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  • Tanith Belbin And Ice Skater Boyfriend Charlie White Get Engaged In Hawaii

    Olympic gold medalist and Dancing with the Stars alum Charlie White, 26, is finally engaged to girlfriend of five years, ice dancer Tanith Belbin, 29.

    White posted a picture on Instagram on Monday with the caption “Couldn’t ask for a more beautiful setting for the best time in our life! Hashtag she said yes!!!” White popped the question while they were in Hawaii for a vacation.

    In the photo Tanith can be seen wearing a dazzling new diamond engagement ring on her finger.

    White has been busy the past year. He and his professional dancing partner, Meryl Davis, who also competed and won Dancing with the Stars, won the gold medal in ice dancing at the Winter Olympics in Sochi. Many have speculated that White and Davis are together, but Davis has also been linked to her Dancing with the Stars partner, Maks Chmerkovskiy. Davis congratulated her dancing partner on Twitter, “Congrats to these two! Beautiful girl, beautiful (ring). Good work @CharlieaWhite.”

    According to Belbin, she does not mind that people assume White and Davis are together. In March, White said in an interview that Belbin gets it. “She won the silver medal in 2006 with her partner Ben Agosto, and people were always like, ‘Are you guys dating?’ It’s just something you get as dancers. Her understanding makes my life so much easier.” Two weeks ago, White thanked his girlfriend and their puppy and wrote, “The past 6 months have been the craziest of my life and I can honestly say there’s no way I would have survived without these two. 5 years together, but it only feels like 5 days.”

    The news of White and Belbin’s engagement stole the spotlight from Davis and Chmerkovskiy, even if just for a bit. Rumors about Davis and Chmerkovskiy dating started to emerge during the last season of Dancing with the Stars, and even became more widespread when the season ended. With the engagement news, fans on Twitter congratulated the couple, while some were disappointed that White is engaged to Belbin and not Davis. One user wrote, “possibly the most devastating news this morning is charlie white is engaged to not meryl davis.”

    Image via Charlie White, Instagram

  • Tanith Belbin Is Engaged To Charlie White

    Tanith Belbin Is Engaged To Charlie White

    Sorry ladies … Charlie White is off the market!

    That’s right, he finally did it! Charlie popped the question to his longtime girlfriend Tanith Belbin after five years of dating.

    Charlie shared a picture of the newly engaged couple on his personal Instagram account. They can be seen standing in front of the water in Hawaii, and Tanith has her hand strategically placed on Charlie’s chest to show off her new bling.

    “Couldn’t ask for a more beautiful setting for the best time in our life! Hashtag she said yes!!!” Charlie captioned the photo.

    Charlie’s ice dancing partner Meryl Davis later took to Twitter to congratulate Charlie and his new fiancé. “Congrats to these two! Beautiful girl, beautiful. Good work @CharlieaWhite,” Davis tweeted along with their engagement picture.

    Two weeks ago, Charlie, who just recently finished fifth on Dancing with the Stars, added another post to his Instagram account thanking Tanith for staying by his side all these years. “The past 6 months have been the craziest of my life- and I can honestly say there’s no way I would have survived without these two. 5 years together, but it only feels like 5 days,” he wrote and added a picture of Tanith and their puppy.

    Speaking of the puppy, Charlie took to Twitter to reveal who would be giving him away … his dog DJ. “Everyone’s asking about wedding plans, but as of right now only one thing is certain- DJ will be giving me away,” he tweeted.

    No other wedding plans have been revealed. Congratulations to the happy couple!

    Image via Wikimedia Commons

  • Gracie Gold Backs Out of Malibu Prom Date

    Figure skater and 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics bronze medalist Gracie Gold has backed out of a prom date with a teenage suitor from Malibu, California, who asked her via a YouTube clip, and later in person during an awkward taping of an episode of NBC’s Extra.

    Malibu High School student Dyer Pettijohn, 17, compiled a video clip asking Gold, 18, to be his senior prom date, which he describes as the sort of “quintessential high school experience, that (she) was never able to have.” The clip went relatively viral on YouTube, garnering over 275,000 views. While Gold was making an appearance on Extra, she was asked if she’d seen the video, only to have gentleman caller Pettijohn appear, holding a bouquet of flowers.

