Pixabay A "Dancing With the Stars" judge posted a photo of a diamond ring.
“Dancing with the Stars” guest judge Cher had fans in a frenzy after tweeting a photo of what appeared to be a diamond ring on Christmas Day.
The legendary singer was a guest judge on “Cher Night” during the 17th season of DWTS in 2013. Nearly a decade later, the 76-year-old music icon is sparking engagement rumors with a man less than half her age.
Here’s what you need to know:
Cher Posted a Photo of a Diamond Ring on Christmas & Tagged Her 36-Year-Old Boyfriend
THERE R NO WORDS,
ALEXANDER,A.E
On Christmas Day 2022, Cher tweeted a photo of someone with black and green painted fingernails holding a box containing a large, pear-shaped diamond ring. She captioned the photo, “THERE R NO WORDS, ALEXANDER, A.E.”
Cher’s current boyfriend is 36-year-old music producer Alexander “A.E.” Edwards, according to People. Cher confirmed on Twitter in early November that the two have been dating since meeting at Paris Fashion Week in March 2022.
Cher’s ring post had fans wondering if the “Believe” singer is engaged to her new man.
“Did he propose?” one fan asked. “‘Congrats Queen!” another added. “Congratulations grab happiness with both hands, but have a prenup too,” another follower wrote.
Cher, who was previously married to Sonny Bono and Gregg Allman, did not confirm that she and Edwards were engaged. Instead, in response to fans’ questions about the photo, she tweeted, “I posted this cause his nails are so cool.”
Edwards was previously linked to TV personality Amber Rose, with whom he shares a son.
As of this writing, Cher had not answered fans’ questions about a possible engagement to Edwards.
Cher Admitted Her Relationship Looks ‘Ridiculous’ on ‘Paper’
A.E.Hanging Ot
Cher previously said that Edwards chased her down. “He’s 36 & In End He Came after me, Till we met in the middle,” she tweeted in November. “He’s Consistent one, I’m The Skittish one. We love each other…. LADIES NEVER GIVE UP.”
The Grammy-winning star also opened up about her romance with Edwards during a December 2022 appearance on The Kelly Clarkson show. “On paper, it’s kind of ridiculous,” Cher said of the couple’s 40-year age gap. “But in real life, we get along great.”
Cher told Clarkson she believes older men are often “intimidated” by her.
“If I hadn’t met younger men in my life, I would have never had a date because older men just didn’t like me all that much,” Cher said. “I have had a couple of boyfriends that were hovering around my age, but they just didn’t like me for some reason. Maybe younger men don’t care if you’re funny or outrageous or want to do stupid things and you have a strong personality. I’m not giving up my personality for anybody.”
Cher’s past younger boyfriends include actor Tom Cruise, musician Richie Sambora, and Rob Camilletti, an aspiring actor and bagel maker 18 years her junior who earned the nickname “Bagel Boy” while dating the singer in the late 1980s. In the 2004 book, “Cher: If You Believe,” Cher was quoted as saying of her bagel-making beau, “‘What will my friends say if I go out with him?’ But the more I got to know Robert, the less I cared what anybody thought. He may have talked like one of the Lords of Flatbush, but he had so many great qualities, I couldn’t believe it.”
Not all social media fans were supportive of Cher’s possible engagement to Edwards. One Twitter user wrote, “I’m happy for Cher but that man wasted so many of Amber’s good years cheating on her with no ring to turn around and do this in a matter of months??”
In response, Cher seemed to reference the couple’s fateful meeting, tweeting that neither she nor Edwards had wanted to take the long flight to Paris where they first crossed paths.
“Baby, from my heart, Neither one of us wanted to Take Long Flt To Paris,” she wrote. “Neither one Was looking for someone.”
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