LeAnn Rimes will buy her own ring & announce engagement by New Year’s

Leann Rimes performs during a taping of the CMA Country Christmas special in Nashville, Tennessee on November 11, 2010. UPI/Terry Wyatt Photo via Newscom Photo via Newscom

In Touch Weekly has an interesting story about LeAnn Rimes this week. I guess I find it interesting because I’ve been wondering where LeAnn has been hiding the past few weeks, since the barrage of LeAnn/Eddie/Brandi Glanville stories this time last month. LeAnn has still been tweeting like a mad woman, of course, but it seems like since Brandi and Eddie sat down and hashed out some kind of agreement, everybody has taken it down a notch. Which is good. Of course, ITW has a theory as for why LeAnn has temporarily sidelined herself – she’s waiting, allegedly, for a big PR explosion towards the end of the year when she will announce her engagement to Eddie. If that’s not enough, ITW also claims they have eyewitnesses who saw her checking out home pregnancy tests at a Rite Aid. The pull quotes for the story say things like: “LeAnn cares so much about what the public thinks… she can’t wait to be Eddie’s wife and have his children” and “LeAnn has been very vocal about wanting Eddie’s baby.” Oh, it’s about to get raw.

LeAnn Rimes has been an open book about her love for boyfriend Eddie Cibrian, posting gushing updates almost daily on Twitter – until the past week when things went eerily quiet, shortly after LeAnn shot down rumors that Eddie had proposed. But a family insider says Eddie and LeAnn are engaged.

“When they were in Mexico in September, Eddie asked LeAnn to marry him,” the insider tells In Touch. “They live together, and LeAnn parents his kids with him, so she sees them as married already.”

But now she wants to make it official. On November 22, LeAnn snuck into Neil Lane to pick out her own ring. If Eddie had his way, a source explains, he’s “get it from Polacheck’s Jewelers in Calabasas – he grew up with Brent Polacheck.” But LeAnn wants to do it her way.

Also, LeAnn is “finally ready to start a family,” says a friend. While her rep says, “LeAnn has never shopped at a Rite Aid in Calabasas,” she was seen browsing the pregnancy test aisle at Rite Aid in Calabasas wearing a hat and sunglasses.

According to the friend, the couple recently sat down with Brandi to discuss how to co-parent their boys going forward.

“Their plan is to announce their engagement between Christmas and New Year’s. So it could happen at any moment.”

[From In Touch Weekly, print edition]

I love the part about her picking out her own ring – I’ll buy that, a million times over. Not only is LeAnn picking out her own ring, she’s paying for that sucker too! I also love this: “Eddie would get it from Polacheck’s Jewelers in Calabasas – he grew up with Brent Polacheck.” Eddie knows one random jeweler, and LeAnn is all “Oh hells no my ring isn’t going to be some budget sh-t.”

Eddie Cibrian and LeAnn Rimes arrive on the Orange Carpet at the Academy of Country Music (ACM) Awards in Las Vegas, Nevada on April 18, 2010. UPI/Alexis C. Glenn Photo via Newscom

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Nov 10, 2010 - Nashville, Tennessee; USA - Singer LEANN RIMES arrives on the black carpet at the 44th Annual CMA Music Awards that took place at the Bridgestone Arena located in downtown Nashville. Copyright 2010 Jason Moore. © Red Carpet Pictures

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  1. happygirl says:

    Home pregnancy test? UGH…I picked a bad week to stop snorting hash.

  2. spinner says:

    Gosh!! Is Eddie even involved?? Leann is so busy running the show that she didn’t even notice that Eddie moved out 3 weeks ago.

  3. Iris says:

    Can you please stop posting pictures of her? I don’t like her face 🙁

  4. Rita says:

    Of course they are going to announce their engagement for the 5th time because she has a song coming out. What good is an engagement if you can’t promote a record?