    Gold agreed to go to the prom in Malibu, and told Pettijohn, “If it works out, I would love to.”

    Here is Pettijohn’s initial YouTube peacockery:

    Here is the clip from the Extra taping:

    Gracie’s twin sister Carly approves:

    Alas, it’s been reported that due to her new gig with figure skating tour Stars On Ice, Gold was forced to cancel. Pettijohn claims to not be too let down, is keeping his options open, and commented, “She (Gold) was incredibly gracious and gave me tickets to see her show last Saturday in Anaheim. I talked to her after, and we’re still trying to meet up once her busy schedule permits.”

    Gold will join Olympic gold medalist team Charlie White and Maryl Davis, as well as Ashley Wagner and Jason Brown during her Stars on Ice appearance on May 16.

    According to the Malibu High School newspaper The MHS Current, Gold is disappointed about not being able to attend Pettijohn’s prom, and told Access Hollywood, “I want to say yes, but logistically it might be no.” Pettijohn commented, “It’s truly brilliant how they (Olympians) are able to balance their rigor of training with entertaining their fans and family. This experience has been absolutely amazing and hopefully my relationship with Ms. Gold will continue for years to come.”

    Image via Twitter

  • Meryl Davis And Charlie White: U.S. Ice Dancers Win Gold In Sochi

    American ice dancing pair Meryl Davis and Charlie White made their nation proud by winning the gold in the Winter Olympics in Sochi. It is the first gold for Team USA in ice dancing; they had previously won silver four years ago in Vancouver. They also won bronze in this year’s new team event.

    The duo, who both hail from Michigan, scored in the free dance portion with 116.63 points and finished with 195.52, enough to beat Canadians Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, who won the event in 2010. The Canadian pair, who also happened to be the American team’s training partners in Detroit, scored 190.99 points. Winning bronze are Elena Ilinykh and Nikita Katsalapov from Russia, and at fourth place are Nathalie Pechalat and Fabian Bourzat from France.

    The pair’s intricate choreography and superb technical skills were brilliantly showcased. They glided and spun across the ice to the music from “Scheherazade,” ending their dance with White on one knee, and Davis resting her head on his back.

    They have been asked about their chemistry, and whether it extends off the ice. In a 2012 interview, White said that they get asked about it a lot, and while awkward, they have become used to it. For them, it is central to their sport to show they are in love on the ice, which makes it easy for the audience to think they are a couple even after they’ve taken off their skates.

    Dancing together for more than half of their lives is also a big factor in making them feel comfortable with each other, which is obvious in their intimacy on the ice, and the spirit with which they danced. The 27-year-old Davis and 26-year-old White were first paired together as kids—when Davis was 10 and White, 9. They had been skating together ever since, and it definitely showed in their performance on Monday during the ice dancing finals.

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    Image via YouTube

  • Meryl Davis and Charlie White: Moms Helped Win Gold

    Meryl Davis and Charlie White have just scored the ultimate goal and have brought home to the USA that coveted gold medal during Sochi’s winter olympics.

    This is an historic gold medal, as the US has never won for ice dancing before. The pair have been training together for seventeen years and have worked hard every day of their lives to get where they are today.

    Their journey began as awkward kids of 8 and 9, having a hard time trying to pull off the “chemistry” needed to fake passion and other sorts of emotions that grade school kids are completely unaware of.

    They have certainly come a long way and their familiarity and ease with each other are mainly credited with giving them the edge that they needed to beat out a number of great ice dancing athletes on Monday.

    However, the two might say that there were also two other magic ingredients to the mix that made all the difference in the world.

    “Charlie is very anti-superstition – we don’t have any concrete good luck charms we rely on,” Davis said, according to People. “But I think our moms are as close to good luck charms as we have.”

    The pair’s moms have never missed a competition, said Davis, “and one tradition we have is that before we compete, we take a moment to give our moms a hug before we warm up.”

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkHNASQM0rs

    “We’re so grateful to have them with us wherever we go in the world,” Davis says of the moms.

    They are so grateful that the gold-winning duo participated with P&G in their “Thank You, Mom” campaign. That gave them the chance to feature their moms in the above video and thank them for all the years of cheering, support, and just being there as Mom.

    It’s clearly a dream come true for two amazing athletes and their devoted moms.

    Image via You Tube