South African radio and TV presenter Leigh-Anne Williams is reportedly engaged to Masterchef Australia star Ben Ungermann
Australian Woman’s Day magazine claims that Williams and Ungermann have been in a secret relationship for over a year. The pair met on William’s Good Hope FM afternoon show when Ungermann came to give a cooking demonstration.
“The chemistry between the two was instant when he appeared on Leigh-Anne’s afternoon show on Good Hope FM, where she told the father of three that he was ‘very easy on the eyes’, writes Australian Woman’s Day Magazine.
It is clear that Williams is in a relationship. On 19 March, she celebrated her one-year anniversary while on vacation in Indonesia, and shared an image of a male silhouette that looks much like Bens.
Leigh-Anne also took to Instagram to wish Ben a happy birthday last month, writing, “A whole birthday boy!!! Who loves ‘KAAPSTAD’! To one of the kindest, most beautiful and caring human beings I know. Happy Birthday @ben_ungermann!!! Wishing you an amazing and blessed day! May you receive all the love that you’ve always shown those around and may you always be blessed in everything you do. Sending you birthday hugs all the way from SA. Happy Happy Happy Birthday. Show him some SA love fam❤?????”
The coronavirus pandemic may have paused nuptials over the globe, but it doesn’t stop love. Amid quarantine, Queer Eye host Karamo Brown has fallen in love with his partner all over again and decided to pop the question a second time.
Brown and fiancé Ian Jordan have been together for eight years. They first became engaged in May 2018 on Jordan’s 40th birthday and were meant to marry this year. However, their wedding had to be cancelled as a result of the pandemic.
The couple have been quarantining together and throughout their time spent at home, Brown has fallen even more in love. So much so, that he proposed again on Jordan’s birthday.
In a sweet video shared to Instagram, Brown shows the special moment he went down on one knee.
“I’m Engaged… Again!” Brown captioned the video. “During this Quarantine I have fallen even deeper in love w/ my fiancé @theianjordan so on his bday / which is also our anniversary I proposed again. Our wedding has been canceled/postponed like so many other people but I still wanted to celebrate our love. I love you Sugah! ❤️❤️❤️
Some rules are meant to be broken. While tradition states that men are meant to propose to their future brides, many modern women are taking back the power and popping the question themselves.
Here are a few stars that popped the big question to their male partners:
Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor is no stranger to marriage. Out of her eight marriages, she popped the question once to British actor Michael Wilding.
Throughout the course of their five-year marriage, the pair had two children: Michael and Christopher. They divorced in 1957.
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Kristen Bell
Kristen Bell and partner Dax Shepard would not marry until same-sex marriage was legal in the US. In 2013, the Supreme Court legalised same-sex marriage in California and Bell immediately took to Twitter to pop the question.
“.@daxshepard1 will you marry me? Xo #marriageequality #loveislove,” she tweeted.
“F*** yes!!!!!!!!!!!”, he replied excitedly.
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Judge Judy
She’s a no-nonsense judge on our TV screens, so its no surprise Judy Sheindlin, more famously known as Judge Judy, would propose to her husband.
“I did propose to him,” Sheindlin told DuJour. “I said to him, ‘Where is this relationship going?’ And he tried to weasel out of it, with his, ‘Well, you know, why do we have to get married?’ Whatever. He finally capitulated. I told him to pick a date. He picked Flag Day.”
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Britney Spears:
Spears randomly popped the question to baby daddy Kevin Federline while aboard a flight from Ireland to New York.
“I’d finished the European part of my tour and I was going home. I was ready to get back to the States. I was really happy. Kevin was with me, so I’d had a lot of fun on the tour,” she told People back in 2004. “We were a couple hours into the flight, and we’d been talking the whole time, stuff about life, wanting to have kids, the future and everything like that. It was an intimate conversation. And we’d always talked about how some people don’t have to get married when they’re in love. Then all of a sudden I said, ‘What if you want to get married?’ And I kind of went from there to asking him if he would marry me. I asked him… He said no because he thought it wasn’t the right way to do it,” she said.