    I undertand she tweets between 150-200 times a day. Given that she receives 5 or 6 tweets for every one she sends, she’s sending/reading close to 1,000 tweets per day and those don’t include her private tweets. That works out to a tweet every 45 seconds for ten hours per day. Her assistant has to be doing most of the tweeting to BS her fans.

  5. brin says:

    I so agree with all of this. Leann is uncharacteristically quiet….she is ready to explode with her engagment/holiday/baby announcements. We all know that she will pick out & buy her own ring (Eddie only has play $$).

  6. baby says:

    her face scares me

  7. devilgirl says:

    LOLOLOL@Happygirl!

    I agree Iris, her pictures are offensive to me!

  8. Michele H says:

    That eye makeup makes her look like she’s got an eye infection. Not a good look.

  9. jackie says:

    I really hope he doesn’t cheat on her.

    Seriously.

    Because there is no amount of image rehabilitation that could save face, after everything she has put out there!

  10. anti says:

    these 2 ladies are setting a horrible example for little girls…

  11. Rita says:

    I love the comment from her rep or spokesperson that LeAnn “has never shopped at Rite Aid in Calabasas”. Imagine a celebrity rep who knows you have never ever shopped in a local drug store LOL.

    Pregnancy test? Don’t think so. I’ve no doubt Eddie’s wondering peen has been fixed (snip, snip) and if it hasn’t, a pregnant LeAnn will put an end to this fairytale.

  12. brin says:

    @Rita…I remember a funny pic of her with her covering her face (smart move)with a bag after she had picked up some meds outside of a pharmacy a while back so that right there is wrong (unless it was a CVS).

  13. Marjalane says:

    @baby

    Me too. I can’t put my finger on it, but it’s all kinds of wrong.

  14. NayNay says:

    Of course she will, because after all, that is what SUGAR MAMMAS do to keep their men.

  15. Jo says:

    Such a donkey face HEE HUH HEE HUH!

    Guess Eddie likes barn animals.

  16. Diane says:

    @Jo: LMAO, that’s perfect!

  17. bizzy says:

    “LeAnn cares so much about what the public thinks…”

    if this was true, she’d have stitched herself into a hessian sack and mailed herself to outer mongolia by now.

  18. Jennifer says:

    I really don’t like her and what she stands for. She showed what kind of person she is when she went after a married man (when both she and EC were already married to good people) and then lied about the whole affair. US outed the whole affair and what unfaithful, liars they are.

    Now with her album dropping, she did (or had someone) doing some active campaigning for her to get that Grammy nomination (that she doesn’t deserve) and I wouldn’t be surprised if she does have some big announcement coming up. Just to draw attention to herself and her new album. I don’t support her anymore and wish she would just disappear.

  19. Rosa says:

    Ugly is as ugly does and she sure has done alot of ugly things!

  20. Rio says:

    Buying your own pregnancy tests when you clearly have enough moolah to get an assistant to do it for you? All aboard the Fame Whore Express! Does this chica do ANYTHING that doesn’t seem like a sad stunt?

  21. DGO says:

    Her nostrils are bigger than her eyes.

  22. Zelda says:

    @bizzy: ahahahha!

    Now I hate her as much as the next person BUT:
    I had to buy my own engagement ring—back when we got engaged I made more than twice what my fiance did. In 2010 Lets not judge on that.
    And I was quite happy to pick it myself too–he’d have picked something cheesier than I did. (It’s an emerald actually)

  23. bluhare says:

    You guys are frickin’ hysterical. I’m laughing and spitting all over my monitor . . .”guess Eddie likes barn animals”? Priceless.

    And I agree with all of you!

  24. hairball says:

    I can’t even imagine what a pathetic and insecure existence she has.

  25. Jezi says:

    @happygirl….LMFAO!!!

    I’m sure she had to go pick it out and make sure it was bigger than 5 carats because Brandi’s was 5 carats.

  26. Rita says:

    I didn’t know about the Grammy nomination until now. My God, she bought that too. No way a country song that doesn’t sell in the top 200, doesn’t make radio play, and is totally rejected by country music fans is eligible for a Grammy unless she bought it. The Grammies have hit a new low in selling their credibility.

