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Shaun White and Nina Dobrev in July 2024. (Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Pictures)
After 5 years collectively, Nina Dobrev and Shaun White have known as it quits, in accordance with information stories. The Olympic snowboarder proposed to The Vampire Diaries star practically a yr in the past, in October 2024. Dobrev, nevertheless, has since unpinned the Instagram submit asserting the engagement, which was beforehand entrance and middle on the high of her grid.
Dobrev and White have but to deal with their breakup publicly, although a supply near the duo advised Folks that “it was a mutual choice, and wasn’t a simple one.”
The longtime couple was final photographed collectively in late August, although Dobrev was photographed solo on the crimson carpet for the Eternity premiere on the Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition this month.
From sparking romance rumors in 2020 to their eventual engagement in 2024, right here’s a glance again at Dobrev and White’s five-year relationship.
2020: Sheltering in place collectively
Dobrev and White, who first met at a motivational workshop in Florida, initially sparked romance rumors in February 2020, once they shared separate Instagram posts within the similar location. They went on to make their relationship Instagram official two months later, in April 2020, once they posted a video of Dobrev washing the dishes with White’s fingers.
When the couple determined to maneuver in collectively throughout lockdown, they busied themselves with aspect tasks, like portray and at-home repairs.
“We went to the ironmongery shop, purchased a bunch of paint and brushes and positively bought in over our heads, but it surely was actually enjoyable,” White advised Folks of their days in lockdown, earlier than gushing about how supportive the Canadian actress is. “Nina’s simply been so supportive and so superb via this complete course of for me. … By way of the pandemic, she was a lifesaver — she actually made that point in my life particular.”
2021: A public declaration of affection
On Valentine’s Day in 2021, Dobrev and White publicly celebrated their relationship with an Instagram submit. The Degrassi actress shared a photograph of the pair along with her canine, Maverick, together with the caption, “my favourite snow cone taste is White. pleased we bought ‘caught collectively’ final yr and caught it out 😉 pleased valentine’s day to my quarantini in crime… 🤍”
Whereas the couple continued to shelter in place amid the coronavirus pandemic, White advised Us Weekly that he did handle to tug collectively a candy first anniversary celebration.
“I needed to re-create our first date, however every part was closed,” he advised the outlet in June 2021. “I managed to candy speak the proprietor of the place to open up for us. It was really fairly enjoyable to have a spot all to ourselves.”
Forward of the 2022 Winter Olympics, during which he competed, White additional detailed his relationship with Dobrev and the constructive affect she’s had on him.
“Nina’s unbelievable,” he advised Folks. “What an affect on my life. Not solely does she run her personal present, her personal world, firms she’s concerned in, issues she’s producing, all these items occurring. She holds me to this similar excessive normal, which is so fantastic to have in a associate.”
2022: A foray into snowboarding and a crimson carpet debut
Whereas chatting with E! Information in January 2022, the Love Laborious star revealed that she had stunned White throughout their second massive trip collectively. Whereas White, who made his fifth Winter Olympics look that yr, is aware of his method round a mountain, Dobrev says she will be able to maintain her personal too.
“I feel [White] was extra stunned once we went [snowboarding] for the primary time,” she advised the outlet. “He was anticipating to attend for me, and it was fairly the other. I had already handed him by a landslide … I can sustain!”
When White retired from snowboarding following the 2022 Winter Olympics, Dobrev threw a retirement get together to have fun his storied profession. The actress shared a photograph of the festivities, the place friends wore lengthy crimson wigs in honor of White’s well-known hair shade.
Dobrev and White went on to make their crimson carpet debut as a pair on the London premiere of High Gun: Maverick in Might 2022.
Shaun White and Nina Dobrev attend the High Gun: Maverick London premiere in Might 2022. (Samir Hussein/WireImage through Getty Pictures)
2023: White helps Dobrev at a film premiere
In June 2023, White joined Dobrev on the Los Angeles premiere of her Netflix movie The Out-Legal guidelines. They cleaned up nicely too: Dobrev wore a glittery Khaite minidress, whereas her Olympian beau opted for a darkish plum swimsuit.
The couple stepped out collectively as soon as extra, in September 2023, once they attended the second annual Albies in New York Metropolis in coordinating Versace appears.
Nina Dobrev and Shaun White on the Albies in New York Metropolis in September 2023. (Nina Westervelt/Selection through Getty Pictures)
“An immensely vital night to shine a protecting gentle on the numerous brave people who, at nice private threat, have devoted their lives to justice,” Dobrev wrote on Instagram. “Thanks George and Amal Clooney for a stupendous night, and to all of the honorees for dedicating your lives within the pursuit of justice. The world is a greater place due to you.”
2024: Disneyland, Coachella and an engagement
For Dobrev’s thirty fifth birthday in January 2024, White organized a visit to Disneyland with a bunch of her buddies, together with Dancing With the Stars cohost Julianne Hough. Dobrev gushed concerning the shock celebration in an Instagram submit that includes a carousel of photographs from the so-called “happiest place on earth.”
“Feeling extremely fortunate, celebrated, cherished, grateful and appreciative of all of the fantastic souls I’m lucky to encompass myself with. In terms of buddies, I positively hit the jackpot. Big thanks to my love @shaunwhite for orchestrating the entire thing! You sneaky lil satan ♥️🥰🫶🏼😍😘 love you,” learn a part of her caption.
A couple of months later, in April 2024, Dobrev and White headed to the desert for Coachella. On Instagram, White shared a sequence of photographs from the music competition, alongside the caption, “COACHELLA 🌴.”
Later that yr, in October 2024, White revealed that he and Dobrev had gotten engaged. The Olympic snowboarder shared a sequence of photographs from his proposal on Instagram, during which he’s seen down on one knee in entrance of Dobrev, in a room stuffed with candles and white roses.
“She mentioned YES 💍♾️,” White wrote within the caption.
White proposed on the Golden Swan restaurant in New York Metropolis, beneath the guise that he and Dobrev can be attending a CFDA dinner, per Vogue. Dobrev, in a full Chanel look, revealed that White had “mentioned all the appropriate issues” in the course of the proposal, and she or he couldn’t assist however say sure. As for the {hardware}? White gave the Canadian actress a 5-carat Lorraine Schwartz ring.
In December 2024, Dobrev went on to have fun their “First Christmas as fiancées 🥹🤍” with a candy Instagram submit.
2025: The top of an period
Shaun White and Nina Dobrev in Aspen, Colo., in March 2025. (Riccardo Savi/Getty Pictures for Snow League)
Dobrev and White ended their engagement and relationship after 5 years collectively, in accordance with stories. The choice, whereas tough, was mutual and “made with love and a deep respect for each other,” a supply advised Folks.
Round six months earlier than their breakup, Dobrev advised E! Information that she and White hadn’t began wedding ceremony planning.
“We’re simply having fun with being engaged at this level and being in that kind of part as a result of a variety of your life is — you could have a boyfriend for half of your life after which you could have a husband for half of your life, however the fiancé interval could be very brief,” she mentioned in March 2025.
Dobrev added of being engaged, “I actually need to get pleasure from it and never rush that course of.”
