The image on the right was posted on Facebook by Real Preity Zinta
Preity Zinta, who married longtime beau Gene Goodenough on February 29 in Los Angeles, has given her fans a 'Preity Goodenough' reason to smile.(Also Read:
Preity Zinta Marries Gene Goodenough, Celebs Congratulate on Twitter)
In what has to be one of the most sporting announcements, the actress, 42, wrote in a Facebook post: "I was holding on the 'Miss Tag' rather seriously till now, until I met someone 'Goodenough'." Taking a dig at her husband's surname, she added, "Let the Goodenough jokes begin."
Preity's close friend and colleague Riteish Deshmukh was the first from the Bollywood fraternity to follow her advice:
Twitter, however, went into a joke overdrive much before the actress gave her permission. Sample these tweets soon after she was married:
Congratulations poured in from all quarters:
They were promptly thanked for their wishes
Preity, star of films like
Dil Se, Chori Chori Chupke Chupke and
Mission Kashmir and Gene, a financial analyst, will reportedly host a Bollywood-style reception in Mumbai in April.
The actress was earlier believed to be in a relationship with industrialist Ness Wadia. Ness and Preity, co-owners of the Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise Kings XI Punjab, are believed to have dated for five years between 2005 and 2009. In June 2014, the actress filed a police complaint accusing the Wadia Group scion of having attacked her at an IPL match in Mumbai's Wankhede Stadium.
Preity made a comeback with the poorly-received
Ishkq in Paris (2013) which she produced as well as starred in. She was last seen in 2014's
Happy Ending.