    Consider Eddie’s plight for a moment. Eddie got into this mess with the promise of private jets on luxury vacations, prime time TV roles, rubbing elbows with big stars and powerful casino executives, all the while LeAnn was whispering in his ear about leading roles on the big screen and her connections with Bruickheimer.

    Now he’s unemployed and uses his children as an excuse not to follow LeAnn on her Corn Dog, Sock Hop, and bow wow kennel club tour. Eddie, the cray-cray just get worse from here in your 24/7 snow globe world with smirk gurl.

    By the way, Brandi if you read this thread I just want to wish you happy holidays and tell you many of us support you. Take Good Care!

  27. deb says:

    @Jezi she might as well just slap a marble on her finger it’s more affordable

  28. Lindsay says:

    Has anyone else noticed that in the second pic they look like they can be related?…… ewww lol

  29. deb says:

    @Rita LMAO Can I say that I adore you?
    Rock on Rita Rock on :0)

  30. Jezi says:

    @Rita we found out that Darrell Brown is on the Grammy Board. So it’s no wonder she was nominated.

  31. SamiHami says:

    Not defending this fool, but I did pick out my own engagement ring. My feeling was that whatever ring I got I would be wearing for the rest of my life, and there are some styles I just don’t like. My hubby agreed with that philosophy, so he took me out one day to look at rings so he would know what I do and do not like. He then bought a beautiful one for me that is exactly my style. 21 years later I’m still wearing it and still loving it.

  32. brin says:

    That’s the only way she got a Grammy nom….she bought it (or Darrell got it for her).

  33. AnnieB says:

    I am soooo excited and awaiting with baited breath the joyous proclamation of America’s Cuntry Sweetheart’s engagement to dashing gigolo Eddie Cibrian!!!! And the thought of teh baybees coming soon?!? ZOMG!! THE EXCITEMENT!! Squeee!!! It will make my life when this happens! I feel like I might DIE if Leann doesn’t share her happiness and blessings with us sooon!! She just so deserves it!

    Is this how this dingbat thinks people look at her? *yawn* No dear. The only interest people have is making wagers on how soon before Eddie is dipping his dong into someone even marginally attractive and not rich. That’s why the public interest, that’s why the media interest. Not your tepid music “career”. Not your inane and stunted personality. It’s a giant trainwreck and yes, it’s hard to look away from. Not cause we’re jealous, not cause we wish we had what she has. Because it’s going to be a lovely dose of schadenfreude when karma kicks her hard right in her homewrecking ass.

    I kept reading things as shopping for an engagement ring at Rite Aid in Calabasas. I like that version better.

  34. Jezi says:

    @AnnieB…..you are friggin hilarious.

  35. why? says:

    Is anyone at all surprised that the this engagement annoucment is happening about the same time that her single(Crazy Women) is going to come out on ITunes? It is a shame that she is reduced to using Pregnancy and Engagement stories to promote her music.

    Britney Spears album is set to come out in March, the same months as Leann’s album, so it will be interesting to see what outrageous thing Leann will do to make her album stand out.

    Didn’t her friend just visit her? So how interesting, is she also trying to prove that EC loves her and isn’t interested in any other woman just because he wants to marry her and get her pregnant?

    There is nothing wrong with buying your own engagement ring, the thing is that Leann is always tweeting about how EC had some some jewelry made to match her LovE tattoo( I guess this must mean that he loves her)and we can predict that she will do the same with the engagement ring. Can you hear her now, “my love… LovE…I’m so blessed…” Now how can EC afford to have all this jewely custom made for Leann’s tattoo when he is umemployed?

    Are they serious? When did Leann go quiet on twitter? She was even tweeting on Thanksgiving.

  36. why? says:

    Leann rep said that she has NEVER shopped at Rite Aid?

    I googled Leann and Rite Aid and got a tons of photos of her coming out of a Rite Aid.

    So what is her publicist talking about?

