Christine Bleakley shows off engagement ring!

Arriving back in London from a US vacation in L.A. and Las Vegas with footballer Frank Lampard, TV presenter Christine Bleakley smiled for photographers as she showed off her huge GBP120,000 ring - which she has called a bit too big!

Lampard, a striker with the English national team and Chelsea in the English Premiere League, reportedly spent almost three months planning a the romantic two-week getaway and proposal - though Bleakley told her cohorts on breakfast show Daybreak that the moment was "not very fancy. It was very personal, very private actually, and we were just having a gorgeous lunch by the beach [in Los Angeles] and he simply popped the question. It was completely out of the blue.

"Halfway through the lovey-dovey bit, I realized what he was about to do so I started to cry for about ten minutes and then he pulled out the ring and said, 'Will you marry me?' And that was it."

Though the couple haven't set a date for the wedding, Bleakley says she'd like a small and private wedding in her hometown of Newtownards in Northern Ireland.

It's also been reported that the couple have already been turning down splashy magazine deals to showcase their wedding photos, wishing instead just to share the day with loved ones.

A source told the Sunday Mirror today, "Christine can't wait to get married and Frank has said whatever she wants is fine by him. Money obviously isn't a problem and Frank wants everything to be perfect for Christine. It isn't going to be some tacky celebrity wedding. This is a day purely about them and for their families and close friends."

This will be the first marriage for both, though Lampard was once engaged to Spanish model Elen Rives, with whom he has daughters Luna, 4, and Isla, 3.

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Molly Sims' bling and proposal details!

Over the May long weekend, actress/jewelry designer Molly Sims accepted a surprise proposal from producer Scott Stuber, her boyfriend of the past two years. He popped the question inside her walk-in closet, a la Big and Carrie in Sex & the City. "I had just closed escrow on my house. I was having trouble having his house be our house. He was like, 'This is our house and our life and our future.'"

Stuber, who designed the Diane von Furstenburg ring himself with Sims' friend, a DVF executive, flew in Sims parents from Kentucky for the weekend, a surprise to the bride-to-be. Said Stuber at the recent Chrysalis Butterfly Ball in Los Angeles, with Sims on his arm, "Her mother is a southern woman, and I wanted to be a good Southern gentleman and go ask her parents in person, and bring them along."

And Sims, who says she has "no idea" how big her cushion-cut sparkler is (roughly 5-6 carats, says this site), loves her future husband's taste in jewelry. "He designed it. He did it with my girlfriend on his own. He surprised me; I never sent him a picture. He did it all."

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Scissor Sisters' Ana Matronic talks married life

Ana Matronic (real name Lynch), the only female in the dance rock band The Scissor Sisters, recently sat down to talk to the Daily Mail about the band's upcoming tour and also touched on being a newlywed - she married longtime boyfriend Seth Kirby in late April at New York City Hall.

Matronic recalls, "We got married because...OK, I should back up a little bit. Seth does lights and visuals for bands and he works with this man Josh White, who did the visuals at Woodstock. Josh has been married to his wife Alice for 32 years, and Josh and Seth had just done a gig and it came out that Seth and I weren’t officially married. Josh and Alice couldn’t believe it, because we had been referring to each other as husband and wife for years. Seth came home and said, 'God, I just got an earful from Josh and Alice,' and we were just talking about it over the next few days and then it was like, 'Yeah, yeah, we should do it, we should do it.' I was on the computer and I looked down and he was on his knees and he said, 'Will you marry me?' and I said yes and he said, 'Will you fill out the paperwork and we’ll go right now?' So we went to City Hall that day, got the paperwork, then waited six days and did it officially."

Witnesses at the City Hall ceremony were Josh White, Seth's sister Kate and roommate Joe. After the Scissor Sisters upcoming tour, the couple plans to have a party for friends and family and go on a honeymoon.

Asked what marriage means to her, Matronic said, "Marriage? It’s just better and deeper. It’s like the difference between dating someone and dating someone you’re in love with. It’s that next logical step."

She also sees children in the couple's future, saying, "I love the idea. There are a lot of idiots having children in the world these days, so we should probably put a good one out there!"

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Brit soap star's dramatic real-life romance leads to engagement announcement

EastEnders soap star Sid Owen sleeps in a separate bed than his longtime girlfriend, 26-year-old Polly Parsons, but that didn't stop the pair from secretly getting engaged six months ago. Nor did it stop them from postponing a planned September ceremony after a two-month split earlier this year.

