Shaun White seemed to be in good spirits throughout his first TV interview since his break up from Nina Dobrev.
White, 39, joined the Right now present on Tuesday, September 16, to debate the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan, Italy.
“I’ll be working round, positively supporting my associates competing and simply taking it in,” he mentioned of the upcoming video games, which can happen in February 2026. “This can be my first Winter Olympics the place I’m not competing, so loads of emotions there, however truthfully, I’m excited to help and test it out.”
The previous skilled snowboarder and skateboarder, who gained gold within the 2006 Winter Olympics for the half-pipe, added, “My first Olympics was in Italy that I competed at, so that is bringing loads of recollections going again to Italy. Needs to be enjoyable.”
White additionally joked that he “may need to convey the hair again,” referring to his iconic thick, lengthy purple mane he sported at his first Olympics.
Although White didn’t talk about his break up from Dobrev, 36, on Right now, his TV look got here simply 5 days after Us Weekly realized that the pair had known as off their engagement after 5 years collectively.
Folks was the primary to report the break up on September 11.
Reps for Dobrev and White didn’t return Us’ request for remark.
After rumors shortly circulated alleging infidelity was responsible for the pair’s break up, a supply near the previous couple solely instructed Us on September 12 that the breakup was not a results of dishonest.
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“There was no dishonest in any respect through the course of their five-and-a-half-year relationship,” the insider mentioned. “They had been very loyal to one another. Any on-line hypothesis that implies in any other case is ridiculous.”
In the meantime, an insider instructed Us solely on Monday, September 15, that Dobrev is “devastated” by the break up. The supply added that she and White, who introduced their engagement in October 2024, “had lastly began planning the marriage and issues had been in movement.”
Whereas the break up is “nonetheless very recent,” the insider mentioned that Dobrev is being “supported by her closest girlfriends, who’ve been checking in on her.”
Dobrev and White first sparked courting rumors in February 2020. Us broke the information of their relationship two months later.
Nina Dobrev and Shaun White hinted at their mindset making an attempt to plan a marriage two months earlier than their breakup made headlines. “If you’re getting married and constructing a home in the identical yr,” Dobrev, 36, captioned a July 7 TikTok video of herself, standing in an unfinished property. Within the clip, Dobrev lip-synched the query, […]
White opened as much as Us about making his lengthy distance romance with Dobrev work in 2021.
“We now have a pleasant little system of how one can keep in contact,” he mentioned. “Airplane tickets are just about booked for any alternative that we are able to go see each other. So, I do know through the vacation break, we’re going to fulfill up, and we’re going to fulfill up once more in all probability round Christmas time. Something that occurs in between, then I’ll jet over and see her. You simply make it work.”
He continued, “I feel that’s the objective of all of it and the important thing to all of it is simply making the time. [Nina’s] tremendous organized and on prime of it, so I give it to her. She all the time finds a strategy to make it occur.”
Later, in 2022, the athlete gushed that his relationship with Dobrev was constructed on a strong basis.
“We now have frequent pursuits,” White shared. “The best way by which we met actually sort of strengthened our relationship. And the issues that we do face, they sort of fall away by way of communication. It’s simply been nice.”
