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Nina Dobrev and Shaun White are engaged!
The “Vampire Diaries” star and the Olympic snowboarder shared photos from the stunning proposal to their respective Instagram pages Wednesday.
“She said YES 💍♾️,” White wrote.
Dobrev also expressed her excitement by posting, “RIP boyfriend, hello fiancé 💍♾️.”
White popped the question to Dobrev earlier this month, the couple told Vogue in an interview also published Wednesday.
He tricked her into thinking that she had been invited to an intimate Vogue/CFDA dinner with Anna Wintour at the Golden Swan in New York City, but when she walked up the stairs, she saw him standing underneath a white floral arch with rose petals and candles placed throughout the room.
White surprised Dobrev by convincing her she was going to an intimate dinner with Anna Wintour. WireImage She was instead greeted by White under a massive flower arch. Nina Dobrev / Instagram“I went into shock. I just froze and stared at him,” she told the magazine, recalling that she kept repeating, “No!”
Dobrev eventually managed to say yes, and White slipped a five-carat Lorraine Schwartz ring onto her finger.
It first was revealed that the couple were dating in April 2020, but they met in 2019 at an event for motivational speaker Tony Robbins in Florida, where they were both giving presentations.
“I actually didn’t know anything about her,” White said of the “Degrassi” star, who agreed to have dinner with him afterward.
White proposed on a Friday night in October. ninadobrev/InstagramWhite told People magazine that his ego took a bruising when staff at the restaurant were more excited to see her than him.
“The place was packed … And she was like, ‘Let me go see if I can get a table,'” he explained.
Thinking she told the hostess “There’s an old gold medalist over there who wants a table,” it was Dobrev who was then asked for a photo by one of the servers, as White recalled: “I was like, ‘What’s happening? What’s going on?’ It was actually really funny.”
Dobrev made their relationship Instagram-official in May 2020 when she shared a photo of herself holding a pair of scissors while the snowboarding champ jokingly looked afraid.
The pair were first linked in April 2020. ninadobrev/InstagramWhite later uploaded a video of Dobrev changing up his look, which he captioned, “My hairstylist said he wouldn’t, so she did. #QuarantineCuts.”
Now, White says that he can’t wait to have kids, telling Us Weekly, “I would love to be a dad.
“It’s just something that seems so exciting, you know? I love being around people, and I love the idea of having someone other than my own pursuits to look after.”
Dobrev and White first met at a Tim Robbins event in 2019. ninadobrev/InstagramHe added, “For a guy like myself that’s really poured his everything into one aspect of life, which is competing in snowboarding, I feel like over the years, I’ve gathered a more well-rounded life with other things going on. Something like that just seems like an amazing turning of the page, a new chapter. … I wanna take this on.”
Dobrev previously dated her “Vampire Diaries” co-star Ian Somerhalder from 2011 to 2013, “Bridge of Spies” actor Austin Stowell from 2015 to 2016 and was linked to former “Scream Queens” star Glen Powell in 2017.
White dated rock singer Sarah Barthel from 2014 to 2019.
