After five years together, Shaun White and Nina Dobrev have ended their relationship and called off their engagement. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a mutual decision, and wasn\u2019t an easy one, but it was made with love and a deep respect for one another,\u201d a source close to the couple confirmed to People<\/a>. <\/p>\n \u201cThe Vampire Diaries\u201d actor and the five-time Olympian started dating after formally meeting when both were slated to speak at a 2019 workshop organized by motivational speaker Tony Robbins. White told People he didn\u2019t know anything about Dobrev and was surprised when guests asked to take a pictures with her at the dinner after the event. <\/p>\n They started dating soon after, made their relationship official in 2020 and moved in together during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns. <\/p>\n After two failed attempts to propose to Dobrev, White finally popped the question<\/a> last October at a restaurant in New York. His publicists invited her under the pretense of a business dinner with Vogue editor in chief Anna Wintour, then White surprised Dobrev instead. <\/p>\n Afterward, the snowboarding gold medalist posted pictures of the proposal on social media, calling it the best night of his life. Dobrev told E! News<\/a> in March that there was no rush to start planning their wedding, saying she was having fun saying \u201cfianc\u00e9.\u201d <\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re just enjoying being engaged at this point and being in that sort of phase because a lot of your life is \u2014 you have a boyfriend for half of your life and then you have a husband for half of your life, but the fianc\u00e9 period is very short,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n Cut to six months later at the Toronto International Film Festival<\/a>, where Dobrev appeared on the red carpet at the \u201cEternity\u201d premiere without her engagement ring. She also unpinned her engagement announcement from her Instagram<\/a>. <\/p>\n