Two years into his retirement, Shaun White has pulled off his largest trick but.
The three-time Olympic gold medalist introduced his engagement to former “The Vampire Diaries” actress Nina Dobrev on Wednesday after 5 years of courting.
“She mentioned YES,” White wrote with a Instagram carousel of pictures with a suggestive proposal. She additionally shared some candy snapshots of hers Instagram storycalling that night on the finish of October the “greatest night time of my life”.
Dobrev additionally printed a announcement of his personal accord, joking, “RIP boyfriend, bye boyfriend” and attaching a couple of alternatives from the identical batch of engagement pictures. In one, he raises his palms — loaded with diamonds, after all — to his mouth in amazement.
That look of shock was hard-earned, White mentioned Rowing in an interview printed Wednesday.
White’s unique plan to suggest through the couple’s summer season trip, he informed the outlet, was foiled when Dobrev she injured her knee in a dust bike accident. Later, he scrapped a plan to coincide with their deliberate November journey to Cape Town, South Africa, as a result of Dobrev appeared suspicious and was aiming for an actual shock.
So White hatched his ultimate plan, recruiting his publicist to ship his present girlfriend a pretend invitation to a enterprise dinner with Anna Wintour on the Golden Swan restaurant in New York City. Dobrev accepted.
“He made the invitation appear so reputable,” Dobrev informed Vogue. When she arrived, she was shocked to seek out Shaun below an arch of white roses.
“I simply froze and stared at it,” he informed the outlet, then — like a damaged document — continued to say, “No, no, no!”
Dobrev and White first met throughout a short assembly on the 2012 Teen Choice Awards, however formally met a number of years later at a seminar in Florida hosted by motivational speaker Tony Robbins. They made their relationship official in 2020.
The two supported one another through the COVID-19 lockdowns, White mentioned People in 2021, with Dobrev conserving the athlete grounded throughout his ultimate Olympic run in Beijing.
“Nina is unbelievable. What an affect on my life,” he mentioned. “Not solely does she run her present, her world, the businesses she’s concerned in, the issues she makes, all this stuff that go on. He holds me to this similar excessive customary that’s so great to have in a associate.
Let’s have fun White’s birthday in September, Dobrev he said there have been “too many pictures, too many adventures, too many laughs, too many cute moments” to suit into one put up.
