Britney Spears is getting engaged tonight!

[Mrs P]

Wow, she actually looks happy and somewhat alive in a couple of photos.

Article courtesy of daily fail: Britney Spears ring: Singer shows off diamond after Jason Trawick proposes | Mail Online



Nice ice! Delighted Britney Spears shows off her stunning engagement ring after Jason Trawick pops the question


She took to her Twitter page earlier in the day to tell fans she was 'still glowing' after boyfriend Jason Trawick asked her to marry him.
And Britney Spears couldn't have looked more radiant tonight as she showed off her engagement ring while hosting a party for her former agent beau to celebrate both their engagement and his birthday.
The 30-year-old singer donned her sparkling three carat Neil Lane diamond with pride as she posed up with her new fiancé at the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas.

Nice ice! Britney Spears showed off her engagement ring with new fiancé Jason Trawick at the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas



Bling: Britney looked more than happy with her three carat Neil Lane diamond ring



Earlier in the day, Britney tweeted fans: 'Still glowing! About to jump on a plane to Planet Hollywood in Vegas.
'Throwing a Bday Party for Jason at Chateau Night Club. So fun. Xxoo'
Britney and Jason will be celebrating their engagement with a private gathering at the resort, before moving on to a celebratory dinner at the Chocolate Lounge at the Sugar Factory in the Paris Hotel before carrying on the festivities at a dance party at the Chateau nightclub.
The pair looked happy and excited as they made their way into the resort for the party, Britney beaming as she was congratulated by staff and fans.
Of course, Vegas is familiar territory for the singer - it is where her 55 hour marriage to first husband Jason Alexander began and ended.
The Hollywood agent asked for the pop star's hand in marriage in Los Angeles yesterday on his 40th birthday.

'Yes, we are engaged,' Trawick told Access Hollywood today.
Talking about the Neil Lane ring, an insider told Us Weekly: 'He picked out something he knew she would love.'
'He surprised her after she gave him his gifts and after they had cake last night,' another source adds.

The 30-year-old singer, who has just wrapped her Femme Fatale tour, hinted at the news this morning on her Twitter page.

Posing up: Britney and Jason posed up with a huge birthday cake celebrating the agent's 40th birthday



Sealed with a kiss: The newly engaged couple locked lips in Las Vegas

Love's so sweet: The pair appeared to be enjoying themselves at the event




'OMG. Last night Jason surprised me with the one gift I've been waiting for,' she tweeted.
She then teased: 'Can't wait to show you! SO SO SO excited! Xxo.'
Sources told TMZ that her conservators gave marriage their stamp of approval.

He also did right by her father, Jamie Spears, by asking for his daughter's hand in marriage. They will put a pre-nuptial agreement into effect before they tie the knot, according to sources.


Three times a charm: This will be the pop star's third marriage



Delighted: What's making Britney happy -- her cake or her engagement?



Lolly? Britney seems to think that sharing sweets is caring



Party down: Brit Brit gets her boogie on while celebrating her engagement

Britney first started dating Jason in early 2009 following her tumultuous relationship with paparazzo Adnan Ghalib.
She says she 'made the first move' on Trawick, who was her then her agent.

He stepped down from that role in May this year.

They mixed business and pleasure again in September when she cast him to play her love interested in the video for her single Criminal.

Beaming: Britney looked radiant as she was congratulated by staff and fans while arriving for the celebration




Dressed to impress: Britney wore a clinging bandage dress which highlighted her amazing figure







Excited: Britney arriving in Vegas (left) and Trawick seen just hours before he asked the singer to marry him






Sin City: The couple plan to party at the Paris Hotel in Vegas tonight









He was widely credited with helping to steer the star in a positive direction following her 2008 breakdown.

'We're really normal,' Britney said of their relationship in March.
'We just like to watch movies. We work out a lot. We love to work out. We do stuff together like that. We take walks.'
Thrilled: The pop star posted this message on her Twitter page this morning


Home sweet home: Britney, Jason and her boys arrived back in Los Angeles earlier this week after wrapping her Femme Fatale tour


Father figure: Britney says her young sons Jayden James and Sean Preston 'adore' Jason

He is also a father figure to her two sons, Sean Preston, 6, and Jayden James, 5.
'Jason is just amazing with the boys,' she has said.

'They look up to him so much - they adore him. He's their hero.'

Mixing business and pleasure: The singer cast Jason to be her leading man in the video for her new single, Criminal

This will be Britney's third marriage.