  37. deb says:

    @why Her PR sucks out loud!

  38. icantbelievethis says:

    The hate still amazes me.

    When I read the list of Grammy nominees I actually laughed when I saw her name b/c I knew there would be all kinds of hate and conspiracy theories for why she was nominated.

    If she’s doing interviews she’s a witch, if she’s laying low and being nice then she’s planning something. I really think people love to hate her and will come up with reasons for anything “good” that happens to her. What is funny are the comments about how much she is on Twitter, but yet there are people (not here) that dissect the meaning of her comments. Who has that much time? And who cares that much? She’s just another FW celebrity. If it wasn’t for all the hate no one would give a crap about her.

    I thought WTH? about the Grammy nom too, but then again I thought WTH? about several of the nominations.

    Yes she took up with a married man (I don’t think she broke up their marriage b/c he was cheating long before her), but BG is better off without that guy and I bet she realizes that now (and Dean is better off now too). Plus seems like they are both trying to put things behind them and move on with their lives.

    Whether it is LR or JS, it is tacky to have to buy your own ring. It is okay to pick it out but if your man can’t afford to buy a ring then it is time to move on.

  39. Jezi says:

    @why? well she was covering her face ever so perfectly so we can’t say it’s her for sure….hmphf….lol. Can you sense my sarcasm?

  40. brin says:

    Well that didn’t take long….Leann is already calling the story in the “trash tabloid BS”.

  41. fizXgirl314 says:

    The rep said Rite Aid in CALABASAS… may or may not be true… whatver…

    I kind of like photos of her, I think she looks like a “natural” beauty… not plastic and obviously keeps in shape…

    Some of the posts of funny but some of them are just crazy hateful… :-/

  42. Jennifer says:

    Leann is weird in a stalkish kind of way. A while back, Brandi tweeted something about going to a Lakers game. Soon after, Leann tweeted something to the effect of “Go Lakers.”

    Recently, Brandi tweeted about going to see Love and Other Drugs. Then Leann started tweeting about Love and Other Drugs.

    Strange coincidence??!! I don’t think I can give Leann the benefit of the doubt. Reminds me of the movie, “Single White Female”

  43. Johnny Depp's Girl says:

    So sad.

  44. Jezi says:

    @Jennifer I noticed that this morning as well. Like she has no identity of her own.

  45. RHONYC says:

    she is serving up some killer ‘PLANET OF THE APES’ vibes in that last pic. 🙁

    yikes!

  46. lachica says:

    i was wondering where she had disappeared to! lol

  47. why? says:

    Jennifer,

    I also noticed Leann’s tweet about Love and Other Drugs after Brandi had said that she was going to see the movie.

    Now if Leann is so content with her life, why does she feel the need to constantly compete with Brandi? Leann has “won” Eddie, so why does she Single White Female” BG?

  48. why? says:

    I can’t believe it’s true:

    Here you go again trying to make Leann the victim in all of this.

    Something is up with her Grammy nomination, all anyone has to do is look at the stats for that single. She should not be on that list. You can not get mad because people are questioning why this single has gotten on the list when it hasn’t had much airplay, didn’t make very much in sales, and wasn’t in anyone’s top lists. People wouldn’t have to question the “good” things that happen to Leann if she weren’t constantly overstepping her boundaries to get to that goal.

    People love to hate on Leann? More like Leann loves to give people a reason to dislike her. We have reason to believe that Leann is planning something when she “quiet” on twitter because that is the standard that she established.

    So now those who dissect LR tweets are the villians? If it wasn’t for Leann’s stupidity, no one would be appalled enough by her inappropriate behavior to comment on. LR tweets are just plan inappropriate at times. Like the ones where she says that her affair was God’s will. Or how she tweeted over 20 times about how those kids were going to be spending Thanksgiving with their mother. Leann needs to think before she posts.

    No one is picking on Leann for no reason at all. She is wrong.