Federline initially turned the proposal down, then asked Spears to marry him a few minutes later. The pair were married for 3 years before divorcing in 2007.
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Pink
Pink had an exciting proposal up her sleeve for partner Carey Hart. Back in 2005, she asked Hart for his hand in marriage while he competed in a motorcross competition. As he entered his third lap, Pink held up a board that read “Will You Marry Me?”. When Hart failed to pull over and respond, Pink added the word “Serious!” to the bottom of the board. Finally, Hart hopped off his bike and said yes.
The pair married 6 months later and have been together ever since.
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Diane von Furstenberg
Fashion designer and creator of the iconic wrap dress, Diane von Furstenberg asked now-husband American media mogul Barry Diller to marry her after turning down his many proposals.
“One year I didn’t know what to give him for his birthday, and I called him and said, ‘You know, if you want, for your birthday I’ll marry you,’ she told O Magazine. He replied with “Let me see if I can arrange it.”
The pair married in 2001.
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Jennifer Hudson:
Jennifer Hudson was already engaged to WWE wrestler David Otunga, who proposed on her birthday, but she decided to reciprocate and ask him to marry her. Five months after their engagement, Hudson went down on one knee to propose to Otunga on his birthday. She didn’t come empty handed, her proposal featured a 5-carat engagement ring.
The pair were engaged for 10 years before splitting. They share a son together.
One year ago, Hollywood’s favourite couple Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez got engaged in the Bahamas. Now, Rodriguez is making a tribute to his future bride to honour their one-year engagement.
Taking to social media, Rodriguez shared a highlight reel showcasing the best moments from their relationship, including the moment he went down on one knee to pop the big question.
“One year ago on a beach in the Bahamas…. I was a nervous wreck, more nervous than my entire playing career, I got down on one knee and asked you a question… you said yes ❤️ ” the former pro baseball player wrote on Instagram. “Jennifer, every moment with you is a blessing. You are my best friend, my inspiration, an amazing mother, and a role model to all. Macha, I am so lucky to be with you. Thank you for making my life better. I can’t wait to make more memories with you. . I love you. #HappyAnniversary ❤️”
The couple plan to marry sometime this year. In a Youtube video, Lopez has spoken about her desire to have a big, traditional church wedding. Considering they share a blended family, the couple plan on involving their four kids in their big day. Lopez’s son Max will reportedly walk her down the aisle.
However, the couple are in no rush to tie the knot. Speaking to Oprah earlier this month, Lopez said, “It’s so funny because when we first got engaged, I was like, ‘Oh, we’re going to get married in a couple of months,’ ” she told Winfrey. “Like your old thinking comes right back, like all that hopeless romantic that made me get married three times.”
“I said, ‘If we’re going to be together for the rest of our lives, what is the rush?’ If that’s what we’re really going to do, if we’re really going to be partners, if we’re really going to try to build something together that we both never had or never felt like we had, which is a family with a husband and a wife, and a mother and father, and we embrace all our children. We show them it’s something that we didn’t have,” she said.
Pitch Perfect actress Brittany Snow recently celebrated her upcoming nuptials with a star-studded joint bachelor / bachelorette party.
Snow and fiancé Tyler Stanaland are engaged to be wed in 2020. The pair opted to join forces and share their bachelor/bachelorette weekend in Palm Springs.
The weekend featured a number of Snow’s Pitch Perfect co-stars, including Anna Kendrick, Anna Camp, and Kelley Jakle. 90210 star Jessica Stroup, Snow’s co-star from the 2008 slasher remake Prom Night, was also in attendance.
“A weekend I’ll never forget. #snowonebutyou#thefinalsnowdown.Thank you to the best crew.” the actress captioned the series of images.
Actress Jenna Dewan will soon be a married woman. The beauty recently took to social media to announce her engagement to partner Steve Kazee.