She wed childhood friend Jason Alexander, a childhood pal from her hometown of Kentwood, Louisiana, in January 2004.
The star, who was 22 at the time, filed annulment papers just 55 hours later.
Mixing business with pleasure: The pair first began dating in 2009 when he was working as her agent

Six months later she became engaged to her backup dancer, Kevin Federline.
'First love': Britney with Justin Timberlake in 2001


They wed in a surprise ceremony at a private home in Studio City, California, in 2004.
They went on to have two children together before officially divorcing in 2008.
Britney's love life has always been colourful - as a teenager she famously dated fellow former Mouseketeer and 'N Sync band member Justin Timberlake.

The pair split in March 2002 after a three-year romance that had fans and tabloids in a frenzy.

After they parted ways, Timberlake made reference to the pop star in the video clip to his hit, Cry Me a River.

The clip featured a Britney look-alike and the storyline fuelled rumours that she had cheated on him.

"[The breakup] was horrible,' Britney told People magazine.

'Very upsetting and it took a lot out of me. He was my first real love, and I doubt I'll ever be able to love anyone like that ever again.

'But I'd rather spend two days with my soulmate than the rest of my life with some guy who doesn't mean as much.'

Read more: Britney Spears ring: Singer shows off diamond after Jason Trawick proposes | Mail Online

[NoNoRehab]

I bet that once the court stuff goes away (& she has a couple of big cases) she'll apply for it to end & get her kids back.

It's not that easy to end a conservatorship and it's definitely not that easy to get her kids back. It's not like those kids are some cars or something, just stored in a garage waiting for her and all she has to do is ask for them nicely. Even if her conservatorship was ended, getting her kids back is a whole separate deal.

Generally, judges hate changing custody deals unless there's a dire need to on behalf of the kids. (Remember that judges are supposed to act in the best interest of the kids, not what the parents prefer.) Judges are also hesitant to change things the longer they've been in place. In Britney's case, her kids appear happy and healthy with things as they are (Federline with custody, Britney with supervised visitation). At this point, that same deal has been in place for most of the kids' lives, and I can't see any judge worth his salt suddenly deciding to rip two kids from their father's custody, where they've been thriving, to live with a mother with Britney's history. Certainly that will never happen while she's under conservatorship and has lawyers arguing that she's too mentally incompetent to even be deposed. All Federline's lawyers would have to do is to use her own lawyer's arguments against her.

Conservatorship is not a legal ploy. It's not something you go and get when it's convenient, say to avoid a lawsuit, and when you decide you're done you just saunter in and get it lifted. It involves extensive hearings and lots of detailed medical evidence for a judge to determine that a conservatee is incompetent in the first place. Then there are continuous hearings and court supervision after to make sure the conservatee is getting adequate care and the conservators aren't doing any funny business. In Britney's case, she's not even just under a financial conservatorship (where others control her money because she's been judge unfit to do so) but under a personal conservsatorship as well (where it's been determined that she is too unfit to make personal, medical or legal decisions for herself).

Records in one of the custody hearings, before the conservatorship, were sealed because Britney's lawyers successfully argued that they contained confidential and potentially damaging details about Britney's medical condiition. No doubt whatever it is also is the thing that factored into her conservatorship. The fact is that most conservatorships end only with the death of the conservatee, because most are imposed on elderly or very sick people. A young person getting put under permanent conservatorship is rare, so whatever she has must be severe. And the fact is that severe conditions like that, whether it's schizophrenia or bipolar or whatever she's been rumored to have, do not just spontaneously correct themselves. She'll no doubt be able to maintain if she's under medical care, but she's never going to get better.

[Cali]

I don't understand how this can work within the conservatorship though? Marriage is a legal contract and she's under a conservatorship because she is supposedly not of sound mind and able to be a part of a legal contract. Anyone explain?

Also- is the diamond in her ring somehow rose shaped? It looks that way?

[NoNoRehab]

She needs permission from all her conservators and the judge in her case to approve the marriage. Legally, Britney cannot enter into any legal contract, including marriage. She couldn't run off to Vegas and get married again, for example.

That's why her PR immediately floated the story that this is going to be a "long engagement." I'm guessing these two will be either be engaged for a couple years and quietly break up, or depending on how much money they throw at Trawick, the conservators and judge will eventually approve the marriage. But Trawick will enter into a prenup with her conservators, not her, and everything will have to go through the court as Britney is a mentally incompetent adult.

