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Karina Smirnoff Shows Off Her Engagement Ring!

11/08/2010 at 09:00 AM ET

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Despite her recent elimination from Dancing with the Stars, it looks Karina Smirnoff will have a lot to smile about this holiday season. The ballroom beauty broke the happy news to PEOPLE on Saturday that she and baseball player Brad Penny are engaged. And Smirnoff had the sparkle to prove it at Tao Las Vegas’s five-year anniversary party on Saturday night, where she debuted her 4.5 carat Asscher Cut diamond engagement ring. “He got down on one knee and he opened the box and I said, ‘Thank you’, said Smirnoff of Penny’s Oct. 4 proposal. A spokesperson from the Diamond Information Center places an estimated value of $100,000 on the 4.5 carat sparkler. And that wasn’t all that the lucky bride-to-be received from her fiancé: The strapping pitcher, who was unable to join Smirnoff at Tao this weekend, surprised her with a hand-written note in a fortune cookie telling Smirnoff she was his soul mate—complete with a stunning Everlon diamond necklace from adiamondisforever.com! “I’m marrying a Southern Gentleman,” said Smirnoff, who accepted her fiancé’s proposal following a year-long courtship. – Gillian Koenig; reporting by Mark Gray

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martie on November 8th, 2010

All out for what see can get !

Elizabeth on November 8th, 2010

LOL at the jealous racist idiots calling her a golddigger. Uh huh do you losers have evidence of that? Nah didn’t think so!

Karina you go girl!!!!!

Elizabeth on November 8th, 2010

Lucy she has been dating Brad since last October so she wasn’t engaged to Max at the end of last year. She was dating Brad then.

Elizabeth on November 8th, 2010

Lola nope she’s been engaged twice but how many times she’s been engaged is irrelevant.

dlee1 on November 8th, 2010

I thought Cheryl was engaged to Max, not Karina. Am I wrong?

kat on November 8th, 2010

I think she was shocked and didn’t know what to say. But I agree saying “thank you” makes her look really shallow.

Karina Smirnoff Scores 4.5 Carat Engagement Ring | Popdemonium on November 8th, 2010

[...] else to smile about…boyfriend Brad Penny popped the question to the dancing queen last month. People.com reports that Smirnoff debuted her 4.5 carat Asscher Cut diamond engagement ring at Tao Las [...]

Lisa on November 8th, 2010

Did you ever stop to think that maybe she wasn’t saying “thank you” for the ring, but “thank you” for him asking her to be his wife?

BrandiB on November 8th, 2010

32???!!!! She is SOOOO NOT 32!!! 40 maybe… congrats anyway but no need to lie! Especially such a BAD one

Denise on November 8th, 2010

Wishing Brad tons of luck – sounds like he may need it. Karina, hopefully you go through with this one this time. A southern gentleman – heck would more could you possible want girl???

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