Dewan and Kazee met seven years ago when she watched Kazee performed in a Broadway show named Once. They were reunited in mid-2018 and went public with their relationship in November 2018, a few months after her split from ex-husband Channing Tatum whom she shares a child with. Dewan and Kazee are currently expecting their first child together.
In an Instagram post, Dewan showed off her massive diamond engagement ring while proclaiming her love for her fellow actor.
“A lifetime to love and grow with you…you have my heart ❤️” she actress and dancer captioned the image.
Kazee shared the same image to his personal account, captioning the image “When you wake in the morning I will kiss your face with a smile no one has ever seen.
When you wake in the morning I will kiss your eyes and say it’s you I have loved all these years.”
One year after their engagement, Katy Perry is giving us an inside-look into her and fiance Orlando Bloom’s celebratory party.
In an Instagram post, Perry shared never-before-seen images from the couples engagement party. In the black-and-white images, the happy couple can be seen celebrating with their friends and family. Guests are seen wearing matching ‘OK’ hoodies to represent Orlando and Katy.
The pair became engaged on Valentines Day 2019 when Bloom proposed to Perry with a unique, flower-shaped ring during a private helicopter flight. Bloom and Perry had previously dated from 2016-2017 but amicably split. Luckily, their love proved too great and they reunited in 2018.
“One year ago I said yes to a life of love and evolution… and definitely never a dull moment ?”, she captioned the series of images on Instagram. Take a look at their awesome party below.
With a party like this, we can’t wait to see their wedding!
House Bunny star Anna Faris is showing off her new sparkler. In an Instagram picture, the actress officially announced her engagement to cinematographer Michael Barrett by showcasing her giant yellow diamond ring.
Faris and Barrett have been dating since 2017, a few months after she split from ex-husband Chris Pratt. In late 2019, Faris was spotted wearing an engagement ring, and her Mom co-star Allison Janney accidentally confirmed the engagement.
The actress recently shared an image with fellow actor Jason Biggs, who was a guest on her podcast Unqualified. Her cushion-cut yellow diamond ring, however, was the star of the show.
Speaking to Us Weekly, Kathryn Money, VP of Strategy & Merchandising for Brilliant Earth says, “Anna’s beautiful ring features an estimated 3-carat yellow cushion-cut diamond surrounded by a diamond halo and set on a white gold or platinum diamond-adorned band with a subtle split shank.”
After weeks of speculation, the Royal Family have officially announced that Princess Beatrice will hold her wedding reception at Buckingham Palace in May this year.
Princess Beatrice of York and her fiance Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi will say ‘I do’ on Friday, May 29 2020 at The Chapel Royal, St. James Palace.
“Her Majesty The Queen has kindly given permission for the ceremony to take place at The Chapel Royal, St James’s Palace,” reads a statement from Buckingham Palace. “The ceremony will be followed by a private reception, given by The Queen, in the gardens of Buckingham Palace.”
Princess Beatrice and Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi join other royals to marry in St James Chapel such as Queen Victoria to Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg on 10 February 1840 and the then Duke of York and Princess Victoria Mary of Teck (later King George V and Queen Mary) in 1893.
The wedding is most likely to be more low-key than other royal weddings. Both BBC and ITV have decided not to live broadcast the wedding as a result of the controversy surrounding her father, Prince Andrew.
We’re only one month into 2020, and we have yet another celebrity engagement! Model Jourdan Dunn took to Instagram to announce her engagement to rap artist and streetwear label owner Dion “Sincere” Hamilton.
The model shared a playful picture covering her eyes and letting her new bling take centre stage. She captioned the image, “Jourdan Dunn Hamilton ……. has a nice ring to it! ????”
Andrew Brown, WP Diamonds CEO, estimated the ring to be worth £22,000 (R432, 965)
“The ring on Jourdan Dunn’s engagement finger looks to be a 2ct oval with a large halo and diamond band. A nice colour clarity combination of G VS would retail for around £22,000.”
The pair began dating in 2019. Dunn is notoriously private about her relationship with Hamilton, and the only picture the couple have together covers Hamilton’s face.