  49. why? says:

    fizXgirl314,

    So if Leann has not shopped at a Rite Aid in Calabasas before, why is there a photo of her coming out of a Rite Aid in Calabasas in Sept of this year?

    The publicist lied. Do these people actually think before they issue their denials? I am starting to think that Leann surrounds herself with people who tell her exactly what she wants to hear, no matter how absurd it is. If the publicist is going to deny that Leann has shopped at a Rite Aid in Calabasas, then he/she should have gotten rid of those photos first. So now her own publicist comes off looking like a major liar. And then Leann can’t understand why no one believes a thing that comes from her and EC.

    So is this Leann’s DAMAGE CONTROL, argue that people are being hateful because they dare to question her pr stunts?

  50. icantbelievethis says:

    @why @jennifer LR posted about wanting to see that movie over Thanksgiving weekend too. So does that mean BG is following her? Or could it be that 2 women happen to want to see the same rom-com?

    I really want to see it too!

  51. why? says:

    The first time I ever saw Leann posting about that movie was right after BG tweeted about it. Leann also started tweeting about Burlesgue right after BG mentioned it on her twitter page.

    This is Leann we are talking about. And as we have seen time and time again because Leann has provided plenty of photo-ops, Leann tends to dress and even wear her hair like BG. So it’s not about two women wanting to see a rom-com. It’s about Leann wanting to pattern her life after BG. Didn’t EC propose to BG around New Year’s Eve? So how strange that Leann also wants EC to propose to her at around that same time. You would think that Leann would want an engagement/proposal date that isn’t so close to the day and time that EC proposed to his ex-wife. So does Leann engagement date fall so close to the day that EC proposed to BG because LR is trying to SWF BG or did she pick this engagement date so that it coincides with her single release on itunes? Or could it be a little of both?

  52. icantbelievethis says:

    Did she pick an engagement date? I’m not privy to her private life (nor BG’s) so I have no clue if or when she’s being proposed to.

    I only know about the Twitter post b/c I’ve spent so much time reading all kinds of Twitter accounts and seeing how it all works. The dynamics are amazing!

  53. Jayna says:

    It’s a gossip rag and half that stuff is made up. More than half. Come on, people, you comment on every sentence in this story like it’s gospel. The only true part is I’m sure they will be engaged in a few months. And most of my friends, including me, pointed out the type of ring we wanted stylewise through magazines or while passing a jewelry shop. It’s going to be on my hand the rest of my life. I want some say in it.

  54. elaine says:

    I would bet there are plenty of people in Nashville shaking their heads at Leanns grammy nomination somebody pulled strings for that one because no way in heck would a single that never made it in the top 100 and tanked soon after its release and sold less than 35,000 copies have been considered. If I were a female country singer and had a good single released and ignored because of string pulling, I would be pissed off. Leann is a has been with an unemplyed d-list actor that she now has to support and pay his child support

  55. Jezi says:

    Well it seems silly what we say about LeAnn but if you’re not aware of her history and the lengths she’s gone then really you couldn’t possibly understand where we are coming from. There isn’t just one person who feels this way, there are a bunch of us. Even celebitchy sees it, Showbiz Tonight sees it, E! sees it and Wendy Williams sees it. Those are only a few to mention. LeAnn is not of normal sound and body. She has issues and its apparent. Otherwise noone would have anything to talk about.

  56. Sara says:

    Before Celebitch started covering her affair I never heard of her. Not her music or acting or anything. I think she’s only famous for being a homewrecker.

  57. icantbelievethis says:

    @why just because I question things or point out 1 thing isn’t true doesn’t mean I am a LR fan.

    I didn’t call anyone ‘villians’. I said it was fascinating to watch and see the reactions to LR, on both sides.

    I look at this as someone who isn’t invested in LR or BG. I don’t know either, wasn’t a LR fan prior to all of this. So it is interesting to see how invested people get.

    ‘You can not get mad because people are questioning why . .’

    Why would I be mad? All I said was that I knew what the reaction would be when I saw she was nominated. I also said I wondered about not just LR’s nom, but a few others (and a few left off).

