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Carrie Ann Inaba asks mom to be matron of honor on live TV

The television personality got engaged to actor Rob Derringer in December.

By Annie Martin
Carrie Ann Inaba attends the Creative Arts Emmy Awards on September 10, 2016. The television personality shocked mom Patricia Inaba on Tuesday's episode of "Live! with Kelly and Ryan." File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI
1 of 3 | Carrie Ann Inaba attends the Creative Arts Emmy Awards on September 10, 2016. The television personality shocked mom Patricia Inaba on Tuesday's episode of "Live! with Kelly and Ryan." File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo

Aug. 1 (UPI) -- Bride-to-be Carrie Ann Inaba shared a sweet moment with her mom on live TV this week.

The 49-year-old television personality shocked mom Patricia Inaba on Tuesday's episode of Live! with Kelly and Ryan by requesting she serve as matron of honor in her wedding.

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"I'm actually in the process of choosing my bridesmaids," Inaba, who was filling in for host Kelly Ripa, shared with with audience.

"It is hard because you have your OG friends -- I have my friends from Hawaii, and I have my friends from L.A., and I have my family friends," she explained. And then I have my mom. And I wanted to ask: Mom, would you be my matron of honor?"

Inaba shared a big hug with her mom, who happily accepted the honor. The television personality got engaged to Robb Derringer, an actor who played Kyle Sloane on General Hospital, along the California coast in December.

"We returned to the place of our first date and got engaged at the same place we shared our spontaneous and magical first date," Inaba told People after Derringer's proposal.

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"All alone on that beautiful beach, it was as if time stood still and we were the only two people on earth. I will never forget it. It was perfect," she gushed. "Getting engaged where we had that perfect first date, was really such poetic destiny."

Inaba serves as a judge on the ABC reality competition Dancing with the Stars, which will premiere a 25th season in the fall. She will return to guest co-host Live! with Kelly and Ryan on Wednesday.

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