Four years after their first encounter, Lady Gaga and her beau Taylor Kinney are officially engaged. In a recent post on her Instagram account, the songstress flashed her new ring with the caption: “He gave me his heart on Valentine’s Day, and I said YES!”. The black and white picture shows the engagement ring (adorned with a huge heart shaped diamond) placed on her finger as Kinney holds her hand. The post quickly reached over 500k likes.
According to MusicNews.com, the news was confirmed by Times Herald-Record executive editor Barry Lewis, who added that the couple celebrated the event at Lady Gaga’s family restaurant Joanne Trattoria in Manhattan. Kinney followed Lady Gaga’s Instagram move with this picture of the two of them at the event posted on his own Instagram account.
The Bad Romance singer and the Chicago Fire star first met in 2011 on the set of her video “You and I” in which the actor played the role of her love interest while, oddly enough, Gaga got to wear her own mother’s wedding dress. They began dating shortly after, split for a while in May 2012 and reunited a month later.
While keeping their relationship somewhat private, Lady Gaga recently talked about how supportive Kinney is of her career and the whole creative process and was quoted as saying “He’s the first man that I have dated that, when I sing onstage, he cries. That means more to me than anything.”
Taylor Kinney is starring in hit TV series Chicago Fire and has two movies coming up this year – Food, Rock the Kasbah – while Lady Gaga is on the “ArtRave: The Artpop Ball” tour. The wedding is rumoured to take place in 2016, when both their schedules clear up.