Cele|bitchy | Exclusive: Are Charlize Theron and Stuart Townsend engaged?

Charlize Theron, 30, was photographed getting all kissy-face with her boyfriend of five years, Irish actor Stuart Townsend, 33, at the Lakers game on Friday. They look incredibly happy and in love, and Charlize was seen with what looks like an engagement ring on her left ring finger.

The couple had some relationship trouble in March, but seemed to have patched it up. Here’s the recap:

On March 11, The Sun reported that Charlize and Stuart had split, with a related quote from Charlize saying that neither she or Stuart wanted to get married.

On March 14, Charlize’s publicist released a statement that the split rumors were false.

About a week later Star reported that Charlize wanted some alone time from Stuart to concentrate on her busy career

About a week after that, at the end of March, the couple was photographed after a romantic weekend at the Chateau Marmont.

And last week they were seen walking along the beach hand in hand near her house in Malibu.

I think I know what happened, because it’s a tried and true female relationship strategy. When a guy won’t commit, you act like you want the same thing. Then you break it off from him, and he comes running back.

It seems to be popular to try to announce your engagement to the public by showing up at a Lakers game with a ring. Cameron Diaz was seen with a ring on her engagement finger at a Lakers game with Justin Timberlake on April 10th, although the press doesn’t seem to have picked up on the news yet.

We’re calling this an exclusive because we spotted the ring in the pics, and no one seemed to notice it on Oh No They Didn’t! where we found the pictures. Other blogs that have posted the pics don’t mention it.