BREAKING NEWS: Brooks Laich Announces Engagement to Katrín Tanja Davíðsdóttir: ‘Forever Feels Just Right’ .giang

Brooks Laich and his girlfriend, Katrín Tanja Davíðsdóttir, are getting married!

The couple got engaged on Dec. 16, they announced in a joint Instagram post published on Friday, Dec. 27. The gallery post included four photos of the two locked in an embrace, smiling even as Laich, 41, dipped Davíðsdóttir, 31.

“Forever feels just right with you,” the couple captioned the post.

The former NHL player also shared the post in his Instagram Stories. “I love you,” he wrote, adding a heart emoji.

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Laich and Davíðsdóttir, a champion CrossFit athlete, went Instagram official with their relationship in August 2021. First, Laich praised Davíðsdóttir’s athleticism after watching her at the 2021 NOBULL CrossFit Games in Madison, Wis.

“So proud of the way she competed this weekend, which was the expression of the hard work she put in to be here,” Laich wrote in part. “Rest assured the next time she takes the field, I will be there watching — bearing witness to one of the greatest competitors I have ever met!”

Days later, Laich shared a picture of Davíðsdóttir walking towards him at the Four Seasons Resort Hualalai in Hawaii. “I’ll start walking your way, you start walking mine,” he wrote, quoting Diamond Rio’s 1991 song “Meet in the Middle.”

Laich was previously married to Julianne Hough. The hockey player and dancer, 36, were married from 2017 to 2020 and finalized their divorce in 2022.

“We have lovingly and carefully taken the time we have needed to arrive at our decision to separate,” Hough and Laich wrote when announcing their separation in 2020. “We share an abundance of love and respect for one another and will continue to lead with our hearts from that place. We kindly request your compassion and respect for our privacy moving forward.”

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Although Hough said they both had some regrets, she told Dax Shepard on Armchair Expert in August that she felt their marriage was “exactly right.”

“I feel like our relationship and our marriage was exactly right, and the end of it is right too,” Hough said. “We both have regrets that it didn’t work out because I don’t think we had the maturity to come together.”