Owen, 38, who is also a former British pop star, proposed to Parsons while on holiday in Barbados six months ago. Owen and Parsons tell OK! about the romantic proposal.

"There was a raft out at sea which we'd swim out to," says Owen. "I didn't have a ring so I got this guy on the beach to make one out of beads in the reggae colours, as I love my reggae, and I put that in my back pocket and we swam out there and I proposed."

"It was really romantic," says Parsons.

'Romantic' does little to describe how this happy couple spend their nights - apart, in separate bedrooms. Then again, Parsons reasoning for sleeping alone may have a lot to do with why they're so blissfully happy these days.

"He snores like a rhino," she says. "After we went traveling I had to be honest with him about it," says Polly, 'and he said he liked having his own bed anyway so it was perfect. I'll stay in Sid's bed watching TV cuddling. If I fall asleep in his room I soon hear him snoring and get up anyway and go into my room. People think it's weird but it works for us."

The couple were originally planning to wed in September but split when the pressure of pulling together the big day became too much for Parsons. "We had about a thousand people coming! It would have been about everyone else - now we've had time apart, we know what's important. It just started to get out of hand and it scared me."

During their time apart, Owen took off for a detox centre in Thailand, but the couple say they spoke daily in order to get their relationship back on track. As for where and when the couple will finally wed, the couple tells OK! they plan to take their time and will wed "maybe next year."

But they'll have to compromise - Owen wants a wedding at his 600-year-old farmhouse in France, but Polly wants to return to Barbados.

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Jesse Csincsak's proposal nearly ruined by future father-in-law

Former Bachelorette contestant Jesse Csincsak, a snowboarder who received the final rose and was engaged to former show star DeAnna Pappas , was able to surprise current fiancee Ann Leuders with a romantic proposal August 6th - but that was no thanks to her father!

"When I first asked for Ann's hand in marriage, her dad didn't realize that Ann wasn't supposed to know," Csincsak tells People.com. "He went inside the house and Ann and her mom were just chatting and he goes, 'So Jesse just asked me a very interesting question. He asked me if he could marry you.' And she goes, 'DAD! You're not supposed to tell me that!' He didn't do it on purpose, he was just trying to be the happy-go-lucky dad."

The day of the proposal, Csincsak pulled out an engagement ring on the shore of an island in Lake Erie, and after accepting Leuders told him, "I wish I knew this was coming. I would have run a brush through my hair!"

The couple will wed before the end of August at the Rumor Hotel in Las Vegas.

Source: PEOPLE

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Probably future NFLer proposes during home game

Colt McCoy, quarterback for the University of Texas Longhorns football team in Austin, Texas, proposed on Monday, January 11th to his girlfriend, sports reporter Rachel Glandorf.

Directing her attention to the scoreboard at Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium, McCoy had the electronic sign, in Longhorns burnt orange and white, read, "Rachel, I love you! Will You Marry Me? Colt."

Glandorf, who currently works for Austin's CBS affiliate, and McCoy, who was the 2009 Heisman Trophy runner-up, have not announced a wedding date. It will be the first marriage for both.

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Bling Shot: Jane Krakowski!

Attending the Golden Globe Awards on January 17th without her new fiance, British fashion exec Robert Godley, 30 Rock star Jane Krakowski did show off herdiamong engagement ring with her gorgeous dress.

When asked where Godley was for the evening, Krakowski admitted that none of the 30 Rock cast had been permitted to bring dates in order to squeeze as many staffers as they could into L.A.'s Shrine Auditorium.

Krakowski and Godley have not announced a wedding date. They were engaged over the holidays. Godley had intended to ask Krakowski to marry him on their transatlantic NYC-London flight, but blizzards in the British capital grounded their plane and Godley had to improvise his proposal.

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Amy Adams gives proposal advice

Engaged to longtime boyfriend, actor Darren Legallo, and expecting a baby with him this spring, actress Amy Adams shared the story of his proposal at the recent premiere of her new film, Leap Year, with OK!

“He put a ring on it,” she said. “He had come into town, and planned a very romantic dinner. He had a whole proposal in mind, and I wanted to go see a play, so he had to improvise. He did a great job.”

As for advice for potential female proposers - her film is all about a woman who flies to Ireland to propose to her boyfriend on Leap Day - Adams says, “I think it depends on the relationship. If the guy’s pretty laidback about it, then absolutely they should go ahead and propose. But I know my guy is a perfectionist — and he was gonna propose.”

Adams and Legallo were engaged in 2008. They have yet to set a wedding date; this will be the first marriage for both.

Source: OK!

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