquainting the world with the Karate Kid universe has been our humble honor… This fandom is the BEST on the planet and we hope to be telling more Karate Kid stories with you down the line."
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