“To be its king, one must befriend its cats,” wrote Goodnough next to the sweet Instagram photo
Valerie Bertinelli’s boyfriend, , has the approval of one very important person in her life—her cat, Batman!
On Friday, April 26, Goodnough shared an of the feline sleeping gently inside his arms while relaxing in bed together.
“‘To inhabit a land, one must quiet its dogs. To be its king, one must befriend its cats.’ — either Confucius or something I just made up. I am now in league with Batman,” began Goodnough in his lengthy caption.
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He quipped that —Henry, Bubba, Tigger, Beau, and Nelson — will soon “all come aboard” and “the prophecy will be complete.”
“A ‘Man of the Cats’ will appear unexpectedly and bring peace to the restive village. I’m a Leo. We do stuff like that,” continued Goodnough.
While Bertinelli, 64, in an interview with in March, she and Goodnough .
In an April 20 , the shared a photo of the two smiling from ear to ear, quoting lyrics from ‘s new song “,” off her recently released 11th studio album , in the caption.
“🎶 I’ll drink what you think and I’m high from smokin’ your jokes all damn night 🎶,” Bertinelli wrote.
by sharing the news in a titled “Rumors, Rumors, Rumors.”
“I am Valerie Bertinelli’s boyfriend… and that may well be among the most surreal sentences I’ve ever pecked out. But it’s true… and nothing about our actual relationship seems surreal. It just seems… good… lucky… a gift,” wrote Goodnough.
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“Life is crazy, kids. It just is. It’ll rain hellfire down on you for years and bring you to your knees… and then it’ll open the skies to deep blue and love and calling someone ‘Honey’ because you just love the absolute hell out of her and feel so very thankful for the gift of that feeling, the gift of her,” he continued.
“So, the little rumor going around, consider it happily confirmed,” Goodnough wrote. “I just adore her. I’m so glad we’re together.”
The former Food Network host, who , , in November 2022, earlier this month.
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While she didn’t reveal the name of her boyfriend at the time, she told PEOPLE, “I’m in love. It’s a seesaw of emotions because I was adamant I was never falling in love again.”
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