    I could understand if someone said they hate her for cheating and nothing she ever does will change that. That I get, I just don’t understand the analyzing of each tweet, post, etc. That’s not saying anyone is right/wrong, it is just interesting to watch as someone who isn’t invested.
    To me LR is just another spoiled celeb who wanted what she wanted regardless of the consequences. (Julie R did the same thing, Angelina Jolie, Alicia Keys, etc the only difference is that they just went on and pretended nothing happened)

  58. brin says:

    @Sara…That’s true, I think most people either never heard of her or had forgotten who she was, now we all know her as a cheater & a homewrecker.

  59. heathen says:

    Well, we all knew she would be paying for her own ring, didn’t we? I actually think it is nice to give a friend (and small business owner) business — esp. in this economy. It doesn’t have to be a “budget ring” because if this guy is a legitimate jeweler, he has access to the diamond markets & can get & create any kind of ring she wants with the highest quality stone that she wants. I see her not giving Eddie’s friend her business as more proof of what a petty little witch Leann is (as if I needed more).

  60. why? says:

    Jayna,

    Just like the mag that “made up” EC and LR affair? The mag didn’t make up anything because we all know that Leann leaked the info to them just like she keeps tipping off the paps so that they get photos of her and EC and his kids at his son’s soccer game.

    And as we can see, you are also here commenting on what we are saying, so what is your point in trying to lecture others?

  61. why? says:

    cantbelievethis:

    But that is just it, you are not questioning or pointing out anything, you are constantly trying to depict LR as the victim and making excuses for her.

    You didn’t call anyone villians, but when you write “everyone is picking on LR for no reason at all” posts, you are most certainly implying(and therefore indirectly calling) anyone who would dare call her out the villian.

    You are not invested in this, and yet you take the time and energy to write paragraphs where you try to defend LR whenever their is a post?

    The word you used was “hate”. You even opened up your post with it. So that is a major indication that you are not happy with the fact that people are questioning LR nomination.

    And yet you take the time and energy to analyze the posts that are talking about LR tweets? So you do understand it. What you don’t understand is why people see right through LR pr stunts.

    Who went on and pretended that nothing happened? AJ and Alicia K received backlash. The major difference when these cheaters is that they knew when to leave well enough alone. Leann just keeps crossing the line and then she can’t understand why things never ever work out for her. Yet again, I don’t recall Alicia Keys and AJ ever tweeting inappropriate things about another woman’s kids and then inviting the paps to the kid’s soccer game whenever she knows that the kids’ mother can’t make it to the game.

  62. why? says:

    It also looks like LR and EC are trying to get famous by making those two kids into public figures. Now EC has those kids wearing the same type of hats he is wearing because he is tries to “shield” those kids from the nature of tabloids.

    You can always tell when EC and LR are promoting someting for their careers because they stage those “happy family” photo-ops with the kids.

    Yes once again, LR invites the paps to the kid’s soccer game because Eddie needs the exposure for his Hallmark movie which flopped just as bad as LR single.

  63. julie says:

    I blame Eddie more than Leann because mentally Leann is about 12 but Eddie is a grown man who says they are madly in love guess that makes it all right to lie and cheat on and to your wife and mother of your children Hope he never works again and and Leann has to support him for the rest of their lives

  64. brin says:

    @julie…That seems likely to happen and that’s when this dream romance will turn into a real nightmare.

  65. csol says:

    ok Kaiser, it is PAST TIME (WAAAAAY PAST) actually, for you to STOP giving that dumb ass UGGGGGLLLLLYYYY bitch, LEann Rimes, ANY more publicity!!! She does NOT deserved to be spoken about, whether it be good or bad, and we ALL know she doesn’t care about what is said about her as long as people ARE talking about her! Sooo, let’s ALL make the narcissistic egoist gooooo looney tunes crazy, but NOT talking about her anymore and that I BET will also speed up Ms. Karma and the demise to her and that douchebags “relationship”!!!!