Kelly Clarkson told us she had found the one…and now she has the ring to prove it!
It’s been a great year for the “American Idol” winner, who was just nominated for several Grammys, and is now engaged. Kelly’s beau of just under a year, Brandon Blackstock – and the “Since U Been Gone” singer accepted on December 14th.
“I’M ENGAGED!!!!!” she tweeted recently. “I wanted y’all to know!! Happiest night of my life last night! I am so lucky and am with the greatest man ever :)”
And Kelly is not shy about sharing her bling, either, tweeting a photo a little while after.
“Everyone has been asking about my engagement ring, so here it is,” she explained alongside the pic. “It’s a yellow canary diamond with diamonds around it and Brandon designed it with Jonathan Arndt! They did an amazing job! I can’t wait to make Brandon’s ring with Jonathan as well!”
Brandon is a talent manager, and the son of Clarkson’s longtime manager Narvel Blackstock. He is also the stepson of Reba McEntire – and according to Kelly, she always knew he was the one.
“We were just in a room together, and then he came up and said he was from the same hometown as me,” she remembered recently. “And I was like, ‘Oh, we’re so getting married’ – I was that girl.”
In late November, Kelly even confided to Ellen DeGeneres that she knew she was going to marry her man. She laughed and said that he would have to “put it a ring on it at some point.”
But she also said doesn’t need a big wedding.
“Honestly, I’ve never been the girl to plan a wedding,” she explained at the time. “We will totally, probably elope.”
This will be Kelly’s first marriage. The couple lives in Nashville.
Congrats to Kelly and Brandon!