Her father and conservators handpicked Trawick to be her babysitter and "official boyfriend," so I doubt they will raise any objections to the court. If they trust him enough and they do get married, they may try and give Trawick some sort of guardianship role over her. I'm sure Britney's dad is aware that he's not getting any younger and someone will have to take over as her guardian when he's dead, and what better than a handpicked and pre-approved "husband" who has proven he can tow the line and control her?

I just wonder who much Britney knows what's up. I've read gossip that in her more lucid moments, arguments have been overheard where she shouts things at Trawick that indicate she knows he's not her real boyfriend and that he's paid by her dad. But day-to-day, who knows? She's probably just happy to have a man at her side.

[twitchy2.0]

You've given this a lot of thought.

[NoNoRehab]

I love celebrity trainwrecks and their legal troubles. And Spears is a fascinating case because conservatorships are so rare, I can't think of another celebrity case where it's been done. The way her father and handlers are pulling the strings and the huge dichotomy between her legally being less than a child (in terms of rights) to the way the media still acts like nothing's wrong and she's basically normal is really intriguing to me.

[Catty]

Her life is starting to sound like some novel that nobody would think could possibly happen. It's sad to see how things are progressing.

[Seapharris7]

It's depressing for the groom to have a pre-nup with her Dad!

I know... but I'm not sure it's a pre-nup as much as how NoNo described. Maybe it's just changing of the guard for the conservatorship.

[Cali]

I know... but I'm not sure it's a pre-nup as much as how NoNo described. Maybe it's just changing of the guard for the conservatorship.

That whole concept makes me sick to my stomach. If she is supposedly so unwell that she cannot be responsible for making decisions to take care of herself, then she should also be unable to fall in love, chose a proper spouse, and enter into a marriage.

For a few years now, I've been wondering when people might start asking questions about this whole set-up. It really sets a terrible precedent and given that our legal system largely works off of precedent... its an issue. I hate to sound overly dramatic- but they cannot have it both ways. Either she is mentally a minor child and need of this conservatorship, or she isn't. Getting engaged to a guy who has the support of her conservators falls squarely under the 'she isn't' field. and if it proceeds with the conservatorship in place, that isn't right.

I've never understood how- legally/ethically speaking- she was able to perform all those tours, make millions of dollars and still be under this conservatorship. By the definition of the conservatorship, you'd think such things would be incompatible. But they apparently aren't.

at this point, I can only see the argument for a conservatorship over her finances because she clearly isn't capable of that.

At the very least, it seems that the conservatorship over her person should end with the engagement. I mean.. if she's mentally with it enough to fall in love and get engaged to a person that everyone in her camp is supporting- and for that matter, perform nightly at concerts- she should be able to make other decisions about herself.

[sluce]

The conservatorship was put in place when she was at the height of mental illness. The records are sealed for cause. Mental illnesses do get better when properly treated. The judge has always left the door open for modifications and her custody was already modified once. I actually work with custody cases and judge often make changes in cases like this. The goal is to have both parents with equal access as long as they are able. If she is showing that she is responding to treatment and is maintaining her meds, her access will be increased. K-fed has not fought it and according to reports, has supported her having greater involvement.

[CornFlakegrl]

She looks mad as a hatter in those engagement pics.

[dallison]

Her makeup is awful.

But I really hope for the best with Britney. She was so sweet and beautiful when I met her. Her 'fall from grace' has been so sad, especially since mental illness is involved.
I really think her conservators should have had her step far, far away from singing/the stage. Someone previously (SouthernBelle?) mentioned that a book would have been a good idea, since she could promote it- keeping her in the spotlight that she seems to 'need'- but gives her a break from rigorous touring and basically being a performing monkey.

[rollo]

She looks mad as a hatter in those engagement pics.

Exactly and why do people keep assuming that she wants more to do with the boys? She found it extremely stressful when she had more control and the boys were in danger when she wouldn't keep regular hours and notice in any way what their needs were. This arrangement probably suits her as well as anything and it persuades her fans (to some degree) that she has contact with her boys even if it's too difficult to actually raise them. It's just wishful thinking that she's trying and trying to be something different or 'normal.' In fact she probably had a lot of fun wrecking her life as some people do and I really doubt that she's begging for more responsibility except for herself.

[Pinkii]

^^ That was when she wasn't getting treatment and according to some documents ( by her mother) she was being drugged by her ex manager, so anyone in that position wouldn't be able to look after their children properly. she seems perfectly happy looking after her children now and her children also look happy, which is whats important I guess!

[rollo]

^ She isn't looking after her children. You do see that, don't you? But I guess she's 'happy' enough although she looks 'sad' just as often since it's all regulated as far as possible by her meds.