Shaun White and Nina Dobrev have referred to as off their engagement and introduced an finish to their five-year relationship, an individual near the couple advised The Related Press.
The three-time Olympic champion snowboarder and the previous star of “The Vampire Diaries” made a mutual determination to half, in response to the particular person.
The particular person spoke on situation of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the state of affairs.
Folks journal first reported the breakup.
White, 39, and Dobrev, 36, went public about their relationship in 2020. One in all their first Instagram posts, which got here towards the beginning of the COVID lockdown, confirmed Dobrev giving a “quarantine haircut” to the Olympic halfpipe rider recognized in his youthful days as “The Flying Tomato” for his lengthy shocks of purple hair.
They shared occasional posts about their travels over the following few years, and supported one another’s careers. Dobrev adopted White on his frenetic highway to qualifying for his fifth and remaining Olympics in 2022 and White was entrance and heart in 2023 for the Los Angeles premier of Dobrev’s Netflix film, “The Out-Laws.”
After ending fourth on the Beijing Olympics, White credited Dobrev for pushing him to make a to-do listing for retirement “so I’m not sitting round twiddling my thumbs.”
They introduced their engagement in October 2024, posting an image of White kneeling in entrance of Dobrev at a New York restaurant, the couple surrounded by white rose petals and candles. “She said YES,” White wrote within the put up, including an emoji of a diamond ring.
Folks reported the couple was seen collectively in public as just lately as Aug. 31, however Dobrev was noticed strolling a purple carpet on the Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant final week with out her engagement ring.
White has spent the final two years beginning up The Snow League, a professional halfpipe circuit he hopes will result in extra alternatives for folks in his sport. Dobrev has reportedly been forged to star in a rom-com “It Happened One Summer” based mostly on a best-selling e book by Tessa Bailey.
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