The Vampire Diaries star Nina Dobrev and Olympic snowboarder Shaun White have reportedly broken up and called off their engagement, almost one year after White popped the question last October.
News of the breakup was reported by People, which quoted a source who said the pair — who first met back in 2019 — reached a “mutual decision” to part ways.
“It was a mutual decision, and wasn’t an easy one. It was made with love and a deep respect for one another,” the source said.
While neither party has addressed the reports, fans have since noted that Dobrev appeared on the red carpet of the Toronto Film Festival without her engagement ring earlier this week, and have elsewhere decoded a cryptic TikTok video she shared just days ago.
The clip sees the actress — who played Elena and Katherine in TVD — lip syncing to an audio about “advice for women trying to fix their man”. Despite fans’ decoding, there’s no reports that Dobrev and White’s split was anything besides amicable.
Dobrev reportedly first met White — famed as a three-time Olympic gold medalist in half-pipe snowboarding — while attending a workshop hosted by motivational speaker Tony Robbins back in 2019, according to Who.
The couple didn’t publicly confirm their relationship until 2020, after which they were spotted at multiple red carpets culminating in their engagement in 2024.
“She said YES,” White wrote while announcing the news on Instagram, alongside an image of him popping the question. Meanwhile, Dobrev celebrated the news with a post of her own, writing, “RIP boyfriend, hello fiancé”.
Who reports that Dobrev has since unpinned that post from her Instagram profile.
The pair were last spotted together in late August — when they were papped smiling and holding hands while running errands in Los Angeles — but Dobrev stepped out solo at the film festival earlier this week.
Also this week, Dobrev made headlines when a new book spilling BTS intel about TVD included the claim that she almost quit the show over being paid less than her male costars, Ian Somerhalder and Paul Wesley.
Titled I Was Feeling Epic: An Oral History of The Vampire Diaries, the book was written by Samantha Highfill, who interviewed Dobrev for her recount of the pay war that erupted ahead of the eighth and final season.
“I needed to be paid parity to the boys. I had to put my foot down and say if it didn’t happen I wouldn’t be able to come back,” Debrov said in the book.
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