Britney Spears and Sam Asghari announce engagement

published 13 September 2021

Britney Spears and longtime boyfriend Sam Asghari announced Sunday that they are engaged, posting photos and videos to Instagram of Spears wearing a diamond engagement ring. "I can't (expletive) believe it!" she wrote on her Instagram post. Asghari posted a photo of what appears to be the same ring on Friday, then quickly deleted it, claiming his account was hacked.

The engagement announcement comes less than a week after Spears' father, Jamie, petitioned the courts to end the conservatorship that has managed Spears' finances and personal life for 13 years. In a hearing over the summer, Spears said she wanted to marry Asghari and have more children but her conservators would not let her. Spears has two sons with her second husband, backup dancer Kevin Federline, whom she divorced in 2007. She was also very briefly married to a childhood friend, Jason Alexander.

